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What is PrestaShop?
PrestaShop is a free, open source e-commerce solution available under the Open Software License and officially launched in August 2007. The software is written in PHP and based on the Smarty template engine and is currently used by 165,000 shops...
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What is PrestaShop?
PrestaShop is a free, open source e-commerce solution available under the Open Software License and officially launched in August 2007. The software is written in PHP and based on the Smarty template engine and is currently used by 165,000 shops worldwide. The PrestaShop group was founded in Paris, with a second Headquarters opened in Miami in 2011. PrestaShop is translated into 63 languages, with English, French, Portuguese, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Polish and Russian having full support in all release versions. Technical support is provided via support plans or free support on the official forum from PrestaShop Community. PrestaShop complements built in features with an Add-on store where many modules and themes can be found to customize the store appearance. There are a also a number of volunteers who support and contribute their own Add-ons to PrestaShop.
PrestaShop Features
eCommerce Marketing Features
- Supported: SEO
Additional Features
- Supported: Built-in Security
- Supported: Multiple Payment Gateways
- Supported: Unlimited Store Translation
- Supported: Flexible Shipping Options
- Supported: Numerous Product Displays
- Supported: One-Page Checkouts
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PrestaShop Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | All |
| Supported Languages | All |
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PrestaShop is a free, open source e-commerce solution available under the Open Software License and officially launched in August 2007. The software is written in PHP and based on the Smarty template engine and is currently used by 165,000 shops worldwide. The PrestaShop group was founded in Paris, with a second Headquarters opened in Miami in 2011. PrestaShop is translated into 63 languages, with English, French, Portuguese, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Polish and Russian having full support in all release versions. Technical support is provided via support plans or free support on the official forum from PrestaShop Community. PrestaShop complements built in features with an Add-on store where many modules and themes can be found to customize the store appearance. There are a also a number of volunteers who support and contribute their own Add-ons to PrestaShop.
Reviewers rate Shipping highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of PrestaShop are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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September 23, 2021
Prestashop, build once and focus on the business
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
We are web developers. We have been using PrestaShop for the past 10 years to implement professional eStores in Singapore. It is elegant to use and very very stable which are the most important factors for a CMS.
- Stability and security
- User friendliness
- Open-source with options for add-on modules
- More reports
- More features for service bookings or event registrations
July 05, 2021
Great e-commerce open-source software
We are currently using it to run our e-commerce website. Our daily sales are all used via website, which we've designed through PrestaShop. It's being used across our whole organization. We currently don't have a warehouse or physical shop, so all our items are being sold online and delivered to our customers directly. Currently PrestaShop is working exactly as we want it to. There were a few limitations using PrestaShop 1.6, but with the current update to 1.7, we haven't had really any business issues making use of PrestaShop.
- Quite easy to use compared to other open-source e-commerce software.
- Has lots of free plugins to help you set up a great basic shop.
- You can easily create your own unique site.
- Lots of payment option plugins and you can use them to sell globally.
- Not a lot of free templates.
- Images can sometimes be too compressed and lose their full quality, so better settings for that could be introduced.
- Being able to change the look of your automatic emails via default settings can also be introduced.
June 14, 2021
PrestaShop helps keep track on your bookings!
In our small local company, we have been using PrestaShop over the years. It is used by the whole organization in order to adjust our bookings and modify them.
- List of the users and activities
- Easy to use
- Fast
- Sometimes it doesn't allow me to modify booking.
- Could explain "errors" which occur sometimes a bit better.
- Mobile version [is] not really convenient.
June 07, 2021
PrestaShop Review
PrestaShop started being used in our company because I decided to buy it and thus allow our clients to buy properties more quickly without having to carry out a long interaction process with us. When we founded our real estate company, I bought and implemented PrestaShop on our website so that our clients could add the property they liked the most to their cart, and pay for a part of the property with common electronic payment methods, such as PayPal or credit card . PrestaShop brought us excellent benefits during the first months, it was a platform that helped us make many sales, it made it possible for our clients to be able to choose their property more easily, adding it to the cart and clicking the "buy" button, in addition, our clients they could quickly pay for a portion of the property with digital methods, which progressively spurred negotiations. It brought very good benefits during the time he was in our company, however, we stopped using PrestaShop because we wanted to implement a much simpler system on our website that would allow customers to make direct inquiries with us about the available properties. Currently, our clients can access our website and make inquiries by mail or mobile phone, using the code of each property, this allows clients to know what they are buying and to learn more about the property before making any payment.
- The PayPal button modality was integrated with the PrestaShop system, which helped our clients to complete payments digitally in just a few seconds, this integrated button allowed to streamline many transactions.
- Performing inventory reviews and modifying the PrestaShop catalog was one of the things that I liked the most, I could make changes to the catalog, make changes to the conditions of the products in the catalog and all those changes were reflected on my website in a instant, no need to wait some time.
- The PrestaShop system created a digital invoice for each client who made the advance payment of a property, which made it even easier to complete the property negotiation. Customers came to our company with the digital invoice for the advance payment and it was easy to identify the property that was paid, thanks to the digital invoice.
- There is no type of support to help users learn to use the PrestaShop service. When I implemented this service in my company, it was with the help of our web developers, and on the occasions that I needed help from PrestaShop support, they never responded to my requests.
- Most of the templates for customizing my store were too expensive. Although they were simple but attractive templates, the prices were very high, which forced me to have a simple design in my catalog integrated into my website.
June 07, 2021
Presto! You have a PrestaShop!
PrestaShop was used for a trial we ran as we launched an online storefront to sell a handful of handmade goods from another country. It was used across our organization by several individuals to upload, customize, and post products for customers to purchase. It solves a lot of the issues presented to an organization that wants to sell items as this app provides all the functionality needed.
- PrestaShop is a holistic solution for businesses connecting with customers from start to sale!
- A robust CRM tool for customer management.
- Quick and easy communication with clients or customers.
- If you need to purchase more modules to meet your needs, its a bit expensive.
June 01, 2021
A great tool for online sales
It's used for our websites to enable professional customers to buy some materials directly. It's managed by the marketing and managing team.
- Easy to set up.
- Fully customize the design.
- Thousands of plugins to pick.
- User guide not easy to understand for beginners.
- Additional features are expensive.
We were recommended PrestaShop by a consultancy group that helped us with some BigCommerce customization. PrestaShop is an open source software and we thought we'd have more leeway in modification than we have with BigCommerce. We chose PrestaShop to serve as our e-commerce platform for our primary website and several supplementary websites.
- PrestaShop is Open Source
- I could see no other benefit using Prestashop
- PrestaShop has very little online documentation compared to other e-commerce platforms
- PrestaShop's answer to everything is, "oh, there's a module for that" Cha-ching
- PrestaShop is not very intuitive and the back end is clumsy to work with
February 19, 2021
Only OK if used in a managed installation
Score 2 out of 10
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Verified User
Last year we started the process to move from an outdated Magento installation to a new e-commerce platform. After reviewing several systems, we found PrestaShop met our needs best and started the migration process. During the configuration process we noticed that the system can get very complex and especially the slow performance caused us a lot of headaches. In due time we had to upgrade our server resources to a least be able to work with the system without running into Ajax issues. Another very annoying problem are random white screens, especially in the admin area.
- Very flexible product configuration
- Clear and well structured workflow with customer management and emails
- Very slow. Google complains about loading times, means the ranking will be bad!
- Very unstable--loading a module can crash the back office. Hard to restore--even a full restore sometimes won't work.
- Needs mostly additional modules, which are not free
- Display module positions are template dependent. Once a template is changed, Prestashop does not remember the old settings. For updates it's recommended to change to the default template--this means all customization done on our template is gone.
- Weak reporting
September 03, 2020
PrestaShop a complete e-commerce solution that is free and opensource.
PrestaShop is a powerful and open-source free e-commerce solution. It is a great tool for building online shopping cart websites. PrestaShop is self-hosted meaning you need to have a hosting plan and some technical and coding knowledge to set it up. Customizing PrestaShop can get a little bit tricky especially if you need custom functionalities although there are plenty of third-party extensions and add-ons that you can implement into the platform.
- Free and open-source.
- Highly customizable with some coding knowledge.
- Tons of add-ons and third party extensions.
- Self hosted, full control on server files.
- Add-ons can get really expensive.
- Add-ons can interfere with each other and bugs may arise.
- Speed need to be improved.
February 25, 2020
A very easy tool to make an e-commerce website in no time
PrestaShop gave us the possibility to have very quickly an eCommerce website to reach our customers and to facilitate to them the process of ordering and payment.
- Manage orders.
- Manage customers.
- Improve abandoned cart management.
- Improve connections to CRM like Salesforce.
March 03, 2017
A free solution for your first e-commerce project
As a consultant, I guided a company using Prestashop for their first e-commerce project. My brief was to look for a platform that comes with the larger number of features and that doesn't require high investments while developing additional functions. The choice goes to Prestashop because it represents the easier and a low budget solution which fits most needs of tiny/small companies.
- Administration panel is easy and essential
- Product configuration is ready to go and product page comes with lots of information
- It doesn't require huge server resources
- Since it starts as ready to go platform it's difficult to protect your store from being copied by someone else
- Without a developer, you depend on Prestashop's modules marketplace that lacks free extensions
- Since it isn't an enterprise level platform the use of Prestashop is strictly related to the size of your business
All six of our websites use prestashop and it is our only e-commerce platform. Our company sells laser engraved products and our websites give customers a chance to view and purchase the items. One of the websites is for the general public, and the others are for internal clients. The back office is used by persons in each department of our company.
- Easy to install and have up quickly.
- Lots of potential for customization and development overrides to shape the system the way it is needed.
- Constant upgrades and bug fixes.
- Lots of add-ons to choose.
- Documentation and support needs to be updated and expanded. There's a lack of books, and the only support aside from the forum is official prestashop support, which is not cheap. The system is too massive to have such little support.
- Too many things can go wrong with too little explanation as to why. Too much time is wasted trying to figure out why prestashop isn't working as intended because of this. Seems that most of the questions online are people fumbling around with vague issues and errors and no explanation.
- Code should either be organized more intuitively, or there should be more help outlining what is going on during runtime for debug purposes. Why is there not a built in way to display the tpl that is being loaded in each section? I tried figuring out how to do it myself using the documentation but gave up. Instead I have to swim through the entire code to figure out how to do it myself. Should not be this complicated.
- Too many things can go wrong when transferring or copying the website, which essentially breaks everything. Again, too little help and messages explaining why things don't work. Internet search shows that this is a common issue.
May 18, 2016
Highly Recommended
I've been using Prestashop for the last 4 years and I'm constantly impressed with the advancements and user-friendliness of the platform. Whether you are a hardcore developer or new to the industry, PrestaShop makes it very convenient to get you up and running. Also the developer community is highly active so you're able to find assistance from active users in the community with any problem that you might have.
- Flexibility
- Comprehensiveness
- Community
- Inconvenient bugs
- Instability
- Limited demo site