PrestaShop Reviews

I use Prestashop for more than five years for my small side business eshop. It is opensource, free and easy to install and use. If you don´t have any programming skills, you can choose templates, auto backup, auto-upgrade and you will be fine, with no cost. No limits for how many customers, orders, users, no time limit, etc. Only when your business grows, you probably would want more. For example, better design, better stock management, more import/export features. And then you will need to buy addons, hire a freelancer or you can try to find out how to make those improvements by yourself. So it will be your time or your money. But I like the possibility of choice. They are many years on the market and, therefore, you can find a helpful forum, videos, blog posts, and as I am from Europe, I am very grateful for their translation packs.

Their customer service is not ideal and, if you are a beginner, you probably will struggle if any technical issue occurs. There are many freelancers and many add-ons, unfortunately, not all are reliable. In those years, I suffered through some security issues but nothing too serious.

Free, open source software of good quality

When you reach a certain project size, it becomes slow and requires a lot of development and system optimisation work.

Possibilities of use. We have used the Presta for our webshop with above 10K + items.

I can't find anything right now in my mind.

PrestaShop is a great open source software, which allows its users to set up and build a rich online-shop to earn money on the internet. It is easy to use in the backend, it is capable of building multi-shops for more than one country and more than one language very easily and it is easy to build your own sub sites in your online-shop with the help of certain page builder modules. It is highly customizable and there are thousands of modules to choose from to make it even better and cover issues like search engine optimization, integration with email marketing tools or payment solutions to name just a few.

One thing that should be improved is the speed of the shop.

It's a very professional platform focused on e-commerce sites. It helps a lot if you have a big store.

It's so expensive to maintain, with a lot of resources, but you have to pay for most of them. It could be complex to understand and manage.

prestashop is a perfect software to use when it is a question of selling products virtually. the software helps to build websites too

the softwar templates building tools have to be performed

After trying Magento and Woocommerce I ended up with Prestashop because the other solutions I tried were either too complicated or too simple. Prestashop seems to lie somewhere in the middle.

Before I decided on Prestashop, I did some extensive research to inspect other solutions such as Shopify, Shopware and Oxid. However, the large user and developer base as well as the massive amount of addons available for Prestashop made me switch to Prestashop.

Here is what I especially like about Prestashop:

- The backend is simple enough to get used to quite quickly
- There are a lot of amazing templates you can choose from
- it's rather easy to find Prestashop developers near you, so you're not stuck with an exotic shop system nobody understands
- Multi store/multi language functionality is integrated into Prestashop out of the box

There is a big transition from 1.6 to 1.7 which is really massive and makes it hard for new store owners. Should I use the old, but stable 1.6 or use the new and potentially incomplete 1.7?

There is a huge debate about 1.7 and it seems to split the community in half. The reason is that the new 1.7 is based on Symfony, a PHP framework that is supposed to make Prestashop development in future simpler. The problem is that switching to the newest version is like switching to a complete new shop software.

Apart from that there are some quirks that are hard to understand. E.g. why the company is based in France, yet it's not fully compliant to EU law out of the box without addons and modifications.

PrestaShop is a great way to create a store for your business. It has a lot of features that make it easy to use and you can be up and running in no time. The support is great and the community is very helpful and active. This is a great way to get a store up and running for the purpose of e-commerce.

PrestaShop is a CMS more based for ecommerce.

Prestashop is one of the "cheapest" options in the market to create an online shop in a short time. It has the advantage that you can choose among many predesigned templates, which are certainly very nice and allow you to show the public your products in an attractive way. You can also set up the products in an administrative panel to keep track of the number of products available, prices, you can create discount coupons and much more.

It is a complete software in the sense that you can manage the business from one place.

However, the installation, uses and features of this program are not as simple as they show in advertising. If you do not have knowledge in programming or computer science, you will necessarily need the help of a professional because there are certain functions that you will not be able to carry out by yourself.

For me was a headache to load the products in the store because the program it is not so intuitive or so practical. If you bought a basic template, little by little you will realize that you will need to buy new modules to perform some important business tasks. These modules have a separate cost, therefore the final investment is much higher than you had originally thought.

To solve a technical problem, you will also need to document a lot and have the time to do it.

I think it is a software that you can buy and use as long as you have a professional that can guide you even before you start, because otherwise you will end up losing time and money.

I have been working with this software for a couple of years now and it has been great. You can easily find everything you need, and it is really well organized in tabs, productos, orders, clients, etc. You can select the state of each order and even set your own, this way you can keep the client inform about their order, and you can easily keep track on what orders you need to take care next.

I would like to see a more user friendly version, where you don't need to hire a developer each time you need to modify small things. Everytime we needed to change something and we found out how to and did it by ourselves, another thing starts glitching and we have to get a developer to solve it. It is great that is has so many options, but sometimes it is hard to access them.

Prestashop is a great CMS for building a fully customized e-commerce website, with a simple-to-use admin interface and has advanced product inventory, etc. It also presents a variety of features for effectively organizing your store.

I think It's the best CMS tool that I've found ever. So none of the issues fall on my eyes.

- ease of use
- the core is open source
- BO is clean
- it's easy to develop modules
- supports a lot of products without any performance issue
- supports many languages by default

- very unstable when it comes to updates / everything breaks every time we update
- code is still not fully migrated to symfony
- localisation : it's very difficult to found a string when we don't know where it is (theme? core? module, which one?)
- modules are not open source / we can't even test them before buying...
- lacks a lot of functionalities in the core for an e-shop (stock management is a joke, no whishlist nor comparator, real cart reminder...)
- it's almost impossible to deal with discounts because the system doesn't work sometimes, and/or is unstable, and also lacks basic functionalities (buy 1 get 1, but if we buy 2 we still have only 1...)
- bought modules don't update automatically, even when the account with addons is linked
- no "starter" theme anymore : why ?
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- advanced ecommerce software
- good SEO template
- best UX on backend
- API
- low cost of development

- module in PrestaShop addons is very low quality
- no integration with professional solutions (eg. PimCore)
- no great SEO addons

The integrations we're easy to put together

Not able to see my work right away after

We are using Prestashop for creating the most of our E-commerce products. Open-Source Platform and existing market with plugins - are the main advantages to use Prestashop for small-middle sized projects.

After updating the version of Prestashop, some of the plugins have to be recorded because the system is alerting us that there are some errors in platform update. In case you have a lot of project on Prestashop at the same time, it consumes quite a lot of time.

As an e-tailor we like the flexibility of PrestaShop as an CMS, the large community who work with the software and the way you can make use of the software.
As a developer and PrestaShop Partner we like the diversity of the product and the way we can build converting web shops for our customers.

The one thing we like the least is the assistance we get from PrestaShop themselves. Luckily the community is very active, and this solves most of our problems, but PrestaShop should have a more hands-on mentality.

It's an easy to use program, friendly UX, responsive, it covers all the basic needs for a basic e-commerce business, great library of admins to upgrade your business

It's slow, you have to save your progress several times because not always saves what you do, not that prewar web templates.