PrestaShop

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PrestaShop is an e-commerce solution which is free and open source. It supports payment gateways such as Google Checkout, Authorize.net, Skrill, PayPal and Payments Pro via API. Further payment modules are offered commercially.

PrestaShop is available under the Open Software License and officially launched in August 2007 for small to medium-sized businesses. The software, which is based on the Smarty template engine, is currently used by 100,000 shops worldwide.^[1] PrestaShop was named the Best Open Source E-Commerce Application in the Packt 2010 Open Source Awards^[2] and the Best Open Source Business Application in the 2011 Open Source Awards.

The PrestaShop group was founded in Paris, with a second office recently opened in Miami. Over 40 languages are available to varying degrees, with only English and French having full support in all release versions. Technical support is provided on the official forum.^[3]

The software makes extensive use of AJAX in the admin panel, while module blocks can be easily added to the store to provide extra functionality; these are normally provided free of charge by independent developers. The makers of PrestaShop have an official marketplace for priced modules and themes entitled PrestaShop Addons.^[4]

Since PrestaShop is widely accepted Shopping cart software there are number of volunteers who supports and contributes Addons. Contributors often program additional features for the software, even it is loaded with 275 features already. Recently Mob eCommerce has released Mobile app for Prestashop. Now PrestaShop users can give mobile app for their customers which will increase the sales. ^[5]

Technical requirements

The merchant must have a domain name and a web server with these features:

• Apache web server 1.3 or later
• PHP 5 or later
• MySQL 5 or later
• Linux, Unix or Windows installed operating system

(*) Incompatibility issues with the following PHP 5 versions prevent PrestaShop from working correctly:

• PHP 5.2.1 (authentication is impossible)
• PHP 5.2.6 (authentication is impossible under 64bit servers)
• PHP 5.2.9 (image management/upload broken)
• PHP < 5.2 (invalid date timezone)

General feature list

Front Office:

• Special deals (price reductions, gift vouchers)
• Featured products on homepage
• Top sellers on homepage
• New items on homepage
• 'Free shipping' offers
• Cross-selling (Accessories)
• Product image zoom
• Order out-of-stock items
• Customer subscription & user accounts
• Unlimited payment methods
• Payment by bank wire
• Google Checkout module
• Cash-On-Delivery (COD)
• Preconfigured for Paypal
• Multiple-recipient contact form
• Product tagging & tag cloud
• Search
• Merchandise return (RMAs) & credit slips
• Package tracking
• Offer gift-wrapping & recycled packaging
• PDF customer invoice
• Shopping Cart recall
• Sale of services & virtual goods
• Custom Favicon
• RSS feed
• Newsletter opt-in
• 'Pick up in-store' option
• Customized product (text and images)
• Wishlist
• Loyal customer program
• Affiliate program
• Sponsor-a-friend benefit program
• Customer product reviews

Back Office:

• Unlimited categories & subcategories
• Full-featured WYSIWYG text editor
• Unlimited product attribute combinations
• Unlimited product specs
• Unlimited images with automatic resizing & file optimization
• Unlimited currencies
• Unlimited tax settings
• Unlimited carriers & destinations
• Tax by state, country, both, zones, or no taxes
• Digressive pricing (Quantity discounts)
• Real-time currency exchange rates
• Inventory management
• SMS/Text-message alerts
• Add/delete function modules
• Bar codes
• Contextual help
• Attribute Combo Generator
• Delivery status notification e-mails (customizable)
• Unlimited languages & dialects
• Import/export language translations
• 13 default language translations
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Friendly URLs / Permalinks
• 100% modifiable graphic themes
• Back Office users & permissions (ACL )
• Maintenance Mode
• Minimum order amount
• Newsletter contact export
• Alias search
• Bulk lister/import .CSV files
• SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption
• Visitors online
• Content Management System (CMS)
• Reports
• Customer groups

Languages

PrestaShop is now translated into 41 languages: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Catalan, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese-Brazilian, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Spanish-Argentine, Spanish-Mexican, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

Stable Releases

PrestaShop 1.0 was released on July 31, 2008.
PrestaShop 1.1 was released on December 19, 2008.
PrestaShop 1.2 was released on July 29, 2009.
PrestaShop 1.3 was released on December 29, 2010.
PrestaShop 1.4 b5 was released on January 19, 2011 (for tests only).
PrestaShop 1.4 RC5 was released on February 23, 2011 (for tests only).
PrestaShop 1.4 Final was released on March 18, 2011, bringing more than 65 new features to merchants & developers.
PrestaShop 1.4.1 was released on April 21, 2011.
PrestaShop 1.4.2 was released on May 30, 2011.
PrestaShop 1.4.3 was released on June 16, 2011.
PrestaShop 1.4.4 was released on July 28, 2011.
PrestaShop 1.4.5 was released on October 13, 2011.
PrestaShop 1.4.7 was released on February 8, 2012.

Test Releases

PrestaShop 1.5.0 Alpha 1 was released on July 6, 2011 (for testing only).

See also

Free software portal

• List of Open Source eCommerce Software

References

External links