Why developers like PrestaShop

What is PrestaShop?

PrestaShop is written in PHP, is highly customizable, supports all the major payment services, is translated in many languages and localized for many countries, and is fully responsive (both front- and back-office).

PrestaShop is a tool in the Ecommerce category of a tech stack.

PrestaShop is an open source tool with 5.4K GitHub stars and 4K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to PrestaShop's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses PrestaShop?

Companies

319 companies reportedly use PrestaShop in their tech stacks, including Extensions, services, and Smarter-phone.co.

Extensions

services

Smarter-phone.co

uptain GmbH

Tenten

PayPlug

E-commerce

Europcar

periscope

Developers

121 developers on StackShare have stated that they use PrestaShop.

Lubert

Tientien Organic

ITGuru Stack

Tools I Know

My Stack

PrestaShop Integrations

Google Analytics, Amazon EC2, PayPal, Stripe, and tawk.to are some of the popular tools that integrate with PrestaShop. Here's a list of all 55 tools that integrate with PrestaShop.

Google Analytics

Amazon EC2

PayPal

Stripe

tawk.to

LiveChat

KeyCDN

Mailjet

Smartlook

Pros of PrestaShop

Free

Powerful

Customisable

Easy to understand code

Scalable

Great community

Easy to customize with plugins

Easy learning

Fast

Rich features with powerful functions

Feature rich

Learning

Easy to handle

Public Decisions about PrestaShop

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose PrestaShop in their tech stack.

R Longo

Oct 12, 2020 | 11 upvotes · 56.3K views

Shared insights

I am consulting for a company that wants to move its current CubeCart e-commerce site to another PHP based platform like PrestaShop or Magento. I was interested in alternatives that utilize Node.js as the primary platform. I currently don't know PHP, but I have done full stack dev with Java, Spring, Thymeleaf, etc.. I am just unsure that learning a set of technologies not commonly used makes sense. For example, in PrestaShop, I would need to work with JavaScript better and learn PHP, Twig, and Bootstrap. It seems more cumbersome than a Node JS system, where the language syntax stays the same for the full stack. I am looking for thoughts and advice on the relevance of PHP skillset into the future AND whether the Node based e-commerce open source options can compete with Magento or Prestashop.

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PrestaShop's Features

Catalog Management
Product Displays
Site Management
S.E.O
Checkout
Shipping
Payments
Marketing
Client Account
Translations
Security
Localization/Taxes
Analytics and Reporting

PrestaShop Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to PrestaShop?

Magento

Magento Community Edition is perfect if you’re a developer who wants to build your own solution with flexible eCommerce technology. You can modify the core code and add a wide variety of features and functionality.

Shopify

Shopify powers tens of thousands of online retailers including General Electric, Amnesty International, CrossFit, Tesla Motors, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Foo Fighters, GitHub, and more. Our platform allows users to easily and quickly create their own online store without all the technical work involved in developing their own website, or the huge expense of having someone else build it. Shopify lets merchants manage all aspects of their shops: uploading products, changing the design, accepting credit card orders, and viewing their incoming orders and completed transactions.

Joomla!

Joomla is a simple and powerful web server application and it requires a server with PHP and either MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server to run it.

OpenCart

It is an online store management system. It is PHP-based, using a MySQL database and HTML components. Support is provided for different languages and currencies. It is freely available under the GNU General Public License.

Zen Cart

Create a shopping cart offering physical or digital products; offer payment via a number of gateways; manage fulfillment. It is an open source shopping cart written in PHP using the LAMP stack.

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