PrestaShop reviews

This free software is a complete CMS scalable and cusomizable solution for developing an e-commerce for a brand / client. It counts with a great historical versions and a big community that develops extra functionality like themes and modules so you can search for any solution you need. I see its data base very well structurated and normalized to have a good experience at Query's on them, Very intuitive on that aspect.

Since the basic process of e-commerce is well developed, the extra functionalitys that particular customer needs can transform into a big cost installing purchasing modules for it.
You need a good capacitation for successful auto - management, and a team of developmentes to customize it and have maintancement.

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.

It offers the possibility of setting up an online store with a wide variety of integrated possibilities without the need for custom development or buying extensions. If something special is needed, if it is necessary to develop or buy extensions

The process of importing a large catalog with images. The process has been greatly improved but it is still complicated.

This software is awesome for creating ecommerce.
You can install the basic version and start selling in a very short time.
Every operation is optimized at its best and you will spare a lot of time if you sell products with variations.

You shall pay for every little modification.
There are a lot of plugins but they are not free.
You cannot change the design as you may desire.

Lots of plugin and template options. You can literally add anything to Prestashop and create your own unique ecommerce site.

Has quite a lot of upgrades and versions, which at times can change your whole site and even make some of your plugins not work as it did before.

Super easy to install with no glitches. Customisation is easy and lots of options for payment s, international shipping and secure payment. SEO option is helpful and email automation is configurable easily.

If you want to add any module that is very expensive. Design is not that professional and there are issues in scalability.

Reliable eCommerce solution that has all the features that you need for a standard online shop.

Interface is not as user frinedly as other competitors. It has a lot of developers and a community that supports the platform. Lacks of the versatility of other competitors in terms of website building characteristics.

It's public domain software and it has a lot of documentation to learn about the developement

Sometimes it's a little bit expensive to implement some solutions and personalizations

Costs of course, huge marketplace with lots of themes and modules.

Too many versions/releases make this platform often instable, Keep everything updated and stable (struggling with conflicts and incompatibilities) is a great effort for the team.

- 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

Easy to configure, easy to update ( one click update ), easy to install new modules and themes and builders. One of the most versatile platforms for physical and virtual goods. I have custom made for customers shops with upwards of 1 million products, imported from dropshipping suppliers.
It is very easy to manage, tons of free and premium modules and upgrades.
A solid infrastructure to rely on and different profiles with permission for employs.
Very Reliable for large amounts of traffic.

Not that great for backups.
Modules and themes don't work from 1.5 to 1.6 to 1.7, have to reorder or to download new version ( incompatible by design of the code ).
Big community but not that active.
Translations needs an upgrade, being made by contributions from authors.

easy to import and manage orders from Amazon seller central, easy to connect with ERP

low capacity to personalize webpage like Elementor by wordpress

PrestaShop feels to me like a good blend between Magento's robustness and WooCommerce's shortcomings. You have a lot of marketing tools and decent templates, some of them really attractive, actually. I also appreciate the ability to disable the store when needed (had a customer get overwhelmed with orders--no joke!).

The architecture is a bit wonky on the back end. If, for example, you're wanting to access the CMS, you find it under Preferences. What do you find there? Page categories and pages in those categories. That's it. I don't even know why it's called a CMS, when PrestaShop *is* the CMS. Lots of little quirks like that.

If you want to switch themes, get ready to pay big money. Very few themes are under $100, and switching from one to another doesn't usually go very smoothly (definitely not something you'd want to do live). I had a client with a 2000+ product website on PrestaShop, and it was such a mess, I just moved the whole thing over to WP and have almost rebuilt the entire thing in a month. I think it would be good for smaller shops, but if you get big, things quickly get muddy.

It is very rich both in content (functionality, setting and automation options) and in form (visual appearance, aesthetic experience of the store).

The handling is not easy for a beginner.

Easy to do, a lot of documentation in spanish and english, is an open source, so you can change the code as you want, when you want the way you can imagine. 100% changeable in source and visual. You can create what is at your dreams for the ecommerce. It is a multilingual tool and is compatible with all the payment tools in the market. You can do a good SEOand you have a great dashboard.

The worst of this is you have an ecommerce with more than 10000 references. On those particular cases the software became a little bit slow. But... who has this kind of ecommerce? Amazon? ok, so this is not a real con, isnt it?

Easy to install and to use, PrestaShop allow you to create a real ecommerce shop online easily.
Its many options of logistics, marketing, internationalization... make it possible with little means and efforts to have an effective and flexible tool for ecommerce.

I would be tempted to talk about some persistent bugs scattered in the software but updates come out regularly, the quality has improved significantly in recent years and we must not forget that it is a free open source tool source.

Prestashop is easy to use and is good for creating a fully customized e-commerce site. It also has many features and it is easy to find everything we need on the internet

Several features are not available with the free package and their add-ons are not very expensive.

It is one of the most undervalued softwares in the online space. You can really build your store in just a couple of minutes, with tons of modules and themes also from third parties you can have any type of store, either physical or virtual goods.
With over 1 million websites constructed with this platform is a great asset to build with.

The difference from major versions is amazing, you have to carefully upgrade on a test website, to not ruin your website. It is best done by a professional

We used this CMS for exactly 3 years. On the advice of our programmers, the team switched to it from Magenta. Of the advantages, I can point out a cheap tariff, a broader functionality than our previous CMS and the absence of transaction fees.

CMS is unstable, a lot of mistakes. Plugins that we acquire for an extra charge conflict with each other. For example, if you install a plug-in for currency conversion along with synchronization via e-mail, none of them will work.

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.

Prestashop is nice to start a small business, it's easy to use and can connect to different plugins

It's works with plugin : like all solutions that works with plugin their can be dangerous side effects when you add a plugin to your website, and it can create severe performance issues

Great features, great team, great support.
If you need an online store, in any field, any language, and any country, PrestaShop is absolutely the best choice!

With great development team, you won't find any cons :)

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.