What is PrestaShop? And why it has importance?




Prestashop is a very feature-rich easy and open-source eCommerce platform, which eCommerce retailers can use to run online stores in the cloud/ via self-hosting. The Prestashop comes with a variety of tools necessary for building a successful eCommerce store.

This free eCommerce solution is currently available in 65 languages and used by 250,000 eCommerce stores worldwide.

It is easy to use and provides you responsive store interface eCommerce shoppers. Prestashop is free to use and it offers you a comprehensive set of features also.

If you want a quick look at Prestashop, explore the Prestashop demo eCommerce store. Where you can experience it, it stores both front-end and back-end. Here is an example of the demo eCommerce store.

Prestashop key’s feature



·       Cloud/self-hosting: sign up for your eCommerce store free in a couple of minutes in Prestashop and cloud your store or you can host it yourself by downloading the open-source PHP code.

·       Templates: you can change templates by using its themes, Prestashop sells a variety of high-quality themes to professionally customize eCommerce stores.

·       Shopping cart: its other feature is integrated with a variety of payment providers, major shipping carriers, and tax rules.

·       International: PrestaShop is available in 65 different languages which are immensely good for your eCommerce store including flexible currency and shipping rule-based on location and its cloud administrative dashboard is available in 8 different languages: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Dutch

·       Add products: it’s a simple and easy layout to add products online the store provides you ease to use and add products on the eCommerce site. PrestaShop has some sample data such as products to use and understand. You can add one product into two categories

e.g if we have products such as a charger tt can be added into two categories 1) electronics and 2) accessories

·       Adding categories: you can also add categories by clicking in a couple of minutes, before adding categories you can’t add products.

 

·       Store builder: with WordPress like-dashboard, PrestaShop offers you a feature-rich eCommerce shop contraction interface, with detailed product listing search and navigation.

 

History:



 it was started in 2005 as a student project within the EPITECH (the Paris graduate school of digital innovation, European Institute of Information and Technology) school in Paris, France, originally named as phpOpenStore. The software was first available in just two languages English and France. After three months it launches the project was translated into thirteen different languages. This company, PrestaShop SA, was founded in 2007 by Igor Schlumberger and Bruno Leveque. Between May 2010 - April 2012 PrestaShop grew from 17 employees to more than 100 employees, with the establishment of secondary headquarters in Miami. Then in March 2014, PrestaShop SA secured $9.3M in series B funding to continue its global expansion efforts and after in January 2015, they launched Prestashop cloud base, the free self-hosted version of its software.

Conclusion:

Prestashop is a free open-source e-commerce platform that you can use to run your online store to fulfill these technical requirements:

  • Window, Linux, and Mac operating system
  • Apache 2.x, Nginx, or Microsoft IIS webserver
  • XAMPP or Bitnami for windows, WamPServer or EasyPHP for window and OSX prepared packages.
  • PHP 5.6+and MySQL 5.0+technologies.

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