What is PrestaShop?
PrestaShop is an open source eCommerce solution. It comes with a variety of tools necessary for building a successful online shop. PrestaShop is fairly easy to use, provides a powerfully responsive store interface for shoppers, offers a comprehensive set of features, and it’s free.
PrestaShop Features:
- Unlimited Categories, Products and Attributes
- Easy customization of your online store
- Choices in payment methods (many available with default installation and more available through installable payment modules)
- Cross selling (offer your customers related products)
- Sell downloadable, digital products
- Inventory management (including bulk uploads and updates)
- Powerful sales reporting and statistics
- Shipping tables that can be set by product price or weight
- Easy to configure tax tables and rules
- Built-in search engine optimization
- Translations available for multiple languages
Prestashop Advantages and Disadvantages:
Advantages:
- There is a large group of users that contributes to a good support system in discussion boards and the like.
- It’s easy to find one to do whatever you need to be done, yes, unless you are a programmer type.
- The Administration panel is flexible and easy to handle with.
- Prestashop enhances the loading speed of the shopping store.
- It is easy to change an old theme into a new one so that your store can be updated in design efficiently.
- This is a sufficient choice for beginners and intermediate online shop owners.
Disadvantages:
- Payable Built-in functionalities in other free scripts happen quite often.
- The large organizations have to add different modules to make store effective.
- Some important PrestaShop Modules have to be purchased as they do not come with solution pack.
- The script architecture can at some point hinder or even completely prevent a programmer from further developing the cart.
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