What is PrestaShop?
PrestaShop – a CMS (Content Management System), e-commerce solution built by the open-source community. Officially launched in August 2007 for small and medium businesses. Created in Paris Igor Schlumberger and Bruno Leveque. Subsequently, in 2011, an additional office was created in Miami.
PrestaShop recently introduced PrestaShop Ready, which is Software as a Service (SaaS) or Hosted. However, unlike the open-source version, this option restricts your access to the code required for customization, but it is more user-friendly.
PrestaShop translated into over 70 languages and used by 270,000 stores around the world. An important role in the development of the company – played by the PrestaShop Community, which currently numbers over 500,000 people.
What is PrestaShop used for?
This is an open-source e-commerce platform to launch your online store. Dynamic content manager and software with whom it is possible to build a store from scratch.
However, the platform will allow customers to see in various versions the products that they want or those that they have chosen to buy.
- It combines functions such as:
- Delivery Options
- Prices
- Delivery restrictions
- Inventory management
- Presentation and analysis of the report
- Managing multiple stores,
- Refund Management
- There are more than 310 integrated functions in total.
Moreover, with the help of the platform, you can even make very exclusive settings and adjustments to a specific business process.
Since 2007, an infinite number of businesses on the web have been using this platform and selling digital or physical products. Thanks to it, this growth has already reached more than 300.000 stores are operating with this CMS.
It will be possible to have a dynamic list of products regardless of how many of them are available. A complex inventory and easy to update. It has the ability to customize attributes, expand discounts, quickly import and export and classify products.
You can move through layers, receive notifications about replenishment, have unlimited attributes (colors, sizes, etc.), manage price reductions in percentages and fixed amounts, have delivery receipts and invoices in PDF format, cross-sales and supplier management.
