PrestaShop Review

PrestaShop is an ecommerce platform for managing an online store. Being self-hosted or open source, it can be downloaded and customized it according to your needs. If your technical knowledge is minimal, Prestashop may look complex enough to require a developer’s help; however, basic daily activities – such as the management of orders, warehouse, sales can be handled with ease. This ecommerce also offers a series of truly functional marketing tools to boost sales, such as: special offers, discount codes, promotions, gifts, affiliations and much more. You can download PrestaShop for free, only pay for hosting and if you like, purchase additional modules to customize the appearance of your shop.

HOW TO CREATE AN ONLINE SHOP WITH PRESTASHOP – TUTORIAL

Here is a short tutorial that introduces us to this program:

PRESTASHOP – FEATURES

Let’s now take a look at its main features:

• Product creation: create a product or product packages (management of digital products, additional information relating to product pages, minimum purchase quantity, etc.)
• Inventory management: keep an eye on inventory, manufacturers and suppliers
• Order management: create orders, receive notifications for new orders and inform customers of the status of their orders
• Customer management: organize and sort your customers’ addresses and data in a secure database
• Shop configuration: organize and manage your products in different pages, sorted and numbered
• Payment methods: define the shipping costs, the size of the packaging and the payment methods
• Compliance with laws: offer a service is fully-compliant (eco-tax, cancellation conditions, legal notices, etc.)
• Tax Management: configure and apply taxes to shipping and packaging costs
• Marketing tools: use strategies that increase sales (special offers, coupons, free shipping, Call to Action buttons, etc.)
• SEO Management: improves the SEO of the store, product pages and CMS to increase customer traffic
• Management of multiple stores
• User community: access and take part in the large Prestashop community where you can compare yourself with other users.