Great e-commerce open-source software
Rating: 9 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
We are currently using it to run our e-commerce website. Our daily sales are all used via website, which we've designed through PrestaShop. It's being used across our whole organization. We currently don't have a warehouse or physical shop, so all our items are being sold online and delivered to our customers directly. Currently PrestaShop is working exactly as we want it to. There were a few limitations using PrestaShop 1.6, but with the current update to 1.7, we haven't had really any business issues making use of PrestaShop.
Pros
- Quite easy to use compared to other open-source e-commerce software.
- Has lots of free plugins to help you set up a great basic shop.
- You can easily create your own unique site.
- Lots of payment option plugins and you can use them to sell globally.
Cons
- Not a lot of free templates.
- Images can sometimes be too compressed and lose their full quality, so better settings for that could be introduced.
- Being able to change the look of your automatic emails via default settings can also be introduced.
Likelihood to Recommend
Any business looking to sell products online--hardware or software--can make use of PrestaShop. It's more suited to being a product selling platform rather than a service selling one. So if you are in the IT industry, selling computer hardware like central processing units, hard drives, solid state drives, etc., as well as computer software, then use PrestaShop. It's not meant for all industries like selling music--the option to stream the music online before purchasing isn't really going to be as possible on PrestaShop.
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Caleb Mackay
Owner in Information Technology at Red Wire (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
2 years of experience