PrestaShop

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Prestashop
Industry Internet
Founded2007;17 years ago (2007) in Paris, France
FounderBruno Lévêque, Igor Schlumberger
Headquarters
Paris
,
France
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Alexandre Eruimy, CEO
Products Webshop, Shopping cart software
Website prestashop.com

PrestaShop is a freemium, [1] open source e-commerce platform. The software is published under the Open Software License (OSL). It is written in the PHP programming language with support for the MySQL database management system. It has a software dependency on the Symfony PHP framework.

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PrestaShop is currently used by 300,000 shops worldwide and is available in 60 different languages. [2]

History

PrestaShop started in 2005 as a student project within the EPITECH IT School in Paris, France. Originally named phpOpenStore, the software was first available in two languages: English and French. Three months after its launch, the project was translated into thirteen languages.[ citation needed ]

The company, PrestaShop SA, was founded in 2007 by Igor Schlumberger and Bruno Lévêque.

Between May 2010 and April 2012, PrestaShop grew from 17 employees to more than a hundred. In 2011, it established a secondary headquarters in the United States in Miami. [3] [4] As of April 2016, PrestaShop has over 120 employees and offices in 6 countries. [5]

In March 2014, PrestaShop SA secured $9.3M in Series B Funding to continue its global expansion efforts. [6]

In January 2015, the company launched PrestaShop Cloud, a free self-hosted version of its software, [7] but at least since 2017 is no longer available. [8]

The 1.7.x branch of PrestaShop was first released as a stable version in November 2016. [9]

Initially, maintenance for the 1.6 version was planned to expire in October 2018. For various reasons, PrestaShop decided to extend this maintenance period until June 30, 2019. [10]

PrestaShop has been built as a monolith following traditional object-oriented PHP practices. Originally based on a custom framework, it is progressively being migrated to Symfony. [11]

In February 2018, Alexandre Eruimy took over as CEO of PrestaShop. Since then, the company has been signing large-scale strategic partnerships with companies such as Paypal, Google, Meta, TikTok and many others, in order to make the latest technological solutions available to e-retailers.[ citation needed ]

In April 2019, PrestaShop reached 32% market share of all online shopping sites in France, according to BuiltWith. [12]

PrestaShop's worldwide marketshare of sites using open-source shopping cart software was 0.31% in October 2021 according to BuiltWith. [13] According to W3Techs's August 2023 report, 0.8% of the top 10 million websites worldwide are built using PrestaShop. [14]

In October 2019, PrestaShop closed the Miami headquarters and ceased its operations in the Americas. [15]

In 2019, PrestaShop received the Acteurs du Libre International Award [16] for its international development strategy.

A beta version of PrestaShop 8 was released in August 2022 along with a migration path from PrestaShop 1.7. [17] In October 2022, PrestaShop 8.0 was released. [18]

In November 2021, PrestaShop joined the MBE Worldwide group to accelerate its growth and become the leading commerce platform for accelerating business growth worldwide. [19]

Business model

As an open-source organization, PrestaShop is faced with the challenge of generating revenues. By leveraging the size and international scope of its open-source community, the company established two main sources of revenue:

Features

PrestaShop has more than three hundred built-in features for managing product listing, payments, shipping, manufacturers and suppliers. PrestaShop uses a web template system that allows users to customize store themes and add new features through add-on modules. The PrestaShop Addons marketplace provides a platform for third-party developers to sell themes and modules to merchants.

Themes

PrestaShop provides a basic responsive theme by default. Users can install or develop their own themes that change the display of the website without altering its content.

Modules

Add-on modules extend the software's built-in functionalities. Users may install modules directly within the software administration panel or develop their own.

Partnerships

On June 14, 2021, Wish announced a partnership with PrestaShop to provide over 300k merchants with access to the Wish marketplace. [21]

In June 2023, Prestashop forms an official, co-branded partnership with marketing automation platform Klaviyo launching Prestashop Automation with Klaviyo [22] [23]

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