What is PrestaShop?
PrestaShop is an amazing piece of open-source software that allows you to create a professional e-Commerce shopping cart website, entirely for free!
It’s very popular and has over 35,000 online stores that are using it as their shopping cart system. Choosing an open-source project that’s active and well-supported by the community is also important, and this is exactly what PrestaShop is, with over 50,000 members in its community.
The reason why most people choose PrestaShop over the other shopping cart solutions out there, is because of PrestaShop’s ability to scale, its modular design, light-weight footprint, and easy installation process. Theming your PrestaShop site is also easy since it runs on the Smarty template engine. There are hundreds of themes (both free and paid) available that you can just plug in and use rightaway, or if you have knowledge of PHP, you can even create your own PrestaShop themes easily!
Technical requirements
- Apache web server 1.3 or later
- PHP 5 or later
- MySQL 5 or later
- Linux, Unix or Windows installed operating system
Why People Choose PrestaShop
PrestaShop has a lot of great features both for the end-user and the website administrator, so it’s no wonder that so many people are using it as their favorite shopping cart system. The following are just some features that you might find attractive:
- Quantity discounts and loyalty/reward points
- Unlimited product categories/subcategories, and individual products
- Showcase featured products, best sellers, new products, etc, on the homepage
- Built-in product image zoom
- Wide variety of payment methods such as Paypal and Google Checkout
- Full-featured WYSIWYG text editor
- Different currencies and tax settings
- Affiliate program
- SMS alerts
- Customisable delivery status notifications
- Search Engine Friendly URLs and Permalinks
- SSL encryption
- Smarty templating engine
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