CREATION OF AN ONLINE STORE ON THE PLATFORM PRESTASHOP
PrestaShop is a free and open-source e-commerce platform that allows you to create and manage your own online store. It was founded in 2007 by Bruno Lévêque and Igor Schlumberger in France, and now has over 300,000 users worldwide. PrestaShop is suitable for small to medium-sized businesses that want to sell physical or digital products online. It can handle high traffic and large product catalogs, thanks to its scalable architecture and performance optimization features.
PrestaShop has a modular design that lets you customize your store with thousands of themes and add-ons available on the PrestaShop Marketplace. You can also create your own modules and themes using the PrestaShop Developer Documentation. Some of the core components and modules of PrestaShop are:
- Catalog: This is where you manage your products, categories, attributes, features, manufacturers, suppliers, and stock.
- Orders: This is where you process your orders, invoices, delivery slips, returns, refunds, and customer service messages.
- Customers: This is where you manage your customer accounts, groups, addresses, carts, and vouchers.
- Modules: This is where you install and configure the modules that add functionality to your store, such as payment methods, shipping carriers, marketing tools, analytics, etc.
- Design: This is where you change the appearance of your store, such as the theme, logo, favicon, homepage configuration, CMS pages, etc.
- Shipping: This is where you set up your shipping options, zones, costs, and tracking.
- Payment: This is where you choose the payment methods that you accept on your store, such as PayPal, Stripe, bank transfer, etc.
- Localization: This is where you configure the languages, currencies, taxes, and geolocation settings for your store.
- Preferences: This is where you adjust the general settings of your store, such as the shop name, contact details, maintenance mode, SEO options, etc.
- Advanced Parameters: This is where you access the more technical aspects of your store, such as the database, email configuration, backup and restore, performance optimization, etc.
PrestaShop is free to download and use. However, you will need to pay for hosting, domain name registration, SSL certificate (if you want to secure your site), and any premium modules or themes that you want to use. You can also opt for PrestaShop Ready (formerly PrestaShop Cloud), which is a hosted version of PrestaShop that costs from €19.90 per month. With PrestaShop Ready, you don't have to worry about installing or updating the software or managing the server. You also get access to some exclusive modules and features.
We are working with PrestaShop since 2016 and we have created many successful online stores for our clients. We can help you with every aspect of your e-commerce project: from choosing the best hosting provider and domain name for your store; to designing a custom theme and logo that reflects your brand identity; to installing and configuring the modules that suit your needs; to optimizing your store for speed and SEO; to marketing your products and increasing your sales. Contact us today and let us create a very good store for you with PrestaShop!