PrestaShop

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Prestashop
IndustryInternet
Founded2007; 14 years ago (2007) in Paris, France
FounderBruno Lévêque, Igor Schlumberger
Headquarters
Paris
,
France
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Alexandre Eruimy, CEO
ProductsWebshop, Shopping cart software
Websiteprestashop.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.

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 .

Between May 2010 and April 2012, PrestaShop grew from 17 employees to more than a hundred, with the establishment of secondary headquarters in Miami.[3][failed verification] As of April 2016, PrestaShop has over 120 employees and offices in 6 countries.[4]

In March 2014, PrestaShop SA secured $9.3M in Series B Funding to continue its global expansion efforts.[5]

In January 2015, the company launched PrestaShop Cloud, a free self-hosted version of its software,[6] but at least since 2017 is no longer available.[7]

The 1.7.x branch of PrestaShop is the latest branch of PrestaShop, first released as a stable version in November of 2016.[8]

As of October 2020, .28% of sites employing open-source shopping cart software use PrestaShop, according to software tracking website BuiltWith.[9] According to W3Techs, PrestaShop is used by 0.5% of all websites.[10]

In October 2019, PrestaShop closed the Miami headquarters and ceased its operations in the Americas.[11]

In 2019, PrestaShop received the Acteurs du Libre International Award[12] for its international development strategy.

The current and latest version of Prestashop is 1.7.7.7[13]

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:

  • PrestaShop Addons, a marketplace through which merchants purchase custom addons and themes for their stores
  • Strategic partnerships with e-commerce industry leaders such as PayPal or Google[14]

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 whereby Prestashop will provide over 300k merchants with access to the Wish marketplace.[15]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Internationalization and Open Source drive Growth for PrestaShop". PrestaShop. 2016-10-13. Retrieved 2017-11-28.
  2. ^ "About PrestaShop". PrestaShop.
  3. ^ "PrestaShop Opens First U.S. Office & Creates 85 Jobs in Miami".
  4. ^ "PrestaShop's female CEO tells all - Interview with Corinne Lejbowicz, CEO of PrestaShop". HostAdvice. April 14, 2016.
  5. ^ "PrestaShop raises $9.3M in Series B Funding".
  6. ^ "PrestaShop disrupts the ecommerce market with the industry's first free cloud software for merchants". PrestaShop.
  7. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20200303205722/https://twitter.com/PrestaShop/status/869474591340724224
  8. ^ "About PrestaShop 1.7". Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  9. ^ "Statistics for websites using Open Source technologies". BuiltWith.
  10. ^ "Usage statistics and market share of PrestaShop for websites". W3Techs.
  11. ^ "PrestaShop Inc. business filings". sunbiz.org.
  12. ^ "Le CNLL révèle les lauréats du concours des Acteurs du Libre 2019". CNLL.
  13. ^ Github. "Prestashop Releases". Github.
  14. ^ "E-commerce Industry Partners". PrestaShop.
  15. ^ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210614005463/en/Wish-Announces-Partnership-With-Leading-Ecommerce-Platform-PrestaShop
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