PrestaShop
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| Industry | Internet |
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| Founded | 2007 in Paris, France |
| Founder | Bruno Lévêque, Igor Schlumberger |
| Headquarters | , |
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.
PrestaShop is currently used by 300,000 shops worldwide and is available in 60 different languages.[2]
History[edit]
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, 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 2016.[8]
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.[9]
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.[10]
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]
As of October 2021, 0.31% of sites employing open-source shopping cart software use PrestaShop, according to software tracking website BuiltWith.[11] According to W3Techs, PrestaShop is used by 0.5% of all websites.[12]
In October 2019, PrestaShop closed the Miami headquarters and ceased its operations in the Americas.[13]
In 2019, PrestaShop received the Acteurs du Libre International Award[14] for its international development strategy.
The current and latest version of Prestashop is 1.7.8.5[15]
In November 2021, PrestaShop joined the MBE Worldwide group to accelerate its growth and become the leading commerce platform for accelerating business growth worldwide.[citation needed]
Business model[edit]
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[16]
Features[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
On June 14, 2021, Wish announced a partnership with PrestaShop whereby Prestashop will provide over 300k merchants with access to the Wish marketplace.[17]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Internationalization and Open Source drive Growth for PrestaShop". PrestaShop. 2016-10-13. Retrieved 2017-11-28.
- ^ "About PrestaShop". PrestaShop. 18 December 2020.
- ^ "PrestaShop Opens First U.S. Office & Creates 85 Jobs in Miami".
- ^ "PrestaShop's female CEO tells all - Interview with Corinne Lejbowicz, CEO of PrestaShop". HostAdvice. April 14, 2016.
- ^ "PrestaShop raises $9.3M in Series B Funding". 6 March 2014.
- ^ "PrestaShop disrupts the ecommerce market with the industry's first free cloud software for merchants". PrestaShop. 27 January 2022.
- ^ "Archived copy". twitter.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "About PrestaShop 1.7". Retrieved 18 September 2021.
- ^ "End of maintenance for PrestaShop 1.6". 12 October 2018. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
- ^ "The PrestaShop architecture". devdocs.prestashop.com. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
- ^ "Statistics for websites using Open Source technologies". BuiltWith.
- ^ "Usage statistics and market share of PrestaShop for websites". W3Techs.
- ^ "PrestaShop Inc. business filings". sunbiz.org.
- ^ "Le CNLL révèle les lauréats du concours des Acteurs du Libre 2019". CNLL.
- ^ Github. "Prestashop Releases". Github.
- ^ "E-commerce Industry Partners". PrestaShop. 30 January 2020.
- ^ "Wish Announces Partnership with Leading Ecommerce Platform PrestaShop". 14 June 2021.