Posted by admin | Posted in Coding | Posted on 05-10-2010
PrestaShop is an open source ecommerce platform distinguished by contemporary facilities of fast and easy online shops establishment. You are allowed to use it absolutely for free and you don’t have to be a skilled web developer to use all the PrestaShop features for your online business profit. The platform maintains user-friendly back office which is extremely easy to use so you are able to create, control and maintain your online store with simple clicks.
Although PrestaShop has only few stable releases it was already evaluated by webmasters as one of the most powerful free ecommerce tools. The main advantages of the platform include extensibility, simple deployment and minimum system requirements so it won’t take you much time and efforts to implement any necessary modifications within PrestaShop platform.
Let’s observe the key features the front and back office of PrestaShop platform possess.
1. Front office:
- the homepage contains featured products, top sellers and new items sections;
- special offers (discounts, gifts);
- the product image can be zoomed;
- out-of-stock items order;
- the system of points (loyalty system);
- customer subscription, referral program and user accounts;
- unlimited languages and payment methods.
2. Back office:
- unlimited products, categories and subcategories;
- customer’s comments;
- discounts;
- wish list;
- customizable products and order statuses;
- PDF invoices and slips;
- tableless CSS design;
- good PHP use.
There is a great variety of premade PrestaShop themes available for free use to build a shopping site you need. Here is a collection for you to browse:
