PrestaShop
PrestaShop is a mature, open-source e-commerce platform written in PHP that powers hundreds of thousands of online stores worldwide. It provides a complete solution for building and running an online shop — catalogue management, orders, payments, shipping, and a back office — with one of the largest module and theme ecosystems in the self-hosted e-commerce space.
Key Features
- Complete store management — products, combinations, stock, orders, customers, and carriers all managed from a central back office.
- Massive module ecosystem — thousands of free and paid modules add payment gateways, shipping carriers, analytics, and marketing tools.
- Multi-language & multi-currency — built-in support for dozens of languages and currencies out of the box.
- Themeable storefront — a flexible template system lets you customise the shop’s look, with a large marketplace of themes.
- SEO tools — friendly URLs, meta management, and structured data helpers to get your products found.
- CMS integration — create informational pages alongside your shop for a full website in one platform.
- Active community — a well-established project with extensive documentation, forums, and service providers.
Why Use PrestaShop?
PrestaShop is ideal if you want a proven, self-hosted platform with strong community support and no per-transaction fees. Its long history and huge module marketplace mean almost any feature you need is likely already available as a plugin.
Use Cases
- Launching a self-hosted online store with a full catalogue and checkout
- Businesses that need a large ecosystem of extensions for payments, shipping, and marketing
- Multi-language stores serving customers across several countries and currencies
Platform
Web-based (self-hosted PHP on Linux servers, or Docker)
Licence
Open Software License 3.0 (OSL-3.0)