Company:PrestaShop

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Prestashop
IndustryInternet
Founded2007; 17 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 Bruno Lévêque.

Between May 2010 and April 2012, PrestaShop grew from 17 employees to more than a hundred. In 2011, it established a secondary headquarters in the United States in Miami.[3][4] As of April 2016, PrestaShop has over 120 employees and offices in 6 countries.[5]

In March 2014, PrestaShop SA secured $9.3M in Series B Funding to continue its global expansion efforts.[6]

In January 2015, the company launched PrestaShop Cloud, a free self-hosted version of its software,[7] but at least since 2017 is no longer available.[8]

The 1.7.x branch of PrestaShop was first released as a stable version in November 2016.[9]

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.[10]

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.[11]

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]

In April 2019, PrestaShop reached 32% market share of all online shopping sites in France, according to BuiltWith.[12]

PrestaShop's worldwide marketshare of sites using open-source shopping cart software was 0.31% in October 2021 according to BuiltWith.[13] According to W3Techs's August 2023 report, 0.8% of the top 10 million websites worldwide are built using PrestaShop.[14]

In October 2019, PrestaShop closed the Miami headquarters and ceased its operations in the Americas.[15]

In 2019, PrestaShop received the Acteurs du Libre International Award[16] for its international development strategy.

A beta version of PrestaShop 8 was released in August 2022 along with a migration path from PrestaShop 1.7.[17] In October 2022, PrestaShop 8.0 was released.[18]

In November 2021, PrestaShop joined the MBE Worldwide group to accelerate its growth and become the leading commerce platform for accelerating business growth worldwide.[19]

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[20]

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 to provide over 300k merchants with access to the Wish marketplace.[21]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Internationalization and Open Source drive Growth for PrestaShop" (in en). PrestaShop. 2016-10-13. https://www.prestashop.com/en/press-releases/2014/10/01/internationalization-and-open-source-drive-growth-for-prestashop. 
  2. ↑ "About PrestaShop". PrestaShop. 18 December 2020. http://www.prestashop.com/en/about-us. 
  3. ↑ "Harley Davidson, four other firms bring 185 jobs to Miami-Dade". 2011-10-13. https://www.miamiherald.com/2011/10/13/2452863/harley-davidson-four-other-firms.html. 
  4. ↑ Dahlberg, Nancy (2014-06-03). "PrestaShop secures $9.3 million in Series B financing | The Starting Gate". Miami Herald. https://miamiherald.typepad.com/the-starting-gate/2014/03/prestashop-a-miami-based-e-commerce-software-company-on-thursday-announced-it-has-secured-93-million-in-a-series-b-fundin.html. 
  5. ↑ "PrestaShop's female CEO tells all - Interview with Corinne Lejbowicz, CEO of PrestaShop". April 14, 2016. https://hostadvice.com/blog/prestashop-interview/. 
  6. ↑ "PrestaShop raises $9.3M in Series B Funding". 6 March 2014. http://www.finsmes.com/2014/03/prestashop-raises-9-3m-in-series-b-funding.html. 
  7. ↑ "PrestaShop disrupts the ecommerce market with the industry's first free cloud software for merchants". 27 January 2022. https://www.prestashop.com/en/press-releases/2015/01/29/prestashop-disrupts-the-ecommerce-market-with-the-industrys-first-free-cloud-software-for-merchants/. 
  8. ↑ "PrestaShop on Twitter: "Hello Anna! You can use the Download offer to use PrestaShop for free (But you'll need a server). :) There isn't any Cloud offer for now.… https://T.co/UQpFebuwjW"". https://twitter.com/PrestaShop/status/869474591340724224. 
  9. ↑ "About PrestaShop 1.7". http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS17/PrestaShop+1.7+documentation. 
  10. ↑ "End of maintenance for PrestaShop 1.6". 12 October 2018. https://www.prestashop.com/en/blog/maintenance-extension-prestashop-1-6. 
  11. ↑ "The PrestaShop architecture". https://devdocs.prestashop.com/1.7/development/architecture/. 
  12. ↑ "eCommerce technologies Web Usage Distribution in France". BuiltWith. 2019-04-03. https://trends.builtwith.com/shop/country/France. 
  13. ↑ "Statistics for websites using Open Source technologies". 2021-10-10. http://trends.builtwith.com/shop/open-source. 
  14. ↑ "Usage statistics and market share of PrestaShop for websites". W3Techs. 2023-08-30. http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-prestashop/all/all. 
  15. ↑ "PrestaShop Inc. business filings". http://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchResultDetail?inquirytype=EntityName&directionType=Initial&searchNameOrder=PRESTASHOP%20F100000048670&aggregateId=forp-f10000004867-9c0a71b5-e1e6-439a-9f96-dc11987b6292&searchTerm=prestashop&listNameOrder=PRESTASHOP%20F100000048670. 
  16. ↑ "Le CNLL révèle les lauréats du concours des Acteurs du Libre 2019". CNLL. https://cnll.fr/news/le-cnll-r%C3%A9v%C3%A8le-les-laur%C3%A9ats-du-concours-des-acteurs-du-libre-2019/. 
  17. ↑ "Migrate your solutions from PrestaShop 1.7 to 8.0" (in en). 2022-08-15. https://build.prestashop-project.org/news/2022/migrate-your-solutions-from-17-to-80/. 
  18. ↑ "PrestaShop 1.8.0 Release". 2022-10-26. https://github.com/PrestaShop/PrestaShop/releases/tag/8.0.0. 
  19. ↑ "MBE and PrestaShop join forces to become a leading global commerce platform to power business growth" (in en-US). https://www.mbecorporate.com/news/mbe-worldwide-acquires-prestashop/. 
  20. ↑ "E-commerce Industry Partners". 30 January 2020. https://www.prestashop.com/en/industry-partners. 
  21. ↑ "Wish Announces Partnership with Leading Ecommerce Platform PrestaShop" (Press release). 14 June 2021.



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