Free Open Source Shopping Cart PrestaShop Releases Version 1.0

[mandy]

The cart runs on Linux, Unix, and Windows servers and requires PHP 5.0+ and MySQL 4.1+.

From PrestaShop's latest press release:

the PrestaShop e-Commerce solution is as powerful as it is user-friendly. Feature for feature, PrestaShop is as robust as commercial e-Commerce software.

For example, visitors to the online shop enjoy:

    * Price reductions
    * Gift vouchers
    * Free-shipping minimums
    * Text-message alerts
    * Recommended accessories (cross-selling)
    * The chance to order out-of-stock items

full press release: http://www.prestashop.com/blog/?p=8

features list: http://www.prestashop.com/features.php

Front Office (Website)

    * Special deals (price reductions, gift vouchers)
    * Text-message alerts
    * Featured products on homepage
    * Top sellers on homepage
    * New items on homepage
    * “Free shipping” offers
    * Cross-selling (Accessories)
    * Product image zoom
    * Order out-of-stock items
    * Customer subscription & user accounts
    * Unlimited payment methods
    * Preconfigured for Paypal™
    * Multiple-recipient contact form
    * Product tagging & tag cloud
    * Search
    * Checkout
    * Offer gift-wrapping & recycled packaging
    * PDF customer invoice
    * Shopping Cart recall

Back Office (Admin tool)

    * Unlimited categories & subcategories
    * Full-featured WYSIWYG text editor
    * Unlimited product attribute combinations
    * Unlimited product specs
    * Unlimited images with automatic resizing & file optimization
    * Unlimited currencies
    * Unlimited tax settings
    * Unlimited carriers & destinations
    * Inventory management
    * Add/delete function modules
    * Bar codes
    * Contextual help
    * Delivery status notification e-mails (customizable)
    * Unlimited languages & dialects
    * Import/export language translations
    * Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
    * Friendly URLs / Permalinks
    * Graphic themes
    * Back Office users & permissions (ACL)

Coming soon...

    * Product comparison
    * Advanced search
    * Customer product reviews
    * Wishlist
    * Reports
    * Content Management System (CMS)
    * Customer groups
    * Multiple Websites
    * Digressive pricing
    * Real-time currency exchange rates
    * 1-click purchase
    * Google™ Checkout module

[PDub]

Thanks for this, mandy.  ^-^

We're proud of our solution and challenge everyone to compare it feature-for-feature not only to other open-source shopping carts but to commercial shopping carts as well.

If anyone has any questions regarding PrestaShop, feel free to send me a personal message or post them here.  We also have a Forum on our site, although for the time being most of our user community is francophone.

Just a wee clarification, mandy, if I may: Your post headline and Tag read "PrestaCart" instead of "PrestaShop".  I can see you're quite busy but a correction would be most appreciated. 

Cheers for now!

P.S. A new version, 0.8.6, is due out in a week or so. Lots of bug fixes and a brand-new installer wizard, among other improvements ...

[bargainbloodhound]

A couple of feature suggestions:

1. a bulk lister (inventory import/export).
2. a returns RMA module

I like the text alerts feature.

[BellisimaJ.]

1. a bulk lister (inventory import/export).

The lack of a bulk lister is the biggest complaint on Etsy. It is a huge PITA to list there.

[mandy]

I like the text alerts feature.

A large segment of online shoppers, the under-25 demographic, would prefer to receive notifications via SMS rather than email.  Very few ecommerce packages offer any text notification capability for buyers.

[PDub]

[quote author=bargainbloodhound link=topic=16915.msg66467#msg66467 date=1195313236]
A couple of feature suggestions:

1. a bulk lister (inventory import/export).
2. a returns RMA module

I like the text alerts feature.
[/quote]

We're glad you like the SMS alerts feature.  It's been developed, is being tested, and will be included in the next build release, planned for a week from today (on Monday, Nov. 26).

As for a bulk lister, not surprisingly this is a common feature request.  We're in the process of developing it and are planning to include it in our first stable release, v1.0, due out in mid-December.

We are also developing a Returns RMA module, which is quite complicated to do but should be ready by January.

[mandy]

The first production version has been released

PrestaShop, a leader in open-source e-Commerce, announced today the release of its first official stable version, 1.0, as well as the unveiling of its newly redesigned Website, PrestaShop.com (http://www.prestashop.com).

Development began nearly two years ago, and today, a dozen beta releases later, the PrestaShop e-Commerce Solution v1.0 makes its debut as mature, production-ready, shopping-cart software for the Web 2.0 era...

full press release: http://www.prestashop.com/blog/article/118

current and upcoming features: http://www.prestashop.com/en/features/
demos: http://www.prestashop.com/en/showcase_demo/

[mandy]

A review of PrestaShop and Ubercart:

Ubercart
Ubercart is an open source e-commerce program designed to integrate fully with the content management system Drupal. Despite its German-sounding name, the company that developed it is based in Louisville, Kentucky. Like PrestaShop, development on the cart began two years ago, and a stable version 1.0 was recently released. It is based on the prior version of Drupal, version 5, and is currently being transitioned to work with Drupal version 6. Ubercart is available for free under the GNU Public License and is available in 44 languages.

Stand Out Features
What is unique about Ubercart is that its tight integration with Drupal allows you to seamlessly combine a fully-functional community, business or news Web site with e-commerce. This allows Ubercart store owners to sell members-only access to premium paid content, with automatic renewals and expiration of user access. The integration with Drupal also gives the option of using blogs, social networking, forums, newsletters or custom displays of content. It also allows the store owner to offer paid file downloads such as music, videos, e-books and software...

full article: http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/resources..._3773381_2

[layleth]

Thanks! this information is maybe helpful to everybody.

[SupremeC]

I like PrestaShop... has some real promise. Not bloatware like CRE Loaded and Eos Online Merchant. I have a feeling they won't be forcing people to purchase SSL Certificates either. The slew of frontend and backend features are a plus - lets not forget that its also Open Source [yea baby!]. Nice to see that v1.1 was finally released.