Comments on: Prestashop : simple Magento competitor

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:20:47 +0000

I found Magento to be slow and the it was too complicated for my customer to use.

I’m a VB programmer for many years so I have also used .net carts like Vevo and nopcommerce. I have just played with a new one called kartris (http://www.kartris.com) – i love it but you have to pay if you want more than 500 products which is a shame.

By: Liad

Liad — Mon, 10 May 2010 07:23:45 +0000

I’ve tried both Magento and Prestashop. Magento is a lot harder to modify and is very slow. Furthermore, the software is very difficult to understand and manage, I don’t expect any client to manage a store with it anytime soon.

My business currently offers e-commerce solutions with Prestashop and it is working great. I feel that it would be the smarter choice if you’re looking for for an OS e-commerce solution.

By: Tomer Grassiany

Tomer Grassiany — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:34:49 +0000

I can tell you from my experience that Prestashop is much easier to install and to use.

I know that when I tried to install Magento for the first time, I got frustrated after about 15 minutes because it seemed too hard. Usually with new software it never takes me more than 15 minutes to figure out how it works.

In fact I am just now in the middle of converting a Magento site to Prestashop for a client.

I am also an English Moderator on the Prestashop forum, and I see many people that are far less tech savvy than me that manage to install and customize their own shops, and install themes, modules and modification with little or no help.

I have many useful modules for Prestashop on my store (http://www.presto-changeo.com/), like a filter module, a translation module (which I used to translate my site to 15 other languages), and an attribute wizard module that lets you customized your attributes similar to apple’s website.

I have not tested Prestashop on a really large scale (10,000 – 50,000+ products), so I can’t say if Magento works better in those conditions, but for any small / medium shops, I feel the Prestashop is by far the better option.

By: Kent

Kent — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:47:55 +0000

Magento is a programming marvel – Object Oriented design, PHP Data Objects,… all the latest programming techniques. But as a result, it’s bloatware and it’s slow. It thrashes the database on every query. I would like to see eBay or Amazon use it!
If you are on shared hosting using Magento, don’t be surprised to get a nasty ‘resource overuse’ letter from your hosting provider.
Prestashop has a refreshing look and feel, but it’s in it’s infancy (not quite ready for Prime Time).
ZenCart will probably never see 2.0, it needs a complete rewrite.
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UberCart on Drupal rocks!!!
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– Kent

By: manfrodo

manfrodo — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:59:47 +0000

Two days ago I learned about Prestashop and I love it! In less than an hour I had a shop running and I’m not a programmer. There are lots of little tweaks and modules you can use to customize your store.

I was using VirtueMart + Joomla but Virtuemart seems to be dead by now…

By: noel

noel — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:42:00 +0000

I have installed Prestashop on my site and everything looks great. But just today, I happen to see OpenCart which looks nice as well. What do you think about this software guys?

By: Adam Ng

Adam Ng — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:30:10 +0000

I set up my site initially with Magento but switched to Prestashop after getting tired frustrated of dealing it. Nothing is as easy as it should be in Magento. It takes a entire day of reading and messing with phtml files to get a basic vertical menu! Yes, Magento is the most sophisticated eccommerce solution you can get for free, but if unless you’re a programmer with strong php and css skills, it will fustrate you to no end. Prestashop is very robust with a lot of advanced features, and they put thought into the ui. Documentation and howto on theming is scarce now, but that’s understandable since it’s still new.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:42:11 +0000

After trying numerous options (Oscommerce, Zencart etc.) I have settled for PrestaShop – infact I would recommend this software very highly to any person starting out as its so simple and create a good effect with simple css.

I have no prior programming knowledge and I have already had my shopping site setup. Hopefully in the future with more users it will get only more powerful.

By: Basharat

Basharat — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:17:49 +0000

good guide for choosing good software.
thanks

By: Buck

Buck — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:36:25 +0000

Very good comments. I have been working with ZenCart for years.. and like others I am very tired of waiting for 2.0 to come out. Even when it does, if you have read the release notes, it is still lacking some very basic features that are necessary these days. And they aren’t even touching the admin for another couple of releases so hopefully nobody was counting on that. They have just let themselves get very behind.
As for the others.. I have been working with Magento and PrestaShop for the last 6 months or so and I am very impressed with both.
True, Magento can be a little slower but there are many advantages.
I recommend both Magento and PrestaShop and wouldn’t waist time with any of the others.