What is PrestaShop ?

PrestaShop is an alternative ecommerce solutions that developed as open source and it is Free.

It is very lightweight thus only require about 6mb installation files. It was developed based on Smarty template engine.

PrestaShop supports payment gateway such as Google checkout, paypal, bankwire, and other modules that are offered as free or commercially. It is also support over 40 languages but only English and French having full support because it was founded in Paris, France.
Latest version of PrestaShop is 1.3.2 [ at the time this post was written ]
Link to PrestaShop official website > Prestashop


Some of the PrestaShop Features

Front Office:

• Special deals (price reductions, gift vouchers)
• 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
• Payment by bank wire
• Google™ Checkout module
• Cash-On-Delivery (COD)
• Preconfigured for Paypal™
• Multiple-recipient contact form
• Product tagging & tag cloud
• Search
• Merchandise return (RMAs) & credit slips
• Package tracking
• Offer gift-wrapping & recycled packaging
• PDF customer invoice
• Shopping Cart recall
• Sale of services & virtual goods
• Custom Favicon
• RSS feed
• Newsletter opt-in
• 'Pick up in-store' option
• Customized product (text and images)
• Wishlist
• Loyal customer program
• Affiliate program
• Sponsor-a-friend benefit program
• Customer product reviews

Back Office:

• 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
• Tax by state, country, both, zones, or no taxes
• Digressive pricing (Quantity discounts)
• Real-time currency exchange rates
• Inventory management
• SMS/Text-message alerts
• Add/delete function modules
• Bar codes
• Contextual help
• Attribute Combo Generator
• Delivery status notification e-mails (customizable)
• Unlimited languages & dialects
• Import/export language translations
• 13 default language translations
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Friendly URLs / Permalinks
• 100% modifiable graphic themes
• Back Office users & permissions (ACL )
• Maintenance Mode
• Minimum order amount
• Newsletter contact export
• Alias search
• Bulk lister/import .CSV files
• SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption
• Visitors online
• Content Management System (CMS)
• Reports
• Customer groups