PrestaShop Open source E-commerce CMS

In today’s internet world, E-commerce is being considered as a highly developing sector which in turn is moving through many roads and are also in a position to move on to many different heights in short time. There are many sectors entering the E-commerce industry with the help of a single website. In fact there are many details that have to be considered while carrying out the creation of the website in the most effective manner. There are quite a lot of E-Commerce CMS solutions available in the market and there are very few as popular as PrestaShop. PrestaShop has been an e-commerce solution that provides free e-Commerce shopping cart software since 2007. The software is absolutely easy to use and customize.
The two latest versions of PrestaShop are:
• PrestaShop v.1.3.5 (stable).
• PrestaShop v.1.4 (Alpha).

The most important features in PrestaShop are :
1. Catalog – Unlimited categories, subcategories and products.
2. Payment – Unlimited payment means (extensions available on addons.prestashop.com).
3. Statistics – Complete Integration with Google Analytics.
4. Translation – 41 language packs with online translation tool.
5. Localisation – Unlimited currencies with Exchange rates synchronization.
6. SEO – SEO optimized with Meta tags (meta title, keywords…) management.
7. Security – Secure Back-Office access (login and password) with SSL compatibility.

The components that are required to install PrestaShop are free and easily available:
• LINUX, UNIX, or Windows
• PHP 5.0 or later
• Apache Web server
• MySQL 4.1.14 or later.

Now, one has to make sure if the features are sufficient for their requirements and if not, PrestaShop like any other Free CMS is customizable according to the needs. And for a layman in technology to actually understand the features to meet their requirements, it is quite important to choose the right company to do the development for them and it is quite important to make sure that the company is in practice in offering good Quality, Service and Support. We at TreeShore, are proud to be in one of those companies.