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Comparison between Magento and Prestashop Ecommerce System

Comparison between Magento and Prestashop Ecommerce System

Magento, Prestashop Developer Mumbai

Hello Friends..Thanks for your comments on my previous blog comparison between Magento and Zen-cart.
Recently i finished one project in Prestashop and i found that its very good E-commerce system for small business solution.  And also i found prestashop and little less feature than Magento Provides, Here below i provide brief comparison between Magento and Prestashop

About Magento:

Magento is Open Source eCommerce software. Magento eCommerce was launched on March 31, 2008. Within two years of development, Magento has become one of the most popular eCommerce software.

About Prestashop:

PrestaShop is Open Source e-commerce software for Web 2.0. PrestaShop is available as licensed software and was officially launched in August 2007 for small and medium enterprises. Prestashop is based on the Smarty template engine.

Comparison between Magento & Prestashop

1. Size of software

Presta - 2.2 MB (1292 files)

Magento 10.3 Mb (5521 files)

2. Installation

Prestashop installation requirements are less.

Magento installation needs a lot of extensions like PDO, CURL etc

3. Features

When it comes to features, Magento is a way ahead from Prestashop. Customer groups, product comparison, CMS are there in Magento. Magento’s SEO features make it the most suitable ecommerce software. Magento also provide Multi-Store feature which is very powerful. When it comes to design also, Magento is a clear winner.

Prestashop’s search feature is very impressive. The search on Prestashop frontend is relatively faster than magento.

4. Code contrast

Prestashop is based on PHP5 and Smarty template engine. The first model MVC is not excellent. It will be difficult if you touch the first Prestashop code. The line of code is much more for smarty adoption; which increases the workload for extending development.

Magento adopts Zend framework. The developers are not only required to master PHP, but also required to have good knowledge about Zend framework.

5. Shipping & Payment Modules

Magento offers wide range of shipping and payment modules, whereas such feature is missing in Prestashop.

6. Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Magento is relatively more SEO friendly than Prestashop.

7. Design Flexibility

Design of Magento seems to be difficult than Prestashop. So, if you don’t have much technical skills and you want to customize the Magento Design, then you should hire magento expert.

8. Backoffice

The back office of Magento is less intuitive which requires more technical skills to manage it effectively. Whereas, backoffice of Prestashop is relatively simple and easy.

9. Community

Magento has comparatively larger community. Magento Community have 130,000 members, Prestashop have 30000 members. (Figures are approximate).

Function contrast:
Features Prestashop Magento
Open Source 100% 100%
Pricing Free Free
Templatable Smarty Smarty
Multi-Language Yes Yes
Multi-Currency Yes Yes
Product Reviews Yes Yes
Product Ratings Yes Yes
Downloadable Yes Yes
Related Products Yes Yes
Product Features Yes Yes
Newsletters Yes Yes
Discount Coupon Yes Yes
SEO URLs Yes Yes
Backup & Restore Yes Yes
Printable Invoices Yes Yes
Sales Reports Yes Yes
Free Shipping Yes Yes
Wholesale Yes Yes
News & Events No No
Wish List No Yes
Testimonlals No No
Track order No No
F.A.Q No No
Gift Certificate No No
Recently Viewed No No
Points No No
Bulk Category Add No No
Bulk Product Add No No
Product Comparison No Yes
Statistics Yes No
Affiliate No No
Memberships Yes No
One-page Checkout No No
Order Barcode No No
Merchandise return (RMAs) No No
RSS Feed No Yes
TAG No Yes
Send to friend No No
Access Restrictions No No
Live Chat Software No No
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