11/07/2019

New features, developments, advanced functionalities, download PrestaShop 1.7.6 now!

So, what's new in version 1.7.6?

Version 1.7.6 of PrestaShop has been shaped around 3 key words in order to support the development of online stores: performance, acquisition & conversion, and internationalization.

With PrestaShop 1.7.6, merchants benefit from new features, increase the engagement of their users, a better highlight of their products and reach a wider audience.

 

Performance of tools

PrestaShop 1.7.6 allows merchants to improve customer satisfaction, rise productivity, and efficiently optimize their online store.

Experience

  • New design for transactional emails (optimized for mobile screens), which strengthen the customer relationship and communications;
  • Optimized theme navigation at all key stages of the purchasing process to improve customer reassurance and conversions;
  • Enhanced stability of the software with more than 100 bug fixes from previous versions and an optimized quality process.

Transactional email templates

 Transactional emails

Administration

  • Optimized back office on mobile devices;
  • Management and preview of transactional emails directly from a new back-office page (Email Theme);
  • Overview of prices including tax from the back office product catalog page.

Conviviality & accompaniment 

  • Help cards for the most important pages in the back office (Category, Customer and Employee pages);
  • Dynamic preview of SEO on search engines: product page, category, content page (CMS);
  • Direct access to resources (documentation, training, agencies, help center...) from the profile used.

SEO Preview

SEO Preview

 

Conversion & Acquisition

PrestaShop 1.7.6 allows merchants to generate traffic and increase sales.

Conversion

  • New feature: Customers Reviews; 
  • New faceted navigation (for sorting and filters) on the category and listing pages with the addition of a price slider
  • Ability to enable or disable the display of prices for showcase sites in "catalog mode";
  • Added watermark feature - developed by the Community.

Customers reviews

Customer reviews

Traffic

  • Rich Snippets feature added to the Customer Reviews module.
  • SEO optimization for products with variations.

 

Visibility and internationalization 

PrestaShop 1.7.6 offers merchants tools and services that take into account local specificities in order to conquer new markets.

International trade

  • Better localization thanks to the optimization of the display of prices adapted to customer language;
  • Optimized translation system for multilingual sites.

Prices display

Prices display

Check out the full list of features, enhancements and fixes in PrestaShop 1.7.6.

 

A word from PrestaShop

Coline Ginestet, Lead Product Manager

 Coline Ginestet, Lead Product Manager @PrestaShop "The PrestaShop teams and I are proud to present this new version, the most ambitious to date. With 1.7.6, we continue our mission: to support all e-merchants in their growth objectives while facilitating their daily workload thanks to efficient and intuitive tools. "

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