Paid moderation and removal of all modules and templates from PrestaShop Addons

[PrestaPro LTD]

Hello,
As you may know soon, or rather in July, all Addons that have not paid for moderation will be disabled.
And in September they will be removed.

I want to conduct a survey among developers.

• What do you think about it?
• Where do you plan to sell your modules next, if you plan?
• Or do you think paying 99 euros per year is justified, for each module and template?
• How many sales do you think should be in a year to make it profitable to pay for moderation?

Edited June 7 by PrestaPro LTD (see edit history)

[Divine]

Hello,

I removed my contributions from this platform years ago but here is my opinion :

• What do you think about it?
  => It's shameful. But it doesn't surprise me as I know Prestashop Addons practices for a very long time...
   
• Where do you plan to sell your modules next, if you plan?
  => On my own website. Merchants who needs you perfectly know how to find you.
   
• Or do you think paying 99 euros per year is justified, for each module and template?
  => Absolutely not. 20 to 40% commission is already taken on each sale, I think it should be enough for the only thing that this platform offers : visibility.
   
• How many sales do you think should be in a year to make it profitable to pay for moderation?
  => You can make as many sales as you want on Prestashop Addons, it will never be profitable because the way the business is managed on this platform is basically not profitable for developers.

Anyway this is just my opinion and I wish you good luck and a lot of patience if you stay on this platform !

[c64girl]

What, they want to make You to pay 99 euro for moderation of Your modules? xD

[pedepot]

For sure, this will reduce drastically the number of themes and modules on the marketplace. The overall ecosystem will shrunk => Prestashop is dying little by little but for certain.

[Nickz]

12 minutes ago, pedepot said:

For sure, this will reduce drastically the number of themes and modules on the marketplace. The overall ecosystem will shrunk => Prestashop is dying little by little but for certain.

Depending on their Marketing strategy too, as Presta uses a 2 way approach. A bare knuckle basic design and you can get modules elsewhere. And the SaaS solution for a fixed price. Just as shopify. 

[c64girl]

22 hours ago, Nickz said:

Depending on their Marketing strategy too, as Presta uses a 2 way approach. A bare knuckle basic design and you can get modules elsewhere. And the SaaS solution for a fixed price. Just as shopify. 

They so mutch moderate the modules they pass modules that load 3rd party scripts from .ru sites. I was posting about this some time ago. Autor and Prestashop seems dont care They should stop all modules connection outside the prestashop store, this is my opinion on this.
 

 

Edited August 9 by c64girl (see edit history)

[Sami]

This moderation tax was the last nail in the coffin. The moment PrestaShop abandoned the open source, turned their back to 3rd party developers and tried to compete with Shopify, they've lost. But companies having incompetent management won't be for the first time. Its sad because PrestaShop had so much potential.

[PrestaPro LTD]

On 8/9/2024 at 10:41 PM, c64girl said:

They so mutch moderate the modules they pass modules that load 3rd party scripts from .ru sites. I was posting about this some time ago. Autor and Prestashop seems dont care They should stop all modules connection outside the prestashop store, this is my opinion on this.
 

 

This is not my module. I represent Prestapro LTD.
The module you give as an example is SeoSa, I know them, but I do not do any business with them and also cannot answer for every bad programmer or company.

I assume module seosamanager they collect statistics, but I haven't studied the code for this module.

[Paul C]

I was originally under the assumption that there was to be a quality control process on the addons store. How wrong I was. The partner programme? From my limited experience (examining the work of one "authorised agency") - you may as well use fiverr.... not that there are many "experts" left on the list. I thought that there was none in the UK as I searched on "Europe" as a region but it seems they've redefined it as EU perhaps. Someone needs a geography lesson 

If they're proposing a cost to module and theme authors that will mean genuine (functional/security) analysis and quality control, then I think it would benefit both customers and developers (and hopefully remove the junk modules and themes that are on there).

The open source side is going fairly well now that it has been split off. The commercial arm, not so much as it stands.

[yama]

Is this plan now in addon? Seems a bit expensive if there 40% commission 🤔

What is "moderation"?

If it's to give tools for dev to help to secure modules and to upgrade to a new version of ps, bootstrap or idk what, the plan can be useful. But "40% + 99 euro + random fee + ..." seems a great idea to lost fair dev and keep only Agency and "mass useless module" dev.