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Hi,

I Really like the look of PrestaShop for an ecommerce fashion site -
I have looked at several others, including

Magento - crazy install / slow
Joomla Virtuemart - Bulky and Buggy?
Zencart - Seems to have best reviews so far


I really need help and just wondered of the user experiences advice when it comes to


SEO |
Affiliates |
Stability |
Paypal Pro Integration ( Seamless Branded checkouts )


Cheers
Alex
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Hi,

I Really like the look of PrestaShop for an ecommerce fashion site -
I have looked at several others, including

Magento - crazy install / slow
Joomla Virtuemart - Bulky and Buggy?
Zencart - Seems to have best reviews so far


I really need help and just wondered of the user experiences advice when it comes to


SEO |
Affiliates |
Stability |
Paypal Pro Integration ( Seamless Branded checkouts )


Cheers
Alex


When using Magento I choose a host that include install with registration. Beyond that, it's just so much work to get anything done in Magento.
I'm not a fan of using Joolma Virtuemart. I think Joolma is a great CMS but a shitty cart.
Having tried Zencart though I know it's a fork of Osc. It's a mature product so that are plenty of extension/modules for it.


I'm new to Prestashop myself but my experiences with Prestashop is that as far as SEO goes it's incredible. It's a modern cart built with a lot of good SEO features in it from install. I haven't had any stability issues or encountered any bugs but there are others on the forum experiences differ from mine. Personally, I think who you choose as a host has a lot to do with a lot of these problems. My host was optimized for Magento. When I deleted my Magento cart and decided to run Prestashop, I haven't experienced a lot of the issues that some seem to have.. pay pal, google checkout, ssl.

If you're looking for Paypal Pro intergration... at the moment it doesn't exist and is not a priority for the prestashop team. There are members who are working to get this done for US and UK shops and a quick search of the forum should bring up their thread.

Not quite sure what you mean by "branded checkouts"
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Hey Hoodgrown,

Thanks very much for the reply.

Paypal Pro:
Is essential partly because of branded checkout.

Branded Checkout
By branded checkout I mean that customer never 'leaves' the site at checkout, but stays within the site right throughout checkout.

VAT Issue
I have been reading about the VAT issues, that is very key as it is in UK, and must abide to EU laws.
I love my first experiences of PS but am a bit concerned.

Zencart
Thanks will look at Zen,

Cheers

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Magento - crazy install / slow
Joomla Virtuemart - Bulky and Buggy?
Zencart - Seems to have best reviews so far



I delved into those same carts and came to pretty much the same conclusions. I haven't found the perfect solution, but I like Prestashop much better than any of the others I've tried, and I installed a bunch. So I've taken the Prestashop plunge. :)

The affiliate system still seems to be pretty young and probably won't be what most users are looking for quite yet, but here's a thread with more info:
http://www.prestashop.com/forums/viewthread/23948/
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