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Which version of Prestashop is best for production shop?


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I'm a big fan of Prestashop and have been for many years.

The fact is due to nature of Prestashop and lack of control over the development there is always something wrong with every version (big time). Instead of making bug free version it seems that adding an additional functionality is the priority. My question is, from your experience which version is the most production ready? And what I mean by this. I will install it for someone and everything what is intended to work, simply works.

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P

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Good Morning,

 

I have never had any trouble with 1.4.7 other swear by 1.4.9

 

1.5 has, as you can see by forum threads, been very buggy. The only way to be sure is to have them on your loal pc and test, test and test again.

 

Paul

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Thanks for that will try.

@doekia 50+ orders is not a lot of traffic, 50+ orders per hour and I expect it to work just like a cash register. It's not complicated in the end.

1.5.4 is nowhere near stable and miles away from production ready.

 

Many Thanks

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The point is if you have 50 orders per day and you face a bug impacting 20% of the orders, you'll be killing your days in customer service (liaising, fixing, ...) for 10 customer per day. 1/2 an hour per customer sounds an average to me. Make the math, this is simply irrealistic.

Should you have more than 50 orders per day I recommend you stay on old good 1.4.10 branch.

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  On 4/7/2013 at 9:07 AM, doekia said:

The point is if you have 50 orders per day and you face a bug impacting 20% of the orders, you'll be killing your days in customer service (liaising, fixing, ...) for 10 customer per day. 1/2 an hour per customer sounds an average to me. Make the math, this is simply irrealistic.

Should you have more than 50 orders per day I recommend you stay on old good 1.4.10 branch.

I really like your answer "a bug impacting 20% of orders" which means Prestashop is not production ready at all.

I will definitely try 1.4.10 as I need something which can be just installed and implemented.

Thanks again,

Peter

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Sure prestashop is not bug free, not even the 1.4. The talk is about an hypothesis. Each shop owner has is own way of using the application. Some portion are not so commonly used hence bug prone, some are common to almost every shop hence bug free-ish.

 

If you use OrderSlip, OrderReturn it may well be you'll face some bugs - even on 1.4, ex:

- Have a customer passing an order from a Voucher with 2 products, let say the total order is 80 buks, a voucher is 75, shipping is 10, the customer then pay 15.

- Now one of the product doesn't fit your customer need, you decide to reimburse him/her, the product price was 30, you issue a credit slip covered by a new voucher.

- This scenario cause a Prestashop fatal error since version 1.3, your credit slip has even a negative amount.

 

Again the percentage you'll be impacted by bugs is dependant of the feature you are to use. Your choice is driven by the balance in between the feature you need vs how much time you'll need to spend to evade from bug x occurence.

For instance if you need shipping rules or free shipping you certainly need a 1.5 if your other use is quite common.

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