Comparing PrestaShop against competitors - will it work for us?

[harvest316]

Hi there.

We are deciding between eCommerce platforms for our business.  We've whittled it down to four options (Jigoshop, Prestashop, Magento, OpenCart) but may I trouble you for help in assessing the implementation costs?

First of all, to brief you on our functional requirements:

1) We sell SEO link rental services to clients and B2B to other SEO companies.  We want our clients to be able to select a combination of link rental services of various strengths, adding for example 20x bronze, 10x silver, and 2x gold links to their cart
2) For every link they order, we need two text fields (the target URL and anchor text). This would mean we need 20+10+2=32 pairs of these two text fields in the above case.
3) Customers should then be able to alter the amounts of each type of link in their cart, then sign up to be billed the cart total amount every month.
4) They should later be able to login to:
4.1) Change the values in said text fields (64 fields in the above example)
4.2) Add or remove links of each type (automatically altering the cost of their monthly subscription)
4.3) Cancel their subscription entirely
5) We should be informed via webhook or email when such changes occur, with just the data items that changed.
6) We also want to charge for reports that have a base price + a per-page surcharge, and a total multiplier.  ie: So if a SEO report costs $200 + $5/page, then a 10-page report would be $250, but if they also want us to implement the recommendations in the report, then we multiply the $250 total by 2.5 times, making the new total $625.
7) Finally, we want to automatically email new clients with a once-off referral coupon code that adds two free links to the next order for them and the friend they refer. (ie: We want to add freebies instead of discounting price, and track where coupons are used)

Now, my questions are:

A) How much of this can PrestaShop do already?  Please address each point above, because we need a detailed response to make our assessment.
How much will we need to spend on plugins to get it happening?
C) Which areas will require custom development?
D) Is there an API for future extensibility?
E) Is there an audit trail to log staff actions?

Thank you in advance for your detailed response.  I am most grateful for your time.

Paul Harvey
Corporate SEO
+61424225495
skype:harvest316
Sydney, Australia

[harvest316]

How can I get help with this?

[newbie87]

Hello,

I am not an expert and fairly new at using Prestashop. I cannot address your specific needs. However I can say that most of what you want to do cannot be done in Prestashop without a good deal of customization.  You may be able to find one or more modifications that can do some of what you want. The rest will have to be done by someone who is an expert Prestashop developer. If you have not already visited their add-ons store, you need to go there and see if there are any mods that will meet your needs. The address: http://www.addons.prestashop.com . There are other sites on the net selling PS add-ons and modules. Some of which are very good others of which are not. In this case, one does not always get what one pays for. Plus you can submit a request for quotation elsewhere in this forum to see if anyone is interested in doing the work. And submit a request to Freelancer.com for help with your project. Hope this helps!