Removal of "powered by Prestashop"

[Tintarella]

Would such an action be considered legal from the creators of Prestashop?
I did see a prestashop without the notification and this made me wonder.

[Nakano]

There's a thread regarding how to remove it and a few more. If Prestateam hasn't said anything so far... I guess it's ok?

[spott]

When we looking license - then its OK.
When we looking honor - then its not. Why not to show to the world, that You are using PrestaShop.

[Bruno Leveque]

When we looking honor - then its not. Why not to show to the world, that You are using PrestaShop.

Thanks a lot

[BOIK]

I agree.
You should make it known that you use Presta. (and where it could be downloaded )

Boik

[Nakano]

When we looking license - then its OK.

So that answers the first question to begin with.

When we looking honor - then its not. Why not to show to the world, that You are using PrestaShop.

Because it's not ready yet, LOL!

Prestashop is great, I've said this many many times. But still not 100% ready for prime time. OK, nothing is really 100%, so let's just say 90%.

There are still a few bugs to iron out, and quite a few more features to be included for me to consider good enough to promote.
And I will insist on those before anything else. I always have, I always will. Otherwise, it might end up frustrating newcomers.
If not make this a strong contender to the other popular ecarts, then this will end up being just-another-script, and it'd be a shame.

A few things to point out again:

a) BLOG! Or integration with something else like Wordpress (luckily Paul is working on that one, and I can be patient about it). Home Text Editor just don't quite cut it.

RSS feeds for posts and/or automatic feeds on new products. Let's face it (and I speak with experience with my customers): very few finds the time to read emails. But everyone follows RSS feeds. This can't be neglected! Current RSS module only allows placement of pre-processed feeds. I'd rather have an out-of-the-box solution than find the time to deal with yet another tool for such function.

c) Imports improved a lot on 1.1 beta, but what about exports?! Sure, one-click database backups is a very VERY nice addition. But if imports allows us to easily put in data separated in Entities and their corresponding fields, why can't we export them first?

d) Imports... match by EAN (if by supplier or shop reference means slower db queries) and not Product ID! Unfortunate changes in CSV might create unfortunate product duplicates!

e) PREORDERS! I keep insisting on this one... paid solutions provide them, but Magento and others do not. This would be VERY NICE for us who sell future releases, or want to manage the correct number or pieces to order and forward this to my suppliers.
This also means it'd be nice to have a concise way to view Customer Orders. I NEED, as of now, to click on EVERY customer order to see which items were ordered. That's a waste of time!

f) Modules and API. Not that I have the time for it, I'm the sole manager of my shop, every minute is essential to deal with customers at the physical shop, deal with emails of requests, alert them when new products are available, and so I have little or no time to code. But even though the DB schema is finally available to the public, the "coding manual" is in... french. I understand that the developers are french, I don't have a problem with that, but suddenly I'd need Google Translate.
Not to mention that no matter how the moderators tried... most people just share their thoughts and solutions in this forum in their own language. We could be missing important information out there, stuff the search engine won't pick up...

g) There are still limitations to module placements. Not all hooks work. Not as flexible as should, but I can live without it. Template builders might not like this, though.

h) Orders/POS kind of solution. Well, not really absolutely important to have an external software to deal with everything... But if we are beginning to see softwares out there to ease the management of prestashop, then something essential must be missing in the development roadmap.
Somewhat regarding this issue, here's something that also crosses my mind (spoken somewhere here in the forums): so I can sell online but I also sell at a physical shop, and I want all invoice processing to be done with Prestashop to reflect my sales. Someone shows up at the shop, which happens to be a site registered customer and... I can't manipulate his orders. I can't just log in to his account, of course, but as an admin, I can't place orders for a person. I know this might raise issues on privacy but.... if he's a primary physical shop customer and occasional web shopper, is he less "Best Customer" or less loyal?

i) No easy way to manage categories. For example, when you first create a product, you can tick it to be part of HOME to be considered a featured product. If you add a bunch of them (especially if by default they are added there), but later want to untick it... you'll have to go through all products one by one. That's kinda time consuming.

There are plenty more issues to be addressed before I can say "Hey guys! I'm using this and defenately is the next big thing... use this best and forget the rest!".
Should I be promoting prestashop on a footnote if it doesn't work bulletproof? What if I switch to another solution tomorrow? Wouldn't I be telling the world as well that Prestashop is no good? "Honor" isn't something to be taken lightly... and I'd rather have fundamental features done instead of having 3 different Stats Engines, for example.

Just my two cents, I'm not bashing Prestashop. It's a great script, but as I said before... could be better.

[jhnstcks]

There are still a few bugs to iron out, and quite a few more features to be included for me to consider good enough to promote.
And I will insist on those before anything else. I always have, I always will. Otherwise, it might end up frustrating newcomers.
If not make this a strong contender to the other popular ecarts, then this will end up being just-another-script, and it'd be a shame.

The more people that promote Prestashop, the more poeple will come and join the rest of us and help develop, submit bugs and submit feature requests.

[liungs]

I agree. The more people know Prestashop, more people will give advise, get involved in development, post more themes, modules, etc. That's the spirit of open source.

Liung's

[Dave Egerton]

But, if you want more people to contribute, at the very least make good documentation available for designers, developers etc.

This should be a big priority and Wiki updated all the time. Its not good everyone has to struggle and spend so much time trying to learn from trial and error, bits of information you find and what you can find on forums.

Prestashop will grow, but its important the foundations are solid and what exists today is written well and as good as it can be with excellent docs - If you keep developing new things too fast and modules and system are not perfect -in time, its just becomes like so many other open source products.


Good software will always win in the minds of people - like bees around a honey pot -they hear, they come

[ImagineFL]

The only thing I ever remove from the footer is the version number. Google "Powered by PrestaShop™ [ forum & contact ] - Version 1.1.0.5 - 0.554s" and you will get a whole list of sites running this version.

Now if an exploit is found, all the hackers have to do is google that for a list of sites they can go after.

I would leave the rest intact.

Patrick

[Fazza09]

Hi!

I have just successfully removed the powered by PrestaShop link on the home page of my shop. I have not done this because I dont like Prestashop (as I love it) I have done this for security reasons. If someone works out what ecommerce solution you have they can possibly try and find a weakness (bug) and exploit it.

I will however be placing a link on my personal website linking to the prestashop home page as I have had a go with several ecommerce solutions over the last 3 months and for me PrestaShop is without a doubt the best solution out there that best suits my needs.

[Damien Metzger]

Fazza09, it takes only a few seconds to identify a PrestaShop

[CreaWebInternet]

Yes, really any less redo the code in its own way and yet ...

Different major platforms such as Yves Rocher http://www.yves-rocher.com using opne source project Magento Commerce.

[aksolotl]

To Nakano:
Prestashop is nice script. We all know that if we use it we can do faster our job as developers, programmers or .... If the footer is to much for u just pay some grand for Prestashop Team and it will be ok (They do part of your job). U can save your honour that way. That is my opinion
Sorry for my poor english

[CMC]

I luv prestashop but it needs more features discussed before. Beside the fact, as far as the link goes, you're not going to keep a hacker from indentifing prestashop. Beside the fact hackers are usally the ones developing open source projects.