Magento vs. PrestaShop

Over 300,000 merchants have chosen PrestaShop to develop their businesses. Find out why.

Why PrestaShop offers more

PrestaShop is easy to use and can handle large number of simultaneous visits without breaking a sweat. Most merchants choose or migrate from Magento to PrestaShop for the same reasons:

More savings

Spare maintenance and hosting costs, invest more in your brand’s development, customer service and make customers happier.

More support

Reach for help anytime through one of the largest open source communities in the world.

More scalability

Grow at your own pace, get your hands on your commerce. We offer a light and robust infrastructure where you can add features when you really need them (Varnish, Elasticsearch, etc.)

Why they chose PrestaShop

PrestaShop has established itself, beyond the possible interfacing with Sage, for its ability to evolve with an exhaustive range of modules, its ease of use for internal teams and above all, the absence of royalties calculated based on turnover.

Geoffroy Franqueville, Omnichannel Brand & Consumer Experience Director, Magimix

Our online store now accounts for 10% of the business’s total turnover and our ambition is to double it by 2024.
PrestaShop has established itself, beyond the possible interfacing with Sage, for its ability to evolve with an exhaustive range of modules, its ease of use for internal teams and above all the absence of royalties indexed to turnover.

Julien Scheickardt, CDO, Les 2 Marmottes (€3.5M in annual online sales)

Why they recommend PrestaShop

PrestaShop is the ecommerce platform that makes midmarket companies (1 to 100 million in turnover) the focal point of its strategy! For the same scope (functionally, technically and in terms of performance), a site using Adobe Commerce costs at least 30% more to build and run, as well as for infrastructure. Moving to PrestaShop means benefiting from the latest technological innovations thanks to a symphony environment, allowing you to set up micro-services that make your company’s digital ecosystem effective, efficient and scalable..

Thomas Rayrat, Partnership and Business Development Director
Evolutive Group

Working on both platforms, it is easy to see that with the same features, PrestaShop allows you to save 20% to 30% in development time without having to sacrifice performance. And that’s without even mentioning the much larger PrestaShop community!

Yves Attias, Yves Attias, CEO & Founder Yateo

Compare PrestaShop vs. Magento

PrestaShop

Magento / Adobe Commerce

Magento Cloud/ Adobe Commerce Cloud

Pricing

Free download and installation & No monthly fees

Free download and installation & No monthly fees

From 40,000$ to 190,00$ per year

Commissions per sale

No commissions on your sales

No commissions on your sales

No commissions on your sales

Design

2,500+ templates

4 templates

260 templates

Ecommerce features

4,000+ modules

2500+ modules

2500+ modules

Customizability

Access to core file

Access to core file

Access to core file

Interface

User-friendly

Complex

Complex

SEO

SEO friendly

SEO friendly

SEO friendly

Multiple languages supported

Back office in +75 languages

Back office in +75 languages

Back office in +75 languages

Multi-store management

Marketplace

Do it all with PrestaShop

Customize

Choose over 2000 themes, customize or create your own modules

Go international

Sell easily abroad, define currencies, translation options, and more.

Centralize stores

Configure different shops (multistore) from a single PrestaShop instance.

Manage data

Keep track of your key metrics right from your back-office.

Get 90 days of free hosting

Migrate to PrestaShop and save 3 months worth of hosting for your online store.

Key figures

30% minimum saving in the build and run of your store.

50% faster team ramp-up

How to migrate to PrestaShop

All migrations have common points, but there are some specifics according to each solution.

The basic migration diagram looks like this:.

  1. Redevelop
  2. Retrieve the Data
  3. Acceptance test
  4. Migrate and connect

Get more details on migrating from Magento to PrestaShop with our guide.

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How the Synalia group shifted towards omnichannel with a new website.

We had only experienced Magento, but the solution was too heavy, we couldn't create a unified and fluid ecommerce. Matthias Bonnardel (Celaneo agency), suggested PrestaShop. We hesitated at first because of the conflicting opinions about the platform, then several arguments convinced us to take the plunge. PrestaShop, for example, had the ability to interface with our CRM system and loyalty program, which allowed us to bring together the physical stores and our online store so that the benefits of the loyalty program are availlable both in-store and on the new website of each of our brands.
Sophie GellieIT director at Synalia
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