PrestaShop vs WooCommerce
PrestaShop or WooCommerce? If you haven’t decided yet, scroll down to find out which online store builder best fits for you and your business!
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What are the main differences between PrestaShop and WooCommerce?
PrestaShop is an ecommerce software created specifically to sell online. WooCommerce is a plug-in for WordPress (CMS for websites whose initial goal is not online sales) which offers the possibility to turn a website into an ecommerce.
With any PrestaShop theme, your online store will display recognizable elements of an ecommerce website. On the contrary, in WordPress, a number of themes compatible with WooCommerce do not look like an ecommerce, which can be confusing.
PrestaShop was created in order to offer an efficient online sales platform with over 600 features. Many of these features aren’t available with WooCommerce and you’ll need to use specific plug-ins to manage pricing, multi-language or multi-store support, catalog mode, product comparison, data importation, and others.
PrestaShop is ideal to follow your business’ growth, it can handle very large catalogs (over 100,000 products) and high order amounts. WooCommerce is not adapted for large catalogs. As such, if your activity grows, you will quickly run into problems related to stock management, order processing, customer service, etc.
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We chose PrestaShop over WooCommerce because we did not want to limit the possible growth of our online channel and eventually miss all the power and functionality that PrestaShop can provide.
WooCommerce does not seem to us to be a platform mature enough in terms of native features, possible developments as well as modules compared to PrestaShop.
I have been working for years with PrestaShop and WooCommerce. The one I have used and I like the most is PrestaShop: it is an ecommerce ready to install with all you need to make your online store functional. It has a better data architecture, well structured, which allows you to expand custom options to the system. It is a software in constant evolution.
Why choose PrestaShop vs WooCommerce
Unlike the high technical requirements needed to run WooCommerce, PrestaShop provides you with an ergonomic back office enabling you to launch and manage your ecommerce website easily and fast.
While with WooCommerce you need to install multiple plugins to build your online store, PrestaShop provides you with over 600 features enabling you to launch and run your business easily and fast.
PrestaShop gives you the opportunity to set currencies, create multi-language product sheets and to ensure that your checkout process is compliant with European laws.
Unlike WooCommerce, PrestaShop proposes a customer support plan, which gives you access to personalized technical help. Training courses, webinars and tutorials are also available to teach you the ins and outs of the software.
The whole PrestaShop universe by your side
300000
Ecommerce websites selling online with PrestaShop
+1000000
Community members ready to help and give you advice
+1000
PrestaShop contributors making the CMS evolve every day
+250
PrestaShop Partners to help you build your online store
Additional resources to help you
Blog
The latest trends and tips you need to know to boost your ecommerce
Help Center
Documentation, tutorials, technical support, trainings… visit our Help Center to find everything you need to run your business.
PrestaShop Experts
PrestaShop offers over 250 partners available to help you create your online store.
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