Prestashop themes and modules quality is going worst

[Miquelmartinez]

Since long time ago, I has been developing ecommerces in prestashop (and other platforms) and something needs to be said:  Paid themes and modules are getting low quality, higher price everyday.

 

Its totatly normal latelly to have

 

Paid themes that doesnt work properly, or have modules on it from 4 years ago with security bugs (but theme has been updated on last days...) .

Multiple modules that by default doesnt work in prestashop 8.1 (but they are announced as they should work).

Themes installed that throws deprecated php instances over php 8.1 (to be honest, prestashop should upgrade to 8.2-8.3 before the EOL)

Themes inheriting from posthemes that are copycats between them: same demos, same files, diferent names.

Suport that only ask for ftp and login/password to access instean ask for information (its not only a bad practice. With the poor quality of their product after paying 60-70-80€ for them and crash, they ask you to have full access to your development shop to "solve" the problem.

 

Prestashop members and prestashop community should say "stop" . Its totatlly normal the trustness of this platform is getting lower and lower: On last 2 weeks, we started 3 projects on prestashop and none of the modules installed worked as intended, and all of them in one or other way launches errors in screen or logs.....

 

I know this message will be filtered, but at least the prestashop moderators should think about whats happening and why people are trusting in worst platforms only because the theme creators are pure greed people with a fake/scam products. (not all of them, but a lot of them for sure)

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[Mixta]

Hello, I completely agree with you. I bought two themes this year and received "Deprecated" alerts for both, yet no comments mention any issues. The first theme was compatible with 8.2.x and the second with 9.0.x. The themes were recently updated, but these developers do nothing unless it's a critical error. It's high time PrestaShop cleaned up all these developers who publish such poor-quality themes, bordering on fraud. 

[El Patron]

Totally agree with this. A big part of the problem isn’t just theme/module quality — it’s the business model of PrestaShop Addons itself.

Right now everything is one-off payments. There are no real entry-level subscriptions, and “Business Care” was just a stop-gap — not a modern solution. Because of that, developers who actually maintain code, keep up with PS releases, and fix security issues have only one option: raise one-time prices.

When merchants are asked to spend €100–€400 per module (one-time!) for basic, essential features — and most modules receive limited or no meaningful updates after purchase — they get priced out of the functionality they need to compete in their product vertical. They can’t grow, can’t stay current, and end up frustrated.

This is one of the main reasons PrestaShop has lost huge market share to Shopify, WooCommerce, and others. Those ecosystems have:

• Low entry pricing
• Monthly billing
• Continuous updates
• Quality-based competition
• PrestaShop has real potential, but until the Addons marketplace modernizes to support subscriptions and ongoing revenue, we’ll keep seeing:
• Declining trust
• Low-quality releases
• Devs abandoning products
• Merchants switching platforms

The technology isn’t the main issue — the business model is outdated.

[willsmith79052]

You are right a lot of recent theme/modules feel rushed with poor compatibility and outdated code. Presashop really stricter quality control so developers and businesses can rely on stable properly maintained extensions.