WitekPr Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 Hey Developers. Currently, I'm making side projects in WooCommerce and Shopify. I'm also thinking if it's worth to learn Presta as interests seems to be decreasing but from the other side competition is smaller than Woo or Shopify. I'm from Poland and here it seems that we have a few thousand of shops based on Presta. What do you think? Is it worth to spend time for that or maybe focus on new topics like headless commerce etc. Thank you in advance for all answers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
response404 Posted June 22 Share Posted June 22 There are many stores on the PrestaShop engine. There will always be a need for support or new functionalities. Woocommerce has sooo many free solutions - just install a module. Presta is often more demanding. Is it worth learning PrestaShop? It's difficult to answer unequivocally. Each engine has its "niche". In my opinion, it is worth learning it, because it is an interesting engine - still being developed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeckDu Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 PrestaShop is harder than Wordpress or Shopify in my opinion, in here you have to know a little bit of coding or buy modules that helps you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WitekPr Posted June 26 Author Share Posted June 26 44 minutes ago, JeckDu said: PrestaShop is harder than Wordpress or Shopify in my opinion, in here you have to know a little bit of coding or buy modules that helps you Yes I know. I'm developer and just wanted to see your opinion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Patron Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 (edited) Welcome @WitekPr nice to see new blood. (not a developer, I create work for developers) are you a developer that brings ideas with them or you work on ideas of others? the later is being replaced by AI. What you can do, get ps9 which at this time is early releases. Community tested, is silly so we see many posts now on ps9, really every new release with lot's of basic errros...ths hurts reputation if business considering ps but stumble on to the forum. If you have idea of feature for ecommerce, that is not aleady available in ps module eco....learn how to create it....put to addons, make a splash into ps. as ps got it's liver ate, like others by shopify. there are 'very' few good developers left, ps abandonded the US market some time ago....that was big mistake... with ps now owned by another company, though they kept uppity up...but the general direction is to shopify checkout...I've watched them do it, but again for French, good devlopers but lazy, i.e. they rely on community to test and then report on github, 95% of community does not know what github is. so what to do? look at major US sites, walmart.com, amazon, newegg etc. beause most EU developers do not use these maybe amazon, they really don't know see cutting edge eommerce. so there, you go hey that feature is freaking cool...does not exist in prestashop, or other ecommerce..build a solution for other platforms with that feature... also you can contact agencies in ps, or others for freelance work, see if they intern you. I have very good regard for Polish developers, with ps still popular there....and you bring something to the tabe, new feature(s)...back to github, if you decide to install and test ps, report on github...ps does not look at forum unless US'er argues with the French looool.... mypresta.eu is best dev in Poland for ps...really best dev long time with talk to the hand attitude, which I like Edited June 26 by El Patron (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WitekPr Posted June 26 Author Share Posted June 26 6 hours ago, El Patron said: Welcome @WitekPr nice to see new blood. (not a developer, I create work for developers) are you a developer that brings ideas with them or you work on ideas of others? the later is being replaced by AI. What you can do, get ps9 which at this time is early releases. Community tested, is silly so we see many posts now on ps9, really every new release with lot's of basic errros...ths hurts reputation if business considering ps but stumble on to the forum. If you have idea of feature for ecommerce, that is not aleady available in ps module eco....learn how to create it....put to addons, make a splash into ps. as ps got it's liver ate, like others by shopify. there are 'very' few good developers left, ps abandonded the US market some time ago....that was big mistake... with ps now owned by another company, though they kept uppity up...but the general direction is to shopify checkout...I've watched them do it, but again for French, good devlopers but lazy, i.e. they rely on community to test and then report on github, 95% of community does not know what github is. so what to do? look at major US sites, walmart.com, amazon, newegg etc. beause most EU developers do not use these maybe amazon, they really don't know see cutting edge eommerce. so there, you go hey that feature is freaking cool...does not exist in prestashop, or other ecommerce..build a solution for other platforms with that feature... also you can contact agencies in ps, or others for freelance work, see if they intern you. I have very good regard for Polish developers, with ps still popular there....and you bring something to the tabe, new feature(s)...back to github, if you decide to install and test ps, report on github...ps does not look at forum unless US'er argues with the French looool.... mypresta.eu is best dev in Poland for ps...really best dev long time with talk to the hand attitude, which I like It's difficult to understand what you're trying to say. I thought topic was quite straight forward but you've included many topics and still cannot see answer. Also I'm asking developers to see mainly their perpective. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Patron Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 I've been developing for 45 years. My opinion is if you have to ask such a question then you need a lot of basic dev information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WitekPr Posted June 26 Author Share Posted June 26 1 minute ago, El Patron said: I've been developing for 45 years. My opinion is if you have to ask such a question then you need a lot of basic dev information. I have over 10 years of experience and wanted to find out if ps developers feel it's worth to get into it or not. I got only a few request regarding ps development in last year and read some reviews from different perspective ( https://pl.trustpilot.com/review/www.prestashop.com?languages=all) And from merchants perspective it doesn't have great score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicmaster Posted July 4 Share Posted July 4 On 6/26/2025 at 9:43 PM, WitekPr said: I have over 10 years of experience and wanted to find out if ps developers feel it's worth to get into it or not. I got only a few request regarding ps development in last year and read some reviews from different perspective ( https://pl.trustpilot.com/review/www.prestashop.com?languages=all) And from merchants perspective it doesn't have great score. As you will have noticed the Trustpilot scores for Woocommerce and Shopify are even lower. Only Magento scores slightly better. Ecommerce software has lots of options and allows on top of that plugins/modules. In such complexity things can easily go wrong. The Italian owner of Prestashop is a bit too aggressive commercially and you see that back in the reviews. Whether you will find it worth to get into it depends on what kind of development you like. Prestashop runs since version 1.7 under the Symfony framework. The supported business data have since then hardly changed. Almost all their development focuses on the software structure and to a lesser extent the backoffice. I assume they try to please some big companies. The problem is that this makes the code more and more complex what makes debugging problems harder. If you have a look at the software you should also look at Thirtybees. That is a fork of Prestashop that maintains the PS 1.6 structure of the Prestashop code and has updated it to run with the latest PHP version. A few years ago this forum was much more busy. On Builtwith you can see that Prestashop is becoming less popular rather quickly. I see a few reasons. They have made it very hard to install the software under Windows - and that is where many people try there ecommerce software for the first time. In 2021 Prestashop was bought by an Italian company - MBE Worldwide. In the process the software was split. There is now an opensource project that maintains the software core and there is MBE that provides a number of extra modules. For my taste this hasn't worked out very well. The opensource project is dominated by Linux nerds and could use some common sense from commercial people and the MBE modules tend to be not stable enough. The commercial pressure of MBE doesn't help either. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krystian Podemski Posted July 5 Share Posted July 5 On 6/26/2025 at 2:34 PM, El Patron said: mypresta.eu is best dev in Poland for ps...really best dev long time with talk to the hand attitude, which I like It seems you haven’t met a lot of devs from Poland, have you? @WitekPr there is still a need for skilled developers, both from agencies and merchants - but PrestaShop entry level has increased, and it’s way above Woo to be considered skilled developer. If you want to increase your skills and learn to be a better developer, learn Symfony and more modern tech stack, then PS is a good option. Thanks to a tech stack used in more recent PS versions, even if you decide to stop working with PS, you’ll still have a solid foundation to work on different PHP/Symfony projects. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickz Posted July 5 Share Posted July 5 19 hours ago, musicmaster said: A few years ago this forum was much more busy. On Builtwith you can see that Prestashop is becoming less popular rather quickly. I see a few reasons. Nice data, most of the shopsystems displayed have a similar curve downwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Patron Posted July 5 Share Posted July 5 15 hours ago, Krystian Podemski said: It seems you haven’t met a lot of devs from Poland, have you? Just mypresta.eu Vekia...those were the days. I do not know about other devs from Poland, I assume like Vekia they found other career paths. The best developers either come from US, or came to US from other countries to be build the best. in www world I have a saying, I have 10 openings but will take one good one. I interned approx 12 people via post on this fourm...the one good one was French but he took a real job...now with AI, the creators of ideas will rely much less on devs that do not create their own work, i.e. you have to point out the obvious over and over. Thanks for your contributions in the pasy, but what have you done for us lately jajajaja Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yama Posted July 8 Share Posted July 8 On 7/6/2025 at 8:00 AM, El Patron said: Thanks for your contributions in the pasy, but what have you done for us lately jajajaja Prestashop maybe, no? ^^’ we hear USA is the great country, but please understand there are some good things other countries too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul C Posted Friday at 02:51 PM Share Posted Friday at 02:51 PM You'll likely never struggle to get freelance work if you have PrestaShop skills. Been trying to retire from it for years...... started with it when it was still in alpha. It went through a very rough patch around the launch of 1.7. Seems things have picked up again and the current core development team have got their act together. It can be a really strong contender as an upgrade to a woocommerce or Shopify store (although I know very little about the latter so could be wrong there). The advent of AI is a blessing as there will be even more work to fix the mess it makes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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