August 2007
PrestaShop released
Bruno Lévêque and Igor Schlumberger launched the PrestaShopAn open-source e-commerce platform — PHP-based online store builder popular in Europe. platform in August 2007 — a free PHP e-commerce project that reached version 1.0 in July 2008.
What it was for
PrestaShopAn open-source e-commerce platform — PHP-based online store builder popular in Europe. offers catalog, cart, checkout, and back-office tools for merchants who want self-hosted commerce without MagentoAn open-source e-commerce platform — storefronts, catalogs, and checkout for online retailers.'s complexity. Popular in Europe and Latin America, it competes with WooCommerce and OpenCart on shared hosting and VPS deployments.
Why it's here
PrestaShopAn open-source e-commerce platform — PHP-based online store builder popular in Europe. brought accessible open-source e-commerce to European SMB merchants.
Why it mattered
It expanded the PHP commerce ecosystem beyond osCommerce and early MagentoAn open-source e-commerce platform — storefronts, catalogs, and checkout for online retailers..
What it solved
Small retailers needed affordable store software without enterprise licensing fees.
Media
- ImagePrestaShop
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Related
- Magento 1.0 releasedMarch 31, 2008
- WordPress releasedMay 27, 2003
- PHP 5.0 releasedJuly 13, 2004