PrestaShop Devlopment for e-Commerce in Chicago

We are pleased to announce that Naper Design will be developing our first major PrestaShop Template and Website.  While we’ve enjoyed playing with it for some time now, we will finally have the opportunity to develop a major site with this highly versatile E-Commerce solution.

Here’s a description of PrestaShop from the core site:

“PrestaShop e-Commerce Solution was built to take advantage of essential Web 2.0 innovations such as dynamic AJAX-powered features and next-generation ergonomy. PrestaShop guides users through your product catalog intelligently and effortlessly, turning intrigued visitors into paying customers”

PrestaShop began as a network and community maintained e-Commerce Software. The script is maintained in much the same way WordPress is.  The most up to date version of PrestaShop can be downloaded here.

It offers the Following:

Front-office

• Featured products on homepage
• Top sellers on homepage
• New items on homepage
• ‘Free shipping’ offers
• Cross-selling (Accessories)
• Product image zoom
• Order out-of-stock items
• Customer subscription & user accounts
• Payment by bank wire
• Google Checkout module
• Cash-On-Delivery (COD)
• Preconfigured for Paypal

Back-office

• Unlimited categories & subcategories, product attribute combinations, product specs, images, currencies, tax settings, carriers & destinations
• Real-time currency exchange rates
• Inventory management
• Unlimited languages & dialects
• 100% modifiable graphic themes
• Newsletter contact export
• Alias search
• SSL encryption
• Visitors online
• Customer groups

Our first site built in the platform (fr mainstream anyway) will be Malloys Finest. – the site that we are preparing for them can be found here-