PrestaShop shop creation: a shop that sells, and that you run yourself
Want to sell online with PrestaShop, or is your current shop no longer keeping up? We design, develop and launch your PrestaShop shop from start to finish: catalogue, payment, delivery, SEO and training. You stay in control of your products and orders, and you know from the quote exactly what is included.
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What creating your shop includes
- Installation and hosting: PrestaShop installed on hosting sized for your catalogue, secured and backed up every day.
- Design: a theme adapted to your brand or a design created for you, built mobile-first, since that is where most purchases happen.
- Catalogue: categories, variants (sizes, colours, volumes…), features and filters, with your existing products imported.
- Payment: card, PayPal, bank transfer, payment in instalments, with the provider of your choice.
- Delivery: carriers, pick-up points, click and collect, and shipping rules by weight, order value or zone.
- Sales: promotions, discount codes, gift cards, related products and abandoned cart reminders.
- Legal requirements: terms and conditions of sale, right of withdrawal, legal notice, cookie consent and data protection.
- SEO: readable URLs, titles and descriptions, product structured data, sitemap and loading speed.
- Analytics: tracking of visits and sales, so you know which pages and products bring in revenue.
- Handover: training in managing products, stock and orders, plus written documentation.
Who do we build PrestaShop shops for?
- Retailers and craftspeople who want to sell online alongside their physical shop, with in-store pick-up.
- Brands in fashion, cosmetics, home decor, food or equipment, whose catalogue has many variants.
- Wholesalers and distributors who need prices per customer group, B2B sales or several shops.
- Established online sellers whose shop is ageing, slow or stuck on an old version.
Examples: the PACAP shop, ethical clothing in a range of sizes and colours, and the Formul shop, women’s fashion linked to the brand’s physical stores.
Why choose PrestaShop to sell online
PrestaShop is an open-source e-commerce solution, born in France, with no platform subscription: the shop and its data belong to you. It natively handles variants, stock, promotions, several languages and several currencies, and can be extended with thousands of modules.
Unlike a solution rented by the month, you pay no commission to the platform on your sales, and you can develop the shop without limits. In return, PrestaShop needs serious hosting and regular updates: we take care of that. If your project is mainly editorial, we will rather recommend WooCommerce; if it really falls outside common practice, custom development.
Your shop project, step by step
- Free 30-minute discovery call: your products, your customers and the way you sell.
- Detailed, free quote: scope, timeline and everything included, in writing.
- Scoping: category tree, model product page, payment methods and carriers.
- Mock-ups of the home page, a category page and a product page, approved with you.
- Development on a test environment, catalogue import and configuration.
- Full testing of the checkout: cart, payment, e-mails, invoices and returns.
- Launch, training, redirects from the old site and monitoring of the first orders.
Allow 2 to 4 months in general, depending on the size of the catalogue and the connections required. Payment can be spread: a 30% deposit when you order, then a schedule agreed together.
A shop designed to be found on Google
A shop without visitors does not sell. From the start, we work on the categories that matter commercially, product pages written rather than copied from suppliers, readable URLs, product structured data (price, availability, reviews) and mobile speed.
Filters and sorting are configured so they do not generate thousands of worthless pages, and old URLs are redirected to keep the rankings you have earned. To go further: our SEO services.
Already have a PrestaShop shop?
We also take over existing shops: migration to a maintained version, theme redesign, fixing slowness, developing a specific module or a clean-up after years of stacked modules.
Before adding anything, we check the overrides, the hooks, the modules actually in use, slow queries, scheduled tasks and the theme. Fixing the cause often makes the module you were about to buy unnecessary. A migration always follows the same order: inventory, module compatibility, transfer of products, customers, orders and URLs, testing on a copy, then a planned switchover. The details are on our migration and upgrade page.
After launch
A shop lives on: security updates, module compatibility, backups, new collections and seasonal campaigns. With a maintenance contract, we step in within 4 business hours in the event of an outage or a hack, and we remain your contact for developing the shop further.
What PrestaShop clients say
“You are the only one who managed the PrestaShop migration. I tried many developers, but you are the only one who gave me really good advice. I would call on you again if needed.”
Florian, Literie Discount — recommendation published on Codeur.com, May 2018 (translated from French) “Guillaume was very professional and quick in carrying out this assignment. He did not just do the task he was given but also gave us plenty of advice to improve our websites.”
topshop, CDN setup for PrestaShop shops — verified review on Codeur.com, April 2018 (translated from French)
See also the case study of the PACAP shop.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a PrestaShop shop cost?
Every shop is priced on quotation, because the budget depends on the number of products, the variants, the design and the connections required. After the free 30-minute discovery call, you receive a detailed, free quote, valid for 30 days.
How long until my shop is online?
Generally 2 to 4 months. The timeline depends mostly on preparing the catalogue: photos, descriptions and variants.
Will I be able to manage my products and orders myself?
Yes: products, prices, stock, promotions and orders are all managed from the shop’s back office. We train you in these tasks before launch.
Can you take over my current website or shop?
Yes: we import products, customers and orders, and redirect the old URLs to keep your search rankings.
What hosting does PrestaShop need?
Hosting sized for PHP and MySQL, with caching and backups: more demanding than for a brochure website. We can handle it for you, see our infrastructure page.
Do you work remotely?
Yes: we support retailers throughout France and abroad, by video call. Projects are run in French or English.
Our PrestaShop packages
Starter shop
on quotation
To start selling online quickly with a simple catalogue.
- theme adapted to your brand
- catalogue, payment and carriers
- legal pages and cookies
- training in order management
Customised shop
on quotation
For a brand that wants to stand out and sell more.
- design created for you
- categories and product pages written for Google
- advanced variants and filters
- migration of your old shop
Connected shop
on quotation
To connect the shop to your ERP, your suppliers or marketplaces.
- stock and price synchronisation
- supplier and marketplace feeds
- trade prices
- several shops
Takeover and development
on quotation
For an existing PrestaShop shop that needs to move forward.
- diagnosis of modules and overrides
- migration to a maintained version
- specific module
- maintenance and security
Each package is tailored to your shop after the free 30-minute discovery call. Describe your shop project: reply within 24 business hours and a detailed, free quote.
Our commitments
- Reply within 24 business hours to every enquiry.
- Free 30-minute discovery call, followed by a free detailed quote valid for 30 days.
- A single point of contact: the developer who builds your project, self-employed since 1999.
- You own the code, the access credentials and the content once the project is paid for.
- 3-month warranty: defects reported after launch are fixed free of charge (terms).
- Staged payments available: 30% deposit on order, then a payment schedule suited to the project.
- Response within 4 business hours in case of an outage or hack, for clients on a maintenance contract.
- Projects run in English or French, for businesses in France and abroad.
Your PrestaShop shop starts with a 30-minute call
Tell us about your products and the way you sell: we reply within 24 business hours with the next steps.
What happens next?
- You describe your project in a few lines.
- We reply within 24 business hours to schedule a free 30-minute call.
- You receive a detailed quote: scope, price, schedule and payment plan.
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