Managed and full service Prestashop hosting
Prestashop is a popular ecommerce open source application to create online stores. A large theme selection and module repository enables you to build easily individual and professional stores.
The managed Prestashop experience with SaaS Web
1 free domain per project
Choose a free domain with one of the following extensions: ch, at, biz, com, de, es, fr, info, net or org. If you like, you can move an existing domain to SaaS Web. Other extensions are optional.
1 free SSL certificate per project
The communication between the customer’s computer and the web server needs to be encrypted as it transmits sensitive/personal data. SaaS Web offers a free certificate for one domain (with and without www prefix). On demand, an other type certificate or existing one that you already own can be set up.
Current version preinstalled
SaaS Web uses the newest package available directly from the community. You have all standard functionality at disposal with no constraint. You obtain an admin access and can manipulate Prestashop as you wish.
Free staging environment during store setup
SaaS Web sets up a staging environment for one month for free so you can build the shop without hassle. Once ready, SaaS Web will move it to production. If you desire, you can keep the staging website as test environment in order to check changes before applying them to the live site.
Standard theme selection
All available themes, free or not, can be used for the shop. You have no restriction regarding theme usage.
Use self developed themes
You can upload your own themes for your shop.
Free Piwik web statistics for visitor tracking
Piwik a an open source alternative to Google Analytics with the interesting advantage that the collected data is not shared with anyone else - only you will process the data.
Core, plugins and theme updates
SaaS Web uses monitoring software but also keeps informed via mailing lists, community memberships and personal contacts in order to update the systems and applications on time. Some updates are automatic, others are manual, all manipulation is monitored and safe, so that a broken update can be reverted directly without further consequences.
Free VPN secured admin area
For obvious security reasons, SaaS Web proposes to use a VPN access to manage your website. SaaS Web sets up a single access for free, if you need other accounts, they will be charged. After activation, it will not possible to access the admin backend without the VPN. This is a “natural” way for preventing brute force attacks as the backend is not accessible anymore from the Internet.
Daily full backups of the Prestashop shop
SaaS Web runs daily full backups of your shop known as disaster recovery. In between, during update/upgrade actions, the shop might be backuped additionally (in case an update would fail, we can recover the store immediatly).
Intrusion & malware detection
You can’t prevent attacks, you can only protect and defend yourself. SaaS Web does regularly malware checks and uses sevral techniques in order to detect malicious activities at earliest stages (honeypots, blacklists).
Availability & performance monitoring
In order to ensure that the website is running under best conditionsd with best visitor experience, the availability and performance is monitored and the infrastructure will be adapted if necessary.
The advantages with SaaS Web
- No system administration for you
- Always up to date
- Uptime and performance monitoring
- Premium service:
quick & efficient - Indivdual setups
- Backup management
- Enterprise cloud infrastructure
powered by VMware vSphere - TierIV datacenter
(99,95% guaranteed availability) - High bandwidth up to 10 Gbit/s
- Full redundancy in hardware and Internet connectivity
Detailed information about Prestashop
Prestashop is a popular open source online store management software to set up small, medium and even large product catalogues. With it large choice of modules, it is very flexible.
Large selection of themes
Prestashop integrates a template system in order to customise the design. You can find quite some themes on the Prestashop website. Commercial providers like Themeforest are quite popular to buy themes. If you want a high quality custom theme, you can ask SaaS Web for a quote.
Extend your store with modules
A large selection of modules (newsletter apps, payment gateways, CRM connectors, etc.) are available on the Prestashop website.
Export your products to Ebay or Amazon
Use multiple chanels to sell your products: using the adequate modules, you can export your products to known platforms like Ebay, Amazon or Google Shopping.
Cross Selling
Croll selling is a sellig technique where additional (complementary) products are proposed to the customer during the order process. Prestashop integrates cross selling and helps you promoting articles which may be hidden otherwise.
Multiple stores
Prstashop supports multilang stores, multiple currencies and multiple domains. You can create an international store with few clicks. Also, you can decide whether you share the complete catalogue across all stores or select specific categories to each of them.
Straightforward user management
Prestashop has an easy and intuitive user management. The management is basically rules by profiles (roles). There are standard profiles: the superadmin with all the rights and powers. The Logistician who is in charge of packing and sending orders. The logistician can only access the orders, shipping and stock management pages, and parts of the catalog and customer pages.The translator who are working on the textual content. The translators can access products and categories, CMS content and the “Translations” page. The salesman has a bit more permissions than the translator, being able to access the customer pages, the modules and webservice, and some stats.
Basic data
- Project start date: 2005
- Licence: Open Software License
- Technologies: Apache/Nginx, PHP, MySQL
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L
119,00 € / month
setup fee: 238,00 €
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20 GB
1 domain
included
XL
173,00 € / month
setup fee: 346,00 €
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50 GB
1 domain
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XXL
281,00 € / month
setup fee: 562,00 €
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50 GB
1 domain
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317,00 € / month
setup fee: 634,00 €
Own VM
50 GB
1 domain
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