PrestaShop v.1.4 alpha 2 has been released on november 15,2010.This new version, real milestone for our software, contains more than 50 new features!

New Features:

Alongside partners’ modules, a lot of new features have been integrated to PrestaShop, for every need and every activity.

* WebService

Ability to communicate more simply (Data Exchange) with third-party players such as logistics, accounting…

* “Catalog” Mode

Ability to disable the price display to transform the store in a catalog

* One page Checkout

Order process on a single page

* Products Comparison

Allows customers to easily compare simultaneously several products

* VAT identification number

Manage the buyer’s intra-community VAT number (UE) during a B2B order, and management of relative taxes

* Delivery Date Module

Indicates a delivery deadline during the order process, in accordance with the Ch??tel law (France)

* Overriding PrestaShop Core

Ability to change and override the core of PrestaShop, creating children objects

* Shipping costs by product

Ability to set different shipping costs depending on the products and their characteristics

* Store Locator

List and locate physical stores on a Google map

* New Tab “Customer Service”

Enable to manage easily interactions with customers, directly from the Back-Office

* New Back-Office design

Two templates are now available, and ability to create new ones

* Location packs

Allow to import, directly from the Back-Office, taxes, states, currencies and languages regarding a specific country

* Customizations mails

Default emails edition and translation of the subject via the Back-Office

* Proxy JavaScript / CSS (Combine Compress & Cache)

Performance enhancement on the Front-Office for a better navigation

* Staging of product pages

Products’ pages preview before publishing them directly from the Front-Office

* Staging of the CMS pages

Preview of CMS pages before publishing them directly from the Front-Office

* Groups’ discount coupon

Ability to apply discounts to specific customers groups

* Choice of a product status

Possibility to define a product as a Web exclusivity and its status to new, used…

* PrestaShop Addons Integration into the Back-Office

PrestaShop Addons modules are now available from the Back-Office

* InnoDB support added

More efficient storage engine than MyISAM

* UPC codes support added

Additional way to identify a product (thanks to UPC codes)

The 1.3 final version of PrestaShop is considered as being the most accomplished, stable and professional published until now. Many optimizations and fixes have been made to the project to maximize its performance and its international accessibility, including many suggestions and recommendations from the Open-Source community. PrestaShop is now published in three languages: English, Spanish and French.

In terms of technical sophistication, the MySQL performances have been optimized, as well as its template engine based on Smarty. Significant corrections have been made to the prices and taxes system.
Alongside these improvements, a number of important new features have been added to the solution, bringing to more than 200 the number of technical, functional and graphical possibilities of a PrestaShop based e-shop. In addition to these features, extensions are available on the official marketplace of PrestaShop, PrestaStore, whose catalog now offers nearly 700 modules and themes.
“Our goal is to continuously enrich PrestaShop to provide online merchants with an e-commerce software ever more complete, functional and suitable to their needs, while respecting their constraints. PrestaShop needs to be a modular and flexible solution to suit all countries and all activities.” says Igor Schlumberger, PrestaShop co-founder.

Download PrestaShop v.1.3 Final

PrestaShop is a professional e-Commerce shopping cart software

The final 1.3 version of PrestaShop is getting closer and closer! This v.1.3 RC3 version, third “release candidate”, is aimed at identifying the last bugs present in PrestaShop before the publication of the 1.3 final version.

Among the modifications made since last week, we can mention:
- Corrections made on the quick access links in the Back Office
- Deleted an SQL error on tags filter on the Admintags page in the Back-Office
- Bug fixed about the thumbnails generation (pictures)
- Accepted currencies verification in the Moneybookers module
- Fixed the “Mailalert” module – emails sending
- The Hipay module is now compatible with multi-currencies

Download PrestaShop v.1.3 RC3