Create your E-commerce website quickly and easily.
The 2011 recipient of the Best Open Source Business Application award! PrestaShop is an open-source e-commerce solution which is always 100% free. It supports payment gateways such as Google checkout, PayPal, Payments Pro and Authorize.net via APIs. More payment gateways are available on the PrestaShop website. The software was built with strong Search Engine Optimization to bring more visitors to your website and increase your conversion rate. PrestaShop is optimized with the merchant in mind to increase revenue. PrestaShop is available under the Open Software License and officially launched in August 2007 for internet merchants of all sizes. The software can be easily customized to suit your individual needs, and is used by more than 100,000 successful shops worldwide. Over 40 languages are available, with English, French and Spanish having full support in all release versions. Additional free modules and templates are available on PrestaShop's website and forum.
PrestaShop is a great software and really easy to use. I recommend it if you have some developer skills to remove all prestashop tracking things (see the "cons" part).
Cons
Security threat: PrestaShop steal your email : when you log in to the administration panel, your email is sent to PrestaShop server and they send to you spam. I found a way to disable this : Open the file /[your admin dir]/ajax.php , and go to the line 658, which starts by
$content = @file_get_contents ...
replace by
$content = @file_get_contents($protocol.'://www.prestashop.com/partner/preactivation/preactivation-block.php?version=1.0&shop=do-not-track-me&protocol='.$protocol.'&url=google.com&iso_country=gb&iso_lang=en&iso_lang=1&email=dont-scam-me@gmail.com&date_creation=2012-04-01&v=1.4.8.2&security=bruno', false, $stream_context);
$content = true;
A few month ago, PrestaShop server has been hacked (the website was down for a couple of hours) and maybe their database has been downloaded, (including our account number, email, and personal datas).
Summary
better than Magento because it's easier to use and install, but the phishing part really annoy me.