PrestaShop and Magento, deployed, configured and extended for your business

Two open selling platforms that you remain free to administer yourself. We deploy them, configure them around your business and bring them in line with the law that applies to you.

What these platforms cover as standard

Catalogue products, variants, categories, stock, prices
Orders basket, checkout, delivery rules, tracking
Payment payment methods, refunds, credit notes
Customers accounts, addresses, history, wish lists
Promotions discounts, codes, basket rules
Search built-in engine, faceted filters
Tax and currencies rates, zones, rounding, exchange
Multistore several shopfronts, languages and currencies on one platform
Search visibility URLs, meta tags, sitemap
Statistics sales, products, traffic sources

Compliance, where you operate

The platform is the same whatever the country. What changes is the configuration: chart of accounts, tax rates, exchange formats, transmission obligations. We set out France and Switzerland below because they are the two our clients meet most often. For another country the principle does not change: we start from what local law requires, and configure accordingly.

France

The shop produces invoices; it does not transmit them. Transmission to the tax authority goes through an approved platform, and neither of these platforms ships with one. We build that connection and configure the output format. We claim no accreditation, neither for ourselves nor for the publishers.

Switzerland

No Swiss payment format ships with these platforms: no QR-bill, no QR-IBAN, no structured reference. We set them up with your rates and your templates, so your invoices read correctly at Swiss banks and incoming payments reconcile on their own.

Each country you operate in is handled on its own terms, with its own rules and formats. You still deal with one person, however many of them there are.

How we work

Scoping what you do today, what the standard covers, what will still need building.
Configuration modules, permissions, numbering, tax rates, document templates.
Data migration customers, products, stock, accounting history, checked before go-live.
Training your teams on their own screens, not on a generic demonstration.
Maintenance updates, fixes and enhancements over time.

Integration in practice

We start from your real catalogue — the variants, the pricing rules, the delivery particulars — before configuring anything. We carry the order and account history across rather than starting from nothing, then set tax, zones, payment methods and document templates around your habits.

Where the standard stops, we build. When the weight of extensions slows the shopfront, we separate display from the selling engine, which is the subject of our decoupled commerce platforms. When the catalogue grows too wide to browse, we rework indexing and filtering. Where several stock points coexist, we arbitrate the dispatch point through order orchestration. E-invoicing is covered in detail on our page on electronic invoicing.

How we build is set out on Custom Development, and how we look after what we deliver on Support & maintenance.

The modules we have built around the core

The standard covers a great deal. It stops at a few specific points: those are the ones we build.

Company accounts and B2B ordering

Accounts tied to a company, purchasing roles, negotiated quotes and requisition lists are not in the open Magento platform: they belong to the commercial edition. Nothing equivalent ships with PrestaShop.

Distributor Portal & Order Management

Loyalty and store credit

Neither a points balance nor a credit usable at checkout: the open Magento platform carries neither, and no loyalty module ships with PrestaShop.

Customer Accounts & Loyalty

Hosting third-party sellers

The module called Marketplace in the Magento platform lists the publisher’s partners in the admin; it hosts no seller at all. Selling on behalf of others calls for a shared catalogue, split payments and per-seller reporting.

Marketplaces

Segmentation and targeted offers

Price rules apply to the catalogue and the basket, never to a customer segment: the open Magento platform carries no segments, no targeted rules and no conditional banners.

Promotional Rule Engines

Taking payment in store

Neither platform ships a till: the shop and the store keep two stock records and two customer histories until they are joined up.

POS Commerce

Your shop after launch

An online shop is a permanent target. PrestaShop and Magento publish security patches that need applying quickly, your payment and shipping modules follow their own calendars, and a traffic spike gives no warning.

We follow security releases and apply them, we test the shop ahead of your busy periods, and we keep watch on the modules that touch payment. BUILD opens the shop; RUN keeps it open.

Support & maintenance