Customers who shop online hardly ever want to spend time waiting for a reply, even to the simplest question. Any question about product price, product availability, categorization, order status, or delivery can affect the decision of whether or not the person will continue with the purchase. The PrestaShop AI Chatbot allows store visitors to get …

A PrestaShop Mobile App can create a very different conversion environment than a mobile browser. The 3x “higher conversion rates” cannot be taken for granted for every merchant, but the latest research within one brand revealed a considerable difference: Poq identified a median app conversion rate 1.8 times higher than mobile web in 21 retailers, …

Four attributes on one product. Nineteen values on the first one, eight, eight and three. That equates to 3,648 variants of an item, and it’s no mere hypothetical: a merchant reported exactly this on PrestaShop’s issue tracker, across 30 products and over 100,000 database rows.  Their product pages timed out, and the back office returned …

Connecting one marketplace to a store is an afternoon’s work. Running a PrestaShop marketplace integration across Etsy and eBay at the same time is a different problem entirely, because three systems now each believe they own the authoritative stock number for a SKU, each uses its own authentication model, and each enforces its own rate-limit …

A store owner usually notices a brute force attack only after the login page starts behaving strangely, like repeated failed logins OR unfamiliar IP addresses in the logs OR store performance downgrades. An automated script keeps trying passwords against a login form. A successful attempt can give an attacker access to your store back office …

Product pages that lag, a checkout that hesitates, an order list timing out in the Back Office. Nine times out of ten the database is responsible, not PHP. What makes busy shops predictable is where the damage concentrates: slow SQL queries in PrestaShop gather around four tables that gain rows daily and shed none, namely …

When you are running a PrestaShop store for a long time, you know that attackers don’t need a clever exploit; they need one gap you forgot to close. A weak admin password, a form with no bot check, a theme file nobody’s watching, any one of those is enough. A PrestaShop Security Module exists precisely …