IBM Digital Commerce vs. PrestaShop

Websphere commerce is well suited if multiple sites are required based on geography, for branding, large customers. It is well suited for B2B model to handle different pricing and catalog filters for each business. It is not well suited if there are multiple external systems that drives the pricing an d promotions. WCS should be the master for pricing and promotion

Incentivized

I really wouldn't recommend PrestaShop to every person or business. This service has very good features to be able to create an online store and allow customers to add products to their cart instantly, it allows to make electronic payments quickly and the money reaches the company's wallet instantly, without However, it has many disadvantages, PrestaShop does not have a technical service to help implement the software on the website, so if you are thinking of using PrestaShop, you must first have a good team of web developers who are capable of integrating PrestaShop with the Wordpress site without any problem, in addition, PrestaShop takes up a lot of space in the Hosting service, each product that you add to the PrestaShop catalog occupies much more Hosting space and this causes the catalog to take longer to load when the client comes to visualize it. To use PrestaShop I recommend a very powerful Hosting that is able to withstand the high consumption it has.

Incentivized

• Scalability. Since WebSphere Commerce is based on WebSphere Application Server, it's fully scalable just like WAS.
• Support. Their support team is a pleasure to work with. They get back to you quickly and are knowledgeable of their product, so I learn a lot from them about things that are not covered in detail in their documentation.
• Robust. The software is robust once it's up and running since it depends on WAS.
• Sample store & sample data. It's really fast to get a store up and running based on the sample store & data they provided.

Incentivized

• Quite easy to use compared to other open-source e-commerce software.
• Has lots of free plugins to help you set up a great basic shop.
• You can easily create your own unique site.
• Lots of payment option plugins and you can use them to sell globally.

Incentivized

• It still uses EJBs, need to move to latest technologies for persistance
• Promotion module customizations needs to more easy
• Grouping of products based on the shipping methods/shipping dates etc functionality needs to be added

Incentivized

• Since it starts as ready to go platform it's difficult to protect your store from being copied by someone else
• Without a developer, you depend on Prestashop's modules marketplace that lacks free extensions
• Since it isn't an enterprise level platform the use of Prestashop is strictly related to the size of your business

Incentivized

The scalability and various configurations of the product allows for a wide range of e-commerce site features. It provides a storefront to begin with so it helps with speeding up development.

Incentivized

Considering the problems we had and still have, 0.

The lack of performance and the unstable system make it very hard to use it for a serious e-commerce application.

100s of implementation and so far no major security breaches.

Some caching and optimization is definitely needed. However, it is not as bloated as other CMSs with lots of plugins needed.

Since we use PrestaShop OpenSource there is only community support. What we found is that many other users fight with the same problems and there seems no solution or input from the PrestaShop developers' side.

Compared to some other software that our clients have considered, a lot of them choose WebSphere Commerce because of the ability to scale easily. Some of our customers are coming from a PHP based ecommerce platform that doesn't allow them to scale up and they're hitting the limit of their ecommerce system

Incentivized

As compared to other open-source systems, PrestaShop has the most elegant backend interface. Most of your standard eCommerce features come default: 1. Invoice and Delivery documents in PDF, 2. Promotion and discount mechanism, 3. SEO functionalities, 4. Quick access, 5. Statistics, 6. Categorization, Brands, Attributes, Features/Filters, sorting, pagination, list or grid view. The next best thing is the stability of versions. Currently, at only ver1.7, this is the only open-source CMS that doesn't require the constant nightmare of updating and breaking the site. The open-source community is still offering modules for ver1.5, 1.6 and 1.7. If you need modules to enhance the features, it is also a one-time cost since the versions are so stable. The experiences with 3rd party module developers are very good so far. Most modules are from EUR49-100.

This is the best example of "If it's not broken, don't fix it!".

• We were able to roll out Commerce in record time thanks to a good understanding of the tool and our required processes.
• We were able to roll it out on several websites in quick secessions due to the platform's features.
• We were able to plan a solid road map given repeatable projects.

Incentivized

• If you don't have open source developers on staff it will be costly.
• The out-of-the box solution is not really a solution. Be prepared to hunt down modules to do standard things you'll want to do.
• The interface is unlike the e-commerce usual. There will be a learning curve and don't count on online documentation.

Incentivized