PrestaShop, an open source eCommerce platform, has released an update to their shopping cart. This upgrade focuses on speed and stability as well as implementation of a new shipping wizard.

Breakthrough Speed and Stability

We spent countless days and nights working internally, along with our community, diving deep into PrestaShop’s code to tremendously optimize the software for stability and speed. Because of our collaborated effort, you’ll find this version of 1.5 to be the fastest yet. You and your customers will notice the difference in speed and “smoothness” of both the Back-Office management and the front-office navigation. Along with these significant performance improvements, we made sure to boost our Installer for both security and speed. We’ve also added more languages and time-zones. It’s now Better, Faster and Stronger than ever!

NEW Shipping Wizard

Cosmetically, you’ll notice one major improvement to the Back-Office. In v1.5.5 we implemented our newly designed Shipping Wizard! No longer will you have to jump-around your Back-Office with different configurations for carriers, shipping fees, zones, and price/weight ranges. Along with your user-feedback, we have consolidated the entire Carrier configuration into one easy-to-use wizard. It’s now tremendously easier to set-up and maintain your logistics. We take you step by step through the Shipping Wizard from start to finish. Below is screenshot of the configuration page.

Download PrestaShop or use the One-Click upgrade module.