PrestaShop Tutorials – Datafirefly

How to reduce cart abandonment on PrestaShop 8 without changing your theme

Part of abandonment cannot be reduced, the rest comes from identifiable friction. The eight frictions of the native checkout, the five fixed in the settings without touching the theme, and the two false good ideas to avoid.

September 8, 2026 4 min read

Conversion and UX

How to let customers build their own box on PrestaShop

A box has no stock of its own, it consumes the stock of its components: that is the point implementations get wrong. The three composition models, the rules to set, how it renders on documents and how to steer the margin.

September 7, 2026 5 min read

Conversion and UX

PrestaShop strikethrough price not showing: the common causes

The promotion shows in the back office but not on the site: the price exists, it just does not reach the display. The ten causes in order of frequency and a five-step diagnostic method.

September 7, 2026 5 min read

E-commerce SEO

How to split PrestaShop combinations into separate products

A garment size is chosen after the buying decision, a sofa colour is searched for by name on Google. The five criteria that justify splitting, what you lose in the process, and the seven-step procedure with its redirects.

September 6, 2026 4 min read

Conversion and UX

How to reorder the products in a PrestaShop category with drag and drop

Moving a product from position 40 to position 2 takes thirty-eight clicks in the native back office. How PrestaShop stores positions, what silently overwrites them, and which criteria should drive the order of a grid.

September 6, 2026 4 min read

Conversion and UX

Semantic search on PrestaShop: how it works and how to roll it out

Matching "car charger" with "cigarette lighter adapter" without declaring a single synonym: the principle, what to vectorise, and above all why you should combine it with your existing search rather than replace it.

September 5, 2026 4 min read

Performance and Core Web Vitals

Migrating from PrestaShop 8 to PrestaShop 9: the module audit

A major upgrade is not decided by the PrestaShop core but by your modules. The inventory to produce before any quote, the four treatment categories, the common technical breakages and the journey-based test plan.

September 5, 2026 5 min read

Performance and Core Web Vitals

GA4 e-commerce on PrestaShop: the 7 events to wire up

A shop that only sends the purchase has a revenue figure and nothing else. The seven events that rebuild the chain, the item structure to hold everywhere, the classic mistakes and the normal gap with the back office.

September 4, 2026 5 min read

Conversion and UX

PrestaShop accessibility and the EAA: what an online shop must check

The EAA has applied since June 2025 and explicitly covers e-commerce. Who is really concerned, the twelve blockers that come back on every shop, a one-day audit method and what a widget cannot do.

September 4, 2026 5 min read

PrestaShop Tutorials

How to manage use-by dates, best-before dates and lot numbers in PrestaShop

The date does not belong to the product, it belongs to the lot: that is what breaks naive implementations. Distinguishing use-by dates, best-before dates and lot numbers, the FEFO rule in preparation, and what makes a targeted product recall possible.

September 3, 2026 5 min read

PrestaShop Tutorials

How to automatically verify a VIES VAT number at PrestaShop checkout

One call, one valid-or-invalid answer: in production you must handle three states, not two. Number formats per country, latency that varies with the member state queried, behaviour when the service is down and keeping the proof.

September 2, 2026 5 min read

Conversion and UX

Renting out equipment with PrestaShop: calendar and availability management

A rented product is not unavailable, it is unavailable from the 12th to the 18th. The interval-based availability model, the four durations to distinguish including the one everyone forgets, and the usability rules for the customer-facing calendar.

September 1, 2026 5 min read

Category: PrestaShop Tutorials

How to reduce cart abandonment on PrestaShop 8 without changing your theme

How to let customers build their own box on PrestaShop

PrestaShop strikethrough price not showing: the common causes

How to split PrestaShop combinations into separate products

How to reorder the products in a PrestaShop category with drag and drop

Semantic search on PrestaShop: how it works and how to roll it out

Migrating from PrestaShop 8 to PrestaShop 9: the module audit

GA4 e-commerce on PrestaShop: the 7 events to wire up

PrestaShop accessibility and the EAA: what an online shop must check

How to manage use-by dates, best-before dates and lot numbers in PrestaShop

How to automatically verify a VIES VAT number at PrestaShop checkout

Renting out equipment with PrestaShop: calendar and availability management

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