PrestaShop tutorials: step-by-step guides

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.

6 September 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.

6 September 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.

5 September 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.

5 September 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.

4 September 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.

4 September 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.

3 September 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.

2 September 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.

1 September 2026 5 min read

Conversion and UX

Which trust blocks to add on a PrestaShop product page

A row of six pictograms in the footer that nobody reads: the problem is not the principle but the application. The visitor's three real questions, what reassures depending on the average order value, and the wordings that serve no purpose.

1 September 2026 5 min read

Conversion and UX

How to offer a free gift above a cart amount on PrestaShop

A threshold set too low and you give gifts to people who were already above it. How to calculate it from the cart distribution rather than the average, which gift to choose, and the five edge cases to settle before launch.

31 August 2026 5 min read

Conversion and UX

Omnibus Directive: displaying the lowest price of the last 30 days on PrestaShop

Not the catalog price, not the recommended price: the lowest price actually applied over thirty days. What counts as a price reduction announcement, how to calculate the reference, the three exceptions and why price history must start now.

31 August 2026 5 min read

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