Tuesday 11 March 2014

PrestaShop eCommerce Store with secured PayPal Integration

PrestaShop is a web based open source eCommerce shopping cart software which is powering more than millions of eCommerce stores in the globe. It was built to take advantage of important web 2.0 innovations such as dynamic AJAX features and next-generation design and development facilities. The PrestaShop eCommerce platform is very speedy and lightweight, so it's very easy to download, install and update. There are more than 25,000 PrestaShop Modules are designed with rich features and the functionalities to meet the requirements of all the customers and the merchants. These addons help to enhance the performance of the website in the eCommerce business world.


It is not so easy to handle the eCommerce store. Because there are millions of merchants started their business in the eCommerce industry. Hence, the developers developed many addons and themes to make the website look very professional and rich. You can choose the addon which will suit to your business requirements. These addons attract many visitors towards your website in order to boost the sales of your business. Without spending more money, you can easily improve the productivity of your eCommerce store. These addons provide numerous advantages to you as well as the customers. PrestaShop has so many rich features such as
  • It supports multiple currencies and multiple languages to attract all the customers in the globe towards the PrestaShop eCommerce store.
  • The multi store management feature allows you to manage more than one shop by using the single admin panel.
  • Combined with the social networking sites to increase the visibility of the store to the social site users.
  • It is very simple to customize by adding or deleting eCommerce store functionality according to customer's need. Because the admin panel of PrestaShop is very flexible.
  • PrestaShop has a wide variety of attractive themes which can able to give the excellent look to the websites. You can choose the theme based on your business requirements.
PrestaShop is easily integrated with many payment gateways to offer the best payment services in the store. The PrestaShop developers developed many modules based on this payment integration. The PrestaShop Payment Module helps you to afford the wonderful shopping experience to your customers. With the help of the payment module, you can attract many customers towards your eCommerce store. The PrestaShop supports payment gateways such as First Data, PayPal, Authorize.Net, ChronoPay, eWay, IcePay, Realex, GSPay, and many more.

PayPal is a leading international payment gateway which offers the payment services in different forms. Most of the merchants wish to use the PayPal payment gateway for their eCommerce stores. PayPal provides the payment services to the users at the minimum cost $5 for per month. It offers the free payment services for the limited payment transactions which are made through the merchant account. It supports all major credit cards such as Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Maestro, Diners Club, JCB, Switch, Visa Electron, etc.

The PrestaShop PayPal Payment Module is an integration of PrestaShop eCommerce software with the PayPal payment gateway, in order to encourage you to accept all the payments from the customers by using their credit cards and process the payment transaction in a secure way that means through PayPal. This module supports 'Authorization and Capture' or 'Authorization only and Capture later' features, you can configure the module between these two features when the products are ready for shipment. It also provides facilities for cancel/ voids any unsettled transactions. It also supports the refund amount from the configuration page.

By using this payment module on your eCommerce store, you can offer the secure and the fastest payment transaction experience to your customers. It allows you to capture the amount directly from the configuration page. The biggest advantage of this module is, it allows the customer to stay on your website for the entire payment process that means it provides the seamless checkout experience without redirection.