Host PrestaShop without installing anything
The French online shop: variants, weight-based carriers, VAT per country and compliant invoices — and not a cent of commission on your sales.
Starting at €15.99/month
Introduction
PrestaShop installed, updated and backed up by us, on a machine in France. You install nothing and configure no server: the application is online a few minutes after you order, under your own name.
The plan that suits it is App Performance at €15.99/month incl. VAT — 8 GB of memory. A shop is unlike any other site: the catalogue and its variants multiply the rows, every product image is generated in several formats, and the back office runs heavy queries while customers browse the front. Add the twenty or so modules every shop eventually enables and the tier explains itself.
PrestaShop replaces the subscription-and-commission platforms: at the same turnover, what used to leave as a percentage each month stays in the till. The catalogue is imported from CSV files in the back office — products, categories, variants, customers, suppliers — with a column mapping to set up once, and images can be fetched from their web address. The App Performance plan lets you attach your own domain name, with its certificate.
What managed hosting changes
Catalogue, variants and real stock
Sizes, colours, bundles, quantity per variant, low-stock thresholds, quantity discounts and trade pricing. The PrestaShop catalogue is built for real product references, not for a list of items.
Carriers, weight, zones and honest shipping costs
Weight or price bands per geographic zone, several carriers offered to the customer, stated lead times, click and collect as a delivery method. Shipping is treated as a trade of its own, which saves refunding badly calculated charges.
VAT, invoices and credit notes that hold up
VAT rules per delivery country, unbroken invoice numbering, credit notes, vouchers and cart rules: the accounting side of a European shop is part of the software, not bolted on by a plugin.
Your payment methods, with no cut for the vendor
Stripe, PayPal, the French banking gateways: you enable the matching module and you pay your payment provider's fees. Nobody takes a share of your turnover on the way past.
Why hand it over rather than install it
A producer selling direct
One page per cuvée, vintages as variants, shipping priced by weight band and the correct VAT for the delivery country — three things a brochure site cannot do.
A small clothing label
Sizes and colours as variants, stock tracked per variant, bundles to clear end-of-line stock, and photos generated automatically in the formats the product page needs.
A spare parts business
Thousands of references imported from CSV, search by manufacturer part number, and different pricing for consumers and for the trade.
A shop extending its physical counter
Click and collect offered at the delivery step, the same prices as on the shelf, and invoices that follow the same numbering as the rest of the accounts.
A shop leaving a commission-based service
Here the cost does not depend on what you sell. A growing shop pays the same hosting in the month it doubles its turnover.
Hosted in France
In our own infrastructure in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, which we operate ourselves. Your catalogue and your customer data stay in the country, and the person on the phone speaks your language.
Frequently asked questions
The back office offers a CSV import under the advanced parameters: products, categories, variants, customers, addresses, manufacturers and suppliers, each with a column mapping to set up once and for all. Images can be fetched from their web address, which saves uploading them one by one. To bring across order and customer history from another platform as well, you need a dedicated migration tool, usually a paid one.
The software is free: the cost is the hosting, and possibly a theme and a few paid modules. To be blunt, the most polished modules are often commercial — a bank payment gateway, advanced carrier management. But there is no commission on sales, and over a year that is where the difference is made.
PrestaShop handles catalogues of tens of thousands of references. What slows a shop down is almost never the number of products: it is a heavy theme, thirty active modules and images served at full resolution. Caching switched on, visuals at the right dimensions and a regular clear-out of modules matter far more than catalogue size.
Nothing. You choose the application, fill in the fields it asks for — the shop name, an email address — and it goes online. The back office credentials arrive by email along with the address.
Yes, they are part of the service. On a shop, an update is not run blind: major version changes touch the modules and the theme, and are prepared beforehand. This is precisely the kind of operation you would rather hand over than discover on a busy Saturday.