[citation needed] The company, PrestaShop SA, was founded in 2007 by Igor Schlumberger and Bruno Lévêque.

[5] In March 2014, PrestaShop SA secured $9.3M in Series B Funding to continue its global expansion efforts.

[citation needed] In April 2019, PrestaShop reached 32% market share of all online shopping sites in France, according to BuiltWith.

[12] PrestaShop's worldwide marketshare of sites using open-source shopping cart software was 0.31% in October 2021 according to BuiltWith.

By leveraging the size and international scope of its open-source community, the company established two main sources of revenue: PrestaShop has more than three hundred built-in features for managing product listing, payments, shipping, manufacturers and suppliers.

PrestaShop uses a web template system that allows users to customize store themes and add new features through add-on modules.

The PrestaShop Addons marketplace provides a platform for third-party developers to sell themes and modules to merchants.