eCommerce Archive

Debugging Failed Payment Callbacks and IPN Issues in PrestaShop: A Practical Guide

Your customer pays. The gateway flashes Payment Successful, the money is captured, and everyone is happy except PrestaShop, where the order still sits on Awaiting payment. Sometimes there isn’t even an order. Just an abandoned cart with a real transaction behind it. Here’s the thing. The payment almost always worked. What failed was the message …

Managing Complex Product Combinations and Attributes at Scale in PrestaShop

Four attributes on one product. Nineteen values on the first one, eight, eight and three. That equates to 3,648 variants of an item, and it’s no mere hypothetical: a merchant reported exactly this on PrestaShop’s issue tracker, across 30 products and over 100,000 database rows.  Their product pages timed out, and the back office returned …

How to Add an AI Chatbot to Your PrestaShop Mobile App for Product Queries and Order Support

Customers don’t stop having questions just because they’re shopping on a phone. They might want to learn more about the availability of a certain product, inquire about a certain feature of a product, get information on the status of their order, and so on. The integration of a chatbot into the PrestaShop eCommerce Mobile App …

Why Your OpenCart Store Isn’t Ranking: Common SEO Mistakes and How to Fix Them

Even if your products are good, prices are competitive, and your website looks nice, your OpenCart store can still struggle to appear in Google. The issue is frequently hidden in the technical setup, product content, duplicate URLs, poor metadata, or pages that search engines can’t easily understand. An OpenCart SEO Manager will help you spot …

WhatsApp CRM for Ecommerce: How PrestaShop Stores Sell More in 2026

A customer places an order on your PrestaShop store, waits for the confirmation email, and nothing arrives. Support requests start piling up as customers ask whether their orders were successfully placed. By the time you respond, some may have already turned to a competitor on WhatsApp. So why do many stores still rely entirely on …

How to Stop Bots and Fake Registrations with a PrestaShop Spam Protection Module [2026]

Every morning you log in, delete a handful of accounts with names like jjejXXNzPyVcKCH, and clear another pile of gibberish contact-form messages. Where do they all keep coming from? That junk is not a rounding error. Radware’s 2026 report found malicious bots accounted for 43% of e-commerce traffic during the 2025 holiday season, up from …

The One Page Checkout Habit Top OpenCart Stores Use to Cut Cart Abandonment Before It Happens

Cart abandonment is one of those metrics that looks bad in analytics and feels worse when you understand what it actually means. A customer found your store, chose a product, added it to their cart, and then stopped. The most common reason isn’t price, it’s the checkout itself. Research consistently shows that roughly one in …

PrestaShop Advanced Form Builder Addon: When Your Default Contact Form Is Costing You Customer Queries

Most PrestaShop store owners assume their contact form works because it’s there. It loads, it has fields, and customers can technically submit it. That assumption is costing some of them queries they never even knew they were missing. The native PrestaShop contact form ships with four fields: subject, email address, an optional file attachment, and …

PrestaShop Survey Builder: How to Run Post-Purchase Surveys and Collect Actionable Customer Feedback

Most PrestaShop merchants track what customers buy. Far fewer track why customers leave, or what they thought after a purchase arrived. That gap is where useful data dies. Running a post-purchase survey is one of the most direct ways to collect data straight from your buyers, without relying on ad platform attribution or third-party analytics. …