Hire a PrestaShop developer
Hire a PrestaShop developer who still knows PrestaShop, from a small fix to a full upgrade.
For PrestaShop store owners whose agency moved on, whose developer stopped answering, or who need a module fixed before the weekend. Most agencies dropped PrestaShop years ago. We didn't. We look first, quote a fixed price, and the people who quote are the people who do the work.
The fixes we're asked for most
Most calls are about a store that worked yesterday. These are the kinds of jobs owners bring us:
- A payment or shipping module stopped working after an update.
- A 500 error or blank page after the host changed the PHP version.
- An old override that breaks the checkout or the product page.
- Combine and compress switched on, and now the layout is broken.
- A slow catalog, or a back office that takes seconds to open an order.
- Product images that need regenerating, or a broken import.
- Translations, carriers or tax rules set up wrong.
- Malware or spam accounts.
- An upgrade from 1.6 or 1.7 that someone started and never finished.
Store down right now? Go straight to emergency store recovery.
How working with us works
Free store review
You give us access (we send a short checklist: hosting panel, back office, FTP or SSH). We make a copy and go through the store from the inside. Within 3 business days you get a written list of what's wrong, ranked by what it costs you.
A fixed quote
The review comes with one price for the work it found: a Speed Fix when the store is slow, a Store Rescue when it needs an upgrade and a clean-up. The price doesn't change after you say yes. Half when we start, half when it's done.
Store Care for PrestaShop
The store runs on a server we manage. A person does every PrestaShop and module update on a copy first and places a test order before it goes live. Small fixes are estimated before we start and billed at $150 an hour in 15-minute steps. Month to month.
Bigger stores that want a developer's time every month take Managed Engineering, from $950/month, with the hours included and their requests handled first.
In writing
80 or more on a phone, or the next month is free.
Every Speed Fix and Store Rescue comes with this: if your store doesn't reach a Google phone speed score (Lighthouse) of 80 or more within 30 days of the work being finished, the next month is free. You can run the same test yourself, any time.
How exactly we measure it
We test as a phone, through Google's PageSpeed Insights from a US test location. We take the middle result of three runs in a row, on your home page, your top category page and your top product page. Before we change anything we measure the same way.
Scripts added after we hand the store back (analytics, chat, ad pixels, review widgets, testing tools) don't count, because they run outside our control.
Two PrestaShop stores we put right
Nold.si ran on PrestaShop 1.7, which no longer gets updates. We upgraded it to a current, supported version and moved it onto our server, with the same design, categories and products. Kozelj.net is an older PrestaShop store we upgraded and sped up. Both old stores are still online next to the new ones. Both stores and the numbers.
What we don't do
- Magento, BigCommerce, or theme work on Shopify.
- Design-only projects and redesigns.
- Open-ended work billed by the hour with no estimate.
- Changes straight on the live store without a copy and a backup first.
Comparing us with a freelancer or a marketplace? We wrote an honest comparison of the options, including when the others are the better choice.
Questions people ask
How much does a PrestaShop developer cost with you?
Bigger work has one fixed price, set in the free review: a Speed Fix is from $2,500, an upgrade or clean-up (a Store Rescue) from $4,500. Small fixes are done for stores on a plan: Store Care for PrestaShop is from $495/month and extra time is $150 an hour in 15-minute steps, estimated before we start. Managed Engineering, from $950/month, includes engineering hours every month.
Can you fix a store someone else built?
Yes, that is most of our PrestaShop work. Many stores come to us after the original developer or agency stopped answering, sometimes halfway through an upgrade. The free review tells us what we are taking over before we quote.
How fast do you respond?
When the store is down, hacked or not taking orders, we start within 4 business hours, Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 17:00 US Eastern; on Managed Engineering you go first. Planned work gets a date in writing before we start.
Which PrestaShop versions do you work on?
All of them from 1.6 up to the current 9.1. On 1.6 and 1.7 we usually recommend an upgrade, because PrestaShop no longer fixes security holes in them. The review says whether a small fix still makes sense or the money is better spent on the upgrade.
Who actually does the work?
A small senior team. Aleš Gaber leads the engineering and works on client stores together with the team. You talk to the people who change your store, not to an account manager.
Do I have to host the store with you?
For ongoing work, yes. Store Care for PrestaShop runs the store on a dedicated server we manage, because we cannot test every module update and keep the store fast on a server we do not control. No minimum term, and your code and logins stay yours.
More reading: everything we do on PrestaShop, PrestaShop upgrade, PrestaShop maintenance and all prices.
Tell us what's wrong
Get a free check by email in a few minutes, or book a call and describe the problem. We'll tell you what we'd do and what it would cost.
Get a free report on your store
Put in your store's address. In a few minutes we email you a short PDF: how fast the store opens on a phone, how old its software is, and anything that looks unsafe. Free, and no call needed.