One option that available on the net for us to choose for our starting point to build an online shopping cart is of course Prestashop.
Prestashop^TM is professional e-Commerce shopping cart software that we can download and use for free as a beer.
The Prestashop e-Commerce solution can be customized for small or medium-sized businesses working within tight deadlnes.

The Prestashop is very light (around 6MB not including translation files), so it's easy to download, install and update.
So lightweight and speedy, even customers with slow connection speeds will enjoy buying from you.

Some advantages of PrestaShop php cart are:

• Open Software License (OSL)
• Open Source
• PrestaShop Community Support Forum
• Frequent bug fixes & improvements

As we can see in their Live store example give us a prove that Prestashop templating is easily customizable and yet offering wonderful frontpage store.

You can download Prestashop here and test it yourself on your local server first before decided to use it as your Online Store website. Please visit these links for more info on How to install Prestashop, how to use an installed version also their FAQ section.

Posted in: Resources - Shopping Cart On Feb 08 2012