Tips To Develop & Launch PrestaShop Mobile App for eCommerce Business

Priyanka Mehrotra
5 min readApr 20, 2021
PrestaShop Mobile App

With the advanced features and amazing shopping experience, the eCommerce mobile apps have changed the eCommerce sector’s identity. This is due to the fact that more than half of the world’s population uses mobile apps currently to shop products online. For all those eCommerce store owners who are struggling with their sales and revenue statistics, eCommerce mobile apps can be a game-changer for your business. Developing a native shopping app is a perfect way to improve the efficiency and sales of your eCommerce store along with increasing the online presence and sales. The Android and iOS Mobile Apps allow eCommerce merchants to easily communicate with customers and provide them a pleasant shopping experience. The PrestaShop Mobile App Builder is one such ready-made extension that allows eCommerce merchants to quickly launch native mobile apps on Google Play and the Apple App Store.

The Prestashop eCommerce Mobile App Maker ensures that the product inventory in the eCommerce store and the mobile app are fully synchronized. All changes done to the website inventory will be reflected in the eCommerce mobile apps automatically. The shopping app ensures that smartphone users also receive push notifications about promotional activities, updates, and offers/deals. There are a lot of other features and advantages which can be explored below

Module Link:

https://www.knowband.com/prestashop-mobile-app-builder

Admin Demo:

https://psm1.knowband.com/mobileapp/16/admin1/index.php

Android App Demo:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.velsof.prestashopgenericapp

iOS App Demo:

https://apps.apple.com/in/app/prestashop-nautica-app-builder/id1286758599

Key Features of Prestashop Mobile Apps:

1. Branded Android & iOS Apps

For all eCommerce businesses, branding is the most important tool to enhance reach. This feature of the Prestashop eCommerce Mobile App allows the store admin to launch the Android and iOS app under its own business brand name, logo, splash screen, and home screen UI design and a lot more. This feature allows customers to learn more about the reliable brand simply by accessing the shopping app on an Android or iOS device.

2. Homepage Layout Customization-

With this feature, the store admin can make all necessary changes to the mobile app UI design without any coding change. The store owner can create and save multiple layouts design in the admin panel of the Prestashop Mobile App Builder and change the user interface anytime by the drag and drop option. The store admin can select the most appropriate layout according to the requirement. The layout creation is a piece of cake with this extension. The store admin can use the right set of banners, blocks, images, color choices, and much more.

3. Social Login Options-

The Prestashop Mobile App Maker allows customers to easily login into the mobile app with one click. The store admin can enable simple login options such as Google & Facebook, including the email log-in and registration and social login. In addition, the customer can use the Phone Number login (OTP) and Fingerprint Login option to make login safer and easier.

4. Multi-Lingual And RTL Support-

The multilingual feature makes it easy to target different countries/locations from the shopping app. The Prestashop Mobile App Creator supports all the languages available on the eCommerce website, including RTL languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, etc.). The customer has the option of changing the language of the eCommerce mobile app by using this feature.

5. Payments And Shipping Method Support-

The Mobile App for Prestashop supports multiple website payment and shipping methods that encourage customers to engage more with the shopping app and shop with ease. All payment and shipping options available on the eCommerce website can be fetched and work fine into the Android and iOS apps automatically.

6. Real-Time Synchronization-

The Prestashop Mobile App Maker does not allow the store admin to make manual changes in product data or inventory. Since the eCommerce store’s product inventory is completely synchronized with the mobile app. So, all the changes done by the store admin on the website inventory will be reflected automatically on the mobile apps during run time.

7. Push Notification Alerts-

The store admin can send the push notification to the customers from the extension backend. So, if there is any offer, update, and discount on the shopping app then the notification can be sent automatically or manually to the customer’s mobile device. The Prestashop Android & iOS Mobile App Builder allows the customer to receive the notification even if their smartphone is locked and the app is not being used

8. Compatible With Multi-Vendor Marketplace-

The Prestashop Mobile App Builder also allows store admins to include the Prestashop Multi-Vendor Marketplace in the Android and iOS apps. Various sellers can get registered in the web marketplace to sell the products on the mobile app for the customer to browse and purchase.

9. Live Chat Support -

With the 24*7 Live chat option, the store admin can easily get connected with their customers directly. The Zopim and WhatsApp chat functionality allows the store admin to handle customer queries with ease.

10. User Reviews and Comments -

The mobile app users can share their reviews and comments about a product that they have used previously. This option in Prestashop Mobile App is there to give users a little more insight about a particular product and encourage other users to purchase the product.

11. Offline Browsing Mode -

The Prestashop Mobile App Builder consists of an offline mode that allows users to access the mobile app even in case of a slow or no internet connection. The customer can browse the products which were preloaded in the app.

12. GDPR Compliance-

The Prestashop Mobile App Maker also makes sure that the customer doesn’t have to deal with any security flaws and ensures user data to be safe. The store admin can include the GDPR compliance and improves the Android app and iOS app security. The users can also request the store merchant to delete the stored personal information on the app.

Conclusion-

The eCommerce mobile apps are one of the most advanced ways to boost eCommerce store sales and revenue. The increasing popularity of mobile apps has made it much easier for store owners to sell their products in a more effective and convenient manner. Both store admin and customers can utilize the benefits of the Prestashop Mobile App Builder.

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Priyanka Mehrotra
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