Unlocking commerce
Founded in 2007, PrestaShop is a French scale-up and a historic player in the Open Source e-commerce platform space, with a global presence and more than 300,000 active clients.
In the context of hypergrowth and international expansion, accelerated by its acquisition by the Italian group MBE Worldwide in 2022, PrestaShop began a strategic shift in 2023: transitioning to a subscription-based SaaS model. This transformation confirms its ambition to unlock growth potential for entrepreneurs and affirm its role as a global, local partner for commerce worldwide.
Reconciling Open-Source Heritage and SaaS Ambition
How can this transformation be supported while strongly reaffirming PrestaShop’s Open-Source DNA, thus creating a powerful brand capable of competing with Shopify?
“There is no preformatted success model.”
In a market where traditional players project an idealized and standardized vision of e-commerce, PrestaShop adopts a realistic and transparent approach. Always by merchants’ sides, the brand is committed to giving them back control.

UNLOCKING COMMERCE
With this new brand idea, PrestaShop opens an era where every business can fully express its potential. This bold positioning is embodied in a completely reimagined visual identity and brand expression:
- An impactful and authentic visual territory rooted and without detours.
- A clean logo and colour palette, featuring timeless black and white, enhanced with a signature blue.
- A custom typeface: PrestaFont, reflecting the diversity of merchants and the limitless customization of the solution. Its alternative glyph system adds a unique and expressive dimension to every text.
- Omnichannel iconography combining photography and illustration:
- A sincere and authentic photographic style, capturing the diversity of e-commerce experiences, enhanced by a film grain effect.
- A dynamic and educational illustrative universe, clearly and modernly showcasing the interactions and functionalities of the solution.
A redesigned website for a seamless and engaging experience
Lonsdale’s Digital Studio also worked on the redesign of PrestaShop’s website, optimizing its architecture and user experience. The result: smoother navigation and a stronger relational approach, better supporting merchants at each stage of their journey.
A disruptive identity, deeply PrestaShop
With this transformation, PrestaShop presents a brand expression like never before in the market. Bold yet faithful to its DNA, it asserts its unique positioning: an essential player in e-commerce, listening to merchants and committed to opening new opportunities for everyone.





