PrestaShop

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E-commerce · France

Founded 2007 · prestashop.com ↗

French open-source e-commerce with hosted SaaS option; parent group Fortidia is an Oaktree Capital portfolio company.

In short

PrestaShop, in the E-commerce category, offers EU hosting with France as its hosting location, but a US parent or sub-processor leaves material CLOUD Act exposure.

Assessment notes

PrestaShop SA (Paris, 82 Avenue du Maine 75014, SIREN 497 916 635, founded 2007) is French-operating but sold to MBE Worldwide (Italy) November 2021; MBE rebranded as Fortidia in 2024, and Fortidia is a portfolio company of Oaktree Capital Management (US asset manager), so ultimate beneficial ownership is US, giving eu_hq_us_funded ownership signal and material CLOUD Act exposure. DPA and sub-processors list are not publicly surfaced and must be requested via sales.

CLOUD ACT
OWNERSHIP
SUB-PROCS: — not disclosed

CLOUD Act by deployment

Exposure depends on how you run this product.

Hosted SaaS (default)

Vendor-operated: the sub-processors below apply.

Self-hosted (open-source)

Deploy on your own EU infrastructure and you control hosting and every sub-processor.

Verified signals

Jurisdiction

EU / adequacy hosting
EU / adequacy operator
No US CLOUD Act exposure

Transparency

Public DPA
Sub-processors disclosed
Open-source clients
Third-party certification

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OVERVIEW

About PrestaShop

PrestaShop (Paris, est. 2007, 250,000+ live sites per their homepage) is the historical French Magento-equivalent: a free open-source e-commerce platform plus a paid PrestaShop Hosted offering for merchants who want managed hosting. Acquired by MBE Worldwide (Italy) in November 2021; MBE rebranded as Fortidia in 2024; Fortidia is a portfolio company of US-based Oaktree Capital Management. So the operating entity is French and the brand is French, but the ultimate beneficial owner is a US asset manager, relevant for procurement-grade CLOUD Act assessment. Best fit for merchants who want full platform control with French community + ecosystem; PrestaShop Hosted targets those who want the OSS power without the ops burden. Closer to mid-market than to SMB Shopify-Basic class.

SUB-PROCESSORS

Sub-processor map · not disclosed

Vendor does not publish a sub-processors list. Schrems II compliance and CLOUD Act exposure cannot be independently verified without it.

CERTIFICATIONS

Frameworks & certifications · none listed

We checked the vendor's website and standard certification body registries. No active certifications found at the time of last audit (2026-05-12).

FEATURES

Capability matrix

Self-hostable

Recurring / subscriptions

In-person / POS

Multi-currency

Multilingual

Product variants

Abandoned cart recovery

INTEGRATION & ACCESS

REST API

SSO (SAML / OIDC)

COMPLIANCE & GOVERNANCE

Audit log

Self-host / on-prem option

PRICING

Pricing & tiers

FREEMIUM

Custom pricing

Contact vendor for tier or volume pricing.

View pricing page ↗

PUBLIC DOCUMENTS

Public documents

Data Processing Addendum (DPA)

prestashop.com/terms-prestashop-hosted…

Open ↗
Sub-processors list

prestashop.com/prestashop-account-privacy…

Open ↗
Terms of Service

www.prestashop.com/en…

Open ↗

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