Igor Schlumberger co-founded PrestaShop with Bruno Lévêque. The software began in 2005 as a student project called phpOpenStore and was renamed PrestaShop. The company was founded in Paris in 2007.
The platform was free open source from the start, and the company earned money from modules and themes sold on its marketplace. Staff grew from 17 to more than 100 between 2010 and 2012. A Miami office opened in 2011, when the platform counted 100,000 merchants.
PrestaShop raised about €6.75 million in March 2014. Version 1.7 was released in 2016, and Alexandre Eruimy became CEO in 2018. The Miami office closed in 2019.
MBE Worldwide, later renamed Fortidia, acquired PrestaShop in November 2021. PrestaShop 8 shipped in 2022 and version 9 in 2025.