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Prestashop Hidden Features You Probably Didn’t Know

The PrestaShop e-commerce platform has long outgrown its infancy and now offers a wide range of features and capabilities. With so many available, some can go unnoticed or be entirely unknown to many users. In this post, we’ll highlight a few practical and valuable functionalities our clients often forget or unintentionally skip.

Change Tracking and Logs

One common question from companies with multiple employees or SEO specialists is, “Can I see who changed what in the PrestaShop back office?” The answer is partially yes.

You can view some actions via Advanced Settings > Logs. This section provides key information about errors, catalog changes made by your employees, and a few other details.

There’s also an option to set up email alerts for changes. The importance levels include:

• 1 – All messages and changes are sent via email
• 3 – only error notifications
• 4 – only critical error notifications
• 5 – default value, nothing is sent

How to Change the “No-Image” Placeholder in PrestaShop

The default “no-image” placeholder doesn’t always match your store’s design. You can easily replace it by navigating to Localization > Languages > Select your language > “No Picture” image and uploading your custom version.

Admin Menu at the Top

In older versions of PrestaShop (1.2–1.5), the default admin menu was located at the top instead of the left. You can still restore this layout by going to Administration > Employees > Edit the employee > Admin menu orientation and setting it to “Top” for new orders. You can also install the free module Mail Alerts (email alerts notifications via email).

This module also lets you configure alerts for low stock and choose which email addresses will receive notifications. You can add multiple email addresses — one per line.

To install, go to Modules > Search for “mailalerts” > Install the module.