PrestaShop Upgrade Service: Any Version to PrestaShop 9

Summary of what the PrestaShop Upgrade Service delivers

PrestaShop Upgrade Service takes your shop from the version it runs today to the latest PrestaShop 9 release, without turning the live shop into the test bed. Every step is rehearsed on a staging copy, and you know the price before the work starts.

• A free check of your shop and a fixed price in writing
• A full backup and a staging copy, on your hosting or ours, whichever you prefer
• The upgrade to the latest PrestaShop 9 release, including the PHP version it needs where your host allows it
• Every module and the theme checked against the target version, with an update, a replacement or a fix for each one that does not fit
• Checkout, payment, shipping, order emails, invoices and customer accounts tested before the switch-over
• Your URLs, redirects and indexing settings kept, so search engines find the same pages
• A planned switch-over with a rollback decision point, and written handover notes

How does the free check work?

Use the quote request on this page and tell us your shop address, the current PrestaShop and PHP versions, your hosting, the theme and the installed modules. Mention anything custom: overrides, changed templates, integrations with an ERP, marketplaces or accounting software, and whether you run several shops from one back office. Advanced Parameters > Information in your back office shows most of this on one page.

We aim to reply within one business day. We check every module and the theme against the target version and send a fixed price with the list of what it covers. The check is free and you are under no obligation. The price does not change after you accept it, unless you add work.

What is included from €499?

The starting price covers one shop on PrestaShop 1.7 or 8 with a well-maintained theme and modules whose developers support PrestaShop 9:

• backup of files and database, and a staging copy on your hosting or ours
• the upgrade through PrestaShop's own Update Assistant, rehearsed on the staging copy first
• module updates to their PrestaShop 9 versions, each one checked on the upgraded copy
• a theme that runs on PrestaShop 9: the update your theme vendor provides, or the PrestaShop 9 Classic theme
• tests of the buying path: product page, cart, checkout, payment, shipping, order emails and invoices
• the switch-over at a time you choose, with the rollback plan ready

What raises the price?

The free check tells you which of these apply to your shop, and the fixed price already includes them:

• PrestaShop 1.6: a migration to a clean PrestaShop 9 shop instead of an update (see below).
• A custom or heavily changed theme: its templates are ported to PrestaShop 9, or the design is rebuilt as a child theme.
• Modules without a PrestaShop 9 version: each one needs a replacement or a fix, and its data moves with it.
• Overrides or custom code: each change is checked against PrestaShop 9 and rewritten where the old method no longer exists.
• Several shops in one back office (multistore): every shop is tested separately.
• Integrations with an ERP, marketplaces or accounting software: each connection is tested end to end.
• Old hosting or an old PHP version: PrestaShop 9 needs a current PHP, so a server change may be part of the job.

Why does an upgrade from PrestaShop 1.6 cost more?

Official PrestaShop 1.6 maintenance ended on 30 June 2019, and PrestaShop 9 is built on a different framework. A 1.6 theme cannot run on PrestaShop 9: it needs a replacement or a substantial port. Most 1.6 modules have no PrestaShop 9 version, so each one needs a current replacement. And carrying the data in place through several major versions is risky, so products, categories, customers, addresses and order history usually move into a clean PrestaShop 9 shop, and every old URL is redirected to its new address, so links and search engines reach the new pages.

That is several jobs instead of one, which is why the quote for a 1.6 shop is higher. It is still a fixed price, agreed before the work starts.

How is your live shop protected, and what do you receive?

All work happens on the staging copy until it has passed every check, and the backups are confirmed restorable before the switch-over. The switch-over happens at a quiet time you choose, with a decision point: if a check fails on the live shop, we restore the backup and the shop runs as before while we fix the cause. During the switch-over the shop is in maintenance mode, so no order arrives that a restore could lose, and the orders and customer accounts created on the live shop during the rehearsal are carried over.

You receive the upgraded shop, the list of every module and theme change with the reason for it, the results of the checks and notes for the next update. Licences for third-party modules and themes, hosting fees, new features and a redesign are not part of the upgrade; when one of them would help, you get a separate quote and decide. Every mypresta.rocks module supports PrestaShop 1.6 – 9.x, and the check tells you whether any of the modules you bought from us needs a newer version for PrestaShop 9.