thirty beesReviews of thirtybees.com

Migrated from prestashop 2 years ago. Really a great piece of software. My site is fast, bugs are being fixed and the community is great. Couldn’t ask for more!

I've been onboard with thirty bees since the start and the project is growing with each day. If you're after free ecommerce platform that has almost all bits and pieces included in it this is the place to stop searching. The project is regularly updated, bugfixes are implemented timely and we can always help each other in the forum.

I love the project/software and use it for e-commerce shops, it works perfectly and the support is great (if you need it) and is free in the forum but also available directly for a reasonable price. Support thirtybees because it is an absolutely great shop system where you only have to administer a few things yourself. I don't want Shopify or something similar for $50+ per month! For information or to give an hint for the other ratings: 1. you can use it with php 8.x but you have to use latest version and check your modules if you use any 3rd party.... and the problem is NOT thirtybees then. 2. it is FREE, if you are said to pay 174 bucks then you are not at the official site or you have found and friendly hoster who will do the install for you - and for 174.00 :) take care when you are online, open you eyes and RTFM !

I tried a few similar bits of software in 2018 or so. (Wordpress / Woocommerce at the time charged extra for a checkout form, which seemed such a bad start that I gave-up.) (Drupal Commerce at the time was bright with Vimeo videos but if you transcribed them and followed each step, you'd find something that didn't work by default or was unfinished or confusing.) (Magento at the time needed a bigger server than Prestashop.) (Prestashop at the time kept changing and charging for things that had been free, and the company left loads of bugs un-fixed while it had plenty of sales people on the payroll.) Then I found Thirtybees on the Softaculous / Fantastico one click installers that has free stripe or paypal integration among others, and loads of helpful tekkie people on the forum. This is lucky because there is next to nobody on the payroll but the firm's sponsor does pay keep to the software up to date and release free modules and there's even a new version coming-out soon as I write. You can search the forum to see how few paid-for modules a lot of people use, and there is a free hack (under tips and tricks on the forum) or a module to make the checkout pages shorter than Prestashop's checkout. Looking at the one bad review - I think it's a misunderstanding. You don't have to host on the recommended server or buy any modules to make this work. Here is a guide to minimum or testing costs. £10 or £20 a year upwards for a shared server. You do need a paid-for server; it's too big a program for the free web hosts that need something like Litecart instead. Plus the cost of a domain (penguin-uk.com are cheap) from a different company so you can move when you want. Not many cheap server deals offer a secure server certificate but some do and there are DIY options. Thirtybees forum suggests a few hosts that work. £100+ There are no cheap or free modules to synchronise stock with Ebay or Amazon (only Google and Facebook with a free module on github called google shopping flux and some others if you check their sites and look for Prestashop 1.6). I mention Ebay and Amazon because I don't think there are many sales to be had from being number ten or twenty in the google charts nowadays; google puts too much of its own stuff round the results for anyone to want to scroll-down that far. A good reason to keep costs down. Most modules for Prestashop 1.6.1 work on Thirtybees so if you're looking for something like a way of getting order addresses onto Parcel2go or a free module for a falling snowflake effect you are in luck. £70 If you don't like hacking the default theme templates around, you might buy a theme with editing aids and instructions built-in that has some nice suggestions ready. Ask on the forum for suggestions. So if you want to test this software you need £10-£20 a year for a cheap shared server, preferably with SSL, and it's good to use a different firm for the domain so nobody can stop you moving. £100+ if you want to synchronise stock levels with ebay and maybe something similar for Amazon £70+ if you want a theme with theme editing modules and suggested layouts included, rather than learning how to change the defaults. £70-120 if you want some kind of customisation like charging by the letter for engraving or having part of your product stock-controlled, like the belt buckle, and another part not, like the belt strap in different lengths. All the other reviews are five star and I agree.

Great free webshop. It's really configurable, but the out of the box stuff gives you pretty much everything you need!

TB is FREE, dont let guy under me fool you, he is just unable to read it seems.. As someone said TB is best alternative to prestashop with HUGE potencial.

I tried to start a thirty bees store, because all their ads said it was free. When I clicked "Get Started", I was taken to a pricing page that charged over $174! I immediately backed out of that page and never went back. False advertising! Everybody else tells what their products and services cost, upfront. I expect the same of them!

Best alternative to prestashop.. and I will not shy away from saying that, TB could overtake PS down the road. TB is faster and more efficient.