Prestashop has a new owner

[musicmaster]

https://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/1104807-prestashop-has-a-new-owner-d/

PrestaShop has new ownership as of December 2025, acquired by Polish tech group Cyber_Folks (through its subsidiary Cyber_Pixel) along with Sylius and BitBag, forming a major European e-commerce ecosystem, moving from its previous owner, MBE Worldwide (now Fortidia). This acquisition combines PrestaShop's open-source platform with headless (Sylius) and custom solution (BitBag) tech, aiming to create a strong European alternative to global players, with Cyber_Folks holding a majority stake in the new structure. 

[the.rampage.rado]

Good for them...

[DRMasterChief]

Good for customers? Time will tell.

In any case, a lot would have to change. The current model is no longer suitable for e-commerce today (from the retailers' perspective).

[the.rampage.rado]

13 hours ago, DRMasterChief said:

Good for customers? Time will tell.

In any case, a lot would have to change. The current model is no longer suitable for e-commerce today (from the retailers' perspective).

Good for the previous owner - they squeezed whatever they can and sold a shell...

[Yabber]

Cyber_Folks is owned by H88, a company that has been acquiring smaller hosting companies in Poland for many years. After each such acquisition, the prices of all services are raised by an average of 300%.

Also, after this acquisition, Prestashop will be the most expensive SaaS in the world.

[Kashir2000]

As Yabber said. They consolidated many hosting companies over years, shut them down and moved everyone under Cyber_folks brand.

Prices rose, and quality dropped (not for all, depends on needs). However available server resources were restricted. Many say that its worse. I know many people who ran away after that (including myself). 
 

On 1/31/2026 at 8:01 AM, the.rampage.rado said:

Good for the previous owner - they squeezed whatever they can and sold a shell...

 

It will be no different here I think. Knowing Cyber_folks, they didn't acquire it for no reason. Monetization process will surely continue, one way or other I belive.

I think this project might end up like many other open source projects. Open source development will slow or even stop, and new features will be available only when you will host on their servers. Where they will have good optimizations. So PS will work as it worked till now, and alternative version may be developed for those who use their infrastructure. 

However, maybe they will come up with another monetization method. Who knows... I have bad feelings about it.

What I can tell for sure, they all are Symfony worshippers and everything will be more and more based on symfony. Sylius (one of companies invloved in purchase) is creating headless commerce platform based on Symfony. So Symfony will surely be they way they go (I'm not a fan of symfony)