Merlin Backoffice ® Flex for PrestaShop
Plans and pricing
ESSENTIALS
For the mass management of products on already structured shops
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- Products management
- Combinations management
- Bulk edit tools
- Exportation
- Special prices
- 5 stars support
PRO
Perfect for creating and maintaining a catalog like a pro
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- Categories management
- Products to categories links
- CSV/XLS import
- Associations to shops
- Database repair
PREMIUM
Advanced features for all stores
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- Combinations generator
- Advanced stock
- Inventories
- Custom fields
- ChatGPT
BUSINESS
All the power you need for advanced automation of your administration
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- Automation with scenarios
- API (N8N, Make, Zapier)
- Gift : professional labels generator (69€)
- Installation authorized on a VPS
- Unlimited number of users on VPS
| Functionality | Help URL (optional) | ESSENTIALS | PRO | PREMIUM | BUSINESS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ##- 5-star support & guidance | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bug-fix and major updates included in all plans | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 15-day free trial, with cancellation possible before the first 12 months are billed | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Additional 15-day satisfaction guarantee or your money back (annual subscriptions only) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Free phone support and screen sharing (plus chat, forum and emails) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Free, unlimited access to tutorial videos | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Knowledge base and tutorials with free, unlimited access | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Software downloadable and usable immediately after subscribing | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Backup and reinstallation CD provided (France and annual subscriptions only) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Second user workstation included | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Compatible with PrestaShop 1.3 to 8 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Design, development and support 100% in France | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| ##- Product management | /en/content/23-selection-of-base-fonctions-merlin-backoffice-prestashop-module | ✔ | ✔✔ | ✔✔✔ | ✔✔✔✔ |
| Bulk creation of new products | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk multi-product duplication | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk editing of all fields | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Edit using calculations and formulas | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Automatic price rounding | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Margin management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| HTML editors | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk stock management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk price management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk creation and editing of discounts | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk editing of texts (e.g. descriptions and SEO) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Reference and barcode generator | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk photo upload | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Automated photo search in local or remote folders | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Multilingual parametric generator for image captions | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Background photo downloads | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk assignment to suppliers | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk assignment to manufacturers | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk assignment of attachments | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk assignment to carriers | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk creation and assignment of tags (keywords) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk cross-linking between products (accessories) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Translation management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Multilingual product sheet mode | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk creation and assignment of features | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Advanced multi-criteria filtering and search | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Quick search | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Duplicate values between features | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Copy/paste between products | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk enable / disable | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk update of friendly URLs | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk deletion | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Custom columns filled by formula | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk assignment to shops (multistore) | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Run hooks (clear cache, sync marketplace modules...) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Find and delete orphan images | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| PDF catalog generator | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Price tag and barcode generator | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| PRO price tag and barcode generator | ✘ (+69€) | ✘ (+69€) | ✘ (+69€) | ✔ (included) | |
| Choose customer group, country and price display date | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Sales volume per item. Stock coverage before stockout | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Super easy bulk product move (change default category) | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk assignment of products to secondary categories (with the mouse) | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Edit product display order in the shop | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Exclusive new feature: bulk read and edit of custom (non-native) tables and fields, including complex joins and multi-value fields | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| ##- Combination management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔✔✔ | ✔✔✔ | |
| Bulk creation of new (empty) combinations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Create new attributes | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk assignment of attributes to combinations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Automatic price rounding | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Margin management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk editing | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk stock management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk price management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk creation and editing of discounts | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| PDF catalog generator | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Choose customer group, country and price display date | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Sales volume per item. Stock coverage before stockout | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk text editing | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Reference and barcode generator | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk photo assignment to combinations (manually or automatically | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Automated photo search in local or remote folders (automatic assignment by color) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Multilingual parametric generator for image captions | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Background photo download | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Advanced multi-criteria filtering and search | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Quick search | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Duplicate values between attribute groups | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Copy/paste between combinations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk deletion | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Custom columns filled by formula | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Assign attributes to shops (multistore) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Edit attribute order | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Incremental multi-product combination generator | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk editor for attribute price and weight impacts | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| ##- Category management | en/content/23-selection-of-base-fonctions-merlin-backoffice-prestashop-module | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Bulk category creation | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk category editing | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Category translations | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Duplicate category branches (with or without their products) | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Move category branches (with the mouse) | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Multilingual HTML editor (description, SEO...) | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk editing of all fields | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Quick bulk assignment of products (with the mouse) | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk change of products' default category | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk change of product order within a category (with the mouse or automatic sorting) | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Change category order within its parent (with the mouse) | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk assignment to customer groups | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Manage discount rates per customer group and per category | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk text editing (SEO) | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk assignment to shops (move categories from one shop to another) | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| ##- Specific prices and sales | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Set up sales across an entire shop in a few minutes | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk creation of new specific prices on multiple products or combinations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk editing of specific prices (without having to delete them) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk editing of all fields | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Edit using calculations and formulas | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Automatic rounding of discounted prices | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Margin management after discount | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Custom columns filled by formula | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Choose customer group, country and price display date | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| ##- CSV/Excel import | /en/content/20-how-to-quickly-import-large-csv-excel-files-into-prestashop | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Save all import settings for each file for fast reuse and automation | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Create and update products | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Create and update categories | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Create and update attributes and combinations | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Automatic management of files containing products and combinations | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Multilingual import | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Import into one shop or all shops | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Import and edit specific prices, strikethrough prices, volume discounts... | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Create, edit and assign features | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Background deletion and download of images (products, combinations and categories) | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| More than 70 importable fields | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Column mapping tool to adapt to almost any format | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Import default values (missing from the file), such as language, tax, quantity, supplier, default category, name... | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Scheduling and automation for regular imports | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Command-line launch with automatic login for scheduled imports | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| No file size limit | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Supports TXT, CSV, XLS, XLSX formats | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Supports UTF-8 (Unicode) or ANSI files | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Automatically reads local files or files hosted on a server, via FTP and secure HTTP | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Auto-dated file management | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Works with any CSV (choose column and line separators) | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Automatic cleanup of quotes or other unnecessary characters | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Multi-sheet Excel file support | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Files with headers support | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Synchronization possible based on IDs, references, barcodes, names, attributes | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Selective import (filtering and row selection, column selection) | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Per column: choose whether to use it to create and/or update items | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Data preview before import | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Validation test available on a few rows | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Ability to edit data before import (including with bulk processing tools) | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Exclusive: virtual columns (not present in the file) you can fill with formulas and import into any field | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Automatic calculation of sale prices (keep or apply margins – including by purchase-price ranges) | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Manage obsolete products (disable, hide, make unavailable) (missing from supplier file) | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Stock update by addition or subtraction | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Conditional purchase price update (if cheaper than current) | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Hook execution and reindexing | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Adjust import speed based on server power (no timeouts possible) | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Single-feature or multi-feature mode, as you prefer | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Automatic detection and correction of duplicates (ref, ean, upc...) | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Exclusive: automated product creation, without a file, from a collection of photos | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Move products | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Add and remove products in their secondary categories | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Import attributes, features, suppliers, brands, without creating or editing products | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Exclusive new feature: import into custom (non-native) tables and fields | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| ##- Export CSV/Excel/XML/PDF | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| PDF/Word/Excel catalog generator | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Selective export of products to CSV/XLS/XLSX/XML | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Selective export of combinations to CSV/XLS/XLSX/XML | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Combined selective export of products and their combinations to CSV/XLS/XLSX/XML | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Selective export of categories to XLS/XLSX | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Free choice of columns (fields), their order and their title. Presets can be saved for each marketplace | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Selective export of specific prices to CSV/XLS/XLSX/XML | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Selective export of other tables to XLS/XLSX (attributes, features, images...) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| ##- Database repair | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Cleanup of tables with category ID = 0 | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Root category repair | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Fix duplicates of the root category | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Find and recover orphan categories | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Cleanup tables that still contain data from deleted categories | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Repair category levels | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Rebuild breadcrumb (nleft and nright columns) | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Repair links between categories and shops | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Restore missing critical information | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Remove gaps and duplicates in category position values (ordering) | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Cleanup tables that still contain obsolete data from deleted products | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Fix products orphaned from a category | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Repair missing product-shop links | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Remove incorrect product-category associations | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Remove gaps and duplicates in product position values (ordering) | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| ##- Advanced combination generator | /en/content/21-merlin-backoffice-advanced-combinations-generator-option | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Ultra fast (up to 100x faster than PrestaShop's generator) | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Generate in several products at the same time | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| No timeout or server lock when generating thousands of combinations per product | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Update existing variants and add new ones | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Manage and store attribute price/weight impacts (not only per combination) for each product | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk editor of attribute impacts with recalculation of impacts on combinations that use them | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Auto-fill references and quantities | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Automatic photo assignment (by color) | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Duplicate combinations from other products | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Supports sparse matrices (non-existing combinations) | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Compatible with Attributes Wizard Pro | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| ##- Advanced stock management | /en/content/22-merlin-backoffice-advanced-stock-management-option | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automatic detection of PrestaShop stock management mode | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Multiple warehouse management | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Compatible with WK Multi Warehouses for PS 1.7 | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Switch products individually or in bulk from one mode to another | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Change mode globally without losing current quantities | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Also allows you (on a selection of products) to define how their quantities are calculated | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk assign products and combinations to warehouses | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk choose product and combination locations | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Bulk creation of stock movements for hundreds of items | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| View physical, available, on-order quantities... | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Calculate sales volumes over the period of your choice | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Stock coverage (time to stockout) | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Full multistore support | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Manage various types of supplier purchase prices (e.g. averaged) | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Not available yet: import data into warehouses via files | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | |
| ##- Inventory tool | /en/content/90-prestashop-inventory-module | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Quick and advanced multi-criteria search (products and combinations) | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Scanner search (barcode scan) | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Automatic counting | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Automatic filling of the inventory file | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Save the inventory file to update stock by importing it | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Automatic calculation of missing quantities | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Automatic calculation of stock value (real and expected) and losses | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Automatic filling of the inventory file with missing items | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| ##- AI (ChatGPT, Mistral AI,...) | /en/blog/56_create-or-optimize-hundreds-of-prestashop-products-in-a-single-operation-with-chatgpt.html | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Bulk creation, editing and translation with AI | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Parametric prompts | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Instruction and prompt collections | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Sequential multi-prompts (4), AI memory management, web search | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| ##- Automation | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔✔✔ | |
| Scenario recorder (sequence of actions) | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | |
| Scheduler for automatic scenario replays | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | |
| Command-line launch of scenarios | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | |
| API: control scenarios from n8n, Make, Zapier... | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | |
| ##- VPS | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | |
| Installation and usage on a VPS allowed | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | |
| Unlimited number of users connected to the VPS | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | |
| Use Merlin on a VPS from Macs and Linux PCs | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ |
Data sheet
- Latest public version :
- 4.0.0.b.build1
- Sitolog connector version :
- 10.1.3
- Prestashop compatibility :
- 1.5 1.6 1.7 8.x 9.x
- Application format :
- Windows application (10, 11). On MAC, use Parallels Desktop or VMWare. On Linux use Virtualbox. Or install on a VPS
- Languages :
- French, English
- Requires to modify Prestashop core :
- No
- file size :
- 466Mb
- Multi-sites licence option :
- Yes
- Requires to modify the template :
- No
- Minimum screen definition :
- 1024x768
Vraiment c'est du beau travail