# One Shop Manager or the PrestaShop back office

The PrestaShop back office remains the tool for configuring the shop (modules, theme, carriers, payments). One Shop Manager complements it for day-to-day work on the catalog and orders: every filter in the back office is a round trip to the server, whereas One Shop Manager works on a local copy and only calls the shop to write.

## Estimated times on common tasks

Test shops with 5,000 products; the back office varies with the hosting and the modules.

| Task | Back office | One Shop Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Change the price of 500 products | 2 h | 1 min |
| Paste 80 tracking numbers and set the orders to "Shipped" | 45 min | 2 min |
| Create 120 size × color combinations | 1 h 30 min | 5 min |
| Find active products with no stock or no image | 30 min | 3 s |
| Launch a −20% promotion on a category, with dates | 30 min | 2 min |
| Print 40 delivery slips | 20 min | 1 min |
| **Total** | **5 h 35 min** | **11 min** |

## What the back office does not do

- Bulk edit any field with a before/after preview and an undo.
- Paste cells from a spreadsheet, fill down, select by a list of references.
- Spot in one click the products with no EAN, with no purchase price, priced below the purchase price or duplicated.
- Pick orders with a barcode scanner and locks between pickers.
- Work offline.

## What stays in the back office

Shop configuration, modules, theme, carriers, payment methods, CMS pages. One Shop Manager does not replace the back office: it is installed alongside it, with the free psmanager module.

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Source: https://oneshopmanager.com/en/compare/prestashop-back-office · updated 2026-09-30