Sponsorship

Who reads this site

Two groups, mostly. The first is PrestaShop merchants — people running small and mid-sized shops who have arrived here because the platform does not do some particular thing they need, and who are looking for a way to get it built without commissioning an agency. The second is the professionals around them: the freelancers and small agencies who maintain those shops, and the hosts and service providers whose own business is PrestaShop merchants in the first place. If your customers are somewhere in that description, that overlap is the thing worth talking about.

What we are not going to do is put a number next to it. module.monster is in beta and its audience is early, and any traffic or impression figure published on this page would be both flattering and out of date. If reach is what your decision turns on, ask us and we will tell you what it actually is at the time you ask.

What sponsorship could cover

Sponsorship here means underwriting work that costs us something and costs the person benefiting from it nothing. That is the honest answer to where the support would go, and all of it sits in the same place — keeping the pipeline running and improving, and keeping part of what it produces free:

• Continued development of the build pipeline itself: the agents that scope a module with a customer, write it, install and exercise it on a real PrestaShop, and package it for download. This is the bulk of the work, and it is ongoing rather than finished.
• Build credits for merchants who need a small module, granted on request rather than sold at a checkout.
• Keeping up with PrestaShop itself. Versions 8 and 9 keep moving, and a module the pipeline wrote last month still has to install cleanly on a shop that upgraded this week.
• Translations and documentation. This portal is in 16 languages, every module ships translated into the languages its owner chose, and each build comes with an illustrated guide — none of which anybody is billed for separately.

How this would work

There are no tiers on this page and no prices, because there are none: nobody has set them. We would rather settle an arrangement with a first sponsor in an actual conversation than invent a rate card in advance and then find it suits neither of us. Terms are worked out case by case and written down before any money moves — what the support covers, over what period, and how it is acknowledged.

Two things are already decided, though. Sponsorship does not buy a say in what the scoping agent recommends to a customer or in which modules get built; that judgement stays ours, and it is the only reason it is worth anything to the merchant relying on it. And we would name a sponsor publicly rather than take support quietly, so that anyone reading the site can see who is behind it.

Get in touch

Write to [email protected] with “Sponsorship” in the subject line — that subject is what keeps the message out of the support queue, and the button below fills it in for you. What you send reaches the people building the product rather than a sales desk.

It helps to say who you are, what you would want out of it and roughly what scale you have in mind, but none of that is needed to start: “we are interested, what would help?” is a perfectly good first message. We will answer either way, including when the answer is that we are not the right fit for what you are after.