[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":359},["ShallowReactive",2],{"/en/writing":3,"articles-en":36},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"date":27,"description":23,"extension":28,"head":27,"meta":29,"navigation":30,"ogImage":27,"path":31,"robots":27,"schemaOrg":27,"seo":32,"sitemap":33,"stem":34,"__hash__":35},"content_en/en/3.writing.md","Writing",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":24},"minimark",[9],[10,11,12,19],"writing",{},[13,14,16],"template",{"v-slot:title":15},"",[17,18,5],"p",{},[13,20,21],{"v-slot:subtitle":15},[17,22,23],{},"Feedback and perspectives on my practice",{"title":15,"searchDepth":25,"depth":25,"links":26},2,[],null,"md",{},true,"/en/writing",{"title":5,"description":23},{"loc":31},"en/3.writing","qPdNqzKO87aOyhk-SdkoJUgjpj6ZCc3la9gIz-me8BM",[37,154,231],{"id":38,"title":39,"body":40,"date":139,"description":140,"extension":28,"head":27,"image":141,"meta":142,"navigation":30,"ogImage":27,"path":143,"readingTime":144,"robots":27,"schemaOrg":27,"seo":145,"sitemap":146,"stem":147,"tags":148,"__hash__":153},"articles_en/en/articles/custom-prestashop-development-under-1000.md","Custom PrestaShop for under €1,000",{"type":7,"value":41,"toc":132},[42,47,50,53,56,60,63,70,84,90,96,102,106,109,112,115,119,122,125,129],[43,44,46],"h2",{"id":45},"what-prestashop-actually-brings","What PrestaShop actually brings",[17,48,49],{},"When people hear PrestaShop, they think online store. That's fair — it's where it started. But stopping there would be selling it short.",[17,51,52],{},"What PrestaShop provides out of the box is a complete infrastructure: user management with access levels, catalog management (products, categories, attributes, variants), pricing rules and conditions engine, order and workflow system, robust back office usable without specific training. All of this exists, is tested, maintained, documented.",[17,54,55],{},"That foundation can serve well beyond online retail.",[43,57,59],{"id":58},"uses-people-dont-anticipate","Uses people don't anticipate",[17,61,62],{},"Here are concrete examples of what you can build with PrestaShop and one or two custom modules.",[17,64,65,69],{},[66,67,68],"strong",{},"A B2B catalog with no public prices."," A company that sells exclusively to professionals can have an online catalog accessible only after login, with prices shown according to the customer group. No need to reinvent the wheel — PrestaShop handles all of this natively, a custom module manages access and conditional display.",[17,71,72,75,76,83],{},[66,73,74],{},"An online quote tool."," Instead of a cart and payment, you redirect the process toward generating a quote sent to the sales team. That's exactly what we built on ",[77,78,82],"a",{"href":79,"rel":80},"https://euro-ceramic.fr",[81],"nofollow","euro-ceramic.fr",": the guest cart converts into a prospect quote when the form is submitted. Delivered in two days.",[17,85,86,89],{},[66,87,88],{},"A resource management intranet."," Documents, products, equipment to be booked or ordered internally — PrestaShop can handle this with a front end accessible only to staff, validation workflows, and a back office that managers already know how to use.",[17,91,92,95],{},[66,93,94],{},"A product configurator."," Options, variants, conditional combinations that lead to a manufacturing request or quote. PrestaShop handles attribute complexity better than most custom-built solutions.",[17,97,98,101],{},[66,99,100],{},"A supplier portal."," Restricted access per account, recurring order management, history by supplier. PrestaShop's back office replaces a custom-built management tool with something already proven.",[43,103,105],{"id":104},"why-this-makes-financial-sense","Why this makes financial sense",[17,107,108],{},"PrestaShop is open source. No license, no platform subscription. What you pay for is hosting and development.",[17,110,111],{},"And on development, AI has changed the equation. The PrestaShop codebase is enormous — too complex for a single developer to know exhaustively without years of intensive work on it. With AI, that barrier disappears. I can develop modules that integrate correctly into PrestaShop's full internal logic, without approximations.",[17,113,114],{},"The result: specific developments that used to take several weeks now happen in one to three days. For the majority of needs, the cost stays under €1,000.",[43,116,118],{"id":117},"what-it-doesnt-do","What it doesn't do",[17,120,121],{},"PrestaShop isn't the right fit for every project. If you need a native mobile app, real-time data processing, or business logic far removed from catalog and user management, it's probably not the right base.",[17,123,124],{},"But if your need revolves around managing objects (products, resources, documents, equipment), users with different access levels, and validation or ordering workflows — PrestaShop deserves serious consideration.",[43,126,128],{"id":127},"lets-talk-about-it","Let's talk about it",[17,130,131],{},"If you have a need in mind and aren't sure where to start, a 30-minute conversation usually determines whether PrestaShop is the right foundation and what it would represent in terms of development. No commitment.",{"title":15,"searchDepth":25,"depth":25,"links":133},[134,135,136,137,138],{"id":45,"depth":25,"text":46},{"id":58,"depth":25,"text":59},{"id":104,"depth":25,"text":105},{"id":117,"depth":25,"text":118},{"id":127,"depth":25,"text":128},"24/02/2026","Custom PrestaShop development — module, connector, theme — delivered in 1 to 3 days. PrestaShop as a platform for internet and intranet needs well beyond classic e-commerce.","/articles/prestashop-ia.jpg",{},"/en/articles/custom-prestashop-development-under-1000","5",{"title":39,"description":140},{"loc":143},"en/articles/custom-prestashop-development-under-1000",[149,150,151,152],"PrestaShop development","Custom PrestaShop module","PrestaShop custom","Intranet","Yi0ID-Fk7Xa5EwEABr7ptsdbguJwCrL0aHHsGXop9q0",{"id":155,"title":156,"body":157,"date":139,"description":218,"extension":28,"head":27,"image":219,"meta":220,"navigation":30,"ogImage":27,"path":221,"readingTime":144,"robots":27,"schemaOrg":27,"seo":222,"sitemap":223,"stem":224,"tags":225,"__hash__":230},"articles_en/en/articles/freelance-web-developer-ai.md","Hiring a developer in 2026",{"type":7,"value":158,"toc":212},[159,163,167,170,173,177,180,183,186,190,193,196,199,203,206,209],[43,160,162],{"id":161},"the-moment-it-clicked","The moment it clicked",[164,165],"youtube-embed",{"id":166},"ntjsp0fdofU",[17,168,169],{},"In 2024, Alex launched the AI Driven Dev training. I joined almost immediately. Not out of curiosity — out of conviction: in this field, you adapt or you disappear. That's been true for every major technological shift, and AI was not going to be an exception.",[17,171,172],{},"I didn't wait for others to validate the move. I saw what was happening and decided to go.",[43,174,176],{"id":175},"experimenting-before-finding-the-method","Experimenting before finding the method",[17,178,179],{},"Integrating AI into my code came quickly. Finding a method that actually held up was a different story.",[17,181,182],{},"I experimented on my own for a long time — my own workflows, my own prompts, my own way of managing context. It worked, but the results stayed below what I wanted to produce.",[17,184,185],{},"It was only when I came back to the AI-driven-dev method that things truly aligned. I can say that honestly because I have both sides of the comparison: my own experiments, and what you produce when following a method built collectively by dozens of developers over time. The difference is real.",[43,187,189],{"id":188},"what-this-means-for-you","What this means for you",[17,191,192],{},"A lot of developers lead with the fact that they code faster with AI. That's not my focus.",[17,194,195],{},"What I lead with is that I'm more affordable. Projects that used to take me several weeks, I now deliver in one to three days — with fewer bugs, because AI also helps cover the edge cases you miss when coding alone.",[17,197,198],{},"A concrete example: a PrestaShop site with a catalog mode on the homepage, a guest cart that converts into a prospect quote when the form is submitted, and a theme matching the existing showcase site's colors. Delivered in two days. Developments that, in a classic model, would have represented two weeks of work.",[43,200,202],{"id":201},"what-doesnt-change","What doesn't change",[17,204,205],{},"AI doesn't know your business. It doesn't know that your catalog is going to triple in six months, that your order process has an exception for long-standing clients, or that your shipping provider has undocumented behaviors that need handling.",[17,207,208],{},"That knowledge comes from years spent on real projects. And it's what determines whether what AI produces is acceptable or not, whether the chosen architecture will hold up over time, whether the delivered project will still be maintainable in two years.",[17,210,211],{},"The technology changes. Judgment remains the core value.",{"title":15,"searchDepth":25,"depth":25,"links":213},[214,215,216,217],{"id":161,"depth":25,"text":162},{"id":175,"depth":25,"text":176},{"id":188,"depth":25,"text":189},{"id":201,"depth":25,"text":202},"Freelance web developer for 20 years, I integrated AI into my practice in 2024. What concretely changed for my clients — deadlines, budget, quality.","/articles/developpeur-2026.jpg",{},"/en/articles/freelance-web-developer-ai",{"title":156,"description":218},{"loc":221},"en/articles/freelance-web-developer-ai",[226,227,228,229],"Freelance developer","Web development","AI","Testimonial","Ohq8SvXhIBqFE-6oJDKit7-I3S52s6PH2gav_y9oKvY",{"id":232,"title":233,"body":234,"date":139,"description":345,"extension":28,"head":27,"image":346,"meta":347,"navigation":30,"ogImage":27,"path":348,"readingTime":349,"robots":27,"schemaOrg":27,"seo":350,"sitemap":351,"stem":352,"tags":353,"__hash__":358},"articles_en/en/articles/pennylane-electronic-invoicing.md","Pennylane for e-invoicing and e-reporting",{"type":7,"value":235,"toc":337},[236,240,243,246,249,253,260,267,270,274,277,280,284,287,293,299,305,311,317,321,324,327,331,334],[43,237,239],{"id":238},"who-this-article-is-for","Who this article is for",[17,241,242],{},"Not businesses that already have a well-oiled accounting system. This article is for professionals who still handle their accounting in ways that cost them time: spreadsheets, folders of PDFs, quarterly emails to their accountant, or simply a pile of receipts waiting to be dealt with.",[17,244,245],{},"E-invoicing and e-reporting are becoming mandatory in France. It's an opportunity — and a useful constraint — to move to something better organized. And Pennylane is, in my experience, the most accessible tool for that.",[17,247,248],{},"I use it myself for my SARL cabinet-partage.fr. What I describe here, I've tested.",[43,250,252],{"id":251},"what-the-reform-actually-changes","What the reform actually changes",[17,254,255,256,259],{},"From 2026, invoices between VAT-liable professionals must go through a certified platform. That's ",[66,257,258],{},"e-invoicing",": your sales invoices are sent in a structured format, readable by your clients' software, and tracked by the tax authorities.",[17,261,262,263,266],{},"For transactions that don't go through this circuit — sales to individuals, international transactions — that's ",[66,264,265],{},"e-reporting",": you periodically transmit the data from those transactions to the administration.",[17,268,269],{},"The good news is that Pennylane is a certified PDP (Plateforme de Dématérialisation Partenaire). If you issue your invoices from Pennylane, compliance is handled natively. No additional tool needed.",[43,271,273],{"id":272},"why-not-wait","Why not wait",[17,275,276],{},"Many professionals tell themselves they'll deal with this when it becomes mandatory for them. That's a mistake for one simple reason: getting your accounting in order takes time, and doing it under pressure — when the obligation kicks in — means doing it in the worst conditions.",[17,278,279],{},"Starting now means doing it at your own pace. It also means building a history from today, which is valuable for financial projections, a funding request, or simply running your business better.",[43,281,283],{"id":282},"the-process-that-works","The process that works",[17,285,286],{},"This isn't a list of Pennylane features. It's what I've set up concretely, and what runs without taking much time.",[17,288,289,292],{},[66,290,291],{},"1. Bank connection."," The first thing to do. Pennylane connects to your bank via Open Banking and automatically syncs all your transactions. This is the foundation: everything coming in and going out is visible, without manual entry.",[17,294,295,298],{},[66,296,297],{},"2. Categorization rules."," After a few weeks of use, most recurring transactions are recognized and categorized automatically. Your accountant can refine these rules from their access.",[17,300,301,304],{},[66,302,303],{},"3. Sales invoices."," You issue your invoices directly from Pennylane, or connect your existing invoicing tool. Invoices go out in the right format, payments are reconciled automatically.",[17,306,307,310],{},[66,308,309],{},"4. Receipts."," For expenses, a photo from the mobile app is enough. OCR extracts the amount, date, and supplier. No more lost receipts.",[17,312,313,316],{},[66,314,315],{},"5. Your accountant in the loop."," They have real-time access, see transactions to validate, prepare declarations without you having to send everything at the end of the quarter.",[43,318,320],{"id":319},"what-it-looks-like-over-time","What it looks like over time",[17,322,323],{},"After a few months, the time spent on accounting drops to almost nothing on a daily basis. There's a monthly or quarterly check-in with your accountant to validate and plan ahead — but the bulk of the collection and entry work has disappeared.",[17,325,326],{},"And when e-invoicing obligations apply to your business, you don't need to change anything. It's already in place.",[43,328,330],{"id":329},"if-you-want-to-talk-it-through","If you want to talk it through",[17,332,333],{},"I'm not selling Pennylane. I'm offering to look at your current situation together, what's taking up your time, and whether Pennylane is the right solution for you. If it is, I can help you set it up properly — bank connections, integrations with your existing tools, configuration with your accountant.",[17,335,336],{},"If you have custom tools that issue invoices, I can also connect them to Pennylane so everything runs automatically.",{"title":15,"searchDepth":25,"depth":25,"links":338},[339,340,341,342,343,344],{"id":238,"depth":25,"text":239},{"id":251,"depth":25,"text":252},{"id":272,"depth":25,"text":273},{"id":282,"depth":25,"text":283},{"id":319,"depth":25,"text":320},{"id":329,"depth":25,"text":330},"Pennylane, certified PDP for mandatory electronic invoicing 2026. E-invoicing, e-reporting, compliance for SMEs — a tested process I use myself.","/articles/pennylane-compta.jpg",{},"/en/articles/pennylane-electronic-invoicing","6",{"title":233,"description":345},{"loc":348},"en/articles/pennylane-electronic-invoicing",[354,355,356,357],"Pennylane","Electronic invoicing","E-invoicing","E-reporting","D0vQxsvGfa6EdFD7qo1U3N8k6jAAyMkjB-Sb39c_BzY",1774879952961]