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WaffenPro.

CLIENT
WaffenPro
INDUSTRY
Retail / Firearms, hunting & sport-shooting equipment
WHAT WE DID
PrestaShop theme customisation, homepage & brand landing sections, category page templates, SEO category content
PLATFORM
PrestaShop (Cartfash theme, customised)
YEAR
2025–2026

( THE BRIEF )

The challenge

Firearms retail in Germany is a regulated, specialist market where buyers need clear categories, age and legal context, and trust in the dealer. A buyer spending serious money on a rifle or riflescope wants to know they are dealing with a legitimate, knowledgeable shop.

WaffenPro needed to present a very large, technical catalogue (calibres, adapters, triggers, optics mounts) in a way that hunters, sport shooters and enthusiasts can browse quickly. The store also had to highlight its premium brand partnerships and rank well for competitive German product searches, where category pages often compete with large marketplaces and manufacturer sites.

The client

WaffenPro is a certified German firearms dealer ("zertifizierter Waffenhändler") selling hunting and sporting firearms, optics (riflescopes, night vision, spotting scopes), hunting gear, ammunition, airguns and airsoft, plus accessories. This case covers our PrestaShop development for a firearms dealer with a large, technical catalogue.

The shop is an authorised premium dealer for brands such as Schmeisser, Glock and CZ, and also features Brenner, Meopta, Falke, Steiner and Hera Arms. Those partnerships are a major part of why customers choose WaffenPro, so the site needed to show them clearly.

What we built

We customised the PrestaShop Cartfash theme rather than starting from scratch. PrestaShop handles large catalogues, many product variations and German-language shops well, and keeping the existing platform meant the team kept its familiar back office and modules.

The work focused on three areas: a bold homepage that leads with the brand partnerships, category templates that make a technical catalogue easy to filter, and SEO content beneath each listing to support organic search in Germany.

  1. 01 Bold dark header and nav the WaffenPro crosshair logo, a prominent rounded search bar, account and cart icons, and a top menu of Home, Menü, Newsroom, Sales, Combo Deals, SSZ, FAQ, Social and a highlighted Outlet tab. Search is prominent because many buyers arrive knowing the exact model or calibre they want.
  2. 02 Dismissible alert banner a red gradient bar for store announcements (e.g. maintenance closures) with a direct "zum Produkt" CTA, so important notices reach customers without a redesign.
  3. 03 Brand-partner hero a three-panel visual of "Ihr zertifizierter Premiumhändler für" Schmeisser, Glock and CZ on angled orange bands. Leading with authorised-dealer status builds trust on the first screen.
  4. 04 Trust strip secure payment, fast shipping, cash back (account bonus credit) and free returns, answering the questions buyers have before they add to cart.
  5. 05 Brand showcase sections full-width lifestyle banners for CZ, Glock, Schmeisser, Brenner, Meopta, Falke, Steiner and Hera Arms, each with a product carousel. Brand-loyal shoppers can go straight to the range they already know.
  6. 06 Content and community latest blog posts ("Neueste Beiträge"), "Why buy at WaffenPro", "Vier Bereiche. Ein Ort." and links to the YouTube channel and Instagram, showing the expertise behind the shop.
  7. 07 Category templates a sidebar sub-category tree, price-range filter, bestseller widget, product grid with discount badges and orange add-to-cart buttons, sorting and pagination. Each category works the same way, so customers learn the layout once.
  8. 08 SEO-rich category content buying guides, legal notes and FAQ accordions beneath each listing, plus support cards for chat, email and phone. This gives search engines useful text to rank and gives buyers the context they need in a regulated market.

( THE SITE, PAGE BY PAGE )

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( WHAT WENT INTO IT )

Under the hood.

KEY FEATURES
  • Customised PrestaShop Cartfash theme
  • Dark UI with signature orange calls to action
  • Premium brand landing sections with product carousels
  • Faceted category pages with price filtering and bestsellers
  • Discount badges, Sales, Combo Deals and Outlet merchandising
  • Cash-back customer account bonus
  • SEO buying guides and FAQ accordions on category pages
  • Klaviyo email automation and web-push notifications
  • Promotional tiles module for homepage merchandising
  • Fully responsive with a collapsible mobile "Menü"
DESIGN SYSTEM
Typography

Roboto headings, navigation and body (uppercase bold for nav and banners)

Colour palette
  • #121211Background (near-black)
  • #FFFFFFText
  • #EF5904Primary accent (WaffenPro orange)
  • #FF5332Outlet / highlight orange
  • #B43008Banner orange (dark)
  • #FFFFFFButtons (secondary)
  • red gradient to blackAlert banner

Tactical and high-contrast. Black backgrounds, white type and saturated orange accents match the crosshair logo. Action-oriented field photography and angled orange brand bands give it the energy of an outdoor/sport brand, while light product cards keep listings easy to scan.

TECH STACK
E-commerce platform
PrestaShop (PHP 8.1)
Theme
Cartfash (customised)
Key modules
wp_promotiles (promo tiles), klaviyopsautomation (Klaviyo), jl_webpush (web push), jl_ads, cz_themeimages
Frontend libraries
jQuery 3.5.1
Analytics / marketing
Google Analytics, Klaviyo
Security
Google reCAPTCHA
Hosting / server
LiteSpeed web server
Payments
PayPal, Klarna
WHAT IT DELIVERS
  • A large, technical catalogue is now organised into category pages that are easy to scan and filter.
  • Premium brand partnerships are front and centre, which builds trust as a certified dealer.
  • Buying guides and FAQs on category pages give the shop a strong base for German organic search.
  • Sales, Combo Deals and Outlet merchandising give the team clear places to run promotions.
  • PrestaShop
  • E-commerce
  • Germany
  • German-language
  • Firearms
  • Hunting
  • Sport Shooting
  • Optics
  • SEO
  • Klaviyo
  • Dark UI
  • Responsive Design
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