VirtueMart is an e-commerce Shopping Cart product that we install and integrate for our Clients. This is a full-featured shopping cart with a complete set of features that will satisfy most standard e-commerce applications. VirtueMart is a component of Joomla.
Full list of features:
Products/Categories:
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Add as many products and categories as you want
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Can be used as a catalogue only (without cart features)
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Unlimited category/subcategory depth, products can be assigned to multiple categories
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Sort your categories the way you like
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Sell downloadable products like MP3s, Templates, Videos or Software
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Add a thumbnail and a full size image to every product via your browser
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Add attributes like size or colour to your products to offer product variations
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Use product discounts (percentage/total, time-limited or not)
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Show details & images for every item
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CSV upload, (CSV Import & Export)
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Manage the stock level for products and items
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Automatically notify shoppers when a product is back in stock
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Feature specific products by setting them “On Special”
Shopper Groups / User Management
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Add shoppers and assign them to different shopper groups
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Global shopper group discounts
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Multiple prices can be added to a product, each for an own shopper group or a quantity range
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Restrict “display prices” to specific user groups
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Access Management: assign users to user groups like “admin”, “store-admin”, “shopper” or “demo” to allow the administration by other users
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(Assign products to vendors and allow those vendors to maintain only their products)
Easy Configuration / Customisation
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Manage your shop through an easy and completely Joomla/Mambo-integrated interface
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A “Welcome Screen” shows your daily shop statistics: A summary with “number of customers”, “number of orders”, “5 newest customers” and so on
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Capable of front-end administration (without having to login into the back-end of Joomla/Mambo)
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Global price/currency display formatting
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Templates for product display pages
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Extend the shop with other modules and functions
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Manage different currencies, countries
Shipping Addresses / Rates
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Shoppers can add individual shipping addresses
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Fetch shipping rates live from Intershipper, USPS, UPS, Canada Post, …
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Write your own shipping modules using the Shipping API
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Product prices can be displayed “including tax” or not (set for each shopper group)
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Choose between Shipping-Address-based tax calculation (city/state & country/region)
OR
Store-Owner-based tax calculation (e.g. in European countries)
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Add your own shipping carriers and shipping rates
Payment
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Use Safe SSL encryption (128-bit) and Shared SSL
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Capable of live credit card processing
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Supported payment providers:
o authorize.net online Credit Card Processing (AIM)
o 2Checkout
o PayPal (with IPN gateway)
o Paymate
o NoChex
o WorldPay “IPN”
o PayMeNow
o eCheck.net
o eWay (XML transactions)
o eProcessingNetwork
o and more…
* Payment Module API for custom payment modules…
Order Management
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Complete order management
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Automatically notify your customers when the order status changes
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See who has ordered: IP address storing
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Extend the pre-defined order statuses with your own
“Nice” Features for Customers…
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Shoppers can manage their user accounts
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Shopper can view all their orders (and order details)
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Order confirmation email (customisable!) is sent to shopper and store owner
Joomla! / Mambo Integration
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Registration during checkout automatically registers the user to the global user table (registration is necessary to complete a purchase)
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Complete integration of the layout using Joomla!’s standard CSS styles
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Easy installation / uninstallation using the Joomla/Mambo Installer
Free VirtueMart hacks/tweaks/modules
(Made available from the community, and growing daily!)
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Zone Shipping Module from Zephware.com
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Flypage Admin Link for phpShop
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Latest Products for phpShop (as a separate module)
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Mini Cart for phpShop (also available as a separate module)
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Random Products for phpShop (as a separate module)
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Featured Products for phpShop (as a separate module)
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Special Products Manager for phpShop
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Report Basic (for statistical purposes)