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Written by: Max Milbers

Category: About VirtueMart

Published: 20 February 2014

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[H1] VirtueMart a Feature Rich Ecommerce solution for Joomla

VirtueMart is an ecommerce extension for Joomla. Easy to use for beginners and experts, it offers thousands of built in features to create your store professionally in some minutes.
Your business is unique. You need a specific feature? It is very easy to extend the functionnalities of VirtueMart by adding Plugins, Components, Templates and Modules to your shop.
[H2] Discover the features and the power of VirtueMart

Are you a Customer, a Merchant, a Web Agency or a Developer? Discover the features and the power of VirtueMart depending on your profile.
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For Customers

[IMG: Greeted in your native language]

[H3] Greeted in your native language

Greeted in their native language, customers feel immediately welcome.

[IMG: Structure your shop with nested categories]

[H3] Structure your shop with nested categories

Nested categories help your customer to get a structure of the shop. Different templates and layouts per category can create various look and feel.

[IMG: Describe your product]

[H3] Describe your product

Short description gives a fast oversight while browsing the store. Long description is also available for the interested customer on a product details page.

[IMG: Offer Multiple media to your products]

[H3] Offer Multiple media to your products

Multiple media (images, PDFs, videos,...) give the customer a good oversight of the product.

[IMG: Gather your customers feedback]

[H3] Gather your customers feedback

The native review and rating system is enhancing the customer experience and gives them a guideline if the product is the right item for them.

[IMG: Individualize the shopping experience]

[H3] Individualize the shopping experience

Shoppergroups individualize the shopping experience. It can change the price display/format/calculation for them. For example, B2C customer sees the prices with tax, while B2B customers sees the prices directly without tax. Or returning customers directly get a discount of 5%.

[IMG: Let the shopper choose the product price currency]

[H3] Let the shopper choose the product price currency

Multicurrency allows your customers to view products prices in the currency they desire and help him to faster decide if the product is in the desired price range.

[IMG: Guest and Account Checkout]

[H3] Allow your customers to checkout as a guest or create an account

The cart checkout allows to checkout with an account or without. Different templates and/or extensions allow a multipage checkout or one page checkout. The cart can be adjusted to the customers need. If the customers come mainly from a default country, it can be prefilled. This can be done also automatically by IP with an extension for a pocket money. The shipment and payment methods can have different conditions, so that a customer sees only methods that are available for him (by weight, zip, country, currency, payment amount, shopper group and so on).
Returning customers can of course reuse their address. They can also send a product and use as shipment address.

[IMG: Increase your cross-selling]

[H3] Increase your cross-selling

Add related categories or products to specific product to suggest the customer directly other products. This a great extra service which helps your customer to buy a good set of items (for example a printer and the right toner for it) and increases the sales volume of the merchant.

[IMG: Customize the account registration]

[H3] Customize the account registration

The view, in which the shopper is entering his data, can be easily adjusted to the culture, national laws or just habits of the targeted audience. For example pure B2C shops can remove the company field, while others remove the second name field. A pizza service realised with VirtueMart would remove the country/state field and enter already a city as default.

[IMG: Powerful SEM/SEO features]

[H3] Powerful SEM/SEO features

The advanced SEM/SEO due meta tags for categories, products, manufacturers, and medias helps the customer to find the wares via search engines. Customers can pass SEF links to friends and can easily find the right tab due the page titles. They mistype a link or use an outdated link? they will get a nice fallback page (for example the regarding category) and the search engines get the 404.

[IMG: Manage your orders]

[H3] Manage your orders

Orders are always trackable, regardless registration.

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[H3] Promote your products

Different groups of products like latest, topten, newest, featured give a fast impression and guide the customer to the best offers in the store. All lists are sortable and searchable. Customers can search for products by a certain category, manufacturer, attribute and of course descriptions.

[IMG: Offer Coupon codes]

[H3] Offer Coupon codes

Customers like to feel important using a coupon or similar marketing tools.

[IMG: Extend your shop]

[H3] Add new features to your shop

It is very easy to add new features to your shop. Hundred of extensions are available to extend and customize your shop.

[H3]
For Merchants

[IMG: Structure your shop with nested categories]

[H3] Structure your shop with nested categories

VirtueMart offers your shop nested categories as many as your hardware can support. Products can have multiple categories, so your customers can find your products among different topics. Products can also have unpublished categories for calculation rules.

[IMG: Powerful SEM features]

[H3] Search engine will love your shop

There are powerful of SEM technics already on board. Meta tags, keys, follow policies, customised page title and more for categories, products, manufacturers, and medias. Even if there are many valid links for just one product, the canonical URL tells search engines the right one. Increase your ranking position by combining meta settings with your product description, media description and manufacturer content. Different media types like video, audio, e-books, give your customers good information and a nice preview and additionally enhance your rating by search engines.

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[H3] Manage your shoppers

All shoppers are in shopper groups. There exists shopper groups for not logged in users and even they can be pushed in shopper groups. Almost anything is depending on shopper groups and they give you a lot control. Shopper groups allows you to create customised discounts, price display, payment/shipment methods and similar. You have B2B and B2C customers? Not a big deal with shopper groups. You want to give good customers a discount? Add them to a shopper group. You don't want to deal with shopper groups? Then just use the preconfigured defaults.
VirtueMart allows you easily to adjust the shopper input form to your culture, legal requirements or habits of your shoppers.

[IMG: Inventory management]

[H3] Control your stock

There is an inventory with stock warning and a virtual stock (ordered but not finally bought).

[IMG: Products]

[H3] Products

The product edit allows you to set different attributes, which are used in the shop logic, like

multiple prices depending on currency, shopper group, amount, etc
product dimensions (weight, size)
custom attributes

There are some technics to improve the product editing like product patterns, they allow you to change an attribute for your derivated products within minutes. Product cloning and derivating allows you to create fast a bunch of similar products. Related products help to push your shoppers to fitting products. They are displayed on the product detail view and the add to cart popup.

[IMG: Create any kind of complex product]

[H3] Create any kind of complex product

Custom attributes allow you to add unified descriptions (searchable) for example the author or functions to your product like dropdowns for a selection, or for a text by the shopper. It can be easily extended with extra plugins and can be used for downloads, uploads, meterware,..

[IMG: Powerful Calculator]

[H3] Powerful Calculator

The unified calculator does all the discounts, tax and currency handling. It is rule based and works with different conditions for applying a rule. You can define as rules profit margin, discounts, tax, vattax. Every rule can have its own currency, with automatically updated rates. Just configure the rules and it directly calculates the correct taxes. Even if you have different vat taxes in the cart and cartwide discount. You can use as conditions:

categories
shopper groups
time/date
delivery address
manufacturer
extendable by Plugins (complete takeover by dynamical services like Avatax, or by quantity)

[IMG: Shipments and Payments]

[H3] Shipments and Payments

The shipment and payment is done by plugins. A lot of them are delivered with VirtueMart. You need one which is not included? they are easy to install by mouse click. If you miss one, take a look on our store or the JED to find yours. There also a plenty of conditions to create a fine grained system to offer your customers directly the best fitting shipment/payment.
Payments use

By shopper groups
Minimal amount / maximal order amount to use a payment
Transaction fees
By countries

Payment gateways natively integrated

Paypal, Klarna, Sofort Banking, Skrill, and Cash on delivery included

Shipments use

By shopper groups
Fees
Based on weight, zip, countries, number of articles, order amount

[IMG: Let VirtueMart do the invoice for you]

[H3] Let VirtueMart do the invoice for you

VirtueMart does the invoice handling for you. You can define the order status the invoice should be created (depends on your accounting). The history of the order status is logged. You can also modify it to adjust the order to a customer request. You can also use the invoice system for custom jobs.

[IMG: Manage the access rights for your employees]

[H3] Manage the access rights for your employees

Use the advantages of the Joomla ACL (Rights management) to define the visibility and editing rights of your employees.

[IMG: Run a multilingual shop]

[H3] Run a multilingual shop

Use the multilanguage features to expand your business globaly. A language fallback system reliefs you from providing a translation for any product, just market your best.

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[H3] Add new features to your shop

It is very easy to add new features to your shop. Hundred of extensions are available to extend and customize your shop.

[IMG: Partners and services]

[H3] Partners to help you and Services to assist you

VirtueMart partners bring further growth to the community in different ways, like templates specifically designed for VirtueMart, hosting solutions, extended Payment gateways, advanced shipment and tax calculations, database handlers, deeper store management to mention just a few.
VirtueMart offers services to assist you such as support and custom development.

[H3]
For Web Agencies

[IMG: VirtueMart is a Joomla component]

[H3] VirtueMart is a Joomla component

VirtueMart is a Joomla component and takes full advantage of its framework. Joomla is a very widespread and stable CMS and framework for php components. Around a quarter of all government pages run with Joomla which demonstrate its power.
Joomla provides already a system to install and update new components. It provides already a template, module and plugin system. These can be combined with VirtueMart. For example VirtueMart descriptions can use Joomla content plugins to display videos for example. The languages can be easily adjusted due mouse clicks within Joomla. New templates can be installed within a few mouse clicks and can then use overrides to adjust the shop appearance perfectly to the need of any customer. The module system provides blocks with dynamical filled information, which can be attached to different positions within a Joomla template. The Joomla ecosystem is very big and provides webmasters with free or cheap tools for their page. Backup, Securing, data analytic systems,... http://extensions.joomla.org/.

[IMG: VirtueMart has a big and international community]

[H3] VirtueMart has a big and international community

The big and international VirtueMart community provides you with a lot information, documentation, tutorials, tips and tricks. Visit our forum to read about solutions provided by community members. Join us on the forum.

[IMG: Powerful SEM]

[H3] Powerful SEM is included

Search engine marketing is a very important feature for a shop. VirtueMart provides for any entity own meta tags, category, product, manufacturer, media, main page. Any page can have its own dynamic generated page title or a customised one. The SEF link system of VirtueMart is fallback safe. For example if a product is not found the customer is redirected to the related category and a message is displayed. Search engines see a 404. We have a similar system for products in multiple categories.

[IMG: Hosting]

[H3] Requires Low Resources Hosting

VirtueMart is very resource-conserving and can handle easily thousands of products on a shared host. There are no artificial limits in VirtueMart. You just need a Joomla prepared hoster for a pocket money to prepare and run the shop. Of course the more customer browsing the store the more resources are needed. Even bigger shops are running well with an average server.

[IMG: Partners and services]

[H3] Partners to help you and Services to assist you

VirtueMart partners bring further growth to the community in different ways, like templates specifically designed for VirtueMart, hosting solutions, extended Payment gateways, advanced shipment and tax calculations, database handlers, deeper store management to mention just a few.
VirtueMart offers services to assist you such as support, certifications, and custom development.

[IMG: Debugging tool]

[H3] Debugging tool

The debugging tools in Joomla and VirtueMart allows you to debug a live store without knowing by the customer.

[H3]
For Developers

[IMG: Community of developers]

[H3] We are a Community of developers

We are a community of developers. You are looking for documentation? read our wiki. Join the forum to help us to push the project forward, helping code snippe

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Published: 27 August 2019

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[H1] Download VirtueMart now!

VirtueMart is a powerful free ecommerce component for Joomla!®. Easy to use for beginners and experts, it offers thousands of built in features to quickly install your professional store.
VirtueMart 4 is the latest stable version available. It is compatible with Joomla! 3.10.x and Joomla! 4 and Joomla! 5. The most recent version is in the extensions store

Buy a membership and DOWNLOAD newest VirtueMart package NOW

[H3] VirtueMart is an Open source project, and this packages are free for download

DOWNLOAD VirtueMart 4.6.4 NOWVirtueMart component (Core, AIO, TCPDF, vmadmin)

Download your language pack

Download older versions of VirtueMart (VM2)

[H3] How to start

You are new to Joomla and VirtueMart or you don't have Joomla already installed? we recommend to download the Full installer:

Unzip the downloaded archive
Move the unzipped archive to your web folder
Open your browser and enter the URL of you website
The installation process starts. Follow the instructions.

You already have Joomla installed ? Buy a membership and download the VirtueMart package(Core, AIO and TCPDF) and it install it.

If your server prevents uploading such a big file, unzip the downloaded archive
Install the VirtueMart core component via the Joomla installer first (com_virtuemart.w.x.y.zip)
Install the VirtueMart AIO component second. It contains VirtueMart plugins and modules (com_virtuemart_ext_aio.w.x.y.zip)
Install the TCPDF component. It is necessary for printing invoices and delivery notes (com_tcpdf_1.x.y.zip)
Install the admin template. (vmadmin_x.y.zip)
Install the frontend template horme. (horme3.x.y.zip)

More detailed instructions can be found here: installation instructions.
You need more help? Visit our forum section about Installation, Migration & Upgrade VM 2.
Update by svn using this manual. how to update VirtueMart from SVN.

[H3] Features

VirtueMart includes natively a very important list of features such as:

Complex product easily created
Easy Store Management
Powerful SEO features
Marketing and promotions tools included
Numerous payment providers integrated

Discover all the features, and try our demo.
[H3] Requirements

VirtueMart has the same requirements as joomla.However, we recommend those technical options:php 5.3+ and mysql5.5, php settings: 128 MB RAM (at least 64 MB for the pdf invoices).
[H3] Hosting

Hosting is an important part of the success of your business. VirtueMart has selected some hosts companies for their performance specialized in hosting VirtueMart shops:

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If you have chosen to use VirtueMart shopping cart addon for Joomla to build your online shop, you can count on our unique handmade hosting solution. We provide multiple server locations, free CDN and advanced caching options to make both yours and your customers’ experience with VirtueMart really fast and enjoyable. We also make sure that your VirtueMart website is safer and better supported than anywhere else!More about Siteground.comSign Up Now with Siteground

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