This component is a fairly decent component but could do with some improvement, the biggest problem is support, support for this component is woefully lacking. Believe duaneh (previous reviewer) he is telling the truth, I have personally experience issue with not getting support from the designer although I have paid for component, I've sent numerous emails requesting help and his only response was to send me an out dated manual! He has ignored numerous support request for almost two months now!

P.S Please note I was not requesting customizations but seeking fixes for issues of inconsistency in the coding, for example whenever no price is listed for a vehicle the system should show "Call for Price"

but it is not implemented consistently throughout and shows $0.0.

The lack of support has caused significant headache and have delayed deployment of my client's website.

I purchased this component from Autostand last year, and it started off fairly well. But as things progress, it becomes troublesome, there are several issues I need addressed and response from the autostand forum is dead;



I'm now looking for a customer php developer to assist me with making this component work, as it's far too late to backtrack and find something that actually works.



Maybe the developer will respond in this forum,

I created an account just to write this review, and will be doing so with other extensions because I'm sick of poor coding practices with extensions I purchase.



The biggest fault of this extension is the fact that the templates it comes with are actual Joomla templates. Do not expect to integrate this in a pre-existing site or template and have it look good. You have to use their full site template. It makes no sense, so now I'm spending extra time making it look presentable. I know I can't expect it to look perfect with my template out of the box, however it is completely broken.



A second problem with the template is that it is built with tables. Every part of this component, and it's included modules, are tables. This is not acceptable.



Another problem: none of the tables, rows, or columns are uniquely named. I cannot use an external stylesheet to change various aspects of this stylesheet because nothing is given a unique class name. So now I'm going through the view files and adding my own. Why should I have to do that when I actually paid money for this?



Lastly, the way image uploads are handled. You have to go to a separate screen to upload images, which is fine, however it dumps everything into one huge dropdown. Lets say you have 100 cars with 10 images each. That creates a 1,000 item dropdown list that you have to go through every time you want to assign a new image. Also, there is a character limit to the file names, however it is not mentioned anywhere.



I'm not going to give this a "poor" rating because it does work, however the coding behind it is dismal. The authors need to read a book on coding practices and CSS before they decide to sell another extension.

I created a website this summer for a dealership in USA. This application works fantastic. I was able to change everything to suit my needs and when I needed help, customer service is spectacular! I highly recommend this to anyone looking to build an inventory based website.

This is a great product for a commercial website. It does require some existing knowledge of coding if you plan on doing a lot of customization to it like I have.

There are options that you have to change in the code to get certain things to look right if you are not using one of the default templates. Some of these options could be better defined in the backend.

Translation features/Language files could be better designed for the backend.

When I purchased I felt there was little in regards to FAQs, readmes, etc. This could be improved on. At the time of purchase the website forums were not very active and response from support on the forums was very slow.

I found that emailing the owner/writer got the best results and quickest turnaround.

Nuno has been the best at handling my questions via email and has been able to resolve nearly all my problems and locating specific items to fix on the component.

I recommend purchasing this because the product is customizable for all situations (not just cars) and the support is there. They are also working on a website redesign and that can only mean more support and options for Nuno's customers in the works!

Keep it up Nuno!

Autostand is joomla component to build a car web site of the most easy, as easy as click and ready! With a good customer support system and the coding is not encrypt so it easy me or anyone to customize the component .



Systems offered are user friendly and meets my needs as a builder's website. It meets all the features needed to build a car web site.



I highly recommend to anyone just to get this component. I give 5 stars out of 6 stars.



2 thumbs up!

I Recently bought this component for my Auto website, and i must say it is VERY customizable and works very well. Support is very quick and I would almost definately reccommend this component to anyone wishing to sell vehicles online.

I recently buy the component , i have no issues for install it. The component is very intuitive for develop a car, boat motorcycle, truck, etc site.



The only Thing for a posible improvement in the future is that slide module show hot offer also and not only random and new listings

no help and no support whatsoever, just got my money and ran and can't get it back. beside wasted my time trying to customize anything.

i see some people giving it good rating and that makes me wonder. their forum is full of thousands of questions without one reply, no phone number and goodluck getting an email reply. beleive me it is hit and run extension

the component is exactly what I needed for my car sale site. Installed fine and worked straight away.



It needed some minor adjustments, which I had to ask for support. They got back to me immediately with a solution and not just once. Great support, thanks guys.



Would have loved to give 5 stars but the manual needs some upgrading. It is still good enough to use and helps in most instances but you can get stuck. This is where the support kicks in as mentioned above, they are very helpful.



I am gladly recommend this component.



Thank you