Nice package, works great.
keep up the good work.

VirtueMart installed very smoothly, lots of features. Works fine for a new shop without an existing product list. The one feature I wanted to use was the import/export feature component. There is lots of useful advice on delimiters etc, but unless you want to do it through phpAdmin I'd wait until this component has been updated.

VirtueMart is loaded with features, for a worldwide audience. This can be a challenge to wade through the features and get it running the way you want because everyone has their own expectations. But the price is right!

The VirtueMart Forum is a better place to ask for help than here, and I've found a lot of help by post questions directly in Google.

In response to a couple of previous posts I offer the following...

1) "Can't have products with no shipping, Really? by domdeez, September 2, 2008"

Actually you can do this. You'll have to create a Shipping Rate List, starting with 0 (zero) weight at $0.00. So for that I would put "Highest Weight 0.010, Lowest Weight 0.00. Then put 0 (zero) weight for your product.

2) "Not compatible with Community Builder by paul.shane, August 17, 2008"

Did you try the VirtueMart plugin for Community Builder? http://www.e-motion.com.au/open-source/virtuemart-plugin-for-community-builder.html

Excellent shopping cart component with flexible features..
Look and feel options are really cool
The new Version looks great..
Thanks

Quite new to Joomla, I tried to install several extensions including CB, VM, AEC and some others. Although for a newbie for me means has to dig a lot in both manuals and forums, I found all the maverick extensions are great including VM.

Now my site is live for selling ebook and subscription. I don't agree with previous comment which said VM doesn't work with no shipping, in fact it does work for my site. The most important thing is to dig well both the manual and the forum. Almost all answers for a beginner are already there. In order to get a free stuff running well, we have to be willing to do that.

Also, my CB just works fine with VM. I think the reason every extension has their own user database is because Joomla default user management doesn't have flexibility to add more fields such address, phone, etc. Some users just want to install CB only, some are VM only, some are FB only, etc. Why does a user who wants to have shopping cart only have to install CB too, or vice versa?

Besides there are already some sort of micro integrations among them. You just need to dig it up in their forums.

After configuring this product, I realized that you cannot have products with no shipping costs. Wow. What waste of my time. I know it is a free product, but I cannot believe it lacks such a basic feature.

I am not a developer, if I was I would not be needing to use someone elses product. Granted this i a free product, but why put out something that has as many bugs as this. I installed and configured as per the manual states. All was fine. Activated the modules and plugins... still fine. Added Manufactures and product catagories... still ok. Now add product descriptions and this is where the trouble starts. I am building a site with computer components so there are a lot of tables and images. Tables are rewritten to fit in a space but not with the info I typed in. There is huge space for reviews of product/item but heck I can put all the information need to describe what is being sold.

This is a very nice component and great e commerce solutions for joomla.

I really wanted to use VirtueMart, actually still do, but after spending several days configuring VM, I finally got to the bottom of the documentation only to find that VM uses its own user profile database instead of integrating with Joomla/Community Builder's. This was a show stopper for me.

I don't need anything very complicated just to sell community event tickets, but I cannot support dual user databases for 12,000 residents.

I have installed it on my site in order to sell a few products and to be honest, it was quite a task to build an eshop with 10 products in it. For smaller shop, there are other solutions easier to manage. But for those who wants to get into e-commerce with a lot of products and categories, it is good, very good. There is I think a problem with some editors such as Joomla FCK.

I have been using VirtueMart for over a year now. Unfortunately, it has too many problems and bugs and I have made the decision to find something that is more dependable and functional for E-Commerce.
This was not an easy decision to make however, I have come to this conclusion:
If you want a serious E-Commerce Shopping Cart Do NOT bother with VirtueMart. You will spend MUCH too MUCH time simply working the bugs out of it BEFORE you'll be able to start actually using it.

I have spent countless hours performing "hacks", "tweaks" you name it... just to get this cart to work right. The final straw hit when I decided to update my version to the newest version. I have run into so MANY problems simply trying to do this that I have decided to find something else. I'm an online seller... Not a computer programmer and this has become way too much of a struggle to keep this cart going.


Pro's:
Integrates easily with Joomla! Has nice presentation capabilities.

Con's:
Too many bugs that are too complicated to fix for the average computer user. No real support for this software.

I honestly gave this Cart more time, effort and attention than it's worth. If you want a practical, functional E-Commerce application I strongly suggest that you look for something else.

Just for the record I've been working with VM for a few years, and one of the reasons that I use it is because it can be modified for other things other than just a shopping cart. A catalog or a city guide etc. I just love it..

There it is.

Now on the other side, it's not perfect.
Some things that I find fault with; have to do with the silliest annoyances, such as clients thinking they could pull off using VM on a cheapo oversold shared hosting account. If you plan on using VM with SEF/SEO components (a must!) than think about upgrading your server to at-least a semi dedicated server... period -- shop around.

Also, you must use the 1.1 or better version, anything less and you would be just cheating yourself. If you are that guy or gal--using something older; you need to update now!!

If not for the security updates (that are maintained quickly, unlike x, zen or oscommmerce) but for the extra features and performance gains that seem to get better with each update.

Otherwise, While I like some of the other carts available.. I'm betting on VM over some of these newer and fancier systems that cost my clients 3-5x as much in development costs.

In an nutshell, VM works out of the box with features comparable, if not better than other carts... and better yet its built on Joomla! 1.x and 1.5.

Right now, I have a client that wants to do a streaming pay per video app... yep there's VM. God bless, (or praise whomever) I can pay my rent this month.

But, be realistic.
with the new auto update feature that has have been implemented in 1.2? (please check) any custom jobs may require a developers touch.

whatever. donate or be cursed to failure.

I have, and will drink less coffee next time.

Best Regards
JHQ


P.S If you decide to take advantage of the free help that is often offered in the forums:

It would help to mention:
what version of joomla
version of os - win or linux
version of VM

I just moved from CRE Loaded to Virtuemart due to its integration with Joomla CMS. I didn't migrate my CRE site to VM (too much efforts), instead I decided to use VM for my next ecommerce sites. It looks like CRE has reached its maturity point and not too much room for improvements, while VM is having a brighter future. I'm seeing, in the future, VM will have more features than any other ecommerce sites because it combines its own cart features plus Joomla extensions features. I can have a shopping cart complete with forum, FAQ and animated contents.

I can't go with other Joomla shopping cart solutions because not only they lack of community support but also some are too costly.

Hope version 1.1.2 can be released soon (with as few bugs as possible). Thank you.

This is FULLY featured. I've begun setting up shop and so far I'm not sure what else I could possibly want. This program looks like it could almost be used as a makeshift in-store POS if you needed to. I guess that's the idea though. I think I actually like the capabilities of this better than I do of the POS I use in my physical storefront. Spot-on on everything. Even allows a catalog mode if you're not quite ready to open up your store but want to display your inventory. I am currently implementing that feature, then once we're ready to sell online we'll be ready to go with the flip of a switch.
Primo!

Virtuemart 1.1 rulez! I use it on several websites. Superb that it is for free! the only thing that would make it perfect is an invoice manager, but it makes a small difference ;-)