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I was looking into an e-Commerce project, of cause using Joomla!

So I started by downloading many of the Shopping Cart extension's at http://extensions.joomla.org/

After much playing I decided on "Tienda". Although in the early stages of development this is a very complete and professional extension.

The team at Dioscouri has really done their homework before starting this development, but the truly inspiring fact is how active they are in listening to the Joomla community and attending Joomla community events all over the world ... taking feedback onboard in the active development of "Tienda".

It is for this reason that I am sure we will see this extension in the "Editors' Picks" section very soon.

Thanks again to the team at Dioscouri.

I look forward to also looking into your other extension's now I know the quality of your work!!

It seems that it has always been hard to integrate a easy and capable store into Joomla! Now Tienda is here and things work as they should. It installs simply and configuration is a breeze. I highly recommend subscribing for support. The team at dioscouri is fantastic and they are really listening. I had a few suggestions and within days they were integrated into the next release.

Excellent Component! Download it now!

Great e-commerce option for Joomla, extremely easy to install just one zip file, and very easy to configure, perfect if being used for a clients website.

I can only echo previous threads that it is still in development but that said, very much usable in its current state, and the team are very open to feature requests, i would encourage anyone wanting a simple to install, easy to use e-commerce system to get on board with this product and join the community.

Well done Tienda Team, great work!!

Still in its early phases, Tienda is revolutionizing the way we will use E-commerce on our Joomla sites.

Joomla was meant to make web development easy and integrative, and Tienda carries this theme with their intuitive and easy to setup interface.

It still lacks some of the necessary features for a full blown e-commerce system, but new updates seem to be coming weekly.

I would recommend this to anyone looking to get an e-commerce site up and running quickly and efficiently.

I just wanted to take a moment to say how nice the Beta is. I have been testing it and am impressed so far. For all those that have been working/helping with this project - good job!

This shows a lot of promise as a cart system and I look forward to seeing how it develops to do things differently from VIRTUEMART, which by the way IS NOT ABANDONED and WILL WORK in Joomla 1.6, contrary to what Meloman says. It is now being updated and rewritten in MVC. Tienda is a welcome player to the field. There needs to be new thinkers and options. This is a great new entry worth looking at.

So far Tienda is impressive though not ready for my usage since it lacks certain basics which I hope will eventually be included. Note that I have not read the project forums so maybe all these are planned:

No way to set default country, region, state or city
- This necessary for those who wish to run a local, regional or national store and not have their customers wade through a long list of countries, states cities. Even after deleting the list of countries, I still had to select country.

File download system is not practical.
- This only has an upload method of attaching download-able files which poses a problem for users on 2MB upload restricted shared hosting. Needs to show the path to a folder with files uploaded via FTP (Sorta like VM does)

No way to set item to free.
- Keep asking to select payment method though price is 0.00

No single page checkout
- At a time when many online stores have modified to include single page checkout option, Tienda needs to include this a a basic core. It is a fact that 4 page checkout causes cart abandonment.

Archaic attribute system
- The pricing per attribute is either add or subtract to listed price and nothing to equal to exact price so it forces the buyer (just as it did back in 2000 with osc and many griped and sought 'fixes') to calculate all the differences in price. We don't want our buyer to think. Just see exactly what it costs. So if the price is $5.61 and the attribute for large is +1.72 then the buyer can't be bothered and leaves. No cart does this anymore.

No Website Payment Pro (Paypal)
- This is quite popular now and should be in the core as a payment option.

No categories module.
- This I could not figure. A standard list of the cart categories does not exist! Must be a mistake or I just didn't get it. I tested everything included but none displayed the cats in a module position.

No way to disable popup cart screen
- The AJAX popup window can be confusing for senior shoppers who are just used to how Yahoo, Amazon and other top online carts behave and new fandangles get them lost, confused and upset. This should be optional.

If address zip code is left out during guest checkout, the error message still shows 'BILLING ADDRESS ERROR :: City Required' A user needs to know what exactly the error is.

No way to set phone number or other fields to required.
- Would be nice for a shop owner to determine what fields they want to be required and also insert like an 'age' field to deter minors and cover your butt when your items are not for them.

When using SEF the modules assigned to the cart's menu item do not display when buyer is logged in. Don't know why.

The mod_tienda_cart (cart contents) module displays even though 'no' is selected for 'Always display module' I expected it to be hidden until an item was added.

These features may very well be on the list for inclusion so... just an FYI

Great! Promising!

Hopefully this extension can replace Virtuemart.

Tienda is not finished yet and not ready for production use yet but it's very promising. I tested both VirtueMart and Tienda for a project I'm working on and I will wait for Tienda to be ready. There's a lot of great features, it's easier to manage your inventory than in VirtueMart and it's coded using MVC method so it will work with Joomla 1.6. Unfortunately VirtueMart is abandoned and will not work in Joomla 1.6. So Tienda is the future. Not only because it's the only real alternative, but because it's very well made!

So far, pretty amazing. I have only found one problem: If an anonymous user tries to add to cart, it takes them to blank cart and does not provide any warning that they need to be logged in to order. Not sure if I am doing anything wrong.

I do believe, This Component will change the way that Joomla deal with e-commerce for ever. I read about the enterprise version too and been in contact with the developer-team. What coming is pure magic. I hope to see this component as soon as possible.

I have used ecommerce systems extensively in and out of joomla. I liked this one even though being an 'alpha' there are definately areas not finished but, it comes together well on the page and is easy to install and operate.

I think it might change a bit between now and the beta and it seems reasonably stable and although not recommended for commercial use yet I hope it is not long before the beta is released.

The Support is excellent and I like the product enough to suggest I might actually buy the commercial product when its finished [although I think the community one is VERY good enough for most joomla fans].

nice extensions...
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so far im giving it an excellent rating for the community version
i tested it out very briefly on my site lastnight

(As well as your HIDER plugin)

and it seems like its really going to work perfectly for me.
Ill be setting up a pretty extensive show with it so i guess ill have a pretty good testing going on.

If theres any way i can help test it on a hosted site please let me know.
i dont want to leave my website link and plug myself here so if you want
you can go directly to the joomla forums and get me there

username is antifmradio

or
check your user database because i recently registered on your site with username LIQID

Wow. This was a much simpler extension to use than some of the other e-Commerce extensions. I'm by far the most impressed with Tienda for its ability to combine simplicity with a very usable, but not too limited, interface. Thanks for the great functionality!. It will work great with the online store I am creating.

***Please note that at the time of writing, Tienda is still in alpha stage -- that means DO NOT install it on live site***

Installation was a breeze -- The component backend and quick testing setup is pretty intuitively easy.

Then I went and saw the frontend of it -- I am blown away by its flawless integration with com_user (which I really appreciated, since not all of us use 3rd community extensions).

With that being said, I still think I have not uncovered Tienda true potential. I have yet to try real transaction on it from frontend, plus its on my localhost, I have not utilize the whole dashboard stats in real time.

Few glitches here and there, but that is what part of being Alpha is all about. From the looks of it, I hope the Enterprise Edition will introduces those killer features smoothly, just as much as this Community does!

Worth a try!