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Thank you for creating such an amazing product! I re-developed a small e commerce site, used Miva in the past and it does not even come close to the functionality of Virtumart. Easy to install and configure, worked flawlessly with Authorize.net.

Thank you!
Stephan

I have been managing Joomla sites for about 3 years now. I am currently running 4 of them. One of them is a Salmon Derby Site for a non-profit. We wanted to be able to sell derby tickets and apparel. I know its not much but I understood the complete system in 30 min. and in 2 hours I had my on-line store complete. I didn't even understand what I needed to provide to our customers. This is so intuitive and complete that I can offer much better service than I had even considered.

I expected this to be much more difficult than it was. I consider myself an amateur with extensions and definitely didn't know what I was doing with e-commerce. It installed quickly without any problems, set it up for Paypal, then spent an hour or two customizing the look and loading images of my product. Very excited to make first sale!

VirtueMart is the best. A lot of plugins, flexible, easy to use and support a lots of payment processors.

I don't think there is any other Open Source ecommerce solution that better than Virtuemart at this moment. I've tried OSCommerce, Zen Cart and XT commerce but end up with Virtuemart due to its integration with Joomla. Better security than OScommerce despite its lack of design templates. Hope in the next version even better with more features. Thank you for feeding my small kids. Keep up the good work.

It took sometime for me before eventually got version 1.08 works. Excellent work! Now I got to know v1.0.10 definitely will check it soon. Thanks VM! Will definitely donate when I get the cash inflow from it :-)

VirtueMart Shopping cart is easy to install configure and add product items to. The developers have done a great job, with this very user friendly shopping cart the admin tools are simple and straight forward.

I really love this cart. I set it up quickly and and does everything except there is no affiliate system. i really need that. I've tried to search in the support forums for the cart and have asked whether or not there is an intention to do an affiliate program but have received no response. So, I'll be switching to a commercial cart. Unfortunately...

I tried VirtueMart a few months ago but found the template layout frustrating so I gave up on it.
However, just yesterday i noticed that VirtueMart had upgraded so thought i'd give it another go and it has improved heaps. I've been trying to find a decent Joomla shopping cart for at least 6 months now and nothing really worked - I even bought a competitors component (ECJC) which was OK at first but that's also frustrating now. VirtueMart seems to be the best option for me at the moment. It also makes it easy to connect to payment gateways which for someone like me is a god send!

Well done on the much needed improvements - thanks for sharing this with us mere mortals. keep up the good work.

Ok, I admit it, I am a complete newbie. In fact, I am not a dev or programmer--I am just a middle aged lady who wanted to sell my art and create an online community. Joomla and CB (more fantastic people and products!) solved the last two wishes, but I can only say WOW to VirtueMart for sharing such a SUPER extension! It was incredibly easy to install, fantastic documentation on the website for the minor issues I have experienced and best of all, it works perfectly with my Paypal account. If this little-old-lady can figure it out, it really IS a dream product! Thank YOU!

I must say, VM goes above and beyond competing projects.

Support is remarkable, as the community is a bustling and thriving smorgasbord of users and developers, all of them ready and willing to offer their support.

Customization of this component is easy, but you'll need a working knowledge of basic PHP functions.

All in all, if you need an e-commerce solution to integrate into your Joomla! installation, this is it. If you're using Joomla!, use this project: don't try to integrate anything, as they won't work as seamlessly as this one.

It's a GREAT start on an excellent shopping cart, but it requires too much work to get it running in a seamless fashion.

The templates don't work well (new templates don't work and even when you customize the default templates there aren't enough options to make it worth doing. You have to re-code the back end to provide enough flexibility!)

Tax and shipping configurations are buggy and confusing. I STILL haven't figured them out yet.

The overall code complexity is higher than it needs to be which makes for difficult customization (which is required to get it running, they say so right on their website).

It's a noble effort, and one that I hope succeeds, but they need some seasoned developer help.

After 40 hours of development time on my end... I'm giving it 2 stars, grudgingly.

Since the last upgrade, the virtuemart shop convinced me that this really is the shopping cart solution to use.

Use it for a while now and it is stable, and easy to handle.
Offcourse it is still a wok in progress and always can be improved,.. but what isn't?

For downloads only, or for products which needs to be shipped, this shop is a great solution. It's easy to handle and needs almost no explanation for the shop holder.

For multi lingual and/or international shops... I don't know if this is what you should use. But as long as you use 1 language and a differsity of shipping- and payingmethods, this does the job.
It can't be compared to OSCommerce, yet, since it's much younger, and new features regularly come out. And Virtuemart has an integrated CMS solution which OSCommerce can't offer, the strength of Joomla!

At the end the best plus for me and most joomla users is the seamless integration with our favorite CMS.

I'm using this product for my site. Definitely fits the bill, however the main problem is support. There's virtually none. Looking on the virtuemart support forum, there's literally hundreds of unanswered problems. Seems the dev team isn't so sure of the inner-workings of this product either.

If you need support for the hundreds of questions you'll have, then this is NOT the product for you.

I had to move an existing shopping cart to a new solution in Joomla. This one worked great - much better than the old one as this also works well with OpenSEF.

Fantastic, hats off to the developers!
This is a fully featured professional-standard ecommerce solution IMHO.
Only thing I had trouble getting my head around is the taxes, virtual tax, displaying and discounting tax, but if you read hte forums there are work-arounds and explanations.
the installation manual is probably the best I have ever read - SO clear and easy to follow - you won't have any problems installing VM if you follow the simple instructions - they don't assume any particularly technical knowledge.
Creating products and building the shop was a pleasure, and the range of modules which are included is fantastic, although the modules' layouts are pretty tacky-looking. I WISH this component relied more on CSS rather than the inline styling - we should be able to easily choose product title font sizes etc.
It is also not clear how to test the whole system from the outset - example dummy data would be helpful, and somewhere to point and test the payment methods would be appreciated. I for one have no ide how we are supposed to use the PayPal IPN testing page :S
I am generally VERY IMPRESSED and I look forward to this just getting better and better! My clients are going to LOVE it!

I'm looking to create an online catalog, and this definitely does the job. The company I'm doing it for sells products whose prices are negotiated, and unfortunately there is no way to simply turn the shopping cart into a simple list that can be emailed for a price quote. In the demo, there's an "email this vendor for more information" link on some products, but that feature does not appear to be in the downloadable version (?) nor does it snag the product name and force it in the email header. Please keep going with this component!

I have this running on 4 production sites right now. Though some of it's set-ups are a tad quirky, and there are at times "too many options", it's an excellent tool to sell anything, and the PayPal integration is seamless and top-notch. If you want to sell anything, set yourself up a PayPal account, and play around with this thing to fit your needs, and your off.

sadly, I have to agree with pixiepie (whose analysis was perfect). This extension had SUCH potential, but when I went to look for answers to my questions about integrating authorize.net with virtuemart all I found were people with the same questions. Whatever responses there were on the site were cryptic at best. I would be willing to pay for a joomla based e-commerce system if that's what it would take for full support. It doesn't seem like I've found my joomla e-commerce solution yet. I think that the day that a full and polished solution arrives is the day that Joomla truly catches on. Joomla NEEDs a good e-commerce extension.

I've slowly been starting to sell stuff on my site. Virtual mart is a great way to handle it for me. The only things I would tweak are...
1. Allow me to tweak the modules for left, center, right alignment in the admin side. (Still don't know how to do this, the code doesn't like being edited at all)
2. Tweaking the tax thing for US users better. I like that it calculates sales tax, but it's a bit hard for beginners like me.