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I had wasted several days of my time trying to get 2 of the other Joomla shopping carts working without any luck. Unfortunately, one of them was even a paid component w/ no refund. I needed something that worked straight out of the box & this program did the trick. PLUS it had everything I needed for my shopping cart! THANK YOU!!!!!

The component is really powerful and still quite intuitive. However, I needed to make a few adjustments to code, so I searched the Hikashop forum first, just to give it a try before spending hours on figuring out things. I found out, that the support from developer is stunning. People who asked questions of my interest got answered fast, their issues were solved in couple of hours. I spend just a few minutes searching and pasting code form existing threads.
I would like to thank the developer, even if I didn't ask, for the best support.

A good shopping cart with the most user friendly administration of all cart extensions.
Only missing the big amount of add-ons like virtuemart.

I have been struggling with virtumart 2 for some time now. My clients need working solution which virtumart tried to deliver.
This solution sold me in 30 minutes. It is clear and logical to work with and that is rare.

I am very pleased HikaShop. In the past I used different software to create
ecommerce sites: Zencart, virtuemart, and most recently Magento.
HikaShop is quick and easy. You can really set it up and get going in
minutes. And most important: you can easily find any tool what you are
looking for.
Now I'm doing this ecommerce:
and I'm finding a lot better than with virtuemart 2.0
I think I've finally found the software for me. Magento is too complicated
and slow performance, Zencart is too old and Virtuemart 2.0 has become
unintuitive.

Congratulations! been doing a great job! I think I will soon buy the paid
version.

Creating my first ecommerce site using Hikashop has been a pleasure. The layout of Hikashop is logical and methodical, making the system easy to understand and navigate.
It's a feature rich system that can really be configured to your needs. It's possible to achieve even greater customization through modification of the language file and php views if you're prepared to delve deeper into the system.
An added bonus would be the ability to export buyers' addresses for direct import into the Australia Post "click and send" online parcel service. Perhaps this will be a feature in the future.
Overall, Hikashop is an excellent system worth 5 stars. Top notch support too.

I really wanted to work with Virtuemart because I like the idea of a free open source project. But I think I was at the wrong time for trying, both in november 2011 and january 2012 I found the extension full of bugs.
Since I needed a reliable e-commerce extension with good support, that made me look to others. I tried Hikashop for a month. Though I do think the documentation is not always very clear if you are not a programmer and I also think the interface can be more userfriendly, I found the possibilities of this extension very good and the support reliable and fast.
I now feel secure using this extension and trust that the developer is continuing the good work he has already done. So I say my money was well spent,
Damiaan

I did some research on hikashop, after looking into many other carts. I installed on joomla 2.5.2 and it took me some time to get comfortable working with it. It's not complicated but I'm not an expert in eCommerce. However after getting to know how it works its the easiest module you can ever imagine. Add to that they have great documentation where you can find most if not all the answers you need. Also I had an issue with FedEx plugin which is not developed by Hika, however Hika support went the extra mile to help me on that problem which have nothing to do with their module. The least I can say is that Hikshop is great, and the support team is amazing, they take ownership of their issues and their response is almost immediate. Especially Nicolas he's amazing. I would definitely recommend HikaShop and I will give it FIVE *****. Keep up the good work.

I tried to install HikaShop 1.5.6 on Joomla 2.5.2 last Monday. Then I tried to make my product categories (and sub-categories) on the left column. There are 3 choices to select: No child, All direct sub-categories and All sub-categories. I tried one-by-one but none of the 3 choices gave what I want.

The first choice shows all categories and sub-categories as top-level (wrong ul li structure). The second choice shows only the sub-level categories (no top-level categories are shown). The third choice gave the same like the second choice except all in one line/row.

Even worse and confusing, every time I tried to select either one of the 3 choices, the module automatically created a new module named "Associated products listing for category listing menu". The same thing happened when I tried to create Manufacturer module, Best Sales module, Featured Product module, etc .So, under my Module Manager I have like more than 30 those long-name modules. I have no idea what they are used for. It only makes my Module Manager looks ugly.

Another problem, when I accessed from front-end, then looked at the HTML Source Code (View - Source if you are using IE), I saw a lot of inline stylings. These make me pulling my hair when I tried to customize the stylings. Because every time I customize the CSS on my default template.css, it got overriden by those inline stylings.

Another problem, when I put the module in an article using loadposition, the dollar sign and the non-decimal digits are missing leaving only the decimal digits on the product price. My time is already squeezed and can't do anymore trials and errors.

Excellent support but only needed if you have very specific wishes.
Superb forum, I haven'd seen a Q unanswered.
Free version has all options to run a webshop. This is great and gives freedom to buy commercial version once the webshop generates money.

After waiting a long time for VM to work with J17 & J25 I got really disappointed on VM. Looked for an alternative and found Hikashop. Well thought through in a solid extension. Support is great, it has an integrated HTML-override function that works great for customization.

It is a very competent product that is highly recommended.

HikaShop is a comprehensive, highly customizable shopping catalog, cart and payment gateway system that looks great straight out of the box. They also have the best customer service.

After getting mad with VM's new version I decided to test this e-commerce solution.

I must say all the positive reviews here are well deserved.

Installation went smooth, the component is really easy but with a lot of features.

Don't worry thinking is not as popular as VM or that it doesn't have so many modules and extensions cause the team is constantly developing new features.

The support is excellent and this means that they guys in the team even answer on a sunday or during the weekend and most questions are answered in few hours.

There's an extensive documentation on their webpage too covering all the areas.

The component still has some work to do specially in their shipping methods, quite limited right now but as their component becomes more and more popular have no doubt Hikashop is the present and future of e-commerce in Joomla.

Manuxx

Me ha encantado este componente de ecommerce. Buen trabajo

I have been using Virtuemart since my last site but while I search for a better one, I had a chance to check this extension which really impressed me a lot. Good effort!!! Keep up the work...

This extension has practically blown my mind!

I've been searching for "the" e-commerce extension for a while, and I've tried all the major "players" (with an idea that e-commerce just has to be "hard and for hard-core developers only"), prior to stumbling on Hikashop.

It INSTALLS in a snap. It WORKS! and it works circles around other extensions, in my opinion.

It's very easy to set up all the various aspects (shipping, payment, etc.) compared to what I've had to deal with elsewhere.

Now the best yet, is SUPPORT. These guys are not kidding - top-notch support, going into DETAIL in answering my questions, and FAST! I'm still in amazement from having looked at my email this morning to find all my questions fully answered, and with a smile :)

I highly recommend this shopping cart to anyone that is after quality, speed and no headaches :)

Thank you, Hikari Software Team!

Hikari in Japanese means the brilliance or the light. Hikashop - means the light for all online shops.

I am using hikashop about 4 months. Before I tried to use redshop and virtuemart. Also I tried tienda but it don't work on joomla 1.7 and 2.5.

First of all - I don't know when support of the hikashop is sleep. He will answer on all your questions in 3-4 hours! Every day!

Second is that this extension will work on all Joomla configuration. No special requirements! Great!

Third, you can tune all what you need! hikashop will work just as you expected!

Russian community active and you can talk Russian language on the forum!

International support is great!

I have bought Business version because I want that hikashop evaluate more!

I have tried many different Joomla shopping cart extensions but for my purposes they have not delivered a satisfactory solution. After 45mins of playing with the Starter Edition I purchased Essentials. Simple but with all the functionality and clean, neat layouts... Thanks :-)

I've been using VirtueMart for a very long time but VirtueMart 2 has a lot of problems especially with child products and I've not been able to find any answers or receive adequate support so after all this time, reluctantly, I decided to look for an alternative and here it is in the form of HikaShop!

HikaShop is outstanding, it gives you everything you need and much more. I'm seriously thinking of upgrading to the 'Business' edition. It's that good.

Download or buy it and see how good it is for yourself.

Support is excellent too, can't rate it enough.

I changed from virtuemart to hikashop. From the first beginning I was surprised about the good, rich and easy functionality of the system. You are able to manage a lot of things and even if you are not in php you can orientate easily and change a lot of things for your own needs. Things which took me ages in virtuemart seem to function within a few clicks!
It took a bit to understand the thinking of the menuesystem but at least you can read the documentation or get support.

The support is more than brilliant, fast, competend and helpful! I´m realy happy that I ve changed and hope that the hikashop will get a lot of fans because it´s so good! Well done! Thank s a lot