HikaShop 
Version
2.1.3 (last update on May 14, 2013)
Rating
Compatibility
Reviews
166
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Date Added
6 October 2010
Uses Updater?
- Yes
HikaShop also has a wide range of marketing tools, but also powerful statistics displayable on your HikaShop dashboard to help you manage your store.
It provides advanced taxes, zones, languages and currencies management for worldwide sales as well as advanced customization capabilities of your online shop in order to meet your website ecommerce needs.
+Highly customizable checkout process (workflow as well as layouts)
+Checkout steps reduced as much as possible to increase transformation
+Multiple currencies, with auto conversion based on currencies rates
+Product prices manageable in several currencies with quantity rebates
+Powerful dashboard
+Coupons and discounts
+User address custom fields
+Advanced tax management with multiple taxes supported
+Payment and shipping plugins
+More than 40 payment plugins to handle online credit card payments including:
Paypal Standard and PayPal Pro, Google Checkout, Authorize.net with AIM, SIM and DPM, Moneybookers, Bluepaid, EPay, SagePay, Payment Express, AlertPay, eWAY, SIPS ATOS, CM-CIC, HSBC CPI, iVeri, PayJunction, ServiRed, Innovative Gateay Intuit, CardSave, RBS Business and Global Gateway, AliPay, MIGS (for Bendigo, Commweb and ANZ egate), OKPay, VirtualMerchant, iPayDNA, PostFinance, Ogone, Amazon FPS, CECA, eSelect/Moneris etc
+Credit card plugin to collect credit card information for offline processing
+Australia Post, Canada Post, UPS, FedEx shipping plugins
+Shipping per weight/volume/zone/post code/product
+Events triggering plugins enabling you to extend easily HikaShop using standard joomla plugins without any hack
+Views customization override interface (Joomla MVC)
+Handle downloadable goods (with possible restrictions) as well as shippable goods
+Products and categories display module with a wide range of options
+Orders invoice, history and edition
+Integration with jComments and jomComment for products comments
+Integration with Community Builder and JomSocial for orders listing in user's own profile
+Integration with XMAP for site map
+Integration with Joomla's breadcrumb module
+Integration with sh404SEF and Joomla's SEF system
+Translation interface to easily translate HikaShop in your language and share it with the community
+Import/Export products/categories information and export of orders
+Integrated Documentation
+Administrator/User email notifications
+Dashboard statistics widgets
+Multilingual support compatible with JoomFish and Falang
+HikaShop is available in more than 20 languages
+A ReCaptcha integration plugin which enables you to display the recaptcha on your registration forms
+Possibility to force SSL on the checkout
+Integrated with joomla's breadcrumb
+Optimized for SEO ( metadata, microformat, page title ... )
+Catalogue mode
+RSS support for products
+Social networks support: twitter , facebook, google
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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.
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.
Owner's reply
Thank you for your review,
You should have contacted us or asked on our forum for help. We could have helped you understand what was wrong.
Regarding the $ sign missing, the problem is that you have another extension which tries to replace ${text} to something else on your website. And since your prices start with $, this happens. It is not a problem in HikaShop.
One simple solution is to edit your currency via the menu System->Currencies and just turn on the option "Symbol and positive value space separation" which will add a space between the $ and the price, avoiding that problem.
Indeed, some inline styling is added by HikaShop. As you can see in the interface, you have lots of display options for you to configure HikaShop without having to resort to CSS for simple tasks like the background color. Since these options will be changed by the user, they are added with inline styling. But you can always override them with the !important feature of CSS should you not want to use the options provided.
Making a category listing module in two levels can by done quite easily with the options available in HikaShop. In fact, if you look at our demo website, we have one configured on the left area. You could have taken example on its options in order to configure yours on the same way.
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.
It is a very competent product that is highly recommended.
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
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!
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 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.
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
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
Recent convert to Joomla from Drupal, I was dreading the idea of having to find a new e-commerce package to use. So glad I came across Hikashop early on! I initially tried the Starter Edition and was pleased by the number of options and features available in the no-pay version. It is quite possible to run a robust, functional and professional storefront using the non-commercial version of this product. The documentation is a little light and not always as thorough as I might like, so I have relied on the author's support forum quite a bit during initial configuration. Without exception I have been impressed with the level of support and professionalism there. Any time I have posed a question on the forum, even when using the Starter edition (I have since upgraded to Business), my queries have been answered quickly and completely.
HikaShop offers a stunning aray of configuration options and abilities, but still manages to run and look great out of the box with the default settings. All essential core functions (inventory control, shopping cart, payment gateways, shipping integration, social interaction, etc) are present in the Starter Edition. If you require extremely fine-grained control over appearance and added functionality like integration with Google Analytics, robust Affiliate support, and many others, you can upgrade to one of the two, reasonably priced paid editions. After seeing the potential of the product and experiencing great support, I had no problem paying the small asking price for the Business Edition of this product. I know that by choosing HikaShop I'm going to save myself a great deal of time and frustration, and will be able to focus on running my business instead of worrying about my website.
All in all this is a strong package with great support. It appears as though the author is committed to continuing development on the product and seems quite receptive to requests and suggestions. If you're looking for a full-featured e-commerce solution backed by great support, give HikaShop a long look!
HikaShop offers a stunning aray of configuration options and abilities, but still manages to run and look great out of the box with the default settings. All essential core functions (inventory control, shopping cart, payment gateways, shipping integration, social interaction, etc) are present in the Starter Edition. If you require extremely fine-grained control over appearance and added functionality like integration with Google Analytics, robust Affiliate support, and many others, you can upgrade to one of the two, reasonably priced paid editions. After seeing the potential of the product and experiencing great support, I had no problem paying the small asking price for the Business Edition of this product. I know that by choosing HikaShop I'm going to save myself a great deal of time and frustration, and will be able to focus on running my business instead of worrying about my website.
All in all this is a strong package with great support. It appears as though the author is committed to continuing development on the product and seems quite receptive to requests and suggestions. If you're looking for a full-featured e-commerce solution backed by great support, give HikaShop a long look!
I was gracefully surprised after I have tested...This is tons better that Virtuemart...starting that the new version of Virtuemart does not support download items, the payment plugins are complicated to setup..etc etc....excellent work, I have downloaded the essentials for free and I am really thinking to buy the business and migrate all my websites to use this component.
Thanks for great component.
Thanks for great component.
I have worked with all shopping cart extensions for joomla and have been really impressed with HikaShop. The extension works out of the box which cannot be said for alot of the other shopping carts. If you need to customize it, Hikashop makes it really easy to do language overrides in the configuration and for other small customizations or tips there is excellent support on the forum. But you will be pleasantly surprised how flexible and feature packed the extension already is.
I wholeheartedly recommend this extension!
I wholeheartedly recommend this extension!
It seems good and simple but it doesn't seem to work with SEF urls, I tried on both joomla 1.7 and 2.5.
If you make a category menu (listing of categories as a menu), it works only if SEF urls are turned off, otherwise it gives a 404 error.
I posted on the forum multiple times but the maker keeps ignoring my posts so I can't say good thinks about support either.
If you make a category menu (listing of categories as a menu), it works only if SEF urls are turned off, otherwise it gives a 404 error.
I posted on the forum multiple times but the maker keeps ignoring my posts so I can't say good thinks about support either.
Owner's reply
We actually replied to you on our forum today. Please understand that during the week end, the support is slower than during the rest of the week.
HikaShop works with SEF. It's just a matter of having the modules and menus setup properly.
Hikahop is really a great and powerful shop system, but I use(d) Hikashop for my own little fleamarket on my private website. Since shortly, buyers MUST register to checkout while before it was possible that a buyer can order something without registering. The option to select if a user must register or not was moved into the payware version. I don't want tons of registered users to my website because it's just a private website and I chose Hikashop because with it I could put up my fleamarket really easily.
Because of this change, Hikashop became essentially useless to me which means, I have to deinstall it and install some other shop system and put all the stuff in again as I am not willing to spend over 100€ just to sell a few things that I don't need any more.
Bottom line: Great system but be prepared that the developer might suddenly move essential features to the paid version.
Because of this change, Hikashop became essentially useless to me which means, I have to deinstall it and install some other shop system and put all the stuff in again as I am not willing to spend over 100€ just to sell a few things that I don't need any more.
Bottom line: Great system but be prepared that the developer might suddenly move essential features to the paid version.
Owner's reply
Hi,
The guest checkout option has always been in the Essential edition of HikaShop since day one. And it doesn't cost over 100 euros but 49.95 euros.
It's a shame that you had to redo all your website on a misunderstanding.
This is however clearly stated on our website.
After trying 2 carts extensively, I finally came across HikaShop... After 2 minutes of configuring I made HikaShop the choice for me. By far the BEST! If simplicity is what your working for, then, download and try. Only thing was missing for me was the Shipping module (usps) which I found very easily. Great Cart, Thanks to all those who help develop, am sure there are many.
After having spent days trying to get the new VirtueMart 2 to work without result, and not receiving any decent support to speak of, I decided to ditch VM and look for an alternative.
HikaShop was recommended by someone on the VM forum (who was also having problems getting VM to work) and so I decided to give it a try. Within 1 hour after downloading it I had a basic functioning webshop! It just works. After the gruesome fiddling with countless parameters in VM, setting up HikaShop was a breeze.
It's simple to setup, yet still offers a LOT of options and functionality for more advanced users. And for users who really want to take full advantage of some powerful features, there are the commercial versions that are very reasonably priced. Plus, any questions I posted on the forum were answered within hours, which is more than I can say of the VM forum.
I'm sticking with HikaShop, and upgrading to the Business version soon.
HikaShop was recommended by someone on the VM forum (who was also having problems getting VM to work) and so I decided to give it a try. Within 1 hour after downloading it I had a basic functioning webshop! It just works. After the gruesome fiddling with countless parameters in VM, setting up HikaShop was a breeze.
It's simple to setup, yet still offers a LOT of options and functionality for more advanced users. And for users who really want to take full advantage of some powerful features, there are the commercial versions that are very reasonably priced. Plus, any questions I posted on the forum were answered within hours, which is more than I can say of the VM forum.
I'm sticking with HikaShop, and upgrading to the Business version soon.
I'm frustrated.I have a single item in a store in a clients site and 2 days ago when I tested it, everything was working fine. All the way through checkout, no issues. Took me the payment page where they could enter their card info. No problems whatsoever.
I have my client look at it even, and no problems. They are happy. So happy in fact that I have convinced them to go to the paid version. Now, after having done NOTHING to the site or the store I come back to the front end to check it again and it isn't working. It gets to the checkout page where at the top it says Billing Address and underneath that a button that says "new" (This was never there before)and under that it says payment method.
I try to go to the forum and find an answer or post my problem and nothing. The forum, the site, everything is down. So I'm basically at a loss here with a pissed off client that needs this up and no way to fix the issue.
Which means I am going to have to install yet another e-commerce component and pray that IT works... May possibly lose a good client over this one but oh well, I shouldn't complain should I?? Scrap that...I'm complaining.
I have my client look at it even, and no problems. They are happy. So happy in fact that I have convinced them to go to the paid version. Now, after having done NOTHING to the site or the store I come back to the front end to check it again and it isn't working. It gets to the checkout page where at the top it says Billing Address and underneath that a button that says "new" (This was never there before)and under that it says payment method.
I try to go to the forum and find an answer or post my problem and nothing. The forum, the site, everything is down. So I'm basically at a loss here with a pissed off client that needs this up and no way to fix the issue.
Which means I am going to have to install yet another e-commerce component and pray that IT works... May possibly lose a good client over this one but oh well, I shouldn't complain should I?? Scrap that...I'm complaining.
Owner's reply
Hi,
I'm sorry you got a bad experience. You went to our website at a wrong time as we had a downtime last week. Since then, our website if of course up and running.
Your problem is actually not a problem. It's just that you went to the checkout with a user already logged in who didn't had yet an address entered, thus the "new" button in order to create a new address. Also, you should have seen a notification message telling you to fill your address. But some templates do not include the jdoc include block for message display so that's probably why you got confused.
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