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I have been a subscriber to Joomla XTC for years and they make amazing extensions so I really cannot understand why this extension has been released by them!? it simply does not work upon initial install. There is very little in the way of documentation. I did not have time to wait for support tickets so had to find an alternative.

There is no working demo of it which is worrying also as there is simply no reference to a working version of this module anywhere:( what's the point of it at all!?

I really don’t understand why it exists at all in it’s present form. Really disappointed by a company that have such good work released.

well it works, but it sends you to another website to download the pdf! doesn't look very professional on a clients site and as stated before is more of a marketing tool for themselves than a useful joomla plugin! pity!

As with the other review, I feel my $60 is lost, this is one of the worst Joomla extensions I have used out of many, many hundreds!

You cannot edit, delete or in anyway alter a Combi product once you make one, except through the database which is crazy!

The support reply ok but I was only told the component is working - go and check it!!

This is along way away from being anywhere near ready for use on a live site - I could have got 2-3 great extensions of that 60 bucks;(

This is simply an amazing Component and makes transferring development sites to their proper servers a dream, it's amazingly fast, intuitive, well explained and just does what it says it gonna do without any hassle. Greta job from the development team!!!

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Works perfectly, installs perfectly, verifies perfectly, top marks.

WHile Virtumart is without doubt one of if not the greatest Joomla component in my opinion but menu navigation is where it has a serious issues and most menus sytems out there are awful to work with or customise. This menu is absolutely amazing, it works straight away after installation, styling the CSS file is very very easy, i found a bug in explorer and reported it to Roland - he had a fix mailed back to me within a few hours which solved it instantly. Top notch support and a lovely looking component too.

I bought this component based ont he large amount of great reviews it received and true the support is really swift which is refreshing. The component itself installs no problem, themes are a doddle to format and alter with simple CSS and no weird hard coding going on which is also nice. I needed the paypal plugin which without a doubt is where it seriously falters. the paypal plugin is really only half baked at this point and has a lon way to go before being thought of as a must have Joomla extension.
Good Points:

Installation is a breeze
Component is really solid and not buggy
Support is really top notch
Looks good front-end
Very easy to change the look of the templates

Bad Points:


You have little or no control over how events are displayed
You can't set recurring payments
You can't buy tickets to multiple events - you have to go through the paypal process for each individual ticket
Ticket management is not very user friendly and bit Goinky to be honest

Overall it's ok, it's not amazing, it needs a lot of work and is definitely the poorest of the RSJoomla products i've tried.

This component is quite frustrating but seems to be the only petition solution for Joomla - it's almost so good and then gets lazy! There are good points though.

It does install easily and without any hassle but the work involved in translating the simplest things are staggering, why are so many things hard coded into it??? I literally had to tear it to pieces and change what was needed and the hard coded areas are spread over several files - really silly and a little self absorbed I think. Joomla is based on sharing and communicating and helping the whole community use it functions and power but this is almost taking the p##s out of that. It's a kind of half finished, take it or leave it affair done in French (I have nothing against the French or their language) but it greatly decreases the uses for this module and creates HOURS of work to get it ship shape.

I had a lot of hassle getting the Captcha to work and then it came on suddenly and then went off again when the site was transferred to the live server.

The export doesn't function correctly and the PDF export is only available on the pro version which doesn't seem to even exist (I searched high and low without result). I contacted the developer and there was no reply.


If you want to use this - it does work! But be prepared for a huge amount of work to customise it and be prepared not have full functionality. If you know nothing about programming, PHP or generally messing with component files - forget about it.

I have done a lot of work on the files and most parts are changed into English. I left out the country field (otherwise I would have had to translate 257 countries and their short code) and changed one of the other fields to use as country as an optional fill in. In any respect in the admin there isn't a function to display country or not!! Lots of weird decisions made on this one.

I have all the files I altered, which I will email to anyone who wants an English version, it is however customised pretty heavily to suit the needs of the site I used it for but gives a pretty good petition component now.

Where to start - this is without doubt one of the best extensions I have used and I have uaed hundreds of Joomal extensions!, Installs without any trouble, works without error, loads of functions, loads of admin functions laid out in a very intuitive manner.

It's amazingly refereshing to find a programmer who undertsnads that the front end product needs to actually look pretty as well as function well!

I checked out the site for a few support questions and they were all answered in a really professional and polite manner already on the forum there.

Top marks to all involved, you will never need another forum extension after you try this:)