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We have been using several e-commerce packages over the years. This varies from VM, Tienda, Joomshopping, Quickcart from Rockettheme and Aceshop to mention a few.

We fell in love with Mijoshop the moment we noticed it. Reason for this is that the applcation is basically the best of 2 worlds: Joomla-CMS combined with the excellent OpenCart e-Commerce software. This is very cleverly executed and it is a breath to get it up and running, thanks to the excellent documentation and very quick and good support.

Big disadvantage of similar packages that integrate OpenCart is that these are way behind the latest OpenCart 1.5.4.1 version and about a year old. Mijoshop is highly actual both in Joomla and in OpenCart.

Two month's ago Denis Dulici, decided for reasons as described on his blog to establish Mijosoft, together with his loyal and best people and wow what a great online presence he created with Mijosoft!.

We joined Mijoshop on his invitation and waited 3 weeks before we took the first steps to migrate a single site build on Aceshop (we took care!) to Mijoshop. This was actually a very simple exercise and easy to do....It took a maximum of 4 mouse clicks to migrate all of Aceshop to Mijoshop!

So next one on the plate was a migration from Tienda to Mijoshop......That went ok but with some hick-ups in the user synchronization, an issue which we experienced later with multiple VM-migrations as well. However the Team of Mijo responded remarkably on the issues we were facing and went both with the Tienda and VM-migrations at length to resolve these issues. We had major communications with Denis, Bilal and Gilbert but in the end it resulted in solutions and thanks to the very positive interaction and dedicated assists we managed to resolve all issues that arose from all these migrations. Their support is awesome is our experience.

The Mijoshop is already evolving into very nice stable releases. We are from version 1.0 now the moment I write this review on 1.2.1 which by our own experience are major enhancements. Tthe user sync issues we experienced initially have been very rapidly addressed as have been all other issues we encountered and all migrations run flawless now (done already multiple instances of VM/Tienda/Jomshopping/Ace/Rok Quickcart/Hika (1) and one from redShop)

The entire communication with the Mijosoft Team has been cordial and polite so far if via email or via Skype.

It is a pleasure to work with these professionals and we have no regrets whatsoever that we moved so many sites already from VM/Tienda/Joomshopping/etc to the excellent Mijoshop

Having used in the Joomla 1.0-times FacileForms as default form generator in our projects and own sites it was obvious that we tried out Breezingforms for Joomla 1.5 when it was released shortly after J 1.5 was delieverd to the community. We were though very disappointed since a lot of problems were present and bugs were not solved quickly etc. So we moved on to RSForms-Pro which we used for a certain amount of time with mixed feelings for instance the lack of multi-page functionality and non stable captcha at that time and the lack of actual available scripts to use in forms. Moving to bfForms (J1.5 successor of PaF) also did not bring what we expected/needed (missing multi-page and no content plugin) nor did Chronoforms for several reasons.
When Markus Bopp released Breezingforms 1.6 he contacted us, knowing we were not satisfied with the earlier releases so we downloaded and extensively tested BF 1.6 and were very happy that in combination with Jollom we had again our fabulous Form Generator back with even more functionality with user submitted forms and many more. Now BF 1.6.5 has been released (Trinity), despite being commercial, we are even more happy since the Team of Breezingforms surprised us with the fabulous 3-mode option (Quick/Easy/Conventional aka FacileForms) as well as Theme/Template options in the Suite. With little knowledge of CSS one is now able to create multi-page forms with any Theme of you liking. With the Quickmode function where you can make in minutes a full functional form without having knowledge of PHP and/or Javascript.
Breezingforms comes with an extensive library of Scripts and Pieces: PHP code is called a Piece, and Javascript code is called a Script. These predefined code sniplets help you very rapidly with validation, initiating submit and reset, email etc, etc. Very powerful!
What is also very helpful is the fact that it is distributed with a bundle of form-examples which makes it easy for one to understand the mechanism of BF and the scripting behind it in the engine.
Of course an excellent working Captcha is present and if wanted extra protection with Jollom (Mollom) can be added. Suite comes also with a module and a content plugin to load the forms in content articles.
Some video-tutorials are present but the product lacks indefinitely adequate documentation. That needs improvement, especially for end-users. Therefore 4 stars instead of 5. All in all an excellent and reliable product with perfect support!

Better late than never but we have a captcha option on the registration. It works both in Joomla 1.0.11 and 1.0.12 very well with 1.0.2. Note it does not work with earlier versions of CB but that is logical and no objection. Any person should update anyhow to 1.0.2.

pro: works in register & password & email
con: no refresh button/ no disability (announced next release)

still missing: Captcha on login module

with refresh and module captcha i would rate good. Add than disability you get excellent.

one hurdle taken though!

leolam