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Introduction

e-Commerce, Shopping Cart

[Attention, Version 4.4.10 is a security update. Ensure to update your installation. There is also an hotfix for older installations down to 3.6 https://dev.virtuemart.net/attachments/1395/HOTFIXcomvirtuemartpatchervm3.6_vm4.4.8.zip]
VirtueMart is a highly configurable and customizable multi-language shopping cart solution for Joomla 3, 4, 5 with a large number of additional extensions.

Please read our full list of features here:
http://virtuemart.net/features/all-features

Based on Joomla MVC framework with all its advantages:

  • Template overriding,
  • Implementation of Joomla Plugins for: payment, shipment, coupons, calculation rules, custom product fields, ...
  • Simple installation and integration of other joomla extensions.
  • Joomla ACL System, controll who edits or publish a product, or controll who is allowed to change the order status of an order, and so on.

CATEGORIES

  • nested categories
  • with meta tags for seo
  • with description and media

PRODUCTS

  • Product Bundles
  • with meta tags for seo
  • short and long description
  • dimensions (weight, size)
  • multiple media
  • multi-variants/attributes for products (variant-matrix)
  • unlimited child products and derivated levels
  • product pattern (Parent product used as pattern for child products)
  • related products
  • reviews and ratings
  • downloads

SHOPPERGROUPS

  • pricing depending by shoppergroups
  • price display depending by shoppergroups
  • payment/shipment depending by shoppergroups

SHOPPERS

  • customizable shopper input form
  • input form depended on registration, checkout or shipment
  • recaptcha
  • adressbook
  • default Bill-to and Ship-to address
  • default payment and shipment method

INVENTORY/STOCK

  • stocking/inventory
  • stock warning
  • virtual stock (ordered but not finally bought)

PRICES

  • various type of prices to display depended by shoppergroup
  • prices adjusted by shopper choosen currency
  • different currency format per currency
  • unit price
  • quantity based pricing

REAL MULTI CURRENCY

  • auto updating rates
  • add your own currencies for fixed currency rates
  • prices per currencies

SEF/SEO

  • default SEF/SEO integrated

DYNAMICAL CALCULATOR

  • discounts based on time, category, shoppergroup, country, and state
  • tax based on time, category, shoppergroup, country, and state
  • discounts, tax per product and/or order
  • discounts, tax have their own currencies (for duties)

PAYMENT/SHIPMENT

  • both are based on plugins
  • a very handy default plugin is already onboard
  • minimal amount / maximal amount to use
  • restricted by shopper groups
  • restricted by categories
  • restricted by blocking categories
  • restricted by countries
  • restricted by blocking countries
  • restricted by blocking shipment
  • restricted by coupons
  • plugins can add their own
  • plugins already onboard: PayPal Checkout, Sofort Banking and Sofort iDeal, Skrill, Authorize.net, Realex, eWay, default (can be used to create payments like cash on delivery), and a lot more in the net.
  • transaction fees (for payments)

CHECKOUT

  • guest checkout; completly anonymous checkout
  • option to register at begin of checkout
  • cart is an object not template related, GUI and flow competly overridable by template
  • cart is stored in the session
  • multi-page checkout
  • one page checkout
  • SSL
  • Double Opt-in

ORDERS

  • payment/shipment workflow
  • history
  • modifiable
  • order tracking for anonymous users
  • order editing
  • partial refunds
  • order balance
  • pdf invoice, delivery note

PRODUCTS DISPLAY

  • latest
  • topten (most sold)
  • newest
  • featured
  • sortable
  • searchable
  • shipment/payment

MULTILINGUAL

  • native with Joomla!
  • allows partial translations

MARKETING PROMOTION AND TOOLS

  • coupon handling
  • coupon analytics

VirtueMart ist eine hochgradig konfigurierbare und anpassbare mehrsprachige Warenkorb-Lösung für Joomla 3 mit einer großen Anzahl von zusätzlichen Erweiterungen.

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Posted on 19 May 2006
The only thing I have a problem with 1.0.5 is that a customer must be a registered user. This means if they are a new customer and they want to buy something, they have to register (which is relatively painless because an activation email is sent immediately). However, and this is the bad part, the customer must then activate the account before they can buy anything.



If the system isn't easy and seamless (and requires extra steps be taken by the customer) then the customer will shop elsewhere.

Amazing OS Product



Posted on 03 May 2006
Just want to add my recommendation for VirtueMart. I've been using it for just over a year now, and it's been great. The level of detail in this cart system is great, and the add-ons (postage calculators) for example really make this a powerful tool. Mahuti was suggesting in a post that it's difficult to customise the CSS. The open source community doesn't have the best reputation for great looking websites to say the least. But as a designer I decided to get into the CSS of the cart (and Joomla) and make it look good. Check out http://jstore.com.au if you like and see how it looks. These guys have done a great job getting a functional cart together, with a bit of styling the whole thing can work really well and look great.

I find it brilliant!



Posted on 30 April 2006
Fully functional, many options. Working like a charm. They deserve your donations guys. If I sell anything on my site I'll send them something over...

Good enough for me!



Posted on 20 April 2006
Im only a few weeks in to Joomla and all, and VirtueMart was just what I needed to help finish my site! My knowledge of programming etc is extremely basic, but installing VirtueMart and setting it up to how I want it to look was no trouble at all! I installed another very popular ecommerce component, but was very difficult to modify compared to this. I have hundred of products, and that has been the slowest thing - adding them almost one by one - but I would definately recommend VirtueMart.

Worth having but still more way to go



Posted on 19 April 2006
I agree with the fact that it is difficult to edit the layout and that it seriously needs and ovehall to ensure its long term future. In terms of the road it should be taking I beieve intergration with a templating system such as Xtemplate will make it possibly the best component joomla will ever see, don't get me wrong in terms of functionality and used in conjuction with other components and joomlas strength as a CMS you could hack some amazing things with this component.

Easy for Intermediate Joomla Admin



Posted on 03 April 2006
I am sort of new at this Joomla thing but this was very easy to install and configure. I am only using this as a catalog system and so far it is working great!

Good enough for me



Posted on 22 March 2006
I like vituemart. Of course you have to spend a bit of time and make some hacks to perfect it but it's worth it. It is actually quite flexible. It's a true joomla component (not bridged) which already gives it an advantage. For larger, more complex stores, it might just do it but you have to bear in mind that it's free and most large stores don't typically rely on free ecommerce software.

Template system is very poor



Posted on 21 March 2006
The template system of VirtueMart, is very, very poor. There are many instances of inline styles throughout the PHP, and if you really care about the layout of your site, you will find it very difficult to skin this application. CSS support for Virtuemart is also very poor, generally I found the included CSS styles to be fairly useless, while the really important visual items either had no CSS styles applied to them, had generic Joomla styles applied to them, or had inline CSS styles applied outside of the PHP template files. Additionally, the CSV import / export feature (one of the most important) is somewhat tricky to use in real world situations. I found myself poring over the CSV file to correct errors that were stopping up the import. Also, the CSV does not output orders that have been placed with the store. If you have accounting software, you'll need to hack, or manually input the order data yourself. On the positive site, the cart integrates nicely with Joomla, and the backend administration does as well. There is a good forum community, and many questions get answered in a hurry. Though a bit difficult to work with, the cart can be adjusted to a variety of purposes with a few days of hacking.

VirtueMart

Version:
4.4.10
Developer:
VirtueMart Team
Last updated:
Jul 18 2025
1 month ago
Date added:
Mar 05 2006
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
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Compatibility:
J3 J4 J5 J5 (b/c plugin)
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