VirtueMart as the Best Web Store Solution

E-commerce Today

What is Ecommerce

Electronic commerce or ecommerce is a term for any type of business, or commercial transaction, that involves the transfer of information across the Internet. It covers a range of different types of businesses, from consumer based retail sites, through auction or music sites, to business exchanges trading goods and services between corporations. It is currently one of the most important aspects of the Internet to emerge.

Understanding Storefront Software

A shopping cart software (a.k.a. e-commerce software, e-store software, online store software or storefront software) is a software package that acts as an engine for online store's catalog and ordering process. Typically, a shopping cart software is the interface between a company's web site and its deeper infrastructure, allowing consumers to select goods or services; review what they have selected; make necessary alterations or additions; and buy the merchandise.

What Is Virtuemart Joomla Ecommerce Solution?

VirtueMart is the major open source E-Commerce solution for the incredibly popular Joomla! Framework. VirtueMart eCommerce Bundle is not an official release of the Joomla! Project.

VirtueMart Shopping Cart Features

Virtuemart Shopping Cart Program supports an unlimited number of products and categories, with products able to be assigned to multiple categories. It also permits the sale of downloadable products, and offers a catalog mode where the shopping cart features are turned off. VirtueMart supports multiple prices for a single product, based around shopper groups or a quantity range, and permits the use of a variety of different payment gateways.

Because Virtuemart Shopping Cart Application is an open source e-commerce solution all the application code is openly visible in PHP. This allows PHP developers to view, update or customize the operation of the shopping cart. In addition VirtueMart itself offers simplified templates ( called 'fly pages' in VirtueMart) structure that allows various shopping and cart page(s) to be edited as standard html and css.

Notably new to VirtueMart 1.1.0 was the inclusion of the ability to quickly change themes for category, product, checkout and cart pages.

VirtueMart Hosting Requirements

As Virtuemart Shopping Cart Application is only a plugin for Joomla! / Mambo, it has the same system requirements, which are currently:

• Joomla! 1.0.x or Mambo (>= 4.5.1) recommended: Joomla! 1.5.x (VirtueMart will soon only work with 1.5 or above).
• PHP 4.2.x or above - recommended: PHP 4.4.x
• MySQL 3.23.x or above -recommended: MySQL 4.0.x
• Apache 1.13.19 or above -recommended: Apache 2.x

Several other required supporting libraries or extensions include MySQL, XML and Zlib support built into PHP. Support for https (openSSL) and cURL is recommended.

Joomla VirtueMart Templates

Wanna Taste Some Professional Virtuemart themes From Renowned Webdesigners? Find a selection of professionally and passionately designed Virtuemart Joomla Templates. If you ever thought of creating a Virtuemart powered web store, backed up by all the power and diversity of Joomla CMS, don't hesitate any more. With Virtuemart themes you now have everything to give stunning looks to your online shop.