With e-commerce its important to choose a platform which suits you and one that will provide the features you need to run a successful online shop.

We have chosen VirtueMart and Hikashop, Open Source E-Commerce solutions designed to be used with Joomla!

Notable Features

• Stock Level Control for Products and Item
• Ajax-powered Product Overview allows to quickly add Products to the cart
• Product Attributes (like Size or Color) can be added to Product
• Manage different Currencies, Countries & States
• Product Availability: show how fast a Customer can expect delivery
• Payment Gateways supported include Authorize.net, PayPal, 2Checkout, eWay, Worldpay, PayMate and NoChex.

Administration / Backend Functionality

• Supports unlimited products and categories
• Support for physical (shippable) and virtual (downloadable) products
• Contact customers directly via email or newsletters
• Print invoices and packaging lists from the order screen
• Statistics for products and customers
• Multilingual support
• Multicurrency support

Customer / Frontend Functionality

• Temporary shopping cart for guests and permanent shopping cart for customers
• Fast and friendly quick search and advanced search features
• Product reviews for an interactive shopping experience
• Secure transactions with SSL
• Global and per-category bestseller lists
• Display what other customers have ordered with the current product shown

Product Functionality

• Control if out of stock products can still be shown and are available for purchase
• Customers can subscribe to products to receive related emails/newsletters

Payment Functionality

• Accept numerous offline payment processing (cheque, money orders, offline credit care processing, ..)
• Accept numerous online payment processing (PayPal, 2CheckOut, Authorize.net, iPayment, ..)
• Disable certain payment services based on a zone basis

Shipping Functionality

• Weight, price, and destination based shipping modules

Tax Functionality

• Flexible tax implementation on a state and country basis

Virtuemart and Hikashop uses Joomla’s admin interface for store administration, and because it is implemented inside an already rich CMS, administration will come very easily to Joomla users. Given that Joomla is (probably) one of the best CMS systems out there, it may easily give OsCommerce and others a run for their money. OsCommerce is powering over 228,700 online stores, whereas 2.5 million people have downloaded VirtueMart so far. These facts have inclined us to give you e-commerce solutions based on Virtuemart or Hikashop.

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