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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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Works Great



Posted on 16 February 2007
I must say, VM goes above and beyond competing projects.



Support is remarkable, as the community is a bustling and thriving smorgasbord of users and developers, all of them ready and willing to offer their support.



Customization of this component is easy, but you'll need a working knowledge of basic PHP functions.



All in all, if you need an e-commerce solution to integrate into your Joomla! installation, this is it. If you're using Joomla!, use this project: don't try to integrate anything, as they won't work as seamlessly as this one.

Too much needed



Posted on 01 January 2007
It's a GREAT start on an excellent shopping cart, but it requires too much work to get it running in a seamless fashion.



The templates don't work well (new templates don't work and even when you customize the default templates there aren't enough options to make it worth doing. You have to re-code the back end to provide enough flexibility!)



Tax and shipping configurations are buggy and confusing. I STILL haven't figured them out yet.



The overall code complexity is higher than it needs to be which makes for difficult customization (which is required to get it running, they say so right on their website).



It's a noble effort, and one that I hope succeeds, but they need some seasoned developer help.



After 40 hours of development time on my end... I'm giving it 2 stars, grudgingly.

Easy 2 handle Shopping cart



Posted on 24 December 2006
Since the last upgrade, the virtuemart shop convinced me that this really is the shopping cart solution to use.



Use it for a while now and it is stable, and easy to handle.

Offcourse it is still a wok in progress and always can be improved,.. but what isn't?



For downloads only, or for products which needs to be shipped, this shop is a great solution. It's easy to handle and needs almost no explanation for the shop holder.



For multi lingual and/or international shops... I don't know if this is what you should use. But as long as you use 1 language and a differsity of shipping- and payingmethods, this does the job.

It can't be compared to OSCommerce, yet, since it's much younger, and new features regularly come out. And Virtuemart has an integrated CMS solution which OSCommerce can't offer, the strength of Joomla!



At the end the best plus for me and most joomla users is the seamless integration with our favorite CMS.

Nice product; Poor Support



Posted on 18 December 2006
I'm using this product for my site. Definitely fits the bill, however the main problem is support. There's virtually none. Looking on the virtuemart support forum, there's literally hundreds of unanswered problems. Seems the dev team isn't so sure of the inner-workings of this product either.



If you need support for the hundreds of questions you'll have, then this is NOT the product for you.

It worked well for me



Posted on 18 December 2006
I had to move an existing shopping cart to a new solution in Joomla. This one worked great - much better than the old one as this also works well with OpenSEF.

WOW - I've spent hours using this today and I LOVE IT!



Posted on 12 December 2006
Fantastic, hats off to the developers!

This is a fully featured professional-standard ecommerce solution IMHO.

Only thing I had trouble getting my head around is the taxes, virtual tax, displaying and discounting tax, but if you read hte forums there are work-arounds and explanations.

the installation manual is probably the best I have ever read - SO clear and easy to follow - you won't have any problems installing VM if you follow the simple instructions - they don't assume any particularly technical knowledge.

Creating products and building the shop was a pleasure, and the range of modules which are included is fantastic, although the modules' layouts are pretty tacky-looking. I WISH this component relied more on CSS rather than the inline styling - we should be able to easily choose product title font sizes etc.

It is also not clear how to test the whole system from the outset - example dummy data would be helpful, and somewhere to point and test the payment methods would be appreciated. I for one have no ide how we are supposed to use the PayPal IPN testing page :S

I am generally VERY IMPRESSED and I look forward to this just getting better and better! My clients are going to LOVE it!

Definitely a good effort...



Posted on 05 December 2006
I'm looking to create an online catalog, and this definitely does the job. The company I'm doing it for sells products whose prices are negotiated, and unfortunately there is no way to simply turn the shopping cart into a simple list that can be emailed for a price quote. In the demo, there's an "email this vendor for more information" link on some products, but that feature does not appear to be in the downloadable version (?) nor does it snag the product name and force it in the email header. Please keep going with this component!

AWESOME, with a couple flaws.



Posted on 20 November 2006
I have this running on 4 production sites right now. Though some of it's set-ups are a tad quirky, and there are at times "too many options", it's an excellent tool to sell anything, and the PayPal integration is seamless and top-notch. If you want to sell anything, set yourself up a PayPal account, and play around with this thing to fit your needs, and your off.

not enough forum support



Posted on 27 October 2006
sadly, I have to agree with pixiepie (whose analysis was perfect). This extension had SUCH potential, but when I went to look for answers to my questions about integrating authorize.net with virtuemart all I found were people with the same questions. Whatever responses there were on the site were cryptic at best. I would be willing to pay for a joomla based e-commerce system if that's what it would take for full support. It doesn't seem like I've found my joomla e-commerce solution yet. I think that the day that a full and polished solution arrives is the day that Joomla truly catches on. Joomla NEEDs a good e-commerce extension.

Great Shopping Cart



Posted on 09 October 2006
I've slowly been starting to sell stuff on my site. Virtual mart is a great way to handle it for me. The only things I would tweak are...

1. Allow me to tweak the modules for left, center, right alignment in the admin side. (Still don't know how to do this, the code doesn't like being edited at all)

2. Tweaking the tax thing for US users better. I like that it calculates sales tax, but it's a bit hard for beginners like me.

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
Includes:
c m p
Compatibility:
J3 J4 J5 J5 (b/c plugin)
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