Benefits of Joomla E-commerce Virtuemart

Virtuemart may be described as a highly advanced and yet most rampantly used shopping cart software in Joomla. It is ideal for almost all fundamental online store applications. The chief advantage of using Virtuemart is the facility to manage the store, products, settings and user lists from within Joomla.
As Virtuemart becomes an integral part of Joomla once installed, the varied features of Joomla seamlessly integrate into the store. The product and category setups are user-friendly and support a host of shipping, payment as also checkout options. With Virtuemart, you have a wide choice for displaying your products and offering different pricing and coupons and availing all other standard features expected from any shopping cart software.

VirtueMart is one of the most purposeful Ecommerce web solutions that can be integrated with Joomla content management system to offer secure online shopping environment.
Ecommerce website development using VirtueMart can be of immense advantage to your business. Getting your website development done with VirtueMart by a professional web developer can surely make the website look thoroughly sophisticated, easy to access and search engine friendly.

VirtueMart offers a host of features and you can extend the functionality of Joomla and VirtueMart using plugins, components, templates and modules to suit your specific needs. Joomla and VirtueMart are written in PHP and can be used in typical PHP/MySQL environments. The VirtueMart allows user shipping address management that includes order history and tag on customer accounts and shipping rate configuration and flexible shipping carriers.

VirtueMart supports a wide range of currencies as also multiple languages to make it convenient for any prospective buyer from any country to understand the product description and pricing. Using the shop statistics option in VirtueMart, you can categorize the products and customer list with sales information to facilitate further effective marketing. The entire online transactions can be monitored by checking out the statistics – product-wise, by month/year/ day. The inventory can also be effectively managed by the ecommerce plug-in and you can also ascertain the stock ordering levels.

VirtueMart offers flexible payment modules that include live credit card processing and pre-determined payment gateways and provides total control over the online channel functionality for E-commerce. Though Virtuemart is not without demerits, it is still the best option for a Joomla shopping cart. We have used Virtuemart in all its aspects and with our experience can complete the process of set up, design and functionality extensions.