VirtueMart 2 features
VirtueMart 2 offers an extensive list of features as standard to enable shop owners to build a working shopping cart, the non-exhaustive list is below:
Please note that you can extend your VirtueMart shop using Plugins, Components, Templates and Modules!
Don't forget to visit extensions.virtuemart.net for more a list of available extensions.
Based on Joomla MVC framework with all its advantage:
- Template overriding,
- Implementation of Joomla Plugins for: payment, shipment, coupons, calculation rules, custom product fields, ...
- Simple installation and integration of other joomla extensions.
CATEGORIES
- Nested categories
- With meta tags for seo
- With description and media
PRODUCTS
- With meta tags for seo
- Short and long description
- Dimensions (weight, size)
- Multiple media
- Variants, attributes
- Unlimited child products and derivated levels
- Product pattern (Parent product used as pattern for child products)
- Related products
- Reviews and ratings
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
- Completely anonymous checkout
- Addressbook
- 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 chosen currency
- Different currency format per currency
REAL MULTI CURRENCY
- Auto updating rates
- Add your own currencies for fixed currency rates
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
- Based on plugins
- Minimal amount / maximal amount to use a payment
- Transaction fees
- By countries
- By shopper groups
- Paypal, SystemPay, Payzen, Klarna, Cash on delivery included
SHIPMENT
- Based on plugins
- By shopper groups
- By countries
- Based on weight, zip, countries, number of articles, order amount
CHECKOUT
- Guest checkout; completely anonymous checkout
- Option to register at begin of checkout
- Cart is an object, competly overridable by template
- Cart is stored in the session
- 1 click checkout
- Multipage checkout
- One page checkout (not by default)
- SSL
ORDERS
- Payment/shipment workflow
- History
- Modifiable
- Order tracking for anonymous users
PRODUCTS DISPLAY
- Latest
- Top Ten (most sold)
- Newest
- Featured
- Sortable
- Searchable
MULTILINGUAL
- Native with joomla 2.5
- With extra joomla components (joomfish) for joomla 1.5
MARKETING PROMOTION AND TOOLS
- Coupon handling
- Recommend a product to friend link
OTHER
- Hidden debugging tool