VirtueMart – The Complete Free e-Commerce Shopping Cart Solution for Joomla

VirtueMart was formerly known as mambo-phpshop, it is an open source e-commerce solution which is used together with a Content Management System (CMS) called Joomla and VirtueMart. It is written in PHP and can be used with MySQL database domain for storage. This is an ideal solution for medium level traffic web-sites.

ValueMart is basically a stand- alone PHPshop, it started off as being the first appropriate e-commerce component for Mambo CMS system.

Since VirtueMart is an open source, it gives the developer the right to look at the code, modify, update and customize it according to their liking. For those who are not into developing and coding, VirtueMart comes with simplified templates which can also be customized easily as per the owners requirement.

In order to make use of VirtueMart you need to get it installed over content management system such as Joomla or Mambo.

Virtuemart’s requirements are same as Joomla and nothing extra is required, once you can get Joomla running smooth on your box chances are you will get Virtuemart running pretty fast almost with few clicks and nothing more. There are plenty of third party modules that can be used with Joomla and Virtuemart to create just what you have in mind, it gives you the freedom to try out new options.

VirtueMart supports has the ability to support an unlimited number of products and categories, while at the same time these products could be allotted to multiple categories. It provides the option of supporting multiple prices for a single product, and also enables the owner to provide various mode of payment gateways which are suitable for the users.

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