VirtueMart workshop

Russell SearlePrincipal Consultant, Psicom

Melbourne Joomla! User Group27 March 2013

Free Open Source Business Apps Group10 October 2013

Platform• VirtueMart 2.x runs as a Joomla! 2.5.x extension• VirtueMart won’t suit everybody:

• Do you need good content management features? Joomla! + VirtueMart is a good fit

• Do you want to combine your shop with other apps? Joomla! + VirtueMart + other business extensions

• Do you want a large shop and only minimal content? OpenCart or Magento may be better choices

Building a VirtueMart shopping cart #1• Plan

• Business plan• Market segment and offer• Customers• Suppliers• Product range• Pricing strategy• Presentation

• Install• Joomla! 2.5.x• VirtueMart component• ‘All-in-one’ plugins

package

• Basic configuration• Countries and currencies• Order status and rules• Shop settings and

behaviour• Templates and paths• Price elements• Checkout behaviour• Product view content and

behaviour• SEO settings• Shopper custom fields• Mail and forms

Building a VirtueMart shopping cart #2

• Manufacturers• Brand categories• Brands

• Vendor• Vendors• Payment methods• Shipment methods

• Shoppers• Shopper groups

• Products• Categories• Media files• Products• Stock• Price and tax rules• Custom fields• Coupons

• Polish• Templates and styling

VirtueMart 2.0 features #1• Joomla 2.5 framework

• Template overwrites• Plugins for payment,

shipment, coupons, pricing rules etc.

• Integrate more extensions• Categories

• Nested categories• SEO meta tags• Media tags

• Products• SEO meta tags• Short and long description• Dimensions (weight, size)• Media• Variants and custom fields• Unlimited child products• Kit products• Product patterns• Related products• Reviews and ratings

VirtueMart 2.0 features #2• Shopper Groups

• Control pricing• Control price display• Control payment and shipping

• Shoppers• Custom shopper fields for

registration, checkout and/or shipment

• Anonymous checkout• Billing and shipping

addresses• Payment and shipment

methods

• Prices• Price elements by shopper

group• Select currency• Coupons: promotion and gifts

• Multi-Currency• Auto-update or fixed rates• Foreign discounts/taxes

• Price/tax rules• Discounts/taxes by date,

category, group, country, state• Discounts/taxes at product and

order levels

VirtueMart 2.0 features #3• Product views

• Latest• Top 10• Newest• Featured• Can sort and search

• Stock• Inventory levels• Stock warning• Available for pre-order

• Orders• Pay/ship process• History• Update• Anonymous orders

• Checkout• Guest checkout• Can override cart object in

templates• One click checkout• One page or multi-page

checkout• SSL certificate support

VirtueMart 2.0 features #4• Payments

• Implemented in plugins• Min/max amounts• Transaction fees by country,

group• Paypal, COD, eurozone

gateways standard• Third party eWay plugin

• Shipments• Implemented in plugins• Shipment method by shopper

group or country• Shipping charge by weight,

post code, country, number of items, order total

• Other• Multilingual• Tell a friend• Debugger

Demo