Discover VirtueMart's Features
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Flexible Product Management:
VirtueMart enables easy management of products, categories, attributes, and variants, allowing administrators to efficiently organize and showcase their merchandise.
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Multi-Language Support:
With built-in multi-language support, VirtueMart caters to international markets, allowing users to create and manage multilingual online stores.
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Multiple Payment Gateways:
VirtueMart supports various payment gateways, including PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.Net, and more, offering flexibility in accepting payments securely.
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Shipping and Tax Calculation:
The platform provides tools for calculating shipping costs and taxes based on different parameters such as weight, destination, and tax rates, streamlining the checkout process.
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Inventory Management:
VirtueMart offers inventory management features, including stock tracking, low-stock notifications, and backorder management, helping users keep track of their inventory levels.
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SEO-Friendly:
The platform is designed with search engine optimization (SEO) in mind, providing features such as customizable URLs, meta tags, and sitemaps to improve online visibility and rankings.
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Extensions and Add-ons:
VirtueMart offers a wide range of extensions and add-ons, allowing users to extend the functionality of their online store with additional features and integrations.
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Release of VirtueMart 4.4 and Roadmap, always push beyond
The new version 4.4 has few new features, but reflects the evolving development process. Longterm users know that VirtueMart is developed in a rapid prototyping and KaiZen philosophy style. So if we develop a new feature, our testers sometimes have 10 new test versions a day. On the other hand, we try to evolve the code without hard breaks. For example developers can use the same function to get a category tree, but the technic behind that function drastically changed over the years. No stone...
After the release of VirtueMart 1.0.3 users discovered some annoying bugs (I wish we had found them before the release). But as always, we can quickly fix those bugs and give you a solution.
It is planned to release another maintenance release (VirtueMart version 1.0.4) soon, which contains all those bug fixes.
Now to the problems and their solutions:
Session problems, mixed up cart, etc. [Task #593], Problem description
Can't install VirtueMart after uninstall
Prices do not show for some users (quick and dirty solution, a better one will be included in 1.0.4)
I really need help in release management. Please contact me if you're interested.
Another interesting enhancing modification for VirtueMart has been recently developed and released on the forum: the Invoice/Receipt/DeliveryNote Addon.
The author, Ingemar (aka Mr_Smurf), writes about it: "It acts as a plugin for order.order_print (The order details page for the administrator) and adds a new tab where you can create invoices, receipts and delivery notes in pdf."
Grab your copy from the forum topic if you like. It can't be installed as a plugin or component, but you will need to upload and modify some files and change the database structure by hand.
Because it's so useful, this addon is expected to be added into the official VirtueMart distribution and will be available with the next minor release (VirtueMart 1.1).
Thanks to Ingemar in this special case and all the other contributors of "mods/tweaks/hacks" for VirtueMart!
