VirtueMart Features VM2 Joomla Open Source e-Commerce Component-Max version

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Written by: Max Milbers
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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.

For Customers

Greeted by its native language, a customer directly feels welcome.

Nested categories help your customer to get a structure of the shop. Different templates and layouts per category can create various look and feel.

The advanced SEM/SEO due metatags for categories, products, manufacturers, and medias helps the customer to find the wares via search engines. Customers can pass sef links to friends and can easily find the right tab due the page titles. Even if they mistype a link or use an outdated link, they will get a nice fallback page (for example the regarding category) and the searchengines get the 404.

A short description gives a fast oversight while browsing the store. There is a long description available for the interested customer on a product details page.

Multiple media (images, pdfs, videos,...) give the customer a good oversight of the product. 

Related categories, products show the customer directly other fitting products. This a very good extra service which helps your customer to buy a good set of items (for example a printer and the right toner for it) and increases the volume of the merchant.

The native review and rating system is enhancing the customer experience and gives them a guideline if the product is the right item for them.

Shoppergroups individualize the shopping experience. It can change the price display/format/calculation for them. For example the B2C customer sees the prices with tax, while the B2B customers sees the prices directly without tax. Or returning customers directly get a discount of 5%.

The view, in which the shopper is entering his data, can be easily adjusted to the cultur, national laws or just habits of the targeted audience. For example pure B2C shops can remove the "company" field, while others remove the "second name" field. A pizza service realised with virtuemart would remove the country/state field and enter already a city as default.

The multicurrency system allows to choose a desired currency with a format the shopper is used to. So the customer can faster decide if the product is in the desired price range.

The cart checkout allows to checkout with registration or without. Different templates and/or extensions allow a multipage checkout or one page checkout. The cart can be adjusted to the customers need. If the customers come mainly from a default country, it can be prefilled. This can be done also automatically by IP with an extension for a pocket money. The shipment and payment methods can have different conditions, so that a customer sees only methods that are available for him (by weight, zip, country, currency, payment amount, shoppergroup and so on). 

Returning customers can of course reuse their address. They can also send a product and use as shipment address.

Orders are always trackable, regardless registration.

Different groups of products like "latest", "topten", "newest", "featured" give a fast impression and guide the customer to the best offers in the store. All lists are sortable and searchable. Customers can search for products by a certain category, manufacturer, attribute and of course descriptions.

Customers like to feel important using a coupon or similar marketing tools