VirtueMart 2 features

shopping_cart_accept.pngVirtueMart 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