Favorite Shopping Carts for Joomla
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- xdev
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I have a client that has a joomla site and wishes to integrate a shopping cart. What is in your opinion the best choice out there? Being new to joomla I need some advice (not new to programming).
I've been searching for a few and have an opinion, but I want to see what the community has to say about this. What are you using?
PS: must work with joomla (with no or minimal hacks).
Thanks,
Daniel - "Everything is designed. Few things are designed well."
— Brian Reed
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- Arifin FinLy
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The oldest and the famous one is Virtuemart, but personally it's a bit hard to style it if you want to customize it. Another popular one is Tienda. You might want to check it here:
extensions.joomla.org/extensions/e-commerce/shopping-cart
I would highly recommend you to review them one by one and choose the best one that suits your needs as each extension has its unique feature
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- xdev
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- Thank you very much. I had the same opinion of Virtuemart. I will check out Tienda. Can it be easily integrated into a rockettheme template?
- "Everything is designed. Few things are designed well."
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- JEM
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Depending on the complexity of the cart, VirtueMart if you need all the bells and whistles, or RokQuickCart if you have just a few products.
virtuemart.net/
www.rockettheme.com/extensions-joomla/rokquickcart
Keep in mind that RQC is an 'as is' component, so as far features beyond what is included in the release, you'll need to get the coding sorted yourself, or use a different component.
www.rockettheme.com/forum/index.php?f=24...74779&rb_v=viewtopic - Thanks,
jim
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- xdev
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I am looking for something that has some of the features listed below:
1. can handle product categories (at least 20)
2. can handle at least 1000 products
3. can handle stocks (virtual/digital and tangible products)
4. can handle file download access (secured )
5. can handle e-mail confirmation
6. can handle promo codes
7. can handle product packages
Usually for this job I would of used Magento or other specialized system like this... but the client is kinda' stuck to joomla because he has experience with it and I understand this.
I have checked out VirtueMart, but to me seems a little tangled compared to other shopping carts, and most likely I will not use it. I need something simpler and more solid. It can be a commercial license. RQC is very usefull but it lack the abilities I need, and I have limited time, so I cannot start to reprogram based on it.
I need something simple, solid , and that will require minimum intervention, because of the limited time (1 month starting sept 1).
Thank you again, and if you have more advices keep them coming.
Regards,
Daniel - "Everything is designed. Few things are designed well."
— Brian Reed
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- Rich Bean
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Daniel,
I think tienda is still way too new and doesn't have all the features you need. (No Packages for sure)
Have you looked at using MageBridge? It bridges Mangento into Joomla.
Haven't had the need to use it myself but it looks interesting and they also skin for the latest RT Templates. Note: MageBridge is a commercial/paid component. But depending on how big your store is, it may be worth it.
Cheers,
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- Revive
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RokQuickCart is great for smaller, more esily maintained sites
VirtueMart = run as fast as you can (this is coming from someone that has literally designed dozens and dozens of custom VM stores, built custom extensions for it, extended its capability and contributed many fixes to the community..!!) Just save yourself the time, headache and unanswered forum posts
Tienda looks interesting. Haven't used it yet but intend to look into it
We just built a webapp for a client that does exactly what you are needing for your client, with the addition of subscription sales and recurring billing, simply because no existing extensions were capable.. integrating it with his Joomla site was does through a basic API. Sometimes, you've just got roll your own
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- drsawbones
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Coming out of osCommerce (5yrs) and into Joomla based cart solutions...Tienda gets my vote. I've been rebuilding a 5,000 product catalog for about 4 months in Tienda. Easy to style, easy to manage, easy to setup, good work flow when entering multiples, minor problem in the free version with on the fly image folder creation (but that is probably intentional).
I think you are correct about "no packages"...but it is very full featured and I can check mark off everything on the list above save for packages as a match. Free version works fine to try it out, no need to pay the steep $1,000+ for it to see what you're getting into.
I love bridging things, I would like to look into that as well some day here...My main issue about doing a bridge to Magento or osC is you'd still have to deal with their ACP to manage the cart... clunky slow...which is why I suppose products like StoreManager for osC and Magento exist.
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