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Virtuemart vs Hikashop vs Mijoshop
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- Deb Williams
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Problem with Ecwid is that they are now free for only up to 10 products (and charge $12.50 per month for 10-100 products)
I just downloaded J2store and will play with it. The reviews are great so I'm optimistic.
I've installed Mijoshop on several few sites. It does everything you want well but the idea of simply adding a button to an article (via J2store) sounds sooo much better. I'm looking for the simplest cart possible.
Mijoshop requires some tweaking of CSS to get the exact look you want but then it is over-written with updates. - Last Edit: 11 years 10 months ago by Deb Williams.
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- claudevips
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My name is Amaral Web Designer. I'm in Brazil. We Brazilians live with a reality bad about e-commerce. Not all components of CMS and E-commerce can be used in our country. The lack of plugins and mail payment to Brazil, prevents us from using many components. Here Paypal is not very popular among Brazilians. When it comes to Gatways, use more or Pag Seguro B Cash. This problem of lack of plugins actually prevents the use of Joomshopping, Red Shop, K2 Store and many others.
Until a year ago, Virtue Mart, Open Cart and Magento dominated the preference of Brazilians. With the fall of Virtue Mart, who wore Virtue Mart started using OpenCart and now many people are using Mijoshop. I am a User MIjoshop advanced and so have collected glories with this component.
Mijoshop brought the full power of Joomla OPen Cart. The chekout of OpenCart is wonderful. And joining Joomla and OpenCart .. everything was very good with MijoShop.
About Presta Shop-Brazilian community of Presta Shop is very small. The users that still risk using PrestaShop has many problems due to not having an active community here in Brazil.
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- AX3
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+1 vote for hikashop, took a leap of faith and used it for the first time on a wholesale website which was converted from virtuemart. I've been very happy with the choice.
The only thing I don't like is the way it handles it's own 'internal' module settings. That was quite annoying to deal with but because everything else worked so well it's a small price to pay and you only have to set it up once.
To help put the above in context; I haven't tried mijoshop yet.
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- SoftForge
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I checked about the pricing for mijoshop and the information is different from what is posted in this thread. There is a one off cost with support and then no further charges, there is no per product charge. I think the poster was mixing it up with another posting.
I have been a life long virtuemart supporter but recently heard a lot of interest in the London Joomla User Group about mijoshop. I looked at it some while back and was not impressed, but now I am coming round after several months of different developers commenting at the usergroup as to how good it is.
I hate making a move when you have invested so much in to one product but I am doing more and more J3 sites and VM states in the forum its not going to be J3 until march 2014! even though we have it on J3 sites at the moment, surprised me to read it. Mijoshop is J3 stable
forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=115326
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- curtisbollington
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I've used a few many different e-commerce packages, including Magento, WP-ecommerce on WordPress. However the one I use most often is HikaShop. So far I've used it for many different types of product, and it does whatever I want it to do. It seems to cope with just about anything I throw at it. Features I've used include optional components and upgrades (each with its own price), special prices for particular customers, various characteristics (colour variations, etc), product selection by filtering, and so-on. Over the couple of years I've been using it for, I've found HikaShop to be robust – simply chugging on as it should do, much to the delight of at least one customer, who had lots of trouble with his old system.
Setting up some tasks can be a little complicated, mainly because those feature I'm setting up are complicated. I think some people expect setting up ecommerce to be more simple than it is. But it's always going to be fairly involved, as you're dealing with complications such as taxes and tax regions; shipping services, rates and regions, pricing options, product variations, etc. There's a steep learning curve with ecommerce generally, no matter which package you use.
HikaShop gets my vote. It's excellent value (there's even a free version). Support is great too.
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- Quag
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I've been using Mijoshop for a while. In a nutshell, it is OpenCart ported into Joomla. It's a fantastic shopping cart system, far better than anything I've used in the Joomla world (Virtuemart, Hikashop, K2 Store and RedShop).
Mijoshops user interface is modern, and most of the OpenCart extensions seem to work with it, which is a HUGE plus. Their extension marketplace is great: many are paid, but most are affordable ($15-35) and well thought out.
Everything in Mijoshop is override-able using Joomla methods, including the language strings. This makes it really easy to customize. The developers are pretty good too. If you plan to run an eComm site, it's nice to have real (paid) support.
If you want to see my shop, here's the address. I skinned it with RT's Cerulean template: www.soulrsurfboards.com/
It took a bit of work to make MijoShop responsive, but in the end, it was definitely worth the effort. Would be great if RT made a template with overrides for it. **Hint hint**
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- imaaxx
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We are in the process of migrating an old Joomla 1.5 VM site to Joomla 2.5 and Mijoshop, and we love it so far. We have fought with VM for years and its nice to use something that works right out of the box, we needed to install several extensions from the opencat.com website and for the most part we have had no issues.
Also the support from the Mijoshop team is amazing, by far the best support we have received from any Joomla product, they get 5 stars from us!
I would love to have you guys make some responsive templates for Mijoshop as it is the best rated Shopping cart in joomla.org and in our opinion its time for you guys to get on the bandwagon with Mijoshop responsive templates. We will buy one from the opencart.com directory for our new site, as we MUST have responsive cart template, but would much prefer to use something from Rocket theme as your templates are much better then anything we have seen from opencart.com.
Best Regards
Alan
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- yaani
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I am developing a new site & am using MijoShop for the first time. So far I like it a lot! I use Joomla and Rockettheme templates. The tech support with Mijoshop is very good.
I have used Virtuemart in the past on a few sites and just didn't want to fight with it anymore.
I have installed Ecwid in one site & it works really well. I use it for online registration & payments for racing events. Ecwid works really well for simple online stores.
If you need all the more advanced features of a shopping cart I recommend MijoShop!
I too would love to see a Rockettheme template built to support MijoShop.
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- imaaxx
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I just thought i would post something i learned just yesterday, i am posting this in order to help others using mijoshop and having issues with getting the site to be responsive. We tested 4 free responsive templates available at opencart.com and 1 commercial one. All of them failed as they do NOT render correctly with a Joomla/mijoshop site.
I asked the developers about this and here is there response:
Our site clearly says that OpenCart themes are not compatible with MijoShop.
OK so i must have missed that when i was reading things on there site, I am not mad about this as they do offer one commercial responsive template for a very reasonable price. Here is my issue they only have One (1) that is responsive. And well being used to having an awesome selection of templates from the team at Rocket Themes i am very spoiled.
Anyways i hope i can save a few people some time and money wasted trying to get opencart.com themes to work on a Mijosho site as they state they are simply not compatible.
So now i am updating my request for Rocket Themes to "BEGGING"
for you guys to create a Mijoshop responsive template that will work with your templates. A simple light and Dark version is all that is needed in my opinion as we only need the cart to work nothing fancy is required for us as we do all the :shock: eye candy from the main template not the store!
If anyone else has any other links to responsive templates that work with Rocket Themes and Mijoshop please post them for me.
Thanks
Alan
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- Martin
- Jr. Rocketeer
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Hi,
Why would you buy and install an OpenCart responsive template when the default MijoShop template is already responsive.
Mijoshop works perfect with every Joomla template, and when this Joomla template is responsive, MijoShop will be responsive too.
Just check the website from Quag a few topics above and make your screen smaller. You will see that Mijoshop is responsive.
I made some webshops with Mijoshop and all with Rockettheme templates. And they all are responsive and work perfect.
So again, the point is that you don't need to buy an OpenCart template when you use MijoShop.
Martin
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