Virtuemart vs Hikashop vs Mijoshop
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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
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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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- yaani
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I have MijoShop installed in a site with a Rockettheme template here
50.116.98.226
/~gkartrac/index.php?option=com_mijoshop&view=home&Itemid=149 (remove spaces between 226. & /~gkartrac...
The Joomla pages are responsive & the Opencart pages are responsive to a point, after which they don't display properly. I guess I should start a thread in the Fracture forum & maybe someone can help me with that.
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- yaani
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I wanted to post an update. I started a thread in the Fracture forums & even though the problem was with integrating a 3rd party extension (Mijoshop/OpenCart) Henning posted a solution so the Fracture template is now 100% responsive with Mijoshop!
Here is the forum thread www.rockettheme.com/forum/index.php?f=66...11778&rb_v=viewtopic
Here is a link to the website under development 50.116.98.226/ ~gkartrac/index.php?option=com_mijoshop&view=home&Itemid=149 (remove spaces between ...226/ and ~gkartrac/) You can resize your browser to see how great the "responsiveness" it looks. It's responsive-licious!!! :cheesy:
I love Rockettheme templates and am about to build a brand new shiney eCommerce site for a client using Mijoshop & a resonsive-licious Rockettheme template! Fun project!
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- imaaxx
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Hello,
We were using the Mijoshop Black template and while it did look good there were some parts that were not 100% responsive especially in the cart My Account and checkout area. So we ended up purchasing the Responsive template from Mijoshop that cost us an extra $19.00 and once this was installed the entire site and all cart pages work perfectly and the best part is no hacking or fighting with the site.
Regards
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- imaaxx
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Yes it worked for us perfectly, we added it to our new site and we are using Levathian and now our cart pages are responsive! all cart pages work great on ALL devices. I do recommend it for you too and its well worth the $20.00.
If you send me a PM i can send you the link to our new site for you to see.
Best Regards
Alan
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