Virtuemart questions
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- Srini
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Hi guys,
I am planning to start a new store selling some services. I am am relatively new to ecommerce and virtuemart so I would appreciate your advice.
1. Does virtuemart allow us to customize the checkout process? Can I add a page where I request customer to fill out additional information regarding their order (since I am selling services, this is required).
2. Does virtuemart allow cross-selling products?
Thanks in advance for your help. I posted on the VM forums as well but no response. I have always had better luck here than anywhere else!
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- Donna Vincent
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2b. Virtuemart has a Notes box where customers can fill out a note to send with their order. Or you can add fields in individual products for them to fill out.
Everything in VM is customizable if you want to go into the code.
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- Srini
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Thanks for the reply.
Can you provide your thoughts regarding cross selling?
Is there a checkout page that I can customize to add a link to a different page that has a form that the user can then fill out?
Thanks,
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www.indiaovenlasvegas.com
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www.reenascreations.com
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- Donna Vincent
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I don't know what cross selling is, but it sounds like something I'm doing on a current project.
You can customize the checkout process, and add the form in the page, as long as you know php/html.
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- Srini
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By Cross selling, I mean something similar to this:
www.dropship-community.com/content/view/171/46/
Also, does virtuemart have affiliate management functionality? I want other affiliates to be able to sign up to promote my products. If that functionality is not there, how do sellers today sign up affiliates for their VM stores?
Your help is highly appreciated. I posted these questions on VM forum and another forum, but haven't received any responses.
Srini - Recent Sites:
www.indiaovenlasvegas.com
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www.reenascreations.com
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I am The Backlink Man. PM me if you are looking to build links to your sites.
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- Donna Vincent
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There's a company that will feed dropship merchandise right into your Virtuemart system.
inventorysource.com/
I checked them out, they're listed with the Better Business Bureau.
For affiliates, idevaffiliate has help on how to integrate with VM: www.idevdirect.com/virtuemart.php
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- Srini
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Thanks again.
I was just giving that as an example. I am actually interested in building a site that sells link building services. Cross-selling is available with cre loaded.
iDevAffiliate looks good, thanks for digging that for me. I am still debating though because it will cost $100-150 to integrate into Joomla/VM ( www.idevdirect.com/idevaffiliate_joomla.php ). Not that I don't want to pay money for a good component, but I just want to make sure that it does what I am looking for.
I also read reviews elsewhere that I am including here so other readers of this post may benefit:
virtuemart.net/index.php?option=com_cont...iew&id=241&Itemid=79
The other option seems to be VM Affiliate:
extensions.joomla.org/component/option,c...k_id,4487/Itemid,35/
forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=553511
To me, there is still no clear winner here. My choices are:
VM + VM Affiliate
VM + iDev
CRE Loaded site
CRE Loaded has a full-blown affiliate management component that looks mature. Overall, cre seems better suited for ecommerce. The deficiency in CRE Loaded is that it does not have all the other content management capabilities of Joomla. Not even close. It can't add a blog for instance, so if I use CRE Loaded, my blog will look different than the rest of the site unless I pay a designer a lot of money to match the look and feel and even then, to the discerning eye, they will look different. Also, creloaded looks much less extensible than vm.
Again, thanks for your help. Still looking for something that will let me decide.
Srini - Recent Sites:
www.indiaovenlasvegas.com
,
www.reenascreations.com
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I am The Backlink Man. PM me if you are looking to build links to your sites.
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