Review of online stores for Joomla
Online stores have become accustomed to all forms of sale of goods and they ceased to be a luxury. The market of ready-made solutions to create online shops is extensive and can satisfy most consumers.
Based on CMS Joomla, you can create your own online store relatively quickly and inexpensively. Below we give an overview of the most popular components for the online store.
VirtueMart (formerly mambo-phpShop)
Widely known and a popular online store for Joomla.
- Works as a shop and as catalog
- Full integration with Joomla
- An opportunity to sell electronic products (templates, software)
- Opportunities descriptions of products (types, attributes, properties)
- Loading of goods through CSV
- A set of modules of payment and delivery
- A set of modules for Joomla
- There is documentation and forums
- Many third-party assembly shop and hacks
Cons shop:
- In most cases require special code store
- E-shop is not adapted to Russian realities – heavy and slow
- Very poor performance with taxes and currencies
osCommerce Bridge
Integration package known online store osCommerce and Joomla. After the integration of shop osCommerce runs through the wrapper, and uses a common login with Joomla.
User registration is made in osCommerce, and after authorization by the standard login form Joomla (mod_login) is an authorized user and the shop osCommerce.
josCommerce
josCommerce a continuation of the project mosCommerce (osCommerce for Mambo 4.5.2). The main goal of this project is to create a version of osCommerce online store for Joomla!
EZ Store
Simple components of the online store for Joomla. The component is designed on the basis of galleries AkoGallery and hacks PonyGallery and as a consequence, the store supports a variety of specific functions – to “recommend a friend, comments, rating. Russian-speaking users, I think, in pure form shop EZ Store will not work, because it works only with PayPal.