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VirtueMart is a Shopping Cart Application for selling goods over the internet.
It's a Component for a Content Management System called Joomla!
It can't be used without Joomla!.
It installs fairly easy using the automatic Component and Module Installer.
It's intended foruse in small / mid-sized Online Businesses / Online-Shops.
You can use this Component for selling to build up an Online Store
Manage an unlimited Number of Products and Categories
Use it as a Shop or just as an Online-Catalog Sell downloadable Products Powerful Web-Administration Interface Product Import & Export using CSV Files
Add Images and Files to a Product Add Attributes (like Size or Color) to your
Products Manage Customers in Shopper Groups Assign more than one Price to a Product:
each Shopper Group has its own! Display Prices either including or excluding
tax (manageable for each Shopper Group)
Shop Statistics / Control Panel with a Summary of new Customers, new Orders....
Manage the Stock Level for Products and Items
Notify Shoppers when a Product is back in Stock
Use Zone based Tax Calculation (city/state & country/region) OR
Store Owner based Tax Calculation (e.g. in European countries)
Manage your own Shipping Carriers and Rates
Use InterShipper, UPS, USPS or Canada Post Shipping Rate API.
Complete Order Management with Order History, Customer Notification and Order Edit
Basic Reporting Feature: sold Items, monthly & yearly Revenue
Manage Order Statuses
Shoppers can add their own Shipping Addresses
Customers can easily search for Products Feature specific products by setting them
on special Let your shoppers know when a product is
available again Shoppers can see, in what time a product
will usually ship, on product-details page
Shoppers can manage their User Accounts (registration required)
Shopper can view all their Orders with Details
Order Confirmation Mail (customizable!) is sent to Shopper and Store Owner
Manage different Currencies, Countries & States
Use safe SSL encryption (128-bit)
Capable of live Credit Card Processing Use payment gateways like authorize.net,
eWay, Worldpay, PayMate and NoChex.... Use PayPal or the 2Checkout IPN gateway Extend your Shop with other Payment &
Shipping Modules or just write your own! Many more! Just browse to virtuemart.net
[http://virtuemart.net] for more Features & Extensions
Download xampp software package from: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-win
dows.html(see the heading “XAMPP for Windows 1.7.3,
2009/12/23 ” Basic Package. The file link is labeled “EXE” and 51 MB Self-extracting RAR archive
Remember the location on hard drive where it is stored
Double Click the downloaded xampp-win32-1.7.3.exe file
Accept all defaults – don’t change directory It should create a program group in a All
Programs named “Apache Friends” There should a link under it called “XAMPP
Control Panel” There is a directory, xampp, under C drive
(see the bottom from Windows Explorer)
Form All Programs Apache Friends, click Xampp Control Panel
Click once on Start button in front of Apache and then of MySql.
You should see two green labels “Running”
Open a IE or Firefox browser window Enter address: http://localhost You should see a Welcome Screen for
XAMPP
Create a subdirectory named ‘virtuemart’ under C:\xampp\htdocs
Copy the virtuemart bundle file, VirtueMart_1.1.4_eCommerce_Bunde_Joomla_1.5.14.tgz, into the new ‘virtuemart’ folder
Unzip the virtuemart bundle file ‘VirtueMart_1.1.4_eCommerce_Bunde_Joomla_1.5.14.tgz’ into this new ‘virtuemart’ subfolder
Enter :◦ http://localhost/virtuemart◦ Select en_US English◦ Click Next◦ Pre-Installation Checks should be all Yes◦ Click Next◦ Click Next again to accept the License terms