Professor Syed Rizvi

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