Joomla! E-Commerce with VirtueMart Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Joomla! and E-Commerce
• What is Joomla!?
• Main features of Joomla!
• Use of Joomla!
• Joomla! and e-commerce
• Affiliate carts
• Paid access to content
• Billing and payment systems
• Auction systems
• Shopping carts
• What is VirtueMart?
• Features of VirtueMart
• General features
• Product catalog features
• Administration features
• Payment modules
• Shipping modules
• Joomla! and other shopping carts
• osCommerce
• Zen Cart
• Magento
• Freeway
• Store example used in this book
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Installation and Basic Configuration of Joomla! and VirtueMart
• Pre-requisites for installation
• System requirements
• Setting a development environment
• Getting Joomla!
• Getting VirtueMart
• Uploading installation files to server
• Creating database for Joomla!
• Brief installation process for Joomla!
• Basic configuration of Joomla!
• Basic administration of Joomla!
• Managing contents
• Managing sections
• Managing categories
• Managing articles
• Managing extensions
• Installation of VirtueMart
• Basic configuration of VirtueMart
• Adding VirtueMart to menu
• Showing the modules
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Configuring the VirtueMart Store
• VirtueMart administration panel
• Store information
• Shop configuration
• Global configurations
• Shop status configuration
• Price configuration
• Frontend features
• Tax configuration
• User registration settings
• Core settings
• Logfile configuration
• Security settings
• Checkout configuration
• Feed configuration
• Managing countries
• Managing currencies
• Using shipping modules
• Flex shipping
• Standard shipping
• Zone shipping
• Using payment modules
• Adding credit cards
• Configuring payment methods
• PayPal
• Credit card processing through Authorize.Net
• Cash on delivery
• Adding a payment method
• Adding tax rates
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Managing product catalogue
• Catalogue management
• Managing manufacturers
• Adding a manufacturer category
• Adding a manufacturer
• Listing the manufacturer categories
• Managing vendors
• Vendor category
• Adding vendor
• Managing vendors and categories
• Managing product categories
• Adding product categories
• Modifying product categories
• Adding a product
• Managing products
• Adding multiple product images
• Adding extra files with products
• Configuring downloadable products
• Using attributes
• Simple attributes
• Parent-child products
• Using product types
• Adding product types
• Adding parameters to product types
• Adding product type to products
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Managing Customers and Orders
• Customer management
• Registration/Authentication of customers
• Revisiting registration settings
• Enabling VirtueMart login module
• Managing fields for user registration form
• Adding a new field
• Editing a field
• User manager
• Joomla! user manager
• VirtueMart user manager
• Which user manager should we use?
• User groups
• Joomla! user groups
• VirtueMart user groups
• Group permissions
• Assigning permissions to user groups
• Adding new module
• Adding new function
• Assigning users to groups
• Checking how these work
• Managing orders
• Viewing the orders
• Viewing an order's details
• Understanding an order's status
• Managing order status types
• Changing an order's status
• Viewing an order's history
• Order statistics
• Managing inventory
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Customizing the Look and Feel
• Configuring the look and feel of a Joomla! site
• Installing Joomla! templates
• Applying a template
• Customizing a template
• Changing a site's logo
• Customizing VirtueMart's look and feel
• Look and feel configurations in VirtueMart
• Customizing and applying themes
• Customizing templates
• Shop front-page
• Product listing
• Product detail page
• Basket templates
• Checkout templates
• Email templates
• Other page templates
• Using search engine friendly URLs
• Built-in Joomla! SEF
• SEF with sh404SEF
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Promotion and Public Relations
• Promotions
• Promotional discounts
• Creating discounts
• Adding discounts to products
• Special products
• Best sellers
• Latest products
• Random products
• All-in-one
• Scrolling products
• Cross-selling and up-selling
• Use of discount coupons
• Customer reviews
• Enabling review
• Submitting reviews
• Moderating reviews
• Newsletters and product notification
• Using Acajoom Newsletter
• Configuring Acajoom
• Creating a list
• Creating newsletters
• Creating an article with product information
• Sending newsletters
• Adding fields in the Registration Form
• Using the Vemod News Mailer
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Localization of VirtueMart
• Why localization?
• Localizing regions and taxes
• Countries
• Adding state or region
• Configuring taxes by region
• Using multiple currencies
• Using multiple languages
• Adding a new language to a Joomla! site
• Translating the site language
• Manual translation
• Translation through the translator component
• Showing multilingual content
• Translating VirtueMart language files
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Extending VirtueMart's Functionalities
• Bulk product imports and exports
• Creating new import and export template
• Using import and export templates
• Using CSVImproved for catalogue building
• Using product tag clouds
• Using testimonials
• Improving product reviews by commenting
• Wholesaling from a VirtueMart store
• Using social networking and bookmarking sites
• Using AJAX updates for products
• Adding some spice to the shop
• Spicy cart
• Slideshow with product images
• Including modules in content items
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Maintenance and Troubleshooting
• Uploading the local site to web server
• Transferring local site by FTP
• Step1: Transferring site files
• Step 2: Dumping and recreating a database
• Step 3: Reconfiguring Joomla! and VirtueMart
• Faster relocation using JoomlaPack
• Backing up files and databases
• Using JoomlaPack
• Using LazyBackup
• Auditing and hardening security
• Joomla! tools suite
• GuardXT
• Some tips about security
• Common problems and troubleshooting
• Joomla!-related problems
• Problems with installation of extensions
• SEF problems
• VirtueMart-related problems
• Problem after relocation
• Issues related to user registration
• Showing latest products
• Issues related to vendors
• Issues related to VirtueMart SEF
• Issues related to multilingual contents in VirtueMart
• Summary

• Appendix A: Configuration Options
• Configuring shipping modules
• Australia Post
• Canada Post
• DHL
• FedEXdc
• Flex
• Intershipper
• Shipvalue
• Standard shipping module
• UPS
• Configuring payment modules
• 2Checkout
• Credit card (eProcessingNetwork)
• Credit card (PayMeNow)
• eWay
• iTransact
• noChex
• PayMate
• VeriSign Payflow pro
• WorldPay

• Appendix B: Resources for Joomla! and VirtueMart
• Setting up the WAMP server
• Resources for Joomla!
• Resources for VirtueMart

• Index