We can build an on-line shop for you in a remarkably short time. All we need to do is to install the shop component, enter your products and configure the payment methods you want to use.

We can build shops with multiple currencies for Joomla 1.0, any number of product items, beautiful pictures, read on to see what our shops can do.

We build all our shops using Virtuemart 1.0. This is the secure and stable version of this excellent shopping package. It is easy to configure and simple to add product/categories to your shop complete with pictures. 

What will Wallingford Web Design do to get your shop up and running?

• Install the latest stable version of the Virtuemart shopping cart component
• Configure Virtuemart for the UK and for your business
• Create Categories for your products
• Optimise and load your first product images
• Load your first products into the product listing
• Customise and style Virtuemart modules to suit your site
• Design and develop customised Virtuemart browse and flypage templates (the look and feel)
• Create custom icons for Virtuemart shopping cart checkout
• Configure payment options for credit card, paypal or google checkout
• Configure shipping options

Please read on for a full description of the capabilities of Virtuemart.

Products/Categories:

• Add as many Products and Categories as you want
• Can also be used just as a catalogue (without cart features)
• Unlimited Category/Subcategory depth, products can be assigned to multiple categories
• Sort your Categories the way you like
• Sell downloadable Products like MP3s, Templates, Videos or Software
• Add a Thumbnail and a full size Image to every Product via your Browser
• Add Attributes like Size or Color to your Products to offer product variations
• Use Product Discounts (percantage/total, time limited or not)
• Show Details & images for every Item
• CSV Upload, (CSV Import & Export)
• Manage the Stock Level for Products and Items
• Automatically Notify Shoppers when a Product is back in Stock
• Feature specific products by setting them “on special”

Shopper Groups / User Management

• Add Shoppers and assign them to different shopper groups
• global Shopper Group Discounts
• multiple prices can be added to a Product, each for an own shopper group or a quantity range
• Restrict “Display prices” to specific user groups
• Access Management: assign users to user groups like “admin”, “storeadmin”, “shopper” or “demo” to allow the administration by other users

Easy Configuration / CustomiSation

• Manage your shop through an easy and completely Joomla/Mambo-integrated interface
• A “Welcome Screen” shows your daily Shop Statistics: A Summary with “number of customers”, “number of orders”, “5 newest customers” and so on
• capable of Frontend Administration (without having to login into the Backend of Joomla/Mambo)
• global Price/Currency Display Formatting
• Templates for Product Display Pages
• Extend the Shop with other Modules and Functions
• Manage different Currencies, Countries

Shipping Addresses / Rates

• Shoppers can add individual Shipping Addresses
• Configurable shipping rate
• Add your own shipping carriers and shipping rates

Tax Rates

• Product prices can be displayed “including tax” or not (set for each shopper group)
• Configure Shipping-Address-based tax calculation (US, EU and UK taxes).
• No tax at all
  

Payment

• Use safe SSL encryption (128-bit) and Shared SSL
• Capable of live credit card processing

• Google checkout
• Paypal Express
• PayPal Payments Pro for credit card payments
• Protx
  
• Paymate
• NoChex
• WorldPay "IPN"
• PayMeNow
• eCheck.net
• eWay (XML transactions)
• eProcessingNetwork
• authorize.net online Credit Card Processing (AIM)
• 2Checkout
• and more...

Order Management

• Complete Order Management
• Automatically notify your customers when the Order Status changes
• See who has ordered: IP address storing
• Extend the pre-defined order status with your own

"Nice" Features for Customers...

• Let your customers easily search for products through a search form
• Shoppers can see, in what time a product will usually ship, on product-details page (with nice images!)
• Shoppers can manage their user accounts
• Shopper can view all their orders (and order details)
• Order Confirmation mail (customizable!) is sent to shopper and store owner

Joomla! Integration

• Registration while checkout automatically registers the user to the global user table (registration is necessary for purchasing items)
• Complete integration of the layout using Joomla!’s standard CSS styles
• Easy installation / uninstallation using the Joomla/Mambo Installer

VirtueMart modules

These modules enhance the shopping experience for a Virtuemart shop, they are all easy to add to your shop. We will configure them as required.

• Latest Products
• Mini Cart
• Random Products
• Featured Products
• Product LiveSearch
• Product Scroller
• Product Category Tree