Checkout Your Options for Joomla! 2.5 eCommerce
Do you tend to keep using the same shopping cart extension over and over, for every Joomla project? If so – is it honestly because it’s the right solution for every client? Or is it because that’s what’s familiar and comfortable, and you know where the proverbial skeletons are buried? While it can be efficient to continue to refine your skills and deepen your expertise in only one cart, you also could be limiting yourself, and your clients, in ways you don’t realize. This presentation uncovers what you might be missing that’s available today in the world of Joomla eCommerce. This presentation is a comparative analysis of several popular eCommerce extensions for Joomla! 2.5. Deb Cinkus highlights the relative strengths of each extension, along with some of their potential downsides. This presentation provides objective insights into how different eCommerce extension features stack up against each other, to help you decide which cart(s) might be the best fit for your next project. Deb also includes some subjective considerations to keep in mind before investing your time, energy and money into learning yet another new shopping cart. -- About the Speaker -- Deb Cinkus is the CEO of Polished Geek, a Raleigh, NC based Joomla web development company she co-founded February 2009. Deb enjoys helping clients take broad, brushstroke concepts through requirements analysis and the solution design process. It’s a great satisfaction for her to help guide ideas that are barely a twinkle in a client’s eye, to become new or improved extensions and customizations for Joomla. Deb is the product manager responsible for designing the administrative power features of JoomLister, the only native Joomla component certified by eBay™ for listing management and inventory synchronization with Joomla ecommerce stores. She enjoys solving complex problems, and relentlessly works to find the elegant, and often simple, solutions that are hidden within many challenges, if one only looks hard enough. In addition to the satisfaction she gets from creating custom Joomla solutions, Deb admits to having two other addictions: sushi and the color purple. Deb holds a B.A. degree in Business Management from NC State University and a Master’s Certification in Project Management from the George Washington University School of Business. She is a certified Project Management Professional by PMI, with over twenty years of application development experience across multiple industries and platforms. Her experience also includes five years as an international IT project management consultant working with multiple Fortune 500 companies.
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Checkout Your Options for Joomla! 2.5 eCommerce
- 1. Checkout your options for Joomla! 2.5 e-Commerce Deb Cinkus, CEO of Polished Geek Updated September 2012
- 2. extensions web development custom integration PolishedGeek.com @PolishedGeek JoomLister Joomla! component Cart-agnostic design Compatible with multiple Joomla e-commerce solutions
- 3. best shopping cart? 2.5 1.5
- 5. A lot to Shopper Interaction Power Search Power Sort / Filter AS RS X P VM X X HS T DS J2S RQC K2M X X Q2C consider Backorders / Pre-Orders X X X E X Quotations X 3rd Party Product Reviews / Comments 3rd Party X X 3rd Party X X X Product Ratings X X X X X X Product Tagging X X X X Product Returns X Compare Products X P 3rd Party B X 3rd Party Related Products X X X X X X Order History X X X X X X X X Printable Invoices X X X E X X X X Address Book X X X ? Wishlists X P X Credits Management X X Quick Reordering X 3rd Party Shipping Estimate before Checkout X Ask a Question X X E X Gift Wrapping X Backend Order Entry (Admin) X X X Price Filtering P X X Back in Stock Notifications / Waitlist X X E 3rd Party Auto-Apply Coupons 3rd Party B Portal Shop Mode X X X X Coupons & Marketing Basic Coupons / Promo Codes X X X X X X X Advanced Coupons / Discounts X 3rd Party B 3rd Party Use Multiple Coupons per Order X X 3rd Party X Vouchers X X 3rd Party Rewards Points X 3rd Party X 3rd Party Newsletters C 3rd Party X X X Gift Certificates X X 3rd Party 3rd Party Affiliate System X 3rd Party 3rd Party B X X Product Discounting by Time Period X X X Category Discounting by Time Period X X Email Marketing (Post-Purchase) X Checkout One- Page Checkout 3rd Party X 3rd Party X Two Page Checkout X X X X X X Guest Checkout X X X E X X Silent Account Creation X X Auto Select Shipping Method X X Auto Select Payment Method X Social Sharing: * Twitter X X X X X X * Facebook X X X X X X * Google + X X X X Bit.ly Integration X Comparisons as of September, 2012
- 6. So many carts, so little time. Extension Eco-System Eco-System Features
- 7. So what’s in the box?
- 8. Well, we might upset a few cart vendors… VirtueMart AceShop K2mart HikaShop DigiStore ECO - SYSTEM redSHOP J2Store RokQuickCart Tienda Quick2Cart (alpha) (alpha) CORE FEATURES
- 9. Joomla! 2.5 e-Commerce Extensions VirtueMart AceShop MijoShop K2mart HikaShop DigiStore ECO - SYSTEM J2Store redSHOP RokQuickCart Tienda Quick2Cart (alpha) (alpha) CORE FEATURES
- 10. Hybrid Carts Bolt-on e-Commerce J! content or CCK catalog J2Store v1.2.1 K2mart v2 Quick2Cart Alpha J2Store.org JoomlaWorks.net TechJoomla.com
- 11. Rok QuickCart RocketTheme.com Current version 1.2 March 2012 The Think Think good stuff twice about again <
- 12. digistore iJoomla.com Current version 2.6.3 August 2012 The Think Think good stuff twice about again
- 13. VirtueMart VirtueMart.net Current version 2.0.10 August 2012 The Think Think good stuff twice about again
- 14. VirtueMart VirtueMart.net Current version 2.0.10 August 2012 The Think Think Beware the Winchester House good stuff twice about Again
- 15. HikaShop HikaShop.com Current version 1.6 August 2012 The Think Think good stuff twice about again
- 16. Tienda Dioscouri.com Alpha version 0.10 July 2012 The Think Think good stuff twice about again
- 17. redSHOP redCOMPONENT.com Current version 1.1.10 April 2012 The Think Think good stuff twice about again
- 18. AceShop www.JoomAce.net Current version 1.4.6 July 2012 (Lots of) Think good stuff again The Best Kept Secret in Joomla! e-Commerce
- 19. AceShop www.JoomAce.net Current version 1.4.6 July 2012 (Lots of) Think good stuff again
- 20. MijoShop www.mijosoft.com Current version 1.1.4 September 2012 New AceShop fork – August 17, 2012
- 23. The three most terrifying words a client can say
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- 25. COUPONS MULTI- EMAIL MARKETING ONE PAGE CHECKOUT LINGUAL CATEGORIES DOWNLOADS DELIVERY ATTRIBUTES SEO STOCK O SHIPPING SUPPORT PAYMENT OPTIONS R D ADMINISTRATION E MULTI-CURRENCY R PAYMENT WISHLISTS NEWSLETTERS SEF
- 26. Deb Cinkus,CEO THE POLISH deb@PolishedGeek.com Donald Champion,CTO THE GEEK PolishedGeek.com @PolishedGeek donald@PolishedGeek.com
- 27. Deb Cinkus,CEO THE POLISH deb@PolishedGeek.com Donald Champion,CTO THE GEEK PolishedGeek.com @PolishedGeek donald@PolishedGeek.com