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 for use 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 [ for more Features & Extensions

 Download xampp software package from:  windows.html windows.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-win 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:   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_ tgz, into the new ‘virtuemart’ folder  Unzip the virtuemart bundle file ‘VirtueMart_1.1.4_eCommerce_Bunde_Joomla _ tgz’ into this new ‘virtuemart’ subfolder 

 Enter : ◦ ◦ Select en_US English ◦ Click Next ◦ Pre-Installation Checks should be all Yes ◦ Click Next ◦ Click Next again to accept the License terms