About Template System

The new template system of virtuemart allows fine grained overrides for each category and product. We have the joomla template system: http://docs.joomla.org/Template_Development http://docs.joomla.org/Joomla!_1.5_Template_Tutorial http://docs.joomla.org/Layout_Overrides_in_Joomla_1.6 http://www.spiralscripts.co.uk/Joomla-Tips/using-template-overriding-with-joomla.html The virtuemart default shop template is overriding the joomla configurations. You can choose in the configuration the template and layout for the shop, the category and the product view, you […]

How to configure avatax?

The avalara plugin is for a dynamic tax calculation for whole USA. The configuration is mainly done with a calculation rule. I. Installation – Go to your plugin manager in joomla, select type (drop-down) vmcalculation and enable “VM – Calculation Avalara Tax” – Open your virtuemart administration, =>Taxes & Calculation Rules and create a new […]

Searchable Customfield Usecase

We recommend VirtueMart sampledata for initial testing. And keep defaults if not specified or desired to change. Before you start: – Ensure show search is enabled: browse VirtueMart configuration vm > configuration > templates – Check config of menu item to display Searchable Custom Field. To be sure that the search is displayed, Browse Joomla […]

How to manage currencies in HikaShop?

As you know, HikaShop supports all the existing currencies. It has a currency manager so you can tweak each currency, a currency switcher module that you can use to allow your users to change the current currency, and a system to automatically update the currency rates. Currency Management The first thing you need to do […]

How to manage custom fields in HikaShop?

In HikaShop, you can manage all your custom fields, for the customer information, his addresses information, categories information, products information, article information and orders information. With the address custom fields, you can personalize the information you can gather from your customers for each of their addresses. With the user custom fields, you can personalize the […]

How to translate HikaShop?

HikaShop is translated in 30 languages and partially in 11 languages. By default, English is on the installation package, if you use other languages you can create your own laguage. Step 1. Log on the administrator section of your website. Step 2. Go to Components >> HikaShop >> System Step 3. Click on the tab Languages HikaShop will […]

How to setup taxes?

Description You might want to configure several tax categories for your products by going to the Categories HikaShop menu. – You might have a category food and a category electronics with the example above. Then, when you add or edit products, you can set a tax category for each. – Click on the Manage rates […]

How to configure HikaShop?

During the install process, HikaShop will be automatically configured using your Joomla Configuration but it also allows you to modify it if you want. Toolbar Check database: This tool will check the HikaShop database structure in order to fix potential issues as well as content problems like products without categories, Joomla tags, etc. Save: Save the […]

How to set up Joomla shop with J2store?

In this post, we show you how to set up a Joomla shop with J2store within minutes. I. Download, Installation, Configuration of J2store The first thing you need to do is to download, Installation and Configuration of J2store Step 1. Download J2store Component Package from J2store official website. Step 2. Go to Joomla Extension >> Manage. Then […]

How to setup J2Store Multi Currency?

J2Store multi currency feature allows you store owner to setup multiple currencies to facilitate the purchase of customers in different countries. So how to setup J2Store Multi Currency? The first thing you need to do is to decide your primary or default currency for your store. You can set the default currency by setting the […]

How to add Custom Fields?

Custom fields are created for additional details to be used in checkout processes that involves billing, payment, shipping etc. There are 2 types of custom fields: Core custom fields and Non-Core custom fields. In J2store, custom fields by default are Core custom fields and custom fields that are created by users are Non-Core custom fields. […]

How to create new currency with J2store?

J2store allows you to create many currencies according to your needs and set the exchange value of the currency manually or you can allow J2Store to fetch in real-time from the Google Financial API. (In Store configuration, you should set the Auto update currency to YES). How to create new currency with J2store? The first […]

How to setup configuration?

The configuration page has several tabs. Each one is explained in detail in this post. 😀 I. Basic Settings Before you proceed, you need to be done somes basic settings below: 1. Enable J2Store CSS If this option is enabled, J2store loads the j2store.css file for customizing the template style. First, this will look in […]

How To Set Content Plugin?

In this post we will guide you how to set content plugin, to control the display in the cart section, to show or hide the images, enabling zoom effects, etc. Step 1: Go to Extensions >> Plugin Manager. It will display the resulting window. Step 2: From the Select Type filter on the left pane, […]