Thread: osCommerce and Joomla...?

Realex is an additional manual plugin for os-commerce yes and no I doubt if you could combine Joomla and os-commerce easily but I'm sure you could just as easily add a Realex module toJoomla as os-commerce. Joomla is best if you have a lot of additional content besides products and os-commerce is very slow and outdated at this stage..

Many thanks Leon, but now I'm wondering how would I create a shopping cart in Joomla? Is there a module / plugin to do this?

Rgds,
J.

VirtueMart is the e-commerce plugin for Joomla. Realex do not have a plugin for VirtueMart and I am not aware of one that is freely available. I have come across some individuals (on this and other forums) who have created a Realex plugin.

Out of the Irish Payment Service Providers WorldNet TPS are the only ones who provide support for Joomla and VirtueMart. You can download their module on the VirtueMart extensions site - VirtueMart Extensions Directory - WorldNet TPS Payment Module

My website has a comparison table which indicates which irish payment service providers support which e-commerce platforms.


Dave

Originally Posted by WhitePhantom

Many thanks Leon, but now I'm wondering how would I create a shopping cart in Joomla? Is there a module / plugin to do this?

Rgds,
J.

Hi, I have built many Joomla sites, but have not good experience with Virtue Mart. It is still buggy.

Originally Posted by reverbstudios

Realex is an additional manual plugin for os-commerce yes and no I doubt if you could combine Joomla and os-commerce easily but I'm sure you could just as easily add a Realex module toJoomla as os-commerce. Joomla is best if you have a lot of additional content besides products and os-commerce is very slow and outdated at this stage..

I've developed a couple of sites using OS Commerce, and haven't experienced any speed issue. Am currently in the early development stage of another OS Commerce site, which currently has nearly 15,000 product images and no speed issues here either. I do agree that some of the core "bits" of OsCommerce are somewhat out-dated, but the big big advantage I find is all the addons that are freely available.

Many thanks for the replies.

The client in question has mentioned that while she'd be interested in taking orders online, she'd be happy to process the payments manually (as she currently does with phone orders) - so I guess if I can just add a shopping cart onto Joomla that accepts credit card numbers but not actually process the payment online, it would be ideal.

I did a search for shopping cart plugins for Joomla, and one that it came back with was SimpleCaddy, which got good reviews. Anyone used that?

Ta,
J.

Hi m8

You want OSCMax
You can manipulate the articles plug in to create new pages and it is template based. It is OsCommerce loaded with modules

Hi,

Been doing lots of reading & looking around on this, and thinking of going with Joomla and OSCommerce, integrating with Realex.

Just a few questions....

1. If my site is a mixture of info about the company and products for sale, do I need to user both Joomla and OSCommerce? Can I create static 'About Us' type pages in OSCommerce and just forget about Joomla altogether?

2. If I do need to design the site in Joomla and integrate with OSCommerce, will the OSCommerce side of things automatically use the same template that the Joomla side of the site is using?

3. Can I display different prices for different users? She's going to have prices for the general public, but also prices for her regular trade customers - can the trade customers log in and see their prices?

Thanks a lot, sorry if some of the Qs above are a bit thick, I'm trying to figure all this out as I go and don't want to head off down the wrong track at the start. Really looking forward to getting started on it when I get it all straight in my head!

J.

To the best of my knowledge:

1. If you install an OsCommerce contribution called STS Templates, you can create addditonal "non shopping" webpages to your own design.

2. I'm no expert with Joomla, but I'm not aware OS can use the Joomla templates out of the box so to speak.

3. There is an OS Commerce addon that allows for separate pricing.

** Bear in mind that, although it is relatively easy to setup a default OS Commerce site, the refining and addition of Addons is a farily steep learning curve.