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Virtuemart Accounting

The open source community provides small business owners with a wealth of products to choose from. Today, open source shopping carts provide the same functionality and capability as commercial products.

For those of you who like designing websites with Joomla, you can turn the website into an online catalog or complete online store for modern Ecommerce needs, you do not need advanced programming, what you need is VirtueMart and Joomla website and you ready to developing your Ecommerce website with easy way. Although there are many open source products available I will list 5 quality shopping carts based upon functionality, features, development community support and platform theme availability. VirtueMart is an open source programming to the needs of online stores that are used together with Joomla, VirtueMart is written in the PHP programming language.

Virtuemart is a fully functional, high powered shopping cart made specifically for Joomla. Some of the features it includes are:

• Shopper groups-this allows you to be able to offer discounts to customer A but not customer B. This is a great feature so that you can offer discounts to repeat customers.
• Multiple currency
• Virtuemart accounting
• Shipping address based tax calculation
• Unlimited number of products
• Online Catalog
• Featured products
• RSS feeds to update subscribers on new products
• Easily add and remove products

• Live credit card processing or pre-defined payment gateways like paypal, authorize.net and more