CHAPTER 11Joomla! E-commerce
Although Joomla is used for a large number of hobbyist web sites, with the proper extensions it can become a phenomenal commercial platform for e-commerce. On the Web, e-commerce has become big business—particularly for B2B (business-to-business) transactions. To tap into the worldwide customer base that the Internet makes available, you can configure your Joomla site to allow for online purchases or catalog display.
This chapter will focus on a particular open source e-commerce solution called VirtueMart. VirtueMart is a popular web store application with over 600 registered online stores that use its technology to offer online shopping (and over 1.5 million downloads of the software). To show you how VirtueMart ...
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