What you will get for using VirtueMart 3?
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE |
MERCHANTS & SHOP BUILDERS |
Improved page load speeds |
The most advanced VM available to date |
The ability to add products and their variants to the cart directly from the category browse view | Increased backend performance |
Simpler checkout process helping to reduce cart abandonment | Simplified process for adding and implementing product customfields |
Predicted shipping costs prior to full address entry | Enhanced parameters for displaying related products and categories |
Cart contents for logged in users are stored to allow checkout at a later time | Additional parameters for the views in the joomla menu configuration |
For multi lingual stores, we now have a language fallback to the default language for non-translated text | Easily add and configure your own shopperfields directly useable in the shopping cart |
Increased ability to Restrict/Manage employee access to key functions using ACL | |
ENHANCEMENTS FROM A TECHNICAL PERSPECTIVE | DEVELOPERS |
Compatibility with Joomla 3 | Uses only the JFormFields |
Clean architectural structure | Reduced jQuery conflicts as we now mainly implement the same as Joomla 3.4 (jQuery v1.11.0,jQuery UI - v1.9.2, legacy complete) |
Increased stability | Core and extensions are now working with a new abstraction layer |
Increased performance both for the front and backend | The xml files have also been updated to J2.5 style |
New internal program caches reduce the sql queries for the most used tasks by more than 25% | New JavaScript Handler for ajaxified product details reload |
Reduced dependency on Joomla where appropriate | |
TEMPLATE DEVELOPERS |
CREATE YOU MARKET PLACE |
Easily maintain a consistent appearance across multiple views using new Sub-layouts | Different modes for multivendor |
Improved CSS gives a starting point for use in responsive designs | Full front end administration |
Download VirtueMart 3 (core and AIO) Download Full installer: Joomla + VM3 installed
From all of this information, we hope you can understand more about this new VM version. We also take it into account to vary our VirtueMart Joomla templates in order to bring you the best performance products. Keep in touch with us to get the latest information immediately.
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