Joomla CMS for eCommerce ???

[tcraw1010]

I am curious as to whether anyone here has ever used a Content Management System such as Joomla, Mambo or Drupal for their eCommerce business.

I know that there is a free Shopping Cart extension/module called VirtueMart that plugs right into Joomla and seems pretty decent - though I wonder whether or not it can be expanded as needed.

Any thoughts, insight. experience ??

[tcraw1010]

Anyone ???

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[thedark]

although experience is not my own, it appears that CMS built in ecommerce capabilities might work fine for trivial stores. so far i know, these build in capabilities are not extendable in functionality.

so, if you need a simple store - CMS likely to help. as say paypal can. if you would need shipping, taxes, special pricing or something fancy - you better go with a specialized software. in most cases there's an option to integrate sessions & customer profiles (if applicable) of the CMS driven part and a shopping cart part if the code is open. takes some development though.

[mav1972]

Originally Posted by tcraw1010

I am curious as to whether anyone here has ever used a Content Management System such as Joomla, Mambo or Drupal for their eCommerce business.

I know that there is a free Shopping Cart extension/module called VirtueMart that plugs right into Joomla and seems pretty decent - though I wonder whether or not it can be expanded as needed.

Any thoughts, insight. experience ??

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Hello guys!

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