Store Features

Products/Categories:

• Add as many Products and Categories as you want
• Letterman Newsletter component
• Can also be used just as a catalogue (without cart features)
• Unlimited Category/Subcategory depth, products can be assigned to multiple categories
  
• Sort your Categories the way you like
• Sell downloadable Products like MP3s, Templates, Videos or Software
  
• Add a Thumbnail and a full size Image to every Product via your Browser
• Add Attributes like Size or Color to your Products to offer product variations
  
• Use Product Discounts (percantage/total, time limited or not) 
• Show Details & images for every Item 
• CSV Upload, (CSV Import & Export)
• Manage the Stock Level for Products and Items
• Automatically Notify Shoppers when a Product is back in Stock
• Feature specific products by setting them "on special"

Shopper Groups / User Management

• Add Shoppers and assign them to different shopper groups
• global Shopper Group Discounts 
• multiple prices can be added to a Product, each for an own shopper group or a quantity range
• Restrict "Display prices" to specific user groups
  
• Access Management: assign users to user groups like "admin", "storeadmin", "shopper" or "demo" to allow the administration by other users
  (assign products to vendors and allow those vendors to maintain only their products)

Easy Configuration/Customization

• Manage your shop through an easy and completely Joomla-integrated interface
• A "Welcome Screen" shows your daily Shop Statistics: A Summary with "number of customers", "number of orders", "5 newest customers" and so on
• capable of Frontend Administration (without having to login into the Backend of Joomla/Mambo)
• global Price/Currency Display Formatting 
• Templates for Product Display Pages 
• Extend the Shop with other Modules and Functions
• Manage different Currencies, Countries

Shipping Addresses / Rates

• Shoppers can add individual Shipping Addresses
• Fetch Shipping rates live from Intershipper, USPS, UPS, Canada Post, ...
  
• Write your own Shipping Modules using the Shipping API 

Tax Rates

• Product prices can be displayed "including tax" or not (set for each shopper group)
  
• Choose between Shipping-Address-based tax calculation (city/state & country/region)
  OR
  
• Store-Owner-based tax calculation (e.g. in european countries)
• Add your own shipping carriers and shipping rates

Payment

• Use safe SSL encryption (128-bit) and Shared SSL
  
• Capable of live credit card processing
• Supported Payment Providers:
  
  • authorize.net online Credit Card Processing (AIM)
    
  • 2Checkout 
  • PayPal (with IPN gateway)
  • Paymate
    
  • NoChex
  • WorldPay "IPN" 
  • PayMeNow
  • eCheck.net
  • eWay (XML transactions) 
  • eProcessingNetwork
  • and more...
    
• Payment Module API for custom payment modules...
  

Order Management

• Complete Order Management
• Automatically notify your customers when the Order Status changes
  
• See who has ordered: IP address storing
• Extend the pre-defined order statuses with your own ones

"Nice" Features for Customers...

• Let your customers easily search for products through a search form
• Shoppers can see, in what time a product will usually ship, on product-details page (with nice images!)
• Shoppers can manage their user accounts
• Shopper can view all their orders (and order details)
• Order Confirmation mail (customizable!) is sent to shopper and store owner

Core features

• Completely database driven site engines
• Search Engine Friendly URLs
• News, products or services sections fully editable and manageable
• Topics sections can be added to by contributing authors
• Fully customisable layouts including left, center and right menu boxes
• Browser upload of images to your own library for use anywhere in the site
• Dynamic Forum/Poll/Voting booth for on-the-spot results

Extensive Administration:

• Change order of objects including news, FAQs, articles etc.
• Random Newsflash generator
• Remote author submission module for News, Articles, FAQs and Links
• Object hierarchy - as many sections, departments, divisions and pages as you want
• Image library - store all your PNGs, PDFs, DOCs, XLSs, GIFs and JPEGs online for easy use
• Automatic Path-Finder. Place a picture and let Joomla! fix the link
• News feed manager. Choose from over 360 news feeds from around the world
• Archive manager. Put your old articles into cold storage rather than throw them out
• Email-a-friend and Print-format for every story and article
• In-line Text editor similar to Word Pad
• User editable look and feel
• Polls/Surveys - Now put a different one on each page
• Custom Page Modules. Download custom page modules to spice up your site
• Template Manager. Download templates and implement them in seconds
• Layout preview. See how it looks before going live
• Banner manager. Make money out of your site