Joomlashack customers often ask us how to build an eCommerce store using Joomla. The best way to achieve this is by installing one of the Joomla shopping cart extensions listed in JED.
In this blog post, you will look at 10 options to build your online store with Joomla. This list is not created in order, so the best extension is not at the top of the list. Instead, we recommend that you download and test a variety of options.
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#1. VirtueMart
- Price: Free.
- Description: VirtueMart is probably one of the most popular Joomla e-commerce extensions. It is very feature-rich and flexible. As one of the oldest e-commerce Joomla extensions, VirtueMart has a very large user community.
- Link to the demo site.
- Link to the JED listing.
#2. Eshop
- Price: $39.99
- Description: Eshop is powerful and responsive Joomla shopping cart that is easy to learn and customize. Besides the Eshop extension, its team also offers three eCommerce templates.
- Link to the demo site.
- Link to the JED listing.
#3. HikaShop
- Price: Free for the Starter version, €49.95 for the Essential version, and €99,90 for the Business version.
- Description: HikaShop has been built with simplicity and flexibility in mind but it also has built-in advanced customization capabilities.
- Link to the demo site.
- Link to the JED listing.
#4. J2Store
- Price: Free for the Core version or $39 for 3 months for the Pro version.
- Description: If you know how to create articles in Joomla, you already know how to create products with J2Store. It uses Joomla articles for products pages.
- Link to the demo site.
- Link to the JED listing.
#5. JoomShopping
- Price: Free
- Description: JoomShopping is easy to use and intuitive free Joomla e-commerce extension. Despite its free price tag, it offers some advanced e-commerce features, such as store data import and export, customizing PDF invoices and integration with payment gateways.
- Link to the demo site.
- Link to the JED listing.
#6. Sellacious
- Price: Free for the limited Free version. From $29 per month and up for the premium versions.
- Description: Sellacious claims to be a Joomla e-commerce extension aimed at small to medium enterprises. It does offer both single- and multi-vendor features. Do keep in mind that this extension currently ships as a Release Candidate.
- Link to the demo site.
- Link to the JED listing.
#7. jMarket
- Price: 30-day free trial.
- Description: JMarket is another Joomla e-commerce extension with built-in multi-vendor capabilities. At the time of this writing, its website is persistently down. The extension itself seems to be abandoned: as of this writing, its last update was nearly two and a half year ago.
- Link to the demo site.
- Link to the JED listing.
#8. Instant Pro Shop
- Price: €49
- Description: Instant PayPal Pro Shop is a good option if PayPal is a preferred payment gateway for your Joomla store. This e-commerce extension allows you to sell tangible, or digital products, as well as membership subscriptions.
- Link to the demo site
- Link to the JED listing.
#9. Quick2Cart
- Price: from $33.99 and up.
- Description: J2Cart is a flexible and robust Joomla e-commerce extension with multi-vendor and multi-store capabilities. With J2Cart, you have a choice to create your products either in the extension's native Product Manager or in Joomla articles or to use one of the CCKs, such as K2 or Zoo.
- Link to the demo site.
- Link to the JED listing.
Summary
Joomla has many great eCommerce options. Sites like Shopify can cost $50 to $100 per month, but you can be up-and-running on Joomla for a fraction of the price.
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