New user: What version, about upgrading, and more.

[MarkWagner]

Hello - any help is appreciated here.

I am new to Joomla and VirtueMart.  I have version 1.5 of Joomla on an install I inhereted.  I will find out about upgrading it.  I do not know what version of VirtueMart I have, can anyone tell me where to look?  If I want to upgrade, which the security notices indicate I do need to, will it be seamless from my present install?

Can I set up VirtueMart to do FedEx shipping calculation, and payment through PayPal, without requiring a user login?

Thanks for your help!

Mark

[AH]

Version of VM

Sign in to backend and go to the VM component - the version is shown there on the left menu

Look at the migration component available in the extensions are of VM site - then test a conversion using a test setup of your site

Yes you can allow customers to pay without registering either on your shop or with paypal

No idea regarding Fedex.

[MarkWagner]

Thanks, its v 1.1.9 stable.

Appreciate the help!

Now to find out about FedEx.  For FedEx shipping clients, there is a substantial discount if the shipment uses the FedEx shipping calculator.  I think I had read VirtueMart integrates with that, which would be great.  I bet that's another area on the forums here though...

Mark

[Milbo]

There exists two plugins for fedex. One of our clients is using one. If the integrated migrator does not work for you, I recommend to use the migrator of daycounts http://extensions.virtuemart.net/import-export/virtuemart-migrator-detail .
It is also at least one of the best joomla updaters. All data isnt touched, so you can create a subdirectory for example and test a fresh j2.5 installation from scratch. The migrator imports it then from the old installation. Just important to use a fresh db, or at least different suffix.

[AH]

Agree with Milbo

Daycounts' Migrator seems to be the best available!

[GJC Web Design]

Although would mention that I have yet to have any problems/failures with the in-built migrator after 30+ migrations - none though are particually complex VM sites though