VirtueMart Fan with some suggestions

[juanvilchez]

I would like to have an easier, streamlined purchase experience for my clients. And also some suggestions for the backend. I hope you find them inspiring, and I assume that maybe other people would find them practical.

1 ) I can't find the changelog for 3.0.14 -> 3.0.16.

2 ) Any suggestions for a modern template which doesn't look like Windows XP 3D style buttons and form fields?

3 ) In Spain, the province/state field doesn't need to be asked if the postal code is introduced, as the first two digits of it are indicators of it. For example with postal code 18005, the province will be always Granada. The same happens with 18xyz.
Here is the full list: http://www.codigopostal.org/provincias/

4 ) I would like to be able to generate a PDF, an email or a CSV of a particular order that would include only some of the fields of it. For example, the information needed is not the same for the guys in charge of the warehouse and shipping that for the accountants. Or for me, that I just need the date in which the order was placed, the province and the total price for statistical purposes.

5) I would like to have the possibility of using a different template for the checkout page. Because I'm happy with my Joomla and Virtuemart products templates but I would like to have a different page layout for the checkout.

6 ) In the checkout page, in the quantity selector, it would be much more useful and visual instead of having the refresh icon, to have a plus button and a minus button which automatically update the product number and price.

7 ) The products page layout is a little bit messy. I would like to be able to select in a grid, the number of columns and rows of articles to be shown at one glance.

8 ) The demo page ( http://demo.virtuemart.net/ ) it's still on a Joomla 2.5.28

9 ) For old customers (who are not computers experts) it would be nice to be able to fill in at the same time, on a two column scheme, the billing address and the shipping address. Right now you can only fill in one of the two addresses, and then go back again and fill in the other.

10 ) I have been visiting some of the live stores for ideas and examples... Just to find that some of them are not using Virtuemart anymore.

11 ) In the article description it could be useful to be able to use a table with the same design and layout as the template. By now I make my own tables introducing HTML code directly in the article description but it would be much easier if they were automatically generated or styled according to the template in use.

[jenkinhill]

1. VM3.0.16 has had a "soft" release so far so mostly experienced developers will install it and be able to identify any remaining issues. It was released quickly because of Joomla breaking backwards compatibility with the release of J3.5.1. There will be a list of function changes & additions in due course, but if you look on http://dev.virtuemart.net/projects/virtuemart/repository/revisions you can check all the file changes.

2. Templates are personal prefence items. Try https://www.virtuemarttemplates.eu or https://www.virtueplanet.com/joomla-templates   - these developers also work with the VM development team.

3. Make the State unrequired or unpublish it.

4. Maybe use template overrides, or one of the 3rd party VM invoicing extensions.

5. Use template overrides or one of the one page checkout plugins. See http://bfy.tw/5Mrh

6. Use template overrides and code it however you wish.

7. Use template overrides and code/style it however you wish.  Joomla 2.5.28 is very stable, Joomla3.x keeps changing. VM3.x works on both versions.

8. Use template overrides or one of the one page checkout plugins.

10. Why are you trying to copy others?  Many used to use old versions VM and for their own reasons have changed to Magento etc.

11. Use template overrides. You can also use content templaters such as this one or something more powerful such as Seblod.

Now read the 4th point here:  http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=104795.0

[lindapowers]

3 ) In Spain, the province/state field doesn't need to be asked if the postal code is introduced, as the first two digits of it are indicators of it. For example with postal code 18005, the province will be always Granada. The same happens with 18xyz.
Here is the full list: http://www.codigopostal.org/provincias/

VM is developed by europeans, germans mainly and not focused for spanish only. If you don't require the province you can simply mark it as unrequired as we do with Rupostel One Page Checkout. The fact that the transport company uses the zip code doesnt mean this info is useless actually it helps us.

Have you seen the UK zipcodes? the americans? the canadians? the australians?

Thats why a fantastic plugin like this exists to cover global solutions https://open-tools.net/virtuemart/shipping-by-rules.html


4) Already possible with CSVIpro, we do it.


The rest of your requirements are style/element distributions needs which can be solved by overrides as Jenkinhill suggests + most shops will use one of the many one page checkout solutions available and there are many templates available to make websites look better.

Regards