Hey all,
I'm building a site for a buddy who's trying to get his company off of the ground. He wants an online store to sell a few products from the current website. From the general Joomla community consensus, VirtueMart seems like the best way to go. Of course, I have a few questions:
-Does VirtueMart offer a way to list variations on a single product description? For example, if he were selling t-shirts that came in a possible 50 colors, could a drop-down selection list be added on one product, as opposed to displaying 50 different colored shirts products with the same basic style?
-How extensive is the discount customization feature? For example, would this be a possible application - If a customer buys an item from the shoes category, and an item from the socks category, could they receive a discount on the total of the two items?
-Ideally, I'd like to build the store on a local development server. How complicated is it to import the store to the already existing live site, and is there any good documentation available on the process?
-I'm including 128-bit SSL on the hosting plan (GoDaddy). For someone (myself) who has no experience building a site that needs to transition between http and https, how big of a challenge will I be facing...any good docs on the operation?
I'm sorry for being another person to drop an extremely loaded question on the board, but when customers' money is involved I get real paranoid. Any feedback would be very appreciated.
Thanks in advance!