CMS and E-commerce

Legal Issues

Like any other business in this world, like it or not you got to deal with legal authorities eventually. The first time you build your own business company, you’ll be faced with series of legal papers need to solved, and that’s just for starter.

Although in some countries an online business its not quite popular, so that there only little limitation on legal issues, but you got to know your area, cause might be someday you’ll need it after all.

Deciding your business

The first step on creating either its an online business or even offline business, you need to decide what is your business gonna be? To help you decide your business type, you should have goals or targets to achieve.

Off course we all knew that the main goal is getting money from our running the business, which we could do it in many different ways such as selling goods or services, site advertising, etc.

Virtue-Mart

VirtueMart is an open source e-commerce component for Joomla!. It enables Joomla! site administrators to build a product catalog, configure payment and shipping methods, and allows the selling of products online.

Like any other shopping cart (such as osCommerce, Zen Cart, Magento, and so on), VirtueMart allows administrators to configure the shop, configure the selling workflow, configure the payment and shipping options, configure product categories and catalog, and manage customers and orders. However, the difference between VirtueMart and shopping cart applications like osCommerce and Zen Cart, is that

Joomla and E-commerce

There are various types of components and modules for Joomla! which can be used for e-commerce. Due to a large number of components available, e-commerce in Joomla! is not only limited to selling products, but it can also adopt other forms of e-commerce activities such as running affiliate shops, charging money for access to premium content, running an auction site, and so on.

Affiliate carts are one form of e-commerce where you show products from other shops or catalogs. Visitors to your shop can browse the products on your shop and buy it from that shop or catalog. You don’t need to manage the inventory, fulfill the orders, process the payment, and such things. You get the commissions for each sell you generate through your affiliate store. For example, Amazon has a great affiliate scheme which you may be familiar with.

Joomla

There are many of CMS, but this time I’d like to talk more about Joomla. Other CMS system which are related to Joomla is Mambo, the code itself based on PHP and MySQL as the core database system.

The word Joomla comes from Swahili, which could be translated as “all together” or “as a whole”. From the word we do know that its related to community and forums, that inspire OpenSourceMatters, Inc. creating this free and web based CMS.