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Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By : John Horton
Book Image

Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By: John Horton

Overview of this book

VirtueMart is a premier eCommerce solution powered by Joomla!In Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook you will learn how to create a full-functioning and attractive eCommerce solution with VirtueMart. You will be shown how to install and configure VirtueMart, how to set-up and run your store day-to-day as well as configure and customize the look and feel of your store. With this book by your side, you will be able to overcome as problems setting up, administrating and customizing your eCommerce store! This book finishes with blueprint projects meaning that getting started with VirtueMart is even easier for the novice and aspiring site builder or developer. If you have always wanted to create a professional-looking store, but are worried about the complexity and difficulty involved, then this book is for you! With numerous recipes, practical tips and solutions Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook will take you through every step required to achieve eCommerce success.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring VirtueMart currencies


Offering multiple currencies makes the customer feel like you are making an effort to cater for them. It also makes browsing and assessing value much easier for them. There are no technical challenges for us, VirtueMart takes care of the conversion to match the correct price and PayPal will pay you in your native currency as usual.

Getting ready

Make a list of all the currencies you want to accept. You might like to briefly look at the Removing the currency not defined error recipe from Chapter 1, Setting Up Shop.

How to do it...

If you need to add more currencies than the one default currency that we configured in Chapter 1, Setting Up Shop, then the following steps explain how to do it.

  1. Select Currencies from the Configuration menu.

  2. From the Display drop down box choose 400. This will make all the currencies visible on one page and make things easier for us as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Select the top selection box to select all the currencies as shown...