J2Store is not a regular e-commerce component. It has some very specific features that make it ideal in very specific circumstances. It can display and sell inside an actual Joomla! article.
J2Store is free but all the payment modules need to be paid for. If you wanted to connect J2Store to PayPal, for example, you would need to pay $25 (at the time of writing). What makes this situation easy to handle is that we can install and set up J2Store and fully test it out before we make this modest financial commitment.
Make sure you have some published categories ready for the article we will use with J2Store soon. If not, see the Creating categories in Joomla! and Creating articles in Joomla! recipes in Chapter 6, Killer SEO.
This is nice and easy. J2Store is not like other carts and we will soon have it installed and ready to play with:
Visit http://j2store.org/downloads.html. The page will look like the following screenshot...