In this chapter we look at four Joomla! e-commerce components. The first two HikaShop and RedShop stand as fully fledged e-commerce solutions and potential alternatives to VirtueMart.
The next two perform very specific aspects really well. J2Store allows you to have products and cart neatly integrated into a Joomla! article, the second MyMuse facilitates the selling of digital files and is especially well suited to music downloads. They are not replacements for full VirtueMart functionality and they do not integrate with VirtueMart but do seem to work nicely alongside but separate to VirtueMart.