10 years 8 months ago
Hi all,
I was running Virtuemart since 2008, then I had a good experience for E-business with Joomla.
In fact I'm running 2 Virtuemart website.
www.lumieredechine.com is the one already migrated to Hikashop 2.2 / J3.1
And I'm migrating an other one, biggest, weirdest, because we hacked the VM 1.1 core for our needs...We hope Hikashop will help us to keep a clean core.
www.placedesenseignants.com
As you can see it's still under J1.5 and JA template customised.
Firts off all, before to migrate to Hokashop, I tested the 2.0 Virtuemart release.
I found Hikashop much more easy to customise than Virtuemart 2.0, I feel there is both much more freedom with Hikashop and much more logic in the engine.
It's easy to customise Hikashop templates without breaking the engine and updates.
Hikashop is also ready for responsive design, while it's not the case for Virtuemart 2.
I integrated Hikashop in Koan more quickly than I expected.
The Hikashop backend is more efficient than the VM one, while very different. For someone coming from VM, and with a good Joomla experience, it's not difficult to handle while perhaps a little strange at first look.
Hikashop is also a much more easy solution for migrating an old Virtuemart 1.1. Yes, that's weird, but migrating VM1 to Hikashop is easyer than migrating VM1 to VM2 !
Ok I did this 3 monthes ago now, then perhaps there is improvements in VM2 migrator now.
The Hikashop support is better, the team is answering quickly and gently, even if t's a small team.
There is non-free (but still GPL) Hikashop release, not so expensive (80€/year for the best bundle), with support time included.
I think the support for Hikashop is better because it's a new project with a smallest community than VM, then the dev team can handle the task.
There is lts other good points on Hikashop, like integration with Acymailing or other big extensions, affiliation engine, Seblod extension (that's an important point for me...I did not yet use Seblod but I consider it like a must to do when you webmastering Joomla E-business website).
I could write much more but it's time to go to work
Sincerely.