We constantly update our extension features and to follow the series, we just updated the Apptha shopping Cart with default shipping methods. Now that our extension includes shipping methods, it lets you start an ecommerce store which is capable of selling any types of products, services and digital downloads. We hope, the newly released Joomla Ecommerce Shopping Cart will cater all your needs.

About the new shipping options
We have added four shipping options to the Apptha Shopping Cart for Joomla, making it a compatible Joomla Ecommerce Module for tangible and intangible products. The four shipping options comes that in default are
• UPS
• USPS
• FedEx
• Custom Shipping

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With these shipping options, you can kill the lengthy process of measuring and weighing products for accurate shipping charges. The shipping calculations are weight-based. The custom shipping method helps you gauge any kind of adjustments that is required with the shipping process, i.e. provide shipping rate descriptions, choose a shipper, select Country, enter zip code range, provide weight range for products, provide package fee etc.

The Apptha Joomla Shopping Cart is thus upgraded to a fully featured online shopping cart website extension. This fast and easy to use Joomla Ecommerce Plugin with unique and powerful features enables you to set up an elegant ecommerce store. It allows you to showcase and manage any number of products and categories, has built in support for multiple payment gateways, and allows payment through live credit card processing with many utile admin features, thus letting to efficiently streamline your online business. Use the best Joomla shopping cart extension and open an online store on the Internet in no time.

Ever dreamt of setting up a video sharing website like the YouTube/ Metacafe? Want to know how to share your music or get an online presence for your band? It’s quite simple to live your dream. Download the hottest video sharing script for WordPress: WordPress Video Gallery from Apptha ,the Best WordPress Video Plugin which now comes with a dashing WordPress theme ‘Video Stream’ which is of great quality and design.

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The WordPress Video Gallery is a video sharing WordPress extension which efficiently creates a video sharing site like the YouTube in record time. The video gallery plugin has an in-built HDFLV Player, which is unique for its video and audio quality, shows six different modules, supports video upload from YouTube, manage videos in categories, control n number of videos, flexible video settings and social share icons. The Video Stream theme accompanies the WordPress plugin Gallery to gear up the effect of a music sharing site. The WordPress music theme has professional niche theme design, perfectly carved for a music portal.

The WordPress Video Site along with the Video Stream works the out-of- the- box way, giving all sophisticated video blogger the best music destination. The Video theme gives a multitude of options to enhance the look and feel of the WordPress Video Site such as Show Video Categories in Top Menu, Video Search Option in header, widgets for popular, recent and featured videos, easy switch over to home page content, Facebook comments for videos etc.

Create a music site with the WordPress Video Gallery Plugin to pump in more music lovers!!

Purchasing via phone applications are becoming a phenomenal process in the mobile driven world. The mobile commerce has proven itself to be a successful business strategy. If you like to mobilize your Virtuemart store, embracing an instant Virtuemart mobile app is the best choice. Mob eCommerce, a ready to use mcommerce solution allows you to go about bringing your entire Joomla VitueMart store to the iPhone/Android. You will be able provide a branded native app of your storefront for the mobile shoppers. The Virtuemart mobile app will help you accomplish your vision of providing a sophisticated mobile shopping experience for your mobile-web users.

The mobile ecommerce app can be smoothly integrated to the Joomla Virtuemart and deployed in App store and Android Market. This helps you to connect with the global audience of the mobile space by getting published with your store logo in the mobile market. The ecommerce app lets your customers experience a complete shopping experience in their mobiles even on the go. It gives a clear and elegant product display, allows to browse effectively, track purchase details, share with social media and checkout hassle free. The mobile ecommerce proves to be a best solution for ecommerce store owners to increase their sales

The Virtuemart mobile app enables you to stay connected with your consumers forever. It will enable the store owners to develop an individual rapport with the costumers, push deals personally and establish a trustable relationship, sustaining the customers for the long-run. Important factors which make every online store owners to consider Mob eCommerce are

-          Self account management capabilities,

-          Google Analytics Integration,

-          Multi language support ,i.e. It can be made compatible to any language that IOS and Android support,

-          Customization capabilities,

-          Manage app submission process in the iTunes and Android market

-          Supports all mobile compatible payment gateways

-          Offer post sales support from mobile expertise.

Remember, these are only a quick list about the Mobile Ecommerce app. Engrain into the full blown technology and get ahead of the curve!!

Magento platform is rapidly rising to the top and has evolved as an ecommerce leader in just three years since its release. The open source CMS developed using PHP5 Zend Framework fits best for setting up a web store to conduct commerce online. The online shopping cart developed using Magento CMS is flexible and has an incredible features list which enables to have an online store up and running in record time. The scalable architecture and multi-store strategy are significant features that makes the magento CMS the most sophisticated solution for the online shoppers.

Running a successful ecommerce business a big challenge

With thousands of vendors entering the online world the competition gets fierce. To stay ahead of the competitors, one should keep scratching for the ‘extra factor’ that can raise a ‘WOW’ expression which will eventually brand the business as a leader and make it stand out from the rest. The huge list of magento extensions, counting 4000+ is a great resource which when chosen suitably and installed enables to tune your business with maximum efficiency.

Veterans in the Analyst space emphasizes that online shoppers leave the shopping cart because of complicated multi step checkout process. The long filling forms asking for repeated information irritates the consumers, finally pursuing them to leave the cart and shop from the next store. To tackle the challenge, use a third party extension like the One Step CheckOut. This checkout extension enables a quick checkout process with all six steps reduced to single step, thus elating everyone’s online shopping experience.

The enormous audience of Facebook actuates the necessity of Facebook integration with the ecommerce store. Giving the target consumers the facility to shop completely from your Facebook store is a smart move. Innovative extension such as the Magento Facebook App will help you bring the entire magento store to Facebook, letting the Facebook Savvies to shop from your store through their Facebook login itself. This magento extension also provides wondrous promotion for your shop by showing the purchase information on the consumers’ wall, thus reaching the consumers network in no time and zero effort.

Making use of a powerful extension such as the Magento FB Referral which auto-generates the code for f Recommend Button to appear on the product page is a brilliant way of facebook promotion for your magento store. Providing an admirable discount for the recommended product, you felicitate the consumers as well as get displayed on your consumers’ Facebook wall with the purchase information and achieve viral marketing.

In summary, these are few significant products to looks out for. Embrace the best solutions and improve your offerings. These Magento extensions certainly help you boost your store’s sales and generate maximum revenue.

To make the festive party season terrific, we’ve got a zesty discount offer this year end. We want to welcome this New Year by giving sincere thanks to all for your continuing support and so from now on get 30% discount on Contus support’s Groupon clone magento extension. Please Note the Offer is valid from 26 Dec to the 1st week of January 2012.

The GroupClone Script from Contus is the best clone script suitable for developing a group buying website enriched with exhaustively utile features. Our developers’ ceaseless efforts in doing enhancements in the script add more value to the product. The Groupon clone extension for magento is loaded with many exciting features such as the One Step Checkout process, Multi Store support, extension for Google chrome browser, option to have email subscription as default page, Shopping cart integration with SSL certificate, facebook login etc.

Also, Contus now offers 9 different classic themes out of which you can choose any one for your group buying site. Few exclusive features of the GroupClone script most appreciated by our huge client base to run business successfully are the following,

• Merchant login
• Show multiple side deals
• Add video for product display
• Image slide show for deals
• Integration of Google Maps and Google Analytics
• Subscribe/Unsubscribe to News letters
• Ability to add more customized pages
• Show Upcoming deals which gets activated on the specified date
• Spam Mail filer in the contact form
• Create new deals in advance
• Add any number of cities for different deals

We provide free post sales support for a period of 180 days. The Groupon Clone script is completely customizable as per user needs and also the Design can be customized. The Group buying Site can be optimized for the Smartphone users by getting a Mobile app for IOS and Android of your choice which is rated at very reasonable cost. The Group buying site can be also made viable to explore the social media by launching a Facebook app. Till date, the Groupon Clone extension has proved to be the most efficient clone script for group buying concept.

Get ready and avail this smacking offer from Contus Support and make your New Celebration Unforgettable!!

Needless to say, this is the time of celebration!! Christmas is knocking at the door and the entire globe comes together to render gifts and accept gifts. To spread the happiness and share the joy, we’ve come up with sizzling discount for all of Apptha’s products. Now you can enjoy 10% discount on all of Apptha’s extensions and themes. In-short, this is the best time to upgrade your website with quality extensions and plugins by saving a good amount of dollars for your celebration.

Let me give a quick run through over few of the most lauded extensions by the users for its efficiency.

One Step Checkout: - Best solution to overcome the shopping cart abandon rate. The one step checkout is a premium magento extension for your online store which helps the consumers to complete the checkout process in single step. Consumers will no more experience a complicated checkout process which frustrates the customers by repeated steps, thus eventually encouraging them to leave the shopping cart. The one step checkout extension is easy to install and configure and lets you to enable an easy checkout process in few minutes.

HDFLV Player: – One of the popular Flv player with amazing audio and video quality. The player plugin is available for all popular CMs such as Joomla/Wordpress/Magento etc. The flash video player has amazing features such as live streaming support, Book marking, Monetization with preroll, post roll ads, auto playlist option, native language support etc.

HD VideoShare: – This is a wonderful Joomla component which is suitable to set up an online video sharing service such as the YouTube, DailyMotion etc. The component comes with an in-built HDFLV Player and six free modules such as the Recent Videos, Featured Videos, Popular Videos, Related Videos etc. The component provides an easy interface for the module setting thus making the module management simple in the back-end.

Task Rabbit Clone: - Online task posting websites which allows to post task to get the job done for payable amount is new to the online industry. This ready to use Joomla script is a super cool solution if you are looking to set up an online service portal like the task rabbit. The script includes all utile features such as easy interface for the users to task post, view reviews and notification about the rabbits, allow any to enroll as a rabbit and most importantly the website administrator empowered with complete control over the task posters, users and the entire website.

Magento Facebook App: – A wondrous extension to bring the entire Magento store to facebook. The magento facebook app allows every Magento store owners to conduct commerce from the facebook. The extension allows the consumers to shop by staying in facebook by integrating the store with facebook. Any purchase via the facebook store will show a status update on the user’s wall about the purchase, thus promoting the product to the large network base effectively.

The list is endless and become nonviable for me to pen down the whole set of extensions and templates. If you would like to know more on the Apptha products, Click here.

Grab the incredible deals as they are a limited period offer. Yes, you heard it right!! The discount offer ends on the first week of January 2012. Better don’t delay!!

Wishing All Merry Christmas & Happy New Year’s Day!!

After 6 months of sheer planning, execution and hard work of more than 10 extremely smart professionals, Contus Support launched its much awaited and demanded smart phone mobile solutions Mob ecommerce. It is a star addition to the never ending products list of Contus Support.

Mob eCommerce will be a boon to eCommerce store owners and developers to take their stores to the hands of the millions of smart Mobile users across the globe. Our turnkey solutions will help eCommerce shopping cart developed in platforms such as Magento, PrestaShop, Virtuemart and Apptha Shopping cart to go mobile.

At present, Mob eCommerce will be fully functional on iPhone and Android Mobile devices. We will be launching the solutions for iPad, Honeycomb and RIM devices.

The team is working on integrating more eCommerce platforms such as Open Cart and Uber cart in the near futures. However, Mob eCommerce was designed to support any eCommerce store, it just take few more days to integrate it as custom stores.

The team at Contus Support is really excited about this launch and planning to improvise this product to reach great heights and wants it to be a game changer compared to any other eCommerce platforms.

You get find more details such as features, pricing and links at www.mobecommerce.net Please do not hesitate to provide your feedback and thoughts about this super star product.

Apple’s iPhone stands tall when compared to other smartphones due to its wide benefits and features. This is not just a phone. It is an all-in-one set offering various applications.  iPhone embraces all categories like iPhone for business, iPhone for sports, and iPhone for Videos and what not! The iPhones’ capability to store dynamic applications makes the mobile the most demanded.

Video sharing has become a general phenomenon that has crept the web world ages back. Video Sharing services acts as a welcoming boon to all music lover in particular. Getting your video sharing sites into the iPhone is a wonderful move. Optimizing the video sharing site for iPhone delights your site viewers by giving them the facility to watch their favorite videos even while moving.

Make your video sharing website compatible to iPhone with a readymade app from Apptha: http://www.apptha.com/iphone-app-for-your-video-sharing-website .  Our iPhone developers has brought the vantage by developing an instant iPhone app for video sharing site, which once installed delivers a mobile version for your website . Get the instant app from Apptha and submit it to your apple store from your account for approval. You have created an iPhone app for your video sharing service in matter of minutes. Contact us if you like to update the design or customize the app. Our developers will do the customization for reasonable price.

Attention to all kingpins of music industry!! Looking for a perfect theme oriented for music website? Find a best solution at Apptha: Music World Theme http://www.apptha.com/category/theme/Joomla/Music-World. The theme is designed specifically for music website establishment. This premade premium joomla template helps you to launch a website complimenting a high-grade design. The theme has a fashionable banner at the header with chain of slides which is truly an eye-catcher. View the joomla theme demo at http://www.apptha.com/demo/template/

By integrating the popular joomla extension – Contus HDVideoshare to the premium music template, create a website that is interesting and unique resulting in a video sharing website clone. The template enables users to register and add videos, making it more convenient and interactive. The design sports a classy layout posting latest videos in the article and incorporates various modules for displaying recent, featured and popular videos. Get the music world template from Apptha and establish an online presence for your music niche where your users would love to wander through!!

Check out the Hulu theme @ www.hdvideoshare.net/hulutheme . You can download the component with Hulu theme as default from www.hdvideoshare.net/download.php