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Has it ever happened to you that you added some items in your shopping cart and later forgot about purchasing them due to some reason? Virtuemart Shopping Cart Reminder is a tool which can help you in increasing your online sales drastically. It checks the shopping cart at regular intervals(specified by you) and if it finds that some user(s) added some items in their cart but didn't purchase then it'll send them a reminder to come back to site and complete the purchase. This feature is common in most of the modern shopping cart software now a days. We hope Virtuemart will have it in-built soon, till then you can use ours.
You'll be able to configure the reminder email template to suit your needs. Please note that this tool is built as an standalone application since it requires cron/scheduled tasks functionality to send the reminders automatically as per the defined interval. As of now, Joomla doesn't have an in-built cron manager(might be a good feature in future Joomla releases). However most of the web hosting providers support cron jobs hence you shouldn't find any issues with it. Configuration and setup of the tool is fairly simple. Just modify the configuration parameters in package configuration file, create a cron to run the packaged file and you are goofd to go in 5 minutes.
This tool has been tested with Joomla 1.5 and VM 1.1.3
NOTE : Please go through the README file in the downloaded package for detailed instructions. Also, note that this is not a standard Joomla extension(component, module or plugin) hence it can't be installed via Joomla installer interface. It's built as a standalone application using Joomla framework. Below you can see the default reminder email template and generated email ourput. You can easily customize it as per your needs by editing the email template in configuration file. In the mail, you can inset the name of the user, login user name, site name and site URL as you can see in the email below. DEFAULT EMAIL TEMPLATE Dear [UNAME] You wished to purchase an item from our online store - [STORE], however looks like you were in hurry and had to leave the store without purchase.
The item is still waiting in your shopping cart. Your login user name is [LOGIN]. Please visit our store at [URL] and login to your account to continue with the purchase. Thank You!
Store Staff [URL]
DEFAULT GENERATED EMAIL REMINDER AS PER TEMPLATE
Dear John You wished to purchase an item from our online store - Joomla Extensions Demo Store, however looks like you were in hurry and had to leave the store without purchase.
The item is still waiting in your shopping cart. Your login user name is admin. Please visit our store at http://www.sopantech.com and login to your account to continue with the purchase. Thank You!
Store Staff
http://www.sopantech.com
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VM Shopping Cart Reminder
