Joomla! is one of the world’s most popular content management systems (CMS) platforms which allows you to easily create and manage a dynamic website. It is widely used for developing news portals, corporate websites, social networking websites, Government applications, eCommerce, online magazines, newspapers, and many more. Most of the website owners prefer Joomla platform for their eCommerce websites. The Joomla eCommerce Extension helps the merchant to run a successful eCommerce store in the online business world. There are plenty of extensions are developed by the experienced developers in the Joomla community.

Each extension is designed with excellent features and the functionalities in order to meet the needs of all the users around the globe. These extensions are used to improve the performance of the eCommerce store. So based on the business requirements, the merchant can choose the Joomla extension for his eCommerce store website. Joomla offers rich features that help to make the website more professional such as

• Joomla offers the Media Manager tool which is used for managing the media files or folders easily and integrated into the Article Editor tool to grab the images and other files at any time.
• Supports a number of languages and UTF-8 encoding. The biggest advantage of this feature is, it allows the website owner to use one language in his website and the administrator panel in another language.
• Joomla helps to create any kind of websites that can easily attract many customers towards the website.
• It has many attractive themes and templates which helps to make the website look very rich and professional.
• No technical knowledge is needed to use the Joomla, because it is very simple to use.
• It allows the users to easily create, edit, and manage the content in the website.

Joomla VirtueMart supports multiple payment gateways such as First Data, PayPal, iDEAL, 2CheckOut, Skrill MoneyBookers, Simple SagePay, CashU, VoguePay, PayU, OKPay, Perfect Money, EgoPay, etc. First Data is one of the leading payment gateways which has more than 43 years of experience in the payment processing industry. First Data provides the payment solutions in different form based on the user requirements. It accepts all major credit cards such as Visa, MasterCard, etc.

The First Data payment gateway integrates with the Joomla VirtueMart to accept the credit card payments from the customers in the Joomla store itself. That means, it receives the credit card details from the customers on the website and allows the customers to stay on the merchant website for the complete payment transactions. So the customers never redirected to another website during the checkout process. It also validates the credit card which was submitted by the customer.

First Data initiate the Money Transfer by using the credit card details of the customers and the merchant account details which is in the configuration panel. The Joomla VirtueMart First Data Module helps the merchant to offer the secure payment transaction to their customers. It is very easy to install and use this module. By implementing this module on the eCommerce store, the merchant can attract many customers and increases the sales of his online business.