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.

Joomla has become one of the most popular and the effective open source content management systems on the globe, which is powering more than millions of websites on the Internet. There are thousands of techniques are followed by the online website owner to improve the performance of the Joomla website. The Joomla Components play a vital role in enhancing the functional status of the website and it helps the site owner to reach his sites full potential. A component is a kind of Joomla extension, which means the developers created the extensions based on five different categories such as Joomla component, Joomla module, Joomla plug-in, Joomla template, and Joomla language. These components are the main functional units of the Joomla.

Joomla is mainly used to design Government or Private compact websites; community or regional websites; eCommerce portals; Non-profit and organizational Web sites; Online magazines, newspapers, and publications; Corporate Web sites or portals; Small business Web sites; hotel and restaurant website; Corporate intranets and extranets; School and church Web sites, etc. Joomla allows the merchant to edit the content very fast, simple, and safe. When compared to other CMS, Joomla offers an easy way for modifying the content of the website and it also allows the merchant to do this on the merchant website itself.

Some of the most popular websites that using Joomla are MTV Networks Quizilla (Social networking), Harvard University (Educational), PlayShakespeare.com (Cultural), Citibank (Financial institution intranet), The Green Maven (Eco-resources), Senso Interiors (Furniture design), and many more. One of the main advantages of Joomla is, the Joomla based online website will compatible with all browsers. Joomla comes with a number of core components such as the content management system, contact forms, and web links.

The Joomla Form Builder is one of the Joomla component which is allows the store owner to create his own contact us form for Joomla based eCommerce store. It helps the users to create stunning contact pages in minutes without any coding. It has a very simple interface to allow users to get up and running quickly. This builder has a resizable page canvas, the user can increase the page size by dragging it.

• Work flow is the active area where the elements are placed to create forms or pages.
• The Tool Panel block consists of all available elements and controls for forms. The user can add the elements into the workflow area by dragging the available elements in the Tool Panel.
• The user has to save the templates in order to be shown on the Joomla sites.
• By using the "Loading Template Button", the user can select the previously saved templates.
• This form builder provides the spam control for the contact page designer. It offers the CAPTCHA based verification system to ensure the message is sent by a person.
• Contact Form builder integrates with mailchimp in order to allow the users to capture contacts easily.

By using this component, the merchant can easily attract more number of customers towards the Joomla website. The merchant can hire the Joomla Development Services to develop the custom Joomla component for his website. The professional developers customize the component and make it to meet all the website requirements. So choose the best and the right development services for your Joomla website and the component.

Download: Joomla Contact Form Builder