Customers love to window shop. Online, window shopping means looking at the merchandise, checking the reviews, and thinking over the price. But the price for the item, which Virtuemart does a great job of showing, is only part of the cost. Shipping can be a little or a lot, and customers like to know what the shipping costs will be before they start the checkout process. Virtuemart has needed this capability for years, which is why CorFun has now delivered it!

Virtuemart Shipping Estimator is a component for Joomla 1.5 from CorFun, Inc. that lets shoppers in your online store estimate the shipping costs of their basket prior to checkout. After installing the component,  your shoppers will automatically see a message at the top of the cart for checking shipping charges as shown below:

No custom coding or manual changes required. Simply install the component, and your shoppers can start estimating their shipping charges!  Virtuemart Shipping Estimator works with Virtuemart 1.1.7 and higher, and comes with one year of free upgrades per order. At only $19.95, this component is a bargain to buy and own.

Currently, Virtuemart Shipping Estimator works with the following Virtuemart Shipping Modules:

• Standard Shipping (Demo Standard Shipping by clicking here.)
• United States Postal Service (USPS) (Demo USPS by clicking here)

Virtuemart Shipping Estimator works for all national markets. You can define the default country, and even define all the literals that show up to the shoppers on the frontend. Using other than English literals is a breeze. The screen capture below shows how easy the literal set up is:

Virtuemart Shipping Estimator can even inform the shopper of the minimum order size for free shipping as shown below:

And the system can optionally show a message if minimum order size for free shipping is met and automatically suppresses the link to check shipping charges as shown below:

Additional shipping modules are due out soon. The next planned release is Australian Post in June 2011.

For more information, visit the Virtuemart Shipping Estimator product details page.