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Welcome to the V²Configurator wiki!

This is the official documentation to the V²Configurator Project. At this time the Wiki is open. You are welcome to add documentation when you find it lacking. All you need to do is to be logged into your GitHub account and click the edit-button to start editing!

Demo

Snapshot of V²Configurator after a Ready Config was selected

Feature Overview

Developed Features

  • Assist Shop visitors in Configurations
  • Part Dependencies (customizable without coding)
  • Lightweight (HTML5 + CSS3 + JS)
    • No PHP, No MySQL
  • Full Customization without coding
  • Easy to Install. Your own Configurator will work in under 5 min
  • Compatible with GitHub Pages, Joomla, WordPress, etc ...
  • Single click ready made configs
  • Own and 3rd Party parts
  • Price Calculations
  • Check Out (Own Parts and 3rd Party Parts)
  • Build in Gallery
  • Build in Data Sheets
  • Build in Comparison Tables
  • Fully responsive. Works on: ( Mobile | Tablet | Notebook | Desktop )
  • Flexible, common structure
    • Configurator Hierarchy:
      • Product ►Part ►Option
    • Part Sub Sections (each can be disabled)
      • Choice
      • Comparison Table
      • Advice
      • Gallery
      • Datasheet

Features in Development

  • Multi Language Support
  • Multiple 3rd. Party Shops
  • Shipping Cost Calculator (Shipping | VAT | Customs | Countries)
  • Multiple 3rd Party Shops

Features in detail

Features in detail

Hello World in under 5 minutes

Our Mission is to provide you a light weight, well documented and richly featured Configurator. The proof is in the pudding. Find it our for yourself to have your own hosted Configurator with your Products on it in under 5 minutes → Hello World in under 5 minutes

Who needs it

  • Who runs a site selling stuff with customization options

What it does

V²Configurator assists your visitor in choosing configuration options. Each option may have lots of information, such as pictures, data sheet, advice, etc. Say some option have dependencies, e.g. you pick the small case and then the big heat sink option is disabled, as it does not fit. Say when the customer is done with the configuration, he wants to see his shopping list and total cost as a result. For convenience reason you may even include third party products if they are required to build a complete configuration.

Our Use Cases

Assist Crowd Funding Backers

Both Indiegogo and Kickstarter do not provide tools to assist the backer / supporter to configure a solution. V²Configurator fills this gap

Assist our Shop customers

We use VirtueMart, which also does not come with a Configurator. Once we have completed the Crowd Funding Campaign, we will use the Configurator to assists customers in the same way. Just in the end the configuration points to items in our shop versus perks in Indiegogo / Kickstarter.

License and Collaboration

GNU GPL V2. It means you can use it for your private and commercial projects at no cost. You are encouraged to make improvements to the code. In the words of Linus Torvalds: You are invited to take from this Community and in return you need to give back. If you make improvements of general use, please be so kind to do so by GitHub Fork and subsequent Pull Request. We will work with you to include your new feature. This will also safe you time down the road. Once we come out with a new version and a feature you like, you do not need to add your improvement again.

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