One Stop Lab Shop.com is the website for Analytical Solutions and Procedures, LLC (ASAP). Owner Mark Thomas wanted a site that would reflect the nature of his business, procedures for analyzing water treatment samples. One of his hopes was that he would be able to make updates to the site when needed.

We set him up with Joomla 1.5.x as a base and added several of our favorite components to get him off to a good start. Community Builder, VirtueMart (hooked to PayPal) and JCEditor all play a part in this setup.

Community Builder (CB) manages users and profiles. Mark isn't so much interested in creating a newsletter user list. However, when anyone buys anything, they are required to login, provide basic email and address information in order to complete the sale.

VirtueMart categories, product pictures and descriptions allow Mark to be as detailed as he likes about his products. VirtueMart is also sophisticated enought that it can allow coupons and cross-product reference sales (if you like this, you might like that). He can do discounts with ease, per product or globally.

Because his products are digital, we can allow downloads from a secure folder. The links are sent automatically from the sales email. Mark also required that his products be secured, so we set up his Excel downloads secured by DoneEx (commercial license required) and PDF's secured for sale by Secure eBook (commercial license).

Quick look at what we used:

• Siteground Hosting
• Joomla 1.5
• RockeTheme Template
• JCEditor
• Community Builder
• VirtueMart
• PayPal Business account
• DoneEx
• Secure eBook