This page holds my personal reviews, and use of Joomla Components.

SEF Advance

1. Purchase for $52, 40 euros.  

2. Right after purchase, checked email, and email was already in my inbox with application.

3. Installed without errors.

4. Made change to htaccess file, turned on SEO settings in joomla global config, and saved settings.

5. Created a new page, menu item, and verified that it is working.

6. Will continue advances settings later.

EasyPay

The reason I purchased this for a customer is because I needed something that would allow the customer to easily add links to paypal items.  joomla, since it uses an html editor, attempts to edit HTML entered into the page, thus it is hard for a non-technical person to easily implement. So, I decided to go with a commercial/purchased product.

1.  Purchased for Easy Paypal, from hybing, for $10.

2. Right after purchase,  checked email and was able to download software almost immediately.

3. Installed without errors.

4. Made configuration changes, and selected a specific paypal image that customer wanted.

5. Had to look up how to use the app, but it was very easy, literally as easy as inserting this into a Joomla page:  {easypaypal}.

6. The problem was the customer wanted multiple entries with the same picture. So , I investigated and got the additional parameters to have each image have a specific set of variables that took the user to the specific item page on paypal's site.
Here is the example:

Item A:{easypaypal itemname=Item A,itemnumber=1,quantity=1,amount=10,tax=0, currency=USD,cancel_return=http://website.com}

Item B:{easypaypal itemname=Item B,itemnumber=1,quantity=1,amount=20,tax=0, currency=USD,cancel_return=http://website.com}

7.  These entries worked beautifully, thus the purchase was well worth it.

AllVideos (JoomlaWorks)

This is a great paid component for easy addition of media like Youtube videos. I know that Joomla allows for multimedia insertion, but for implementing on sites where non-technical people will be editing the pages, nothing I've seen beats this.