FEATURE LIST
Powerful Store Design
Tools
- Complete control over
store design with new Store Morph
Technology™.
- Use pre-defined pages,
or add your own custom pages.
- Specify the position of
each component on every store page.
- Easily insert third
party module components into store
pages.
- Change content of HEAD
and BODY tags on each page individually
or globally.
- Use the ready-made
design for your store, or create a
unique look based on the default
template.
- Point + Click mode
control over fonts, colors, buttons,
default navigation bar, product layouts,
and more.
- Advanced mode control
over navigation bar code, buttons,
product layouts, login links, and more.
Easy-to-Use
Administration Tools
- Web accessible
administration interface. Nothing to
install on your computer.
- Version history records
each change for many store design
components.
- Version recall enables
you to experiment, and create alternate
versions, without risk.
- Navigation tree directs
you to all aspects of your online store
settings.
- Links to the store
provide an easy way to view changes as
you work.
Catalog Management
- Unlimited products.
- Unlimited categories
and sub-categories.
- Create detailed product
descriptions with text or HTML.
- Create user-defined
custom fields for each product, such as
ISBN, UPC, Manufacturer, etc.
- Assign thumbnail and
full-size images to each product.
Inventory and
Merchandising
- Low Stock and Out of
Stock inventory levels for each product.
- Display customized
inventory level messages for each
product or universally.
- Hide out-of-stock
products from customers.
- Receive email
notifications for low or out of stock
products.
- Associate unlimited
related products.
- Offer upsale products
based on order total, items purchased,
or both.
- Define product
characteristics with attributes.
- Add additional prices
or weight to individual attribute
options.
- Multiple attribute
display types, including drop-down
boxes, radio buttons, and text fields.
- Use attribute templates
to assign sets of attributes to multiple
products.
- Changes to an attribute
template can be copied to all products
referencing it.
- Set order minimums
based on price, quantity, or both.
- Display custom message
for not meeting order minimum.
Customer Management
- Encourage repeat
business with customer accounts.
- Provide customers easy
access to their account details and
addresses.
- Create price groups to
offer special pricing for specific
customers.
- Use availability groups
to offer hidden products to specific
customers.
- Assign customers to one
or multiple MIVA Mailer mailing lists.
Affiliate Programs
- Promote your store by
working with affiliates.
- Set affiliate
commission levels based on order total,
traffic referred, or a combination of
both.
- Online affiliate
accounts enable affiliates to see
earnings, retrieve store links and
banners, and view program agreement.
- Track all affiliate
earnings and payouts through a simple
affiliate management system.
Additional Marketing
Services
- Work seamlessly with
MIVA Mailer, the mailing list management
and email distribution system.
- Fully integrated with
MIVA Marketplace for online
pay-per-click advertising, powered by
the MIVA Performance Marketing Network.
- Take advantage of MIVA
Submit, a suite of search engine
optimization and web presence
enhancement tools.
Order Processing
- Batch all new orders
and run batch reports.
- Orders provide customer
information, payment and shipping
methods, and product details.
- Process all orders
through your payment gateway remotely.
- Order encryption
provides increased security for customer
payment details.
- Generate confirming
e-mail messages for customers when
orders are placed.
- Receive e-mail
notifications when new orders are
received.
- Notification emails can
be copied to a third party for
drop-shipping, among other uses.
Localization Settings
- State-based sales tax
and shopper selected sales tax settings
available.
- Calculate sales tax for
Canadian VAT, German VAT, or customize
with a generic VAT setting.
- Use US currency format
or European currency, with conversion
rates.
- Create any customized
currency format.
- Specify product weights
with customized weight label.
- Customizable state and
country lists can be modified for use in
any part of the world.
Logging and Analytics
- Generate an ELF2
formatted log file for use with the
Urchin E-Commerce module for the Urchin
5 software.
- Track customer page
visits with MIVA Access Log.
- View statistics for
revenue, number of orders, and top
selling products.
Shipping Calculation and
Payment Processing
- Get automatic shipping
rates from UPS, USPS, and FedEx.
- Create custom rate
tables based on quantity, order total,
order weight, and more.
- Accept credit cards
with a variety of built-in payment
gateways, including Authorize.net,
VeriSign, CardService International,
CyberSource, and many more.
- Ability to accept and
process credit cards manually.
- Compatible with other
payment methods, such as PayPal,
electronic checks, and COD.
- Smart commerce library
detection automatically tells you which
shipping and payment modules are
supported by your web host.
Data Access
- Import product,
customer, and category data for faster
storefront setup.
- Export products,
customers, orders, affiliates, and
categories from storefront.
- Additional MIVA Synchro
add-on provides real-time product,
customer and order synchronization with
QuickBooks.
- New MIVA-SQL technology
uses the power of SQL for enhanced
database performance without a
SQL-compatible server.
- Configurable for use
with MySQL database systems.
- XML-based provisioning
for automatic store setup.
"Getting Started" Wizards
- Easy-to-use wizards to
walk through every aspect of your
storefront to help get started.
- Wizards provide
assistance for getting adjusted to using
an e-commerce solution.
- Simple Mode
administration interface provides a
step-by-step walk-through of all
required parts of an online storefront.
Modular Architecture
- Easily accepts add-on
modules from third party developers.
- All modules are built
around a common API and plug into the
appropriate sections automatically.
- Third party module
settings configured directly in your
administration interface.
- Large module
aftermarket provides unlimited new
features for storefront.
- Context-sensitive
Extras buttons throughout administration
interface direct you to MIVACentral.com
for suggestions of related third party
modules.
- Module interface
provides access to all installed
modules.
- Remove built-in modules
you do not wish to use.
Store Access and
Maintenance
- Create unlimited user
accounts for administrator access.
- Assign access groups to
limit user access to specific store
administration duties.
- Maintenance mode
enables you to close the store for
maintenance.
- Customizable
maintenance message displayed to all
visitors while store is temporarily
down.
- Automated streaming
updates means never having to upload a
patch or perform an upgrade again.
- Connection to the MIVA
update server notifies you of available
patches, and prompts an optional
automated installation.
Documentation and Support
- An overview guide,
"Getting Started as an Online Merchant,"
provides a readable, magazine-like
introduction to the concepts and
language of online shop keeping.
- Comprehensive online
Help system, with more complete and
relevant information, enables users to
find answers quickly.
- Context sensitive Help
icons throughout the administration
interface guide you to relevant online
help guides.
- Detailed instructions
not only explain how to accomplish the
task at hand, but also provide
information to help the user understand
how to use the tool most effectively in
their business.
- Active, friendly user
communities enable idea sharing and
skill building for businesses using MIVA
Merchant, MIVA Merchant online store
designers, and programmers who create
innovative new modules to extend the
functionality of the product.
- Phone and email
technical support from trained MIVA
technicians available through MIVA
Service Club.
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*The MIVA Merchant
features listed above reflect those features
that come built-in to the MIVA Merchant
software when purchased directly from MIVA
Small Business. MIVA Merchant software
purchased or leased through a MIVA Hosting
Partner may differ in feature set.
*The listed
features pertain to the current version,
MIVA Merchant v5.0 |