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Affiliate Program
Build your own affiliate network and attract new customers to your
storefront! You save time and money by managing your affiliate program
at the same time you manage your store. This new features makes
it easy to control commissions you pay to affiliates for both sales
and click-thrus. Both you and your affiliates have access to payout
reports and you can even choose to have your affiliates added automatically
or with administrative approval.
Inventory Tracking
Now you can track inventory levels for all the products in your
store. Your customers will know exactly when a product is in stock
or out of stock. This powerful new feature even sends email notifications
about low and sold out items. You can manage inventory levels and
notices for your entire store or for specific items. It's easy to
administer and you'll eliminate orders for products that are no
longer in stock.
Simple Administration
It's never been easier to set up and administer your storefront.
Now one wizard manages the complete storefront configuration and
displays progress to completion so you know exactly where you are
at each step of the way. You can revisit completed steps at any
time and quickly switch between advanced and simple mode administrative
interfaces.
Attribute Templates
You'll save lots of time with the new attribute template feature.
Now you can assign similar attributes to multiple products and easily
change attributes globally by updating the template. Product attributes
can still be modified without affecting the template. Plus, you
can assign attribute templates in the Product Import.
Site Traffic and Sales Statistics
Now you'll know exactly how many customers have visited your store
and how much they have spent. This useful new feature makes it easy
to track your store traffic and make smarter inventory and promotional
decisions.
Quick Selection
Easily select and deselect an entire range of products at once when
administering your storefront.
New Shipping Calculation
Now you can calculate shipping costs as a percentage of the total
order.
Store Management
Miva Merchant comes complete with a set of wizards to simplify the
process of building your store. Then, the browser-based administration
interface provides access to an array of more sophisticated tools
to maintain your catalog and inventory, manage accounts, create
comprehensive promotional campaigns, handle order fulfillment responsibilities,
and generate detailed sales and website traffic reports.
Account Management
Whether you are running a single store, or a
"shopping mall", Miva Merchant allows you to have complete
management control. You can create a store manager with full authority
and multiple user accounts to handle the normal day-to-day operations
of running your store. Also, customer accounts can be set up to
provide frequent shopper programs, discounted pricing and special
product availability.
Catalog Management
Create categories, products, and attributes within
Miva Merchant using wizards, the Miva Merchant administration interface,
or the product import utility. Use the sorting capability to quickly
organize your products for display. Create detailed product descriptions
using text and HTML and attributes can be assigned to products to
allow you to identify your products' characteristics more accurately
to your customers.
Merchandising
Merchandising is key to success of all stores
and Miva Merchant has the capability to implement a variety of programs
to increase your sales. With Miva Merchant you can associate complimentary
products to give shoppers the opportunity to
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purchase others that
are similar . You can also create an upsale process when shoppers
meet pre-defined criteria such as purchasing specific products, or
exceeding specified dollar amounts.
Pricing groups can be used in combination with select
shopper availability groups to qualify them for discounts on any
or all products in the store.
Order Fulfillment
Processing credit card payments is easy with
Miva Merchant's pre-configured payment processing solutions from
industry leaders. Miva Merchant also configures multiple sales tax
methods and provides your customers with multiple shipping options.
Checking order status is also simple with our instant order email
confirmations that are sent to both the merchant and customer.
Miva Merchant is bundled with interfaces to the following list of payment gateways and, supports over 40 others:
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Authorize.Net Payment Services v3.0
- E-Commerce Exchange/QuickCommerce 3.0
- Payment Gateway
- Moneris e-SELECT Payment Service
- GlobalCommerce Payment Gateway
- CyberSource ICSv2 Payment Services
- Cardservice/LinkPoint Payment Gateway
- Paradata Payment Service
- Verisign Payflow Link
- Verisign Payflow Pro (PaymentNet)
Through Miva Merchant's modular architecture, many
other payment processors can be integrated to a Miva Merchant storefront.
Visit our Partners section for more details.
Modular Architecture
Miva Merchant is specifically designed so developers and aftermarket
vendors can implement their own customized modules around a common
API. Once a module is developed, push-button registration automatically
integrates it into the main Miva Merchant system.
Modules can be developed for the following sub-systems:
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Fulfillment
- User Interface
- Shipping
- Payment
- Currency
- Sales Tax
- Batch Reporting
- Import / Export
- Buyer Traffic Reporting
- Intercept System Functions
Existing Site Integration
E-merchants who have sites in HTML can hyperlink directly into a
Miva Merchant e-catalog. Key e-catalog functions such as product
lookup, category presentation, shopping basket, and order forms
can be accessed as components of existing HTML-based web sites.
Security
All sensitive data can be encrypted with SSL prior to transmission.
This includes the customer ordering process and processing of orders.
Multiple layers of login permissions give a centralized manager
the ability to grant store-level permissions to different developers
and merchants.
Documentation and Support
Context-sensitive help is available for each key field in the administrative
interface within Miva Merchant. In addition, online documentation
is available on Miva's web site. Support for Miva products is available
through Miva's Incident Reporting System and user group forums.
Site Administrator Friendly
Miva Merchant requires no daily management. Installation takes less
than a minute on any Miva-enabled web server with several automated
installation scripts provided free by Miva Corporation to hosting
services and service providers.
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Miva
Merchant is a browser-based storefront and catalog development
and management system. Using nothing more than a web browser,
developers can implement dynamic data driven storefronts with
integrated shopping basket, catalog, hierarchal categories, boolean
product search, and order processing in 10 minutes or less. Miva
Merchant's architecture lets developers prepare and market a customized
look and feel, payment processing, and shipping modules. To see
a sample store in action, 
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