A shopping cart that combines the catalog and ordering process into an easy-to-use interface through which your customers and prospects can easily select merchandise, review their selections and make their purchases.

Miva Merchant is bundled with the e-commerce hosting packages.

Some of Miva's features: 

Miva Marketplace

Miva Marketplace is a new automated marketing service that drives targeted shoppers to Miva Merchant storefronts.

Merchants instantly add their products into a powerful search engine and "shop box" displayed on popular Web sites. Miva Marketplace generates sales and builds lasting relationships with buyers who return again and again.

Affiliate Program

Build your own affiliate network and attract new customers to your storefront! 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 choose to have affiliates added automatically or with administrative approval.

Inventory Tracking

Great for you and your customers. Know instantly whether a product is in stock. Receive notifications of low or sold-out items. Track inventory for specific items or your entire store. Managing inventory has never been easier or more failsafe!

Simple Administration

Now one wizard manages the complete storefront configuration process and displays progress so you know exactly where you are each step of the way. You can revisit completed steps at any time and quickly switch between advanced and simple mode.

Attribute Templates

Now you can assign similar attributes to multiple products and easily change attributes globally by updating the template. Or modify product attributes without affecting the template. And, you can assign attribute templates in the Product Import. Quick, easy, done.

Site Traffic and Sales Statistics

Make smarter inventory and promotional decisions with these statistics. They report exactly how many customers have visited your store and how much they have spent—keys to many business 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

Let Miva Merchant’s wizards help build your store. Then maintain your catalog and inventory, manage accounts, create comprehensive promotional campaigns, handle order fulfillment responsibilities, and generate detailed sales and Web site traffic reports through Miva’s browser-based administration tools.

Account Management

Create a store manager with full authority and multiple user accounts to handle the day-to-day operations of running your store. Set up customer accounts to provide frequent shopper programs, discounted pricing and special product availability. Managing an online store was never easier.

Catalog Management

Import products or employ the Miva Merchant administration wizards to create categories, products, and attributes within Miva Merchant. Organize your products for display using the sorting tool. Create detailed product descriptions with text and HTML.

Merchandising

Smart merchandising boosts sales. And Miva Merchant helps you implement a variety of programs designed to upsell, offer complementary products, and identify groups qualified for discounts. Information is power. Use it.

Order Fulfillment

Miva Merchant is the pro at figuring sales tax, shipping options, checking order status and processing credit cards. It’s bundled with VeriSign PayFlow Pro and supports over 40 others.

Through Miva Merchant's modular architecture, many other payment processors can be integrated to a Miva Merchant storefront.

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:

  • 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 and processing. 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 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.