Miva Merchant: Miva Merchant is a browser-based Storefront Development and Management system. Build and manage a complete storefront with a built-in shopping cart and credit card processing.Miva Merchant is a dynamic browser based storefront development and management system that allows merchants to create multiple online stores from anywhere in the world where there is internet access.

Miva Merchant has a complete set of wizards to simplify the process of building your store. The browser based administration interface provides access to an array of more sophisticated tools to maintain your catalog. Upsell merchandising and order fulfillment are included. And Miva's modular architecture enables you with deep-down customization for your storefront.

Storefront Administration made easy.

Easy to Get Started
We want to make e-commerce easy for you. That is why we came up with the Simple Administration. Designed for e-commerce beginners, the Simple Administration is a series of wizards that walks you step-by-step through the process of creating an online store. Each wizard contains detailed instructions on what your steps are. These wizards are also accessible individually through the Advanced Administration. Included Wizard modules:

• Create Store Wizard
• Look and Feel Configuration Wizard
• Add Product Wizard
• Add Product Attribute Wizard
• Add Category Wizard
• Shipping Configuration Wizard
• Payment Configuration Wizard
• Sales Tax Configuration Wizard
• Fulfillment Configuration Wizard
• Affiliate Configuration Wizard
• Add Affiliate Wizard

Easy to Advertise
Once you have your storefront built, how do you get people to shop it? With Miva Merchant, you have the tools necessary to get your storefront known, all built right into the software. Click on each service to learn more.
Miva Marketplace
Miva Marketplace offers an easy-to-use, integrated system for creating keyword ads placed throughout the vast FindWhat.com distribution network. The higher you bid relative to your competitors, the more prominent your position is within the list of ad results.

Miva Submit
A key component to increasing your website traffic and achieving web business profitability is to use the best optimization tools. With Miva Submit, you will have immediate access to 12 exceptional optimization and enhancement tools. Run the user-friendly tools, and you will be closer to achieving higher ranking on the top global search engines.

Miva Mailer
Miva Mailer lets you send targeted email messages to your Miva Merchant store customers. An interface built into the Miva Merchant administration makes it possible for store administrators to send text or HTML formatted messages to customers and affiliates, using bandwidth and mail server resources provided by the Miva network.

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.
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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.

Enhanced Data Export / Import
Export core product fields in a format to Import (back) into Miva Merchant, upload to Miva Marketplace Mass-Listing Wizard, and for Miva Merchant Provisioning. Also, while importing products from a flat file, assign a products to multiple (existing) categories, separating category codes with commas.
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Quick Selection
Easily select and deselect an entire range of products at once when administering your storefront.

Easy to Ship Orders
FedEx, USPS, and UPS shipping calculators are included with Miva Merchant. These modules retrieve shipping rates directly from the service providers based on the weight of the order and the distance it will be traveling. In addition to these automatic shipping calculators, we have included a number of table-based shipping modules to help you offer a range of shipping options to your customers. With the table-based shipping modules, you can build your own shipping rate tables to meet your needs.
Included shipping modules:

Automatic Shipping Calculators:

• FedEx Shipping Cost Estimate
• UPS Domestic Shipping Calculator
• U.S.P.S. Online Rate Calculation
• Table-Based Shipping Calculators:
• Base + Weight Shipping
• Flat Rate Shipping
• Minimum or Weight Shipping
• Price Table Based Shipping
• Quantity Based Shipping
• Weight Table Based Shipping

Easy to Calculate Tax
Configuring sales tax can be a difficult task for a storefront administrator. But with Miva Merchant, we have covered all possible ways sales tax could be calculated, and built tools to help you charge the right amount. From automatic sales tax percentage calculation with CertiTAX to entering your own sales tax or VAT charges, Miva Merchant covers all bases.
Included Tax modules:

• CertiTAX Real-Time Tax Solution
• State Based Sales Tax
• Shopper Selected Sales Tax
• Canadian VAT
• German VAT
• Generic VAT

Easy to Sell Worldwide
No matter if you are selling your products in the US, or anywhere else in the world, Miva Merchant can display your product prices in just about any currency format. Preset currency templates for US and European currency make it easy to adjust your storefront for those markets. With the Generic Currency module, you can define your own currency layout.
Included Currency modules:

• US Currency
• European Currency
• Generic Currency

Easy 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.

Included Wizard modules:

• Create Store Wizard
• Look and Feel Configuration Wizard
• Add Product Wizard
• Add Product Attribute Wizard
• Add Category Wizard
• Shipping Configuration Wizard
• Payment Configuration Wizard
• Sales Tax Configuration Wizard
• Fulfillment Configuration Wizard
• Affiliate Configuration Wizard
• Add Affiliate Wizard

Easy 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.
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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 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 has a wide variety of built-in payment modules, designed to work smoothly with industry leaders. These payment modules were designed in partnership with the Payment Gateway providers, to ensure security and ease-of-use. Just turn it on, enter your account information, and the payment module does the rest.

Miva Merchant is bundled with interfaces to the following list of payment gateways and, supports over 40 others:

Included Payment Gateway modules:

• Authorize.Net
• Cardservice/LinkPoint
• Check Payment
• COD
• Credit Card Payment with Simple Validation
• CyberSource
• debit-it!
• E-Commerce Exchange/QuickCommerce
• e-ValuCheck
• GlobalCommerce
• Innovative Gateway Solutions
• Lynk Internet Processing
• Moneris e-SELECT
• Paradata Payment Service
• PayPal
• PayQuake
• Rodopi
• US Merchant Systems
• Verisign Payflow Pro
• Verisign Payflow Link

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

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