Miva Merchant Announces 5.5 Released

Please take a moment to click on the image » for a preview of Miva Merchant 5.5 Admin Interface. This is a major improvement to version 5 that will yet again establish Miva Merchant as the best-of-breed e-commerce platform–bar none. Here are just a few of the most noteworthy improvements:

• A highly intuitive Admin interface focusing on click-efficiency
• Seamless import/export of all items and pages to/from Dreamweaver™
• Built-in SEO features including full control of DOCTYPE, Product, and Category Metatags, and search-friendly links
• The ability to build a new store entirely on the new skins-enabled CSS framework.

Most importantly, nothing you are doing now as a 5 storeowner will be negatively impacted by the new release, which was one of our driving principles. You’ll be right at home as soon as you update to the new product, and start benefitting from it immediately.

New Feature: Revamped UI Miva Merchant UI has been redesigned to focus on "click efficiency". Merchants may now submit the form by clicking the Enter key on Search/Pagination boxes, QuickFind and the Order-Number based sorting features. New Feature: SEO Settings *Tab can be found in the Domain Settings. Merchants have the ability to configure the global settings for .htaccess rewrite rules. Merchants have the ability to Enable/Disable Sitemap (Creates a new page "SMAP"). New Feature: META Tag Settings for Products and Categories *Tabs can be found on individual Product & Category screens. Merchants can specify the META Description & META Keywords for each product/category. Added new component "prodctgy_meta". Updated PROD & CTGY pages to load prodctgy_meta component. New Feature: Launchpad *Settings can be found in the top frame "Configure Shortcuts" link. Merchants have the ability to configure 5 internal/external Shortcut links + Home (starting) page. QuickFind feature (Allows quick searching of products/categories/customers/orders). New Feature: Frameworks *Tab can be found in Store Settings. Merchants have the ability to Add/Apply/Save/Delete the state of their runtime as a framework. Additional framework(s) provided by Miva Merchant will be available in the upcoming streams. New Feature: Dreamweaver Import/Export. *Tab can be found in Store Settings. ***Requires Miva Merchant Dreamweaver Plugin. Designers/Merchants have the ability to Export their pages into Dreamweaver format. They can then edit those pages in Dreamweaver and import them back into Miva Merchant. Import/Export options added to the Pages screen.

New Feature: Number-based sorting control. Categories and Products have the ability to sort the order through keying in the desired order numbers instead of clicking the up & down arrows. New Feature: Product Attribute Template. *Tab can be found on every Page the product_attributes component is assigned. Merchants now have the ability to alter the Product Attribute Template. New Feature: Customer HTML-Based Email. *Settings can be found on the Order Fulfillment Settings screen. Merchants now have the ability to create HTML Template based emails. New Feature: Product List "Product Columns" field. *Option can be found on any Product List page (PROD, PLST, CTGY, SRCH). This field allows merchants to specify the number of columns they wish to display their products in. New Feature: Enhanced Order Processing. Orders and Batches are now displayed in a formatted Batch Edit List (Newest first). Create Batch has been moved to the Orders Tab. Added Next/Previous/First/Last buttons to Edit Order screen. External Payment Links that were listed under Order Processing previously, are now listed in their own menu Payment Links. New Feature: Enhanced Page navigation. Edit Item screen now contains the Pages tab. Merchants may now assign/unassign pages from an item. Next/Previous/First/Last buttons were added to Edit Page screen. New Feature: External CSS files. *Settings can be found in the Head Tag Content/CSS tab. Merchants may now upload one or more external CSS files. CSS files may be used as a "Skin" in Miva Merchant CSS Framework (coming soon).