New Features In Miva Merchant 5.5

There should be an e-commerce solution that is flexible, reliable, expandable, and easy to use. A solution that is clear and straightforward, yet powerful enough for the most demanding e-commerce aficionado.

Store Morph Technology provides complete control over the look of your store with customizable page templates. Display what you need; hide what you don't. Place buttons, product displays and category lists where you need them. It's all up to you.

Version Histories

Many features that support store customization save each update in version history. This gives you the freedom to play and experiment with designs, or save a collections of themes, with the security of knowing you can revert to any other version.

Redesigned Administration Interface The MIVA Merchant administration interface you've grown to know and love is now better than ever. We've redesigned it with a whole new color scheme, simpler navigation controls, updated wizards, and new functionality.

Attributes with Weight

Some product attribute options may weigh more than the base product. In MIVA Merchant 5, you can account for those changes. With new weight controls on attributes, all attribute prompts and options can have an individual weight that is added to the base product weight. So now your "buy in bulk" option can weigh 5 pounds more, ensuring proper shipping calculation.

Import Customers and Categories

Flat-file import for products is a very helpful utility. MIVA Merchant 5 now adds to that functionality with both customer and category import modules. Quickly build your list of customers, or organize your product catalog.

Automatic Updates

Gone are the days of manual module updates and frequent software upgrades. We've implemented a new software update server that streams module updates and new product features directly into your MIVA Merchant 5 administration.

Multiple Database Formats

The power of SQL: now supported by MIVA Merchant 5. Multiple database access schemes are now available. Choose from the new MIVA-SQL format for standard installations, or connect your store with a MySQL (Native) database.

Smart Commerce Libraries

New smart commerce library detection in MIVA Merchant 5 makes it easier than ever to see which payment and shipping modules are supported by your web host's server. If a certain commerce library is not available, its respective module will not be displayed as available.

Administrative Interface

• 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.

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.

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").

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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