Miva Merchant 4 Hosting

Miva Merchant

Internet Merchants who need a complete Ecommerce system use Miva Merchant to build and manage their online stores. More than just a shopping cart solution, Miva Merchant is a robust storefront development and management tool that fully integrates the following powerful features:

Miva Merchant has upgraded to version 5, but we still support all versions of Miva Merchant 4! Host your Miva 4 store with us today!

Miva Marketplace 2.0

Powered by FindWhat.com, the new Miva Marketplace system is designed to be more powerful and versitile for the online advertiser. For more info see www.mivamarketplace.com

• Custom product/customer fields module
• Global product display layout
• PayFlow Pro and Miva Payment upgrades.

Shipping for Free Orders

New store settings makes it possible to configure shipping charges for items priced at zero. Left unchecked, orders for free items don't charge for shipping...

New CVV2 Message Field

All payment gateways supported in Miva Merchant 4.21 now have a new field, for text or HTML..., which can be used to provide instruction for the shopper about where to find the CVV2 (Customer Verification Value) number on the back of their credit card.

 

New Miva Marketplace Administration

Miva Marketplace controls have been completely re-designed, including interface enhancements, better reporting & listing status and much more.

Product Listing Status

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Miva Marketplace is an automated marketing service integrated with Miva Merchant that drives targeted shoppers to Miva storefronts.

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

New for Miva Marketplace

New "Global Clickprice" control, enhanced category searching, and other administration enhancements.

Also, merchants can now use a special "Mass Listing Wizard" to register multiple product listings in the system. Miva Merchant now offers support for the UPC (Universal Price Code) and ISBN (International Standard Book Number). New fields have been added in Miva Marketplace to accomodate these identifiers. Some Miva Marketplace venues use the ISBN and UPC to compare prices among shopping sites.

Miva Payment™

A new easy-to-implement, highly reliable credit card processing service that is built into Miva Merchant. Capabilities include real-time authorization, web-based Business Center account management, Virtual Terminal for manual processing, comprehensive reports, and transaction searching.

New Payment Modules

Lynk® Payment Systems -

With Lynk, merchants can accept debit, credit, EBT cards and checks quickly, securely and cost-effectively. Online merchants can also rely on Lynk's innovative e-funds distribution, and stored value cards.

ICPS™ -

The Internet Cash Purchase Systems is the only Internet payment system that gives shoppers the option of using cash to purchase products and services online. The online shopper simply goes to one of thousands of ICPS PayCenters to pay.

Additional Security for Administrative Login
IP address verification for the computers used to log into your store's admin interface.

At v4.14 and later, Miva Merchant is built to run on the new Miva Virtual Machine. It runs faster and more efficiently than ever before.

With Payment Info Encryption Supported for all payment modules, the new encryption uses a combination of Blowfish (128-bit keys) and RSA (1024-bit keys). Each order is issued a randomly generated key.

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

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

New for Miva Marketplace

New "Global Clickprice" control, enhanced category searching, and other administration enhancements.

Also, merchants can now use a special "Mass Listing Wizard" to register multiple product listings in the system. Miva Merchant now offers support for the UPC (Universal Price Code) and ISBN (International Standard Book Number). New fields have been added in Miva Marketplace to accomodate these identifiers. Some Miva Marketplace venues use the ISBN and UPC to compare prices among shopping sites.

FedEx® Shipping Module - Provides real-time calculation of FedEx shipping rates for orders in your Miva Merchant store. This new feature uses your existing FedEx account info to create a "Meter Number" which identifies your Miva Merchant installation as a shipping client.

USPS® Shipping Module - Provides real-time calculation of US Postal Service rates for orders in your Miva Merchant store. For more information on this new feature.

UPS® is now supported through a special compiled module for Miva Merchant 4.16

Miva Mailer conveniently emails the people (customers, affiliates, etc.) within your Miva Merchant system relevant information about your site and special offers. The service automatically manages unsubscribes and lets you create an unlimited number of mailing lists to reach your customers and affiliates.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 products to multiple (existing) categories, separating category codes with commas.

Easily select and deselect an entire range of products at once when administering your storefront.

Now you can calculate shipping costs as a percentage of the total order.

Miva Merchant comes complete with a 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 and inventory, manage accounts, create comprehensive promotional campaigns, handle order fulfillment responsibilities, and generate detailed sales and website traffic reports.

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.

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 is the 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.

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:

• New with Miva Merchant v4.16 - Lynk®
• New with Miva Merchant v4.16 - ICPSsm
• New - PayPal™
• New - debit-it!
• New - eValuCheck
• New - Innovative Gateway Solutions
• New - Rodopi Payment Gateway
• New - U.S. Merchant Systems
• 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.