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Use caution when considering any modules from modStop. Their support has been reported by umpteen Miva Merchant users as suspect and worse. Some of their modules are simple and shouldn't require support. Please contact us with any questions concerning them or their modules.
If you use - or plan to use - Vertical Response for your mailing campaigns, now you can give your customers the ability to opt-in automatically directly from any page inside Merchant!
The module will automatically opt-in their email address. Vertical Response will then send a second followup for the required double opt-in.
The Cascading PopUp! Menu system replaces the standard Miva Merchant category tree with a JavaScript/DHTML based pop-up menu bar. The menu is highly configurable, and provides numerous display options. The menu system provides both vertical and horizontal layouts, and allows the storeowner to create additional custom menus.
Key Benefits
PopUp style menu navigation
Horizontal and vertical menus supported
Ability to limit menu depth to a set number of levels
Menus can be positioned relative to any HTML element on screen
Highly configurable display options including:
Pixel width and height of each menu level
Transparency/opacity for each menu level
Border thickness and color for each menu level
Font color for each menu level
Background color for each menu level
Font type & size with bold options
Roll-over settings for each menu level
Drop shadow display option
Vertical and Horizontal spacing control
Advanced menu system features
Menu pop-up and hide timing controls
Two-speed menu scrolling when list rolls of bottom of screen
Scrolling speed controls
Configurable and uploadable menu scrolling indicators
Additional menu items can be added at top and bottom of existing category tree
menus, with additional bonus menu additions when using level-limiting
SB21/ModStop style “hidden” categories are retained
Special “non-clickable” parent categories can be configured
Can use static JavaScript library, uploadable for browser side caching and faster page
loading
Menus can be configured to allow customer to disable and re-enable pop-ups in the event
of browser incompatibilities
Cross-browser and cross-platform capable; all major browsers supported
Cross Browser Compatibility: The DHTML menu system has been tested to work with the following browsers:
IE6/Win
IE5/IE5.5/Win
IE4/Win
NS4/Win
Mozilla/Win (e.g. NS6)
Opera5/Win
Opera6/Win
IE5/Mac
NS4/Mac
Konqueror2.2.2/Linux
Incompatible Browsers: All v3.x browsers as these do not support DHTML. Customers with incompatible browsers should be provided the option to view the store without DHTML using the provided enable/disable features.
Please note: The Cascading PopUp! Menus (Advanced) module re-constructs the Miva Merchant category tree and therefore, is best used on storefronts that do not have an extremely large number of category groupings (i.e., thousands of categories).[Product Manual][Marketing Brief]
The Best Seller Display module interfaces with the internal Miva Merchant 5.0 statistics module to provide your customers with similar best seller information previously only seen by the store owner in the admin interface. It goes a step further by breaking down the best seller information by category. Your customers will not see exact numbers sold, only relative ranking. As they see the best sellers listed, the display provides them with a convenient link to the individual products so that they too can see what all the excitement is about. You can reset the statistics through the existing admin statistics interface so that your best sellers can be kept current as product inventory changes. This module is for MIVA Merchant 5.x. We also have the corresponding module for an older version of Merchant.
Through admin, the store owner can place the token for the display on whichever pages he/she desiires. You can specify the number of best sellers that will display in the box, e.g.top five. The CTGY screen is slightly different from the other screen displays, as it shows the best seller in the category that the customer is viewing at the time. You have the option of excluding specified category screens that you do not want to display the best sellers. You can also vary the color, size and fonts used in the display box. You can even specify that the module will obey the availability group settings. This will limit the linkage if your best sellers are only available to certain customers and those customers have not logged in first. The upside is that it does not show detailed product info for products that are not availableto all customers. If you choose to allow all customers to view all products in the best seller list, the module will ensure that only eligible customers can link to the products.
You can exclude specific products from the display. This is useful if you have products that are special sellers, e.g. upsell products.
The layout optionally allows you to include the thumbnail and price of each best seller item. You can set the height and width for your images, hence you should try to keep all of yourthumbnails at about the same aspect ratio. You can vary the layout at each of the screen type so that some can be vertical while others are horizontal or no display at all. Using the render tokens, you can insert the Best Seller Display just about anywhere and on any screen.
The default display is easily configured in the module's admin screen and will display the best sellers either vertical or horizontal. For those with more experience in using the Miva page templates, you can use the custom render token and make all of the table layout configurable by processing the array that the module creates.
The module currently fully supports the mivasql configuration of MIVA Merchant 5. It also supports MySQL as long as load balancing has the data stored on the single MySQL server. This would be the case in most of the server setups. For those that are not, we are in the process of converting the code for that remaining, very small group of MIVA Merchant stores. At this time we have not had a problem. Modules will be moved to the top of the queue as needed.
The ultimate Miva Merchant autoresponder module - send specialized emails at the completion of the order. These emails are in addition to or in place of the standard emails which are sent at order completion, e.g. merchant notification, customer confirmation and even vendor specific notification.
Features: (some features are only in the compiled version)
- Autoresponder - specialized emails at the completion of the order
- Merchant notification and customer confirmation
- Vendor and product specific templates
- Include coupons or promo codes when specific products ordered
- Easy to use checkbox configuration of vertical or horizontal layout emails
- Highly configurable free form template layout emails with embedded tokens
- HTML or text email formatting
- Archive flat file is created for each template, easily track sales activity
- Mail Manager Report module can display the flat file contents by time period or product
- Ship to, bill to and other email addresses for each template
- Send emails to your company's internal departments, e.g. shipping
- Emails to web enabled cell phones
- Open architecture so that other events can also trigger an automated response
- Send a welcome email before the order completes and include a promo code
- Include 3rd party data with tokens, e.g. Addendum responses
- Display shipping and payment invoice messages
- Create packing slip and label emails
- Ship to country address formatted according to the applicable country's postal recommendations
- Restrict email to a specified order dollar value range, reward big spending customers with a coupon
- Restrict email to a specified list of countries, thus allowing for language specific emails
- MMUI and OpenUI compatible. No editing of the mmui.mv is needed and no OpenUI hook points are used
In admin, you create one or more template emails. Each
template can be different, i.e. what it displays, how the
data is oriented on the screen/paper, and what product(s)
triggers the autoresponder. Most responses are triggered
by the product codes purchased. Some example uses:
Email to any of your
drop-ship manufacturers listing the Ship To
address and the products to be shipped if using real time credit
card authorization. The module will sort out which drop shipper gets which emails, including listing the products to be shipped. You can still use the module if you are not using real time authorization, but you would send the email to your pending mailbox until manual processing verified the charge, then forward to the drop shipper. This would save hand entering the order. In addition to the email, an archive flat file is created which you can use to easily track sales activity related to each of your drop-ship manufacturers.
Email to Ship To or Bill To or both thanking them for
a
donation to your sponsored charity on your site.
Email to
your shipping department listing Ship To address
and products ordered if using real time credit card
authorization. Products section can be torn/folded to
result in a shipping label with your company address included. If not using real time authorization, use the pending mailbox technique similar to the drop shipper scenario above.
Email a
promo coupon code if a customer purchases a specific
product or from a list of products
Email service, warranty, shipping and contact information on
specific products or
product lines
Send an email to your cell phone's text messaging
when orders are placed in your store (requires a cell phone
plan that assigns an email address to your phone)
You own a mall with multiple stores within the mall. Those
store owners rent the stores from you for a percentage of
their gross. Use mail manager as an audit tool to track their
sales. In addition to the autoresponse email, mail manager
produces a flat file with order ID, date, product name,
product code, quantity, price for each, and price extended.
Periodically retrieve that flat file and import into a spreadsheet
for easy analysis.
With compiled Merchant, the included Mail Manager Report
module can display the contents of that flat file
through admin. It can filter the report by specific time
periods (daily, weekly, monthly) within reason. The limits
of your PC or server may prevent very lengthy reports for
excessively long time periods. It can also limit the
report to only one product code. Since the templates can
be designed for each vendor, you can create individual
vendor flat files with a corresponding report for each
vendor.
Literally, you can have a different autoresponder for every
product in your store.
However, Mail Manager has a somewhat open architecture so that other events can also trigger an automated response. For example:
Send a
welcome email before the order completes, but after
the customer completes the registration process (for those that
create an account)
Send a thank you for
rating a product (using our Rate This system)
along with a coupon code for taking the time to do so
Essentially any event in the mmui, oui or even another third party module can trigger an email which you write for the
particular event
You can use the
ifvar script or var token in these "other event" emails. For example, generate a unique
coupon code with a module token and insert it in the welcome email to give the new customer an incentive to buy now. If you don't have an account with us yet, sign up and you'll see how it works.
As you can see, the uses of this Mail Manager are quite
diverse. Some of the variable features configured through
admin for each template are:
In the compiled version is a free form template using an
extensive list of
tokens and mini-scripts to customize the emails that
are sent at the time of order completion. They can vary
from mimics of the standard
merchant notification and customer confirmation emails to brief order notifications for better acceptance within cell
phone emails. The emails can be plain text or HTML formatted emails for better readability. You can change the fonts, colors, layout and even add images to your confirmation and notification emails. You can include data from other 3rd party modules, like Addendum, by using tokens. You can also create label emails with the "ship to" country address formatted according to the applicable country's postal recommendations when using the HTML template.
Customize your email and store's physical address
Designate email recipient, i.e. Ship To and/or Bill To and/or fixed email address
List full or partial Ship To and/or Bill To address
Restrict email to a specified order dollar value range, reward big spending customers with a coupon for their next visit
Restrict email to a specified list of countries, thus allowing for language specific emails
Write a different body for each of the email templates you add
Link to one or more product codes or entire inventory with wildcard
No need to go to each product to link the email, a copy and paste from a flat text file will add hundreds instantly
I'd be surprised if you find that this capability
exists anywhere in any mid-priced shopping cart system.
Autoresponders that fill in the blanks are one thing, but
this is a store owner, pre-planned autoresponse for a
specific product. Within your store, you could have dozens
of different responses (individual or grouped) or a
wildcard response for all of the products. You can use it
to make connections not directly related to sales, yet
linked to a specific sale.
Customer buys a kayak from your store. Tell them about
the kayak camp 20 miles from your store and give them the 800 number of the guy with the info about a big get together next month.
Customer buys an orchid from you which would lead you to believe he/she may have a specific variety you have been looking for. You autorespond with your want list for your nursery in hopes of finding the needle in a haystack.
As you can see, this list could be endless. Targetted,
intelligent autoresponders are designed to increase your store's
business and decrease the amount of time employees spend on sending out product specific, followup emails.
MMUI and OpenUI compatible. No editing of the mmui.mv is needed and no OpenUI hook points are used. Thus, module conflict does not occur. The pre-formed templates are easy to configure and do not require programming experience. In the compiled version of Merchant (4.14 and newer), you
also have the option of using tokens and mini-scripts in free form templates. An example free form template is included with the install documents.
The ultimate Miva Merchant autoresponder module - send specialized emails at the completion of the order. These emails are in addition to or in place of the standard emails which are sent at order completion, e.g. merchant notification, customer confirmation, vendor specific notification, and even cell phone emails. It also can send welcome emails when a new customer account is created. This module is for MIVA Merchant 5.x. We also have the corresponding module for an older version of Merchant.
Features: - Autoresponder - specialized emails at the completion of the order - Merchant notification and customer confirmation - Vendor and product specific templates - Can limit sending based on a specific attribute/option code for a product - Include coupons or promo codes when specific products ordered - Optionally require an input to allow the email, e.g. a response from Addendum - Easy to use checkbox configuration of vertical or horizontal layout emails - Highly configurable free form template layout emails with embedded tokens - HTML or text email formatting - Archive flat file is created for each template, easily track sales activity - Mail Manager Report module can display the flat file contents by time period or product - Ship to, bill to and other email addresses for each template - Send emails to your company's internal departments, e.g. shipping - Emails to web enabled cell phones as abbreviated messages - Open architecture so that other events can also trigger an automated response - Can resend emails when the customer knows and enters their order number and email address - Use render token to send an email from any pagein the store - Send a welcome email before the order completes and optionally include a promo code, customer login and password - Include 3rd party data with module tokens, e.g. Addendum responses - Display shipping and payment invoice messages - Create packing slip and label emails - Ship to country address formatted according to the applicable country's postal recommendations - Restrict email to a specified order dollar value range, reward big spending customers with a coupon - Restrict email to a specified list of countries, thus allowing for language specific emails
Feature Details. In admin, you create one or more template emails. Eachtemplate can be different, i.e. what it displays, how the data is oriented on the screen/paper, and what product(s) triggers the autoresponder. Most responses are triggered by the product codes purchased. Some example uses:
Email to any of your drop-ship manufacturers listing the Ship To address and the products to be shipped if using real time creditcard authorization. The module will sort out which drop shippergets which emails, including listing the products to be shipped. Unlike some other vendors' drop ship notification modules, this one only includesthe products belonging to the associated drop shipper. Thus a drop shipper doesnot see the products being supplied to the customer by other drop shippers when the order contains multiple product sources. Youcan still use the module if you are not using real time authorization, but you would send the email to your pending mailbox until manual processingverified the charge, then forward to the drop shipper. This would savehand entering the order. In addition to the email, an archive flatfile is created which you can use to easily track sales activity related to each of your drop-ship manufacturers.
Email to Ship To or Bill To or both thanking them for a donation to your sponsored charity on your site.
Email to your shipping department listing Ship To addressand products ordered if using real time credit card authorization. Products section can be cut/folded to result in a shipping label with your company address included. If notusing real time authorization, use the pending mailbox technique similarto the drop shipper scenario above.
Email a promo coupon code if a customer purchases a specificproduct or from a list of products
Email service, warranty, shipping and contact information on specific products or product lines
Send an email to your cell phone's inbox when orders are placed in your store (requires a cell phone plan that assigns an email address to your phone).
You own a mall with multiple stores within the mall. Thosestore owners rent the stores from you for a percentage of their gross. Use mail manager as an audit tool to track theirsales. In addition to the autoresponse email, mail manager produces a flat file with order ID, date, product name, product code, quantity, price for each, and price extended. Periodically retrieve that flat file and import into a spreadsheetfor easy analysis.
The included Mail Manager Report module can display the contents of that flat file through admin. It can filter the report by specific timeperiods (daily, weekly, monthly) within reason. The limits of your PC or server may prevent very lengthy reports for excessively long time periods. It can also limit the report to only one product code. Since the templates canbe designed for each vendor, you can create individual vendor flat files with a corresponding report for each vendor.
Literally, you can have a different autoresponder for everyproduct in your store.
However, Mail Manager has a somewhat open architecture sothat other events can also trigger an automated response. For example:
Send a welcome email before the order completes, but afterthe customer completes the registration process (for those thatcreate an account)
Send a thank you for rating a product (using our Rate This system)along with a coupon code for taking the time to do so
You can use the ifvar script or var token in these "other event" emails. For example, generate a unique coupon code with a module token and insert it in the welcome email to give the new customer an incentive to buy now.
Use a render token to send an email from any page in the store. For example, put it on the product page to send a specific email when a specific product's page is viewed by a customer who is logged in. The email goes to their password recovery address (but could be bill to or ship to address). If you want it sent to a hard coded address, e.g. yours to monitor traffic,you would put your email address in the 3rd parameter of the token. The uses of this feature are endless. Send a coupon to entice customers to buy when they visit specific product screens. Tell them about other products related to the one they just viewed.
As you can see, the uses of this Mail Manager are quite diverse. Some of the variable features configured through admin for each template are:
Show or hide any of the data elements
Orient your email either horizontally or vertically
There is also a free form template using an extensive list of tokens and mini-scripts to customize the emails that are sent at the time of order completion. They can vary from mimics of the standard merchant notification and customer confirmation emails to brief order notifications for better acceptance within cell phone emails. The emails can be plain text or HTML formattedemails for better readability. You can change the fonts, colors,layout and even add images to your confirmation and notificationemails. If your shipping and payment modules are configured withinvoice notices, these can be included in the emails with a token. You can include data from other 3rd party modules, like Addendum, by using tokens. You can also create packing slip and label emails with the "ship to" country address formatted according to the applicable country's postal recommendations when using the HTML template. In the free form template you canalso set the time so that it can be offset from the server time,thus display for a different time zone in each of your emails.
Customize your email and store's physical address
Designate email recipient, i.e. Ship To and/or Bill To and/or fixed email address
List full or partial Ship To and/or Bill To address
Restrict email to a specified order dollar value range, reward big spending customers with a coupon for their next visit
Restrict email to a specified list of countries, thus allowing for language specific emails
Resend order emails if the customer knows and enters the order number and email which match the actual order. The form for these two data elements can be placed anywhere you can edit the store user interface, e.g. headers, footers, welcome screen.
You can specify the product code and an attribute/option value that must also be met before the email will be sent. This is particularly useful when the emails are used for vendor notification. A certain product might bedrop shipped by two different vendors and the only difference is the selected attribute/option value.
Insert a "require" token that has to be met before the email will be allowed. As example,have a checkbox using Addendum to ask a customer if they want to be added to a list server (mailing list). Then if they check the box, the "yes" response is sent to Mail Manager. The Mail Manager can then generate a specifically formatted email to activate an email address at your list server, if you have one.
Write a different body for each of the email templates you add
List products and prices or just the products without prices
Link the email usage to one or more product codes or entire inventory with wildcard
No need to go to each product to link the email, a copy and paste froma flat text file will add hundreds instantly
I'd be surprised if you find that this capability exists anywhere in any mid-priced shopping cart system. Autoresponders that fill in the blanks are one thing, but this is a store owner, pre-planned autoresponse for a specific product. Within your store, you could have dozens of different responses (individual or grouped) or a wildcard response for all of the products. You can use itto make connections not directly related to sales, yetlinked to a specific sale.
Customer buys a kayak from your store. Tell them about the kayak camp 20 miles from your store and give them the 800number of the guy with the info about a big get together next month.
Customer buys an orchid from you which would lead you to believe he/she may have a specific variety you have been looking for. You autorespond with your want list for your nursery inhopes of finding the needle in a haystack.
As you can see, this list could be endless. Targetted, intelligent autoresponders are designed to increase your store'sbusiness and decrease the amount of time employees spend on sendingout product specific, emails.
The pre-formed templates are easy to configure and do not require programming experience. For the more experienced, you also have the option of using tokens and mini-scripts in free form templates. An example free form template is included with the install documents.
The Best Seller Display module interfaces with the internal Merchant 4.0 statistics modules to provide your customers with similar best seller information previously only seen by the store owner in the admin interface. It goes a step further by breaking down the best seller information by category. Your customers will not see exact numbers sold, only relative ranking. As they see the best sellers listed, the display provides them with a convenient link to the individual products so that they too can see what all the excitement is about. You can reset the statistics through the existing admin statistics interface so that your best sellers can be kept current as product inventory changes.
Through admin, the store owner can customize the look of the display box. You can choose which screens (SFNT, CTGY, PROD, PLST, SRCH) the display box will appear on. You can also choose which of four locations on each of those screens the box will appear. You can specify the number of best sellers that will display in the box, e.g. top five. The CTGY screen is slightly different from the other screen displays, as it shows the best seller in the category that the customer is viewing at the time. You have the option of excluding specified category screens that you do not want to display the best sellers. You can also vary the color, size and fonts used in the display box. You can even specify that the module will obey the availability group settings. This will limit your display if your best sellers are only available to certain customers and those customers have not logged in first. The upside is that it does not show product info for products that are not available to all customers. If you choose to allow all customers to view all products in the best seller list, the module will ensure that only eligible customers can link to the products. Some of the admin configuration options are shown in the screen shots below.
This module is for Merchant 4.0 and is compatible with both the MMUI and OpenUI. If using the OpenUI, the screen locations are controlled through admin; no editing required. If using the MMUI, the location of the display is practically unlimited, but editing the mmui.mv is required.
COMPILED VERSION - New in the compiled version is the ability to exclude specific products from the display. This is useful if you have products that are special sellers, e.g. upsell products. The new horizontal layout optionally allows you to include the thumbnail and price of each best seller item. You can set the height and width for your images, hence you should try to keep all of your thumbnails at about the same aspect ratio. You can vary the layout at each of the screen type so that some can be vertical while others are horizontal or no display at all. Using tokens, you can insert the Best Seller Display in headers, footers and other locations where OpenUI tokens can be used.
The OpenUI Extension Module Kit features 32 extensions. LICENSE IS PER DOMAIN.
The Plug N Play Pack #3 includes the abilities to:
Replace Category Tree with Alternate HTML Menu. Requires HTML file in Root Directory.
Move Top Navigation Bar to the Left Column. Category menu eliminated or, if one exists, replaced with an html file on top of page.
Remove all Account and Login Functions.
Gentle Forced Login! Remove Price, Add to Basket and Buy One Now buttons from all Screens until Login.
Remove Search Button from Navigation Bar. With this, you will likely use a search form in Category Tree.
Place HTML above the NavBar. Requires HTML file in Root Directory.
Basket Contents Required Before Checkout all Screens. Requires gifs, see insts in top of module file.
Category Screen Table Display with Quantity Select Option. Displays grey button or gif.
Tighten display on Category Screen and Product Display and Store Front. Removes space at top and left of main body display.
Create Horizontal Display of Four Thumbnails in a Row on the Category Screen. Displays only Thumbnail Images.
Place Thumbnail Image on the right of the Product Name, Price, Quantity in Basket and Add to Basket button on Category Screen. Tight vertical display with horizontal rule.
Replace Weight with More Info popup JavaScript on Product Display. Requires HTML file in Root Directory and installation of javapophead.mv.
Header portion of JavaScript. Creates a 330 x 250 window. Can be used with your own JavaScript or programs in this Pack.
Image displayed on the right of information on the Product Display Screen.
Move All Text and Add to Basket to Right of Image in Product Display. Tightens display.
Display two columns of thumbnail images with price and add to basket button on search screen. Requires Add to Basket gif.
Display Category Tree and two columns of thumbnail images with price and add to basket button on search screen. Requires Add to Basket gif.
Display three columns of thumbnail images with price and add to basket button on search screen. Requires Add to Basket gif.
Display Category Tree and three columns of thumbnail images with v - price and add to basket button on search screen. Requires Add to Basket gif.
Move Search for: box to top of Category Tree. Removes Search for: box from top of main body. Category Tree displays on Search Screen.
Search in Category Tree, Two thumbs in a Horizontal Row Search Screen Display. Removes Search for: box from top of main body. Category Tree displays on Search Screen. Requires Add to Basket gif.
Search in Category Tree, Three thumbs in a Horizontal Row Search Screen Display. Removes Search for: box from top of main body. Category Tree displays on Search Screen. Requires Add to Basket gif.
Remove Search box from Search Results Display.
Display four columns of thumbnail images with price and add to basket button on search screen. Requires Add to Basket gif.
Place Thumbnail Image on the Attribute Screen.
Place full sized image on the attribute Screen.
Add Hyperlink to Product Name on Product List Screen.
Display Two Columns of thumbnail images with price and add to basket button on Product List screen. Requires Add to Basket gif.
Display Three Columns of thumbnail images with price and add to basket button on Product List screen. Requires Add to Basket gif.
Display four columns of thumbnail images with price and add to basket button on Product List screen. Requires Add to Basket gif.
Display Category Tree and Two Columns of thumbnail images with price and add to basket button on Product List Screen. Requires Add to Basket gif.
Display Category Tree and Three Columns of thumbnail images with price and add to basket button on Product List Screen. Requires Add to Basket gif.
All extensions are designed to just Plug AND PLay in OpenUI stores. Designed/Written by Luray Williams.
Customers receive access to a private support forum at the DesignExtend Miva Merchant Discusson Boards. Full instructions on installation included.
This module places the shopping basket quantity and order amount totals in a layer in the browser window.
Details: You can specify the horizontal and vertical placement of the basket contents layer, the size of the contents area, background colors or images, text colors, fonts, and sizes, and even the text to display in the basket contents window. This basket contents layer will persist throughout the store, and will allow the customer to know at all times exactly how many items are in the basket and the order total.
Indications: This module has been designed to only show the quantity and price totals, and not basket line item detail, so that it will load quickly and provide and easy reference while remaining unobtrusive to the general design of the store. I have chosen to place the contents in a layer because this will likely allow many users to implement a persistent basket contents display within an existing store without requiring any redesign.
Screen-by-Screen Display Options: You can decide which screens will display the basket contents, including any custom screen codes you may have.
Usage Recommendations: This module will work best for stores with a consistently placed top or left navigation. Since the basket contents layer's position is fixed relative to the upper left corner of the browser window, it may not work well if it is placed over an area of the page with dynamic content. For example, if you place the basket contents in the center of the page, it will float above whatever appears in the center of each page. It is best used where the content is predictably consistent. Since browser content is typically most consistent at the top and left sides, the basket contents will likely work best the closer it is to the top and/or left sides of the page.
The module lets you configure the category page html to your liking. It provides an interface for you to enter the specific HTML that you want to use to display the product listing for the category. You create templates which you can then assign to selected categories. The module comes with 4 preinstalled templates but you can add as many as you want. One of the preinstalled template provides for a category display that lets you add all of the listed products to your basket with the click of a single button. Another provides for the display of multiple products in rows across the page instead of vertically. In your templates, you can use tokens to represent the normal Merchant product and category fields. For example, you can use the token %prodname% to represent where you want the product's name to be displayed. Making changes like removing the "buy one now" button is as simple as tweaking the HTML used to display the page. One of the preinstalled templates is identical to the standard Merchant category display and serves as a good starting point for those little tweaks you have always been wanting to make. The module also permits you to copy existing templates when you are creating a new template.
You can use strike-thru pricing with this module too!
Note about compatibility with other modules: This module totally replaces the portion of the OpenUI (or MMUI if you are using it) that displays the Category page and is not compatible with any other module which modifies the category page unless the developer of that module has specifically made their module compatible. This module provides for an easy-to-use manner for developers to provide tokens that can be used to insert their module's HTML into the pages. And these tokens can be registered in the module's admin interface. All VikingCoders.com's modules are compatible with this module (ie. there are tokens that can be used to display their information on the category page) or soon will be.
Another note about compatibility: This module is compatible with the OpenUI right out of the box. However, for it to be compatible with the MMUI requires a minor modification to the MMUI file (ie. mmui.mv).
With compiled Merchant, the included Mail Manager Report
module can display the contents of that flat file
through admin. It can filter the report by specific time
periods (daily, weekly, monthly) within reason. The limits
of your PC or server may prevent very lengthy reports for
excessively long time periods. It can also limit the
report to only one product code. Since the templates can
be designed for each vendor, you can create individual
vendor flat files with a corresponding report for each
vendor.
