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1 Search Manager Viking Coders / Miva Central

This module provides your store with a more configurable and robust search page. It permits you to offer your customer the option to search categories and attributes and to limit their search to particular fields in the Products database. Searches can be made case sensitive, restricted to searching only the entire phrase, and made to use either AND or OR. In addition, the module provides for the separate configuration of keywords for your products and those keywords can be included in the search. The module supports the Viking Coder's Additional Product Fields Manager module and you can provide your customers with the ability to search the fields that you have configured for your products. All of the configurable options, including the particular fields to search on, can selectively be made default options and hidden from your customers. In this way you can restrict the search to only those fields you want your customers to search in.

The module comes with two distinct admin interfaces. One provides for the simple configuration of a default layout for the search page and display of results. For those familiar with HTML and looking for a specific layout, there is a template based configuration option which provides for complete token and template based control over the layout of the search page and results listing. Support is also provided for Third Party modules in the same manner as my Category Page Templates and Product Page Templates modules.

A sampling of the module's features:

• Can be configured to replace the standard Merchant Search link and will use the same search button. So you can have the standard search link instead point to the Search Manager search page
• The search page can be linked to from a static link with a link of the form:
  áááhttp://yoursite.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=SRCHM&Store_Code=storecode
• Customers can search the categories for their search terms and the results are displayed above the product results (in the standard display format; they can go anywhere you want with the template formatting).
• Customers can restrict the search to find only the entire phrase they entered by surrounding the search terms in double quotes. Eg. "Clown nose" will find only those products which contain the exact phrase "Clown nose"
• Keywords can be saved for each product and category and those can be used to search in. To search the keywords for the products is an option for the products. The keywords are searched automatically for the categories. In both cases a tab is added to the individual category and product screens so that the keywords can be added.
• You can redirect customers who add products from the results listing either back to the search page or to the basket.
• All of the buttons (eg. "search", "add to basket", "previous", etc.) are configurable w/ images and alternate text.
• When using the Template formatting option, you can use tokens to add drop down select lists with terms your customers might want to search for. They can then search for those with a simple selection from the list.
• When using the Template formatting option, you can provide the customer with the option to sort the displayed results ascending or descending by product name, product code, or product id.
• When using the Template formatting option, you can use multiple search fields to prompt your customer to search for multiple terms. For example, you could provide a field for "title" and a field for "author" to prompt our customer to narrow their search
• Ability to search category headers and footers.

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2 Power Search v5 Emporium Plus / Miva Central

Search specific fields and sort results. Allow a customer to search one or more fields which are made selectable by the store owner. The store owner can choose, in the admin screen, any fields within the products database or the MIVA Merchant built in custom product fields database to be available. The Power Search module uses a mirror database of your products, custom fields and categories; much like the big search engines use. By creating a mirror before the search is made, many operations to join multiple databases togethercan be avoided, so the customer gets a much faster search. Customers can also sort the results on fields like name, code, price, cost, when they were added to the store, or the default display order the store owner established for productlists. The build of the mirror database goes quite quickly and is a maintenance procedure you will do periodically. The small amount of time you take to build the mirror will save your customers significant amounts of time in their searches vs searches which don't use an optimized mirror database. Buildingthe mirror is not required just because products are added, deleted, or edited; as those processes update the mirror automatically without needing a rebuild. See the install doc for details.

Category selectable. Customers can use the category selector to select just one category to search. The default is to search the whole store. You can use the built in token which lists all categories with one or more products in them oryou can build your own select list of only certain categories.

Multiple search types. The customer can select how they want to search the database. The default is to search for products where all (boolean AND) of the keywords entered are found in the record. The customer can broaden that search so that any (boolean OR) of the words are found in the record. They can search by exact phrase so that the words must appear in thesame order in the record as was entered in the search input. They can also search the fields where the data in the field begins with the search string. This is useful for things like finding all of the products whose NAME begins with a specific letter and allows you to have a list of A-Z links that implement that specific search.

Advanced pagination. The module can display the total number of products found which match the search condition. Additionally, the pagesare numbered, e.g. Page 3 of 20, when results exceed the configurable number of products per page. You can also display alist of page numbers and links to those pages so the customer can jump to the page they want to look at. This pagination is similar to that used in the Emporium Plus Category Manager module.

Product layout template can be customized. In the 'srch' page template, there is a "search results layout". If you are happy with that layout, you can copy and paste the contents of that template into the Power Search module's product layout template. You can then modify the layout in the Power Search admin screen.

Price range searching. While searching the price field might be useful in some cases, a more popular search is price range. Within the searchable fields section, the customer has the option of entering a low and high price to create a range. If left blank, the search will not be filtered by price range.

Tell a friend module interface. If the store is using the Emporium Plus Tell A Friend module, customers can send the search string from Power Search to friends. The link in the email will go to the same page of products that the customer was on when they clicked the Tell A Friend button.

Return to search page link. After going to the product page from a Power Search rendered search, a convenient "return to search" link on the product page can bring the customer back to the original search page.

Search log with admin report. In admin, you can view the log of search words/phrases which your customers have used. This helps you from a marketing standpoint to determine the most sought after products and possibly the need to carry a new product. Additionally, it helps you identify keywords which might be useful to include in the narrative descriptions or the meta tags for search engine submissions and even local searches in your store. As example, while you might have a product called flip flops, customers might be searching for thong sandals (which is the same thing). But if you had not used those words in your description, you may have lost the sale. The log can be purged in the admin screen to reduce its size as desired.

Optimized search of built-in custom product fields. This module does not require that you use a proprietary 3rd party module for the custom product fields. It uses the built-in custom product fields module from MIVA Corp, thereby ensuring compatibility with other 3rd party modules which use those same custom product fields. No need to go down that proprietary datafield path of no return. As example, the Emporium Plus Template Data Feed module can use the built-in custom product fields to populate feeds to just about any search engine and shopping index with those "special" fields those indexes require.

Live examples. We cannot link to our demo Merchant 5 store from MivaCentral so if you'd like to see a couple of the live pages demonstrating searches, please contact us for the link. You can check out the selected field search in our test store which has about 600 products with multiple custom product fields. Try some searches so you can get an idea of search speed.

Pre-defined selectors. The Power Search function can also be used for pre-defined select pulldowns in your store. An example of genre and decade searches are in the lower left column of our test store's storefront screen. It will search a specific field, with store owner pre-defined selections. This same technique can be used for things like manufacturer searches if you have a manufacturer field in your custom product fields.

Liberal licensing. License is for ONE domain/mall. Within that single mall, it can be used in multiple stores without additional licenses.

This module requires that you are using MIVA Engine v5.03 or newer. When you log into admin, you can see which version of the engine is in use in your store.

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4 Power Search Weiland / Miva Central

The Power Search module is a plugin module which implements field specific, keyword searching within a Miva Merchant 2.x storefront. License is for ONE mall. Within that single mall, it can be used in multiple stores without additional license.

The purpose of powrsrch.mv is to allow a customer to search one or more fields which are made selectable by the store owner. The store owner can choose any fields within the products.dbf structure to be available. If you have an altered products.dbf structure, it will even allow selection of those additional fields (see screen shot below).

You can also exclude a word or phrase. An example of an exclude word usage might be: You sell health food but want the ability for customers to NOT list ingredients they are allergic to. So in the product name field you might have Soup. Then if you have a field in your database called Ingredient the customer could check the name and ingredient fields for searching. In the keyword input they would put soup. In the exclude input they could put MSG. It would search both fields. If it found soup in either it would compile those products to the list. But if the word MSG appeared in either field, it would remove it from the list.

Specific category, if selected, allows one category only searches. This feature may be too intimidating if you have hundreds of categories as the pull down select would be quite long.

New for the compiled version is the ability to specify a price range for the search. Also, in the compiled version we added the ability to display links to numbered pages when the search results exceed the number of matches displayed on a single page. You can use OpenUI Tokens to place the search form in several locations in your store. You also have the ability to replace the default form with one which you design with your own html (for those who know how to write html forms). The alternate html form can also be placed at one of seven different locations on the storefront screen. You'll use the default form as a template and can then add your own layout to improve the look and feel. Also if you are using the compiled Power Search AND the compiled Tell A Friend module, customers can send the search string from Power Search to friends. The store owner also has the ability to allow customers to search the category headers and footers for the search word. Because this may slow the search, you should only use it if your store has a moderate number of categories, e.g. 100 or less. Faster servers may get decent search times with many more than that though. Added new search algorythms "Any of these", Exact phrase", and "Start at beginning". Store owners can create a list of words which will not be searched in the "All of these" or "Any of these" searches. These are words like a, an, the, and, or. It will not exclude those words in the "Start at the beginning" or "Exact phrase" searches. If you choose to use the "search single category" listing, you can modify that from the admin control panel and only list certain categories in the select list, but provide searches of all of their sub-categories. This top down search adds greater flexibility over how broad you will allow your customers to filter the categories. After going to the product page from a Power Search rendered search, a convenient "return to search" link on the product page will bring the customer back to the original search page if using OpenUI.

Power Search (version 4.63) has been tested with OpenDB (version 2.2) and is compatible. In tests by James at Copernicus, the Power Search improved the performance of the already, very fast, SQL searches.
118k products in the database, 2456 categories, two search terms "PC133 RAM"
- Normal Miva Merchant Search: ~60 seconds
- OpenDBv2 Standard Search: TT time=07s0620u
- OpenDBv2 Power Search (limit to code, name & desc fields and no category specific search): TT time=05s0259u

For store owners who have found their searches take too long, you can reduce the search time by only searching one or two fields. The Merchant default is eight fields, including fields such as weight. Now, how useful is that? Finally.... the store owner has control without editing the db.mv code library.

The total number of products found is displayed along with the list of products matching the search criteria.

In admin, you can view the log of search words/phrases which your customers have used. This helps you from a marketing standpoint to determine the most sought after products. Additionally, it helps you identify keywords which might be useful to include in the narrative descriptions or the meta tag for search engine submissions.

This module works with both the MMUI and OpenUI User Interfaces (versions 2.22-4.x). If using the MMUI, six edits in the mmui.mv file are required, and one optional edit if you want to remove the archaic standard Merchant, keyword search. If you have compiled Merchant (4.14 or newer) that requires editing and re-compiling, so for compiled Merchant, OpenUI is required unless you have the compiler license. If you are using the OpenUI, Power Search plugs into the OpenUI without editing OpenUI modules and there is no need for compiling in Merchant 4.14 and newer.

See the screen shot below, then check out the selected field search in our store. We have about 600 products in our store so you can get an idea of search speed on a moderate speed server.

The Power Search function can also be used for pre-defined form pulldowns in your store. As an example, the genre and decade searches on the left side of this screen search a specific field, with store owner pre-defined selections. This same technique can be used for things like manufacturer searches if you have a manufacturer field in your products.dbf.

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5 Order Manager Stone Edge / Miva Central

• Includes Miva Merchant Module that lets you download and import your latest orders with one button click in the Order Manager.
• New Features for Miva Merchant Users:
  

• Download Inventory data from Miva Merchant into the Order Manager
• Download Customer data from Miva Merchant into the Order Manager
• Synchronize inventory quantity-on-hand data in either direction between Miva Merchant 4.x stores and the Order Manager
• Real time inventory tracking with Miva Merchant 4.x stores! Whenever you sell, return, exchange or receive inventory in the Order Manager, the change in quantity-on-hand will be reflected in your Miva Merchant store within seconds!
• Import and export inventory data in text files compatible with Phosphor Media's StoreMan program
• Builds a searchable customer list.
• Subtracts items sold from your inventory. Marks items as backordered when necessary.
• Prints customizable pick lists and order summaries.
• View Orders screen makes it easy to search for and review orders.
• Quick and easy handling of backorders, returns, exchanges, adding or deleting line items, changing a SKU or quantity, etc.
• Can convert products with order attributes (color, size, etc.) into "Sub SKUs" for inventory tracking of specific item sold.
• Includes support for Authorize.Net and Verisign credit card processing. Capture payments that were pre-approved in your Web store. Process other sales, credits, voids, etc. with two or three clicks on our Virtual Credit Card Terminal.
• Prints customizable Invoices, Packing Slips and Shipping Labels.
• Automatic and manual emailing to customers and vendors. Includes powerful "email merge" system with user-definable mail merge templates and easy-to-use template editor.
• Interfaces with UPS Online WorldShip, Fedex QuickShip, Postal Package Partner and other shipping programs.
• Automates drop-ship purchase orders.
• Creates re-stocking purchase orders. Supports barcode scanners for receiving inventory.
• FIFO accounting system tracks value of inventory value.
• Includes Manual Orders screen for entering orders that arrive by phone, fax, etc.
• Includes Point-of-Sale screen for orders from walk-in customers. Supports barcode scanning.
• Extensive report menu includes a wide variety of reports for accounting, inventory, sales management, etc.
• Easy export of customer information for bulk-emailing. Includes powerful selection methods.
• Many more features that have been requested by merchants like you since we introduced the Order Manager in 1999!
• A fraction of the cost of Mail Order Manager (MOM), and better suited to small-to-medium merchants.
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6 Contact Manager v5 Emporium Plus / Miva Central

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7 Contact Manager Weiland / Miva Central

Sales, support and other inquiries between you and your customers are seemlessly integrated into your Miva Merchant store.

Features:
- Easily integrate customer contact and inquiries
- Hide your store's email addresses from spammer email address harvesters
- Change the email address you want inquiries to go to through the admin panel
- Launch the contact manager from Merchant or from a static page
- Use a form or link to launch the contact manager
- Assign the contact record to a specific technician or department with ease
- Customer can select the target to send the inquiry to with a select list option
- Contact is logged and is not effected when email servers are down
- User interface is controlled from a merchant admin configuration screen
- Department codes, descriptions and email addresses are configured through admin
- Admin section allows you to search one one or more criteria to find messages
- Edit the status and/or respond to the sender
- Under Store Notifications, you'll see a quick summary of pending messages

Feature Details.
This module keeps your store's email address out of view of spammer email address harvesters. It also allows you to easily change the email address you want inquiries to go to without editing html pages. You can launch the contact manager form from a button in the category column or from a static page. You can also use a http link format for launching the support manager form from static pages or within Merchant. The contact manager allows you to assign the contact record to a specific technician or department with ease.

The contact manager form characteristics are controlled from a merchant admin configuration screen. At the admin level you can change category column button text, optional category column button image, email subject, email to address, contact screen title, customer email prompt, customer inquiry prompt, background color, font face, font size, font color, message for the submission form, send button text, and optional send button image.

The customer can select the target/department to send the inquiry to with a select list option. This expedites the delivery to the specific techician/department's email address. As with the uncompiled version, the email addresses are hidden from email harvesting spammers. Department codes, descriptions and email addresses are configured through admin.

The admin section allows you to search one one or more criteria to find messages you are interested in. You can then edit the status and/or respond to the sender.

In the Main admin screen of Merchant 4.x, under Store Notifications, the module provides you with a quick summary of how many messages are Pending. Upon clicking the link for Contact Manager, a popup window displays the subject and message ID of all pending contact messages.

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8 Other Page Templates Viking Coders / Miva Central

Provides tokens and templates formatting for some of the "other" pages of Merchant. You can create templates and assign them to some of the pages of Merchant (currently the module supports template assignment to BASK (basket page), PLST (product listing), LOGN (customer login), and Missing Attributes), Upsell, Search, etc. In addition, you can create a template for you own page, create a "screen" variable for it and link to it directly.

The category and product pages are still best handled by the Category Page Templates and Product Page Templates module, the storefront by the Storefront Template Module, and the search page by the Search Manager)

The templates are created and modified exactly like the templates in the other template modules. However since they are assigned to screens rather than products or categories, that part is a bit different.

The way Merchant works is that most of the pages are assigned "identifiers" which Merchant uses to determine what page is to be generated. For example, if the variable Screen is set to BASK, Merchant knows that it needs to display the basket screen. The module intercepts that process to use templates to display the screen instead of Merchant's default screen. This is done by assigning templates to the identifier. The module comes pre-configured with a number of different templates which you can assign to the screens of Merchant. For example, the "Basket Page" template can be assigned to the "BASK" screen to display the basket screen using that template.

NOTE REGARDING COMPATIBILITY: This module has the same compatibility issues with other modules as the original template modules. This module totally replaces the portion of the OpenUI (or MMUI if you are using it) that displays the pages it intercepts and is not compatible with any other module which needs to hook into that page unless the developer of that module has specifically made their module compatible. And given that this module is so new, very few modules are completely compatible with it. 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.

NOTE/WARNING: although there are a number of people successfully using this module, given the large number of tokens and attempts to handle many pages of Merchant you can expect bugs to arise and for the module to be missing functionality. I'll work diligently to fix them but please don't purchase this module if you can't accept the possibility of some issue with the module keeping you from accomplishing what you're after.

Similarly, given the current state of the documentation (there is no documentation on the available tokens but most of them are present in the pre-configured templates) if you're not familiar with the other template modules and the use of tokens in templates, you might want to wait until the documentation is completed.

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).

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9 Designer's Dream Bundle Viking Coders /

Gain control over every screen in your store with this dynamic collection and save $60! You get Category Page Templates, Product Page Templates, Other Page Templates, Storefront Template, and Search Manager.

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10 Celestia Content Management Copernicus / Miva Central

With an Introductory Price of less than $300, it's time to buy Celestia Content Management!

The Celestia Content Management System by Copernicus provides the small business owner with website development and maintenance capabilities previously only accessible to large corporations with IT staff or significant budgets. Celestia Content Management provides dynamic database driven content, customizable forms, search engine optimization and many additional major features only found in expensive content management systems.

The Celestia™ Content Management System is a robust PHP & MySQL server-based application that provides a point-and-click web-based interface for creating, updating and modifying your website. Celestia, formerly known as the Copernicus WebSite Builder, has been actively developed and deployed for over 3 years and represents the best-practices for content management systems.

• Celestia is a web-based software package. This software gives a non-technical user the capability to build and maintain a robust, feature-rich website without the assistance of a programmer. Celestia provides the core technology necessary to build a user and search engine friendly site.
• Celestia is your website. The core content management system is used to build and display your site. When viewing the Copernicus site, you're using the Celestia system that we have deployed for the Copernicus website!
• Celestia is comprehensive. With a full suite of modules provided in the core system, Celestia contains all of the necessary technologies for an outstanding web presence. From browser-side HTTP/1.1 compliant page caching to short search-engine friendly URLs and robust page layout modules, Celestia provides the capabilities to build almost any SMB site.
• Celestia is extensible. With an object-oriented PHP API, adding new features via modules to Celestia can be accomplished by novice and advanced PHP programmers alike. The core module API handles database creation and abstraction, configuration and standard layouts. As a developer, you can focus on the portions of your module that are most important- the core features you wish to provide- rather than spending countless hours creating database and configuration systems.

• Point-and-click browser based site editing
• Integrated WYSIWYG HTML editor
• Import & Export of all databases
• Automated provisioning and site template system
• Standardized configuration screens for all modules
• Global CSS Control with overrides on each page
• Search engine optimizations:
  • Search-friendly short URLs
  • Page Title manager for SEO
  • META KEYWORDS tags for search engine optimization
  • Automatic META DESCRIPTION tags for all pages
• HTTP/1.1 Compliant browser side caching
• HTTP/1.0 Compliant server-side page redirects
• Upload Image Library with ALT tags & image sizes
• Web-safe color chooser
• Display Modules:
  • Events Calendar
  • Contact Us Form
  • FAQ Lists
  • FormBuilder (Custom Forms)
  • Forum Topics
  • Miva Merchant Integration
  • Paragraph Content Module
  • Press Releases
  • Photo Gallery
  • Related Links
  • Section (hierarchical) Containers
  • Staff Biographies

• PHP v4.2.1 or greater
• MySQL v3.23 or greater
• Zend Optimizer v2.5.0 or greater.

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11 Search Friendly Links Copernicus / Miva Central

The Search Friendly Links module replaces the links in the category tree and category pages of Miva Merchant with “short links” that are more search engine friendly. Miva Merchant uses long links with 4 variables. Some search engines will not follow these links while they will follow shorter links with fewer variables.

Key Benefits

• Generates short-links in the category tree and category pages in Miva Merchant
• Interprets short-links from any web page or email
• Benefits of shorter links
  • Short links are generally more likely to be followed by Search Engine spiders
  • Easy to write (and remember) direct links to products and categories in your store
  • Long links may word-wrap in some email systems, causing them not to link properly
  • Shorter links are less likely to word wrap
  • Search engines frequently will not read links with multiple variables (a.k.a. “long links”) such as those produced by Miva Merchant
  • A typical Miva Merchant link such as:
    http://www.yourstore.com/pathto/merchant.mv? Store_Code=ST&Screen=SFNT&Category_Code=CTGY1&Product_Code=PRD1
    
    is shortened to:
    
    http://www.yourstour.com/pathto/merchant.mv?page=ST/SFNT/CTGY1/PRD1
    or: http://www.yourstore.com/page/ST/SFNT/CTGY1/PRD1
    
    The reduction in the number of variables helps with search engine spiders
  
  
• Short links are always interpreted and understood by your store when the module is installed and turned on. Therefore, any “short” external link can be used even if you have turned off the display of the short links.
• Long links are always interpreted and understood by your store; so previous search engine listings and external links continue to work normally.
• The “display” of the short links in your store can be disabled, though the store will continue to interpret the short links from external sources (ie: the companion product Search Friendly Store Map, emails and mailing list, etc)

• Directory Style Short Links: http://www.yourstore.com/page/SC/PROD/CAT1/PROD1
• OpenUI Token and Copernicus OpenUI SuperMod Template Compatible

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12 Super Search w/ Extra Product Fields v5 Latu /

Give your customers the superpower to find the products they are searching for. The latu.net Super Search with Extra Product Fields module provides superior search capabilities and results for your Miva Merchant 5 store. Boolean-style search can be by any word (OR), all words (AND), or the exact phrase. Search results can also be limited to a specific category. Extra Searchable Product Fields can be added - with administrative control of which fields are searched. Integrated, admin-friendly product import and export. Super Search demo screen is provided for administrative testing of search results.

Search by Keyword(s) or Phrase

• Product search can be by one or more keywords or by an exact phrase. An optional selection menu can be displayed on the search screen for selecting the search type.
• Boolean Search Types:
• At least one of the words (OR)
• All of the words (AND)
• The exact phrase

Search by Category

• Product search can be limited to a specific category.
• Search results within a category maintain the sorting order of that category.

Searchable Extra Product Fields

• Extra Fields can be Character, Number, Boolean/Logical, or Memo field
• Field lengths can be specified for Character & Number fields; memo fields have unlimited length
• Extra Fields can be included in the Product List Layouts of the PLST Product List, CTGY Category Display, or PROD Product Display pages
• No limit on number of Extra Fields

Search Fields

• Complete administrative control of which product fields are searched.
• For both standard product fields and Extra Product Fields

Search Results Summary

• Optional Search Results summary displays the total products found.
  
  
• Example:
  Total Number of Products Found: 186

Product Import & Export

• Integrated, Admin-Friendly Product Import and Export
• Complete administrative control of import & export fields
• Including standard product fields and Extra Product Fields
• Select which fields are imported & export and configure the field order
• Import/export configuration is saved
• Batch-oriented process allows for importing & exporting of very large data sets

Product Search Demo

• An admin-friendly product search demo screen is provided for testing search results.
• Search by keyword(s) or phrase
• Search by boolean type and by category
• Select sorting order of results
• Select which fields are searched

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13 Category Manager v5 Emporium Plus / Miva Central

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14 Custom Customer Fields Interface v5 Emporium Plus / Miva Central

This interface module will display and retrieve customer entered information relative to customer accounts on the account create, account edit, and order customer information screens. You can even use it with the Emporium Plus Mail Manager module (sold separately) to include the information in the order notification emails.

Interface with built-in custom customer fields: The built in custom customer fields module from MIVA Corp establishes the databases and provides an admin side interface for the store owner to enter custom customer data. This module provides the merchant public side for the customer to enter data into those custom fields.

Easy token implementation: Easily place tokens on the customer information collection screens using the standard MM5 template script. You can use the common "foreach" loop to display all of them together or you can break each field out for display in various parts of the screen. For example, you may want to collect a second address line just below the first address line and then later in the screen collect the company rep the customer deals with. To view the actual look of the screen, you can go to our pinemporium.com test store and create an account. You can change values in the fields with the account edit selection on the nav bar.

Flat file export: When a new customer account is created, all of the standard field values except the pgrpcount and password are saved to a flat file log. In addition to the standard fields, values entered into the custom fields are also saved to the flat file. Additionally, date and time fields are exported so you can determine exactly when a new customer account was created. The flat file is | delimited and can be FTPd to your PC with your FTP software and then imported into other programs. You can periodically delete the flat file and it will be recreated with the next new customer account creation.

Search new customer log: You can search the flat file log created when new customers sign-up. You can search on keyword, single date, and/or date range. The standard and custom fields will be displayed. The log display includes a link to the actual customer records so you can edit and make changes if needed.

Interface with email modules: The custom field values can be displayed in the merchant and customer notification emails if you are using the Emporium Plus Mail Manager module (sold separately) to generate them.

Limitations:

• Custom customer fields are used for customer records. If the customer does not create or have an existing account, there is no place to save or use the information. Hence, on the 'OCST' checkout screen, it is best to wrap the custom customer field inputs within a conditional check for customer ID.
• There is no validation to ensure the custom fields are filled in. Therefore, they are all optional.
• If you want to display the custom customer fields in the notification emails, you will need to use an email module capable of using custom field tokens, for example the Mail Manager.
• The inputs will disable html and SQL injection hacks. It is expected customers will be entering text or checkbox entries. While textarea inputs can be used, internal actions will be taken to reduce hacker attempts. So if you need custom fields that will accept html, this module is not for you.

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15 Static Catalog Generator Weiland / Emporium Plus

The StatCat module is both an admin module and a basket interface module. The primary purpose of StatCat is to generate static catalog pages (indexes and sub-pages) directly from your Miva Merchant products and category databases so that search engines will add your pages to their index. Presumably this will allow customers to find your store amongst the millions of web sites on the Internet. As such, the pages generated are basic html pages with links to sub-pages, basket page and individual product pages in your Miva Merchant system. Each page contains your store title, meta description, meta keywords, footers along with the products. Category pages also contain category headers and footers.

Although these are static html pages, they have direct links which allow customers to add the products to their basket which is maintained in your Miva Merchant shopping cart system. If you are using the CIM Inventory Manager or Miva Corp's new Inventory Manager (in Merchant 4.x), it will even check the stock level and return an out of stock message if stock level is depleted

** Caution: If you are using Merchant 4.0 and its Inventory Management system that deducts products from inventory when they are placed in the basket, you should select to NOT use the Add to Basket buttons if you have one-of-a-kind items. The reason for this is that some robots and other indexing software may even follow links which contain the ? and & characters. This could result in the stock level decrementing to zero and out-of-stock emails being sent. The products won't be removed from inventory completely, as they will be re-stocked when you run the Admin:Delete Expired Shopping Baskets. This undesirable situation does not exist in Merchant versions 2.x or 3.x. It is also not a problem in Merchant 4.x if your store does not use the Miva Corp Inventory Management or your product stock levels are not likely to be depleted with one or two passes of the indexing program.

The store owner determines which page the customer will go to when they select to add a product to the basket. They can be taken either to the basket for review or back to the static page they just selected from. Both processes are automatic and do not require Javascript or meta refresh routines. Either click through destination can be used on either of the sort options, store owner choice. In addition to the functionality of this module, it provides an excellent example of how to interface static pages with the Miva Merchant system with return to the correct static page.

Quick links on each sub-page allow the customer to return to the index or go straight to their basket for review and checkout.

Below the sub-pages the store owner can even generate individual product pages. These product pages contain the full sized image and description. If the store uses the Flexible Product Description module and the product record contains a Keyword field, those product specific keywords are added to the store's generic keywords which are already in all of the static pages.

The store owner can decide whether to display the price for each item on the static pages. Since these pages are static and cannot function interactively to determine customer price groups or discounts, the hide price routine has its place. However, if the store has no price groups and discounts are calculated on basket totals or discount coupons, the price listing is useful.

The static pages also have no way to restrict access. So if your store is one which does not allow certain products to be shown to all customers, then this module is not for you, unless you can place all of those restricted products in specific categories. In which case, you could then sort pages by category and simply delete those categories' pages.

This module is for Miva Merchant 2.x, 3.x and 4.x. It works with both the Miva Merchant look and feel (mmui.mv) and the OpenUI look and feel (oui.mv). If using the mmui.mv, there are two edits that need to be made to the mmui.mv file.

StatCat produces pages similar (mirror) to the layout in Miva Merchant with admin control. The following configuration settings are made within the standard Miva Merchant admin interface: Page title, home URL, optional title/store logo, title background color, title foreground color, category title header size, number of product columns on the category sort page, Meta description of the site, Meta keywords on the site, return action after adding a product to the basket, option to hide the prices, category column background color, category column foreground color, category column font, category column size, product background color in the category sorted pages, product foreground color in the category sorted pages, product font and size in the category sorted pages, optional display of thumbnail images in the category sorted pages, store front page welcome screen, search button input, product descriptions on category pages, and page footer.

Once generated, the index pages can be linked to your main home page. The catalog can be left in the directory it is generated in or copied to any web site (or multiple web sites) to increase search engine visibility. The links to images and back to your Merchant.mv store will work across servers. An example of this remote distribution can be seen at my Yahoo/Simplenet web site. The limitation to the remote distribution is that these remote static pages are one way, ie. placing a product in the basket will take the customer to the main Merchant.mv, but not back to the remote static page. They would then continue shopping in Merchant.mv. This limitation exists only if the static pages are not in their original catalog directory. If they are in the catalog directory on the local server with Merchant.mv, then return to the static pages is one of your options in admin.

The StatCat also has the ability to generate static pages which can be placed on a disk and used as a catalog which can be mailed or given out to potential customers. When using this option, links to your web site or the shopping cart are suppressed. An example of this type of catalog can be seen online. It has no links to the cart and the images are virtual to the static html pages.

When generating the catalog, the store owner has the option of restricting the html output to a list of specific categories. This is particularly useful when the store owner wants to place their static pages on remote servers which have specific themes in a mall environment. Some categories may "fit in" and some may not. This also might be useful if you want to create disks with only certain categories of products on them to be given to customers.

Note 1: StatCat uses the first letter of the product name to name the sub-pages. If you use illegal characters for the first letter of product names, you will not be able to generate the by-name catalog. An example would be the left bracket, as some might have put the font tag at the beginning of the product name. If that is the case, use the by-category catalog.

Note 2: If you have an excessively large products database, you will probably not be able to run StatCat on a server without timing out. However, you should be able to run it in MivaMia if you have a mirror of your store on your PC. You would then need to upload the static pages manually. This store of 600 products took about 5 seconds to generate the category pages.

Example static catalog pages

• Sort by name
  • This example has the add to basket button disabled
  • This example contains StatCat generated individual product pages
• Sort by category
  • Click through returns to the originating static page after addition (alternatively you can have it remain at the merchant.mv basket)
  • This example contains StatCat generated individual product pages

Several new features have been added to the compiled version; background image, functional navigation bar, "smart" metatags, extensive implementation of keyword and header and footer usage, product page names can be product code or name ending with html, inclusion of product links at the top or bottom listed as featured products or similar designation, include any fields in the products database on product pages (including modified structure), optionally hide subcategories on category pages as applicable, additional product page links such as "check availability or latest prices", and export to any directory within the store's path (creates directory if it does not exist). Discontinued (inactive) products can continue to have modified static pages generated so that search engine links remain viable, yet do not result in errors when linked to the store. Additionally, affiliate codes can be included with every link so that the static catalog pages can be given to affiliates who wish to mirror your catalog at their site. If you are using the OpenUI, StatCat adds "smart" metatags to your merchant.mv so that when the customers (and search engines) click from your static pages to your actual store, the pages will contain metatags related to category headers, product descriptions and product keywords (if used). It also reverses the title tag with the category and product screens so that the category or product name appear first, then the store name. If your store has our Volume Pricing module version (4.53 or higher) installed, StatCat can optionally include the volume price table on the static pages. When creating the static product pages, a flat file is created in the background which can be used for a data feed file for submission to Froogle^TM. It contains the header and data for the basic file format.

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16 Search Engine Tracker Copernicus / Miva Central

The Search Engine Tracker is a logging module that helps the storeowner understand and quantify a Search Engine marketing campaign or the current status of search engine positioning. Graphs and “sortable” reports make it easy for you to analyze the data being collected about your search engine campaigns. This module separately tracks click-throughs and buy-throughs so you can determine which search engines and paid listing sources are worth the investment.

Key Benefits

• Tracks “click-throughs” from all search engines you specify so that you can evaluate which search engines send you the most “click-throughs”
  • Records search terms that were used to find the store
• Tracks “buy-throughs” (also knows as click-through conversions) from all search engines you specify so that you can evaluate which search engines send you the most “buy-throughs”
• Tracks keywords that generated the “click-through” and “buy-through” so that you can evaluate which keywords generate the most sales
• Tracks Pay-Per-Click source referrals through direct store entries.
  • You determine which referrals that go into your Miva Merchant store that you want to track. You can track as many as you’d like. (Please see the usage documentation for an explanation of how to configure this option)
  • Please note: there is no pass-through API for pay-source tracking. Your URLs provided to the pay-source are required to go directly into your Miva Merchant store
• Generate Reports for analysis:
  • Monthly click-through and buy-through graph! At a glance you can see the total number of click-throughs or buy-throughs of each day in the month.
  • Keyword Summary Report: this report lists the top keywords/phrases and tallies the number of click-throughs and buy-throughs associated with each keyword/phrase. You can sort this data by keyword/phrase.
  • Engine/Referral Summary Report: this report lists the top referral search engines and tallies the number of click-throughs and buy-throughs coming from each of the top search engines.
  • Raw Log display: You can view all of the data collected over time and also view the most recent click-throughs and buy-throughs.

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17 Additional Product Fields Manager Viking Coders / Miva Central

Additional Product Fields Manager is an easy to use package for creating an unlimited number of new product fields. It requires no core database modifications or code changes, all additional fields are defined through an admin console. Simply define a code and prompt for each new field, and choose which screens to display it on (product, category, product list, and/or search). These options may be edited later while preserving any new field data you have added. Additionally, you can arbitrarily sort new fields at any time.

Once one or more new fields have been defined, you can start adding product data for the new fields. Product data may be added/updated in the Edit Products Screen, or in bulk using the included Import Module. Field data may contain up to 254 characters and may also include HTML/JavaScript/etc. If you haven't added any data for a new field for a product, that field simply isn't displayed for the product. In this way, different products may contain different new fields. An export module is also included.

Features Include:

• Unlimited new fields
• No database or code changes required
• Configurable display of new fields for all standard screens (you can choose to display a new field on category and product pages, but not on search results, for example)
• On-the-fly sorting of new fields
• Import module for bulk import of new field data
• Export module to export the new field data
• Optional bold display of new field data on product and expanded displays

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18 Wish List Manager Viking Coders / Miva Central

This module provides your customers with the opportunity to add products to a Wish List. This permits them to later return to your store to view, add, and edit the list. They can send email to their friends prompting them to visit your store and view their wish list. Other customers can search the wish lists for the lists of their friends, hopefully with the intent of buying something for them, and send email to others to recommend that they visit your store and start a list.

The admin interface provides the merchant with the ability to view the current customers with wish lists (searchable by wish list contents and customer data) and to view the contents of each list. The entire wish list can be deleted from within admin as can individual products in the list.

If a product being added to a wish list has attributes, the customer will be prompted to select the attributes (but not required to) before the product is added to the list. If the customer is not logged in when they attempt to add the product to their list, they will first be prompted to log in and will have the opportunity to create a new account.

The module adds new Merchant pages on which the customer can view their your own wish list and search for the wish lists of others. Links to both of these pages can be provided in up to 13 different positions in the navbar and in the category tree. The link by which the customer adds the product to their wish list can appear on up to 11 different positions on the product display page. The link text and/or image used for each of these links is separately configurable.

When a customer searches for wish lists, the wish list "owner's" first name, last name, email address, login, city, state, and zip code are all searched.

The merchant has the option of making the wish list "opt-in only" by providing the customer with a checkbox on the customer account page to enable a wish list (the text of the prompt is configurable). If a customer chooses not to opt-in to the wish list, they will be able to add/edit/view their own list but it will not appear in searches by other customers. They can still email their friends and provide them with a link to their wish list.

An expiration period can be set for the wish lists. If no activity takes place in a configurable time period (ie. no products are added) the lists can be purged from within admin.

The format of all of the pages is completely configurable with tokens. The customer can be permitted to edit the quantity of the items in their wish list, add a note, and delete individual items. The format of the page on which the customer views their own wish list and on which they view the wish list of others are separately configured to provide the customer with the additional ability to edit their list.

From the page on which the customer view their own wish list, they can send an email to their friends to let them know about their list. From the page on which the customer searches for the wish list of others, they can send an email to invite their friends to start a list. The content of both of these emails is completely configurable from within admin and use tokens to represent store and customer data.

The header, footer, background image, title, and background color of each new page added by the module are separately configurable from the module's administration interface.

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