Miva Merchant Modules and Applications Search

• Setting Up Your First Miva Merchant Store
• Getting Into Admin
• Adding a Product
• Adding a Category
• Global Headers/Footers, etc.
• Attribute Templates
• Edit Store Admin Tour
• Images
• The Nav Bar
• The Category Tree
• Upselling
• Related Products
• Availability Groups
• Price Groups
• Managing Customers

• Shipping Methods
• Payment Methods
• Order Processing
• Basic Maintenance
• Installing Modules
• Downloading and Installing Miva Mia
• Installing OpenUI
• Updating OpenUI
• OpenUI Tour
• OpenTokens
• Accounts/Login
• Creating a Mini Basket
• Adding a Second Store
• Adding OpenUI to Second Store

• Viking Coders
  • Affiliate Manager
  • Affiliate Login
  • Gift Certificate Manager
  • Category Page Templates
  • Product Page Templates
  • Other Page Templates
  • Storefront Template
  • Order Status Manager
  • PayPal Web Accept
  • Phone Order Manager
  • Wish List Manager
  • Search Manager
  • Additional Screens Manager
  • Buy X Get X Free
  • Category Navigation Menu
  • Coupon Manager
  • Additional Product Fields Manager
  • Top Sellers
  • FedEx Advanced
  • UPS Online Advanced
  • Continue Shopping and Checkout
  • PIN Fulfillment
• truXoft
  • truXoft Software Delivery in Email Attachments
  • truXoft Data Doctor
  • truXoft Exit Message
  • Interface for 3rd Party Extensions
  • HTML Formatted Merchant Notification
  • HTML Formatted Customer Confirmation
  • truXoft P3P Privacy Policies
  • Software / Content / Access Delivery
  • Packing Slips for Ultra Batch
  • MmTICKER · Mini Admin · Alerts · Task Scheduler · Backup
  • Ultra Batch Report / Order Browser
  • Vendor Notification Email
• Weiland - Emporium Plus
  • Starter Kit
  • Mail Manager
• NetBlazon
  • Attribute Prompt in Basket
  • Basket Tracker
  • Extra Customer Fields
  • Payment on Account
  • Remember Me
  • Zip Based Sales Tax

• Copernicus
  • Address SuperMod
  • Address & Shipping SuperBund
  • Cascading Popup Menus Advanced
  • Checkout SuperMod
  • CustContact
  • Dynamic Templates
  • CustCredit
  • Import/Export SuperMod
  • Membership SuperMod
  • Meta Tag Generator
  • OpenUI SuperMod
  • Order Attribute
  • Order Fulfillment Kit
  • Payment SuperMod
  • Quantity Plus! Shipping
  • Returns Processing
  • Search Engine Tracker
  • Search Friendly Links
  • Search Friendly Store Map
  • Shipping SuperMod
  • Upload File Attributes
• Wump
  • Subscribe2 - Opt in Mailing List Manager
  • Subscribe2 to Merchant Integration Modules
• 4thebest.net
  • QwkTracker
  • QwkGuard
  • QwkPatch
  • QwkRed
• OpenUI™ Consortium
  • OpenUI™
  • OpenStatistics™
  • OpenDesigner™
• OpenModules™
  • OpenJoinList™
  • OpenAutoGroups™
  • OpenCurrency™
  • OpenOrderStatus™
  • OpenShipping™
  • OpenPayment™
  • OpenParentAccounts™
  • OpenPriceRefresh™
  • OpenInAndOut™
  • OpenMembers™
  • OpenBestPrice™

• Stone Edge Order Manager
• PHOSPHOR Media StoreMan

• 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.

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8 Features Plus Bundle Viking Coders /

Save well over $100 when getting this collection of powerful modules that add to the functionality of your store

With this bundle, you recieve Customer Reviews Manager, Wish List Manager, Share It With a Friend, Top Sellers, Minimum Maximum Quantity Manager.

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9 Mail Manager Weiland / Miva Central

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:

• Show or hide any of the data elements
• Orient your email either horizontally or vertically
• 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
• List products and prices or just the products without prices
• 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.

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10 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.
• Buy with confidence - 30 day money-back policy.

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11 Subscribe2 PRO - Multiple Opt In Mailing List Manager Wump Services / Miva Central

[ Do you use Subscribe2 Standard Version? Prepare for Upgrade availability on Tuesday August 9th ]

Keep your visitors and customers coming back!Endless uses include:

- Monthly Newsletters
- What's New
- Joke or Pic of the Day
- Product Update
- Special Promotions

and much more. Subscribe2 takes care of building, confirming and managing your contacts.

Now you can keep them coming back at different times of the month.. perhaps once for the newsletter, and every week if they also subscribe to a weekly update list.

If your customers aren't REPEAT customers then you are losing hits, money, or BOTH!

If they've been to your site once and had fun browsing, or ordered products, then there is a GREAT chance that they'll want to know when you have special offers, new information or just new stuff for them to see!

Subscribe2 PRO is the answer to your problems...

You can be up and running in less than one hour with the default settings which offer an attractive set of screens allowing your customers to:

That doesn't mean that you have to stick with the defaults if you don't want to.... you can customize these pages to look however you like.

What the customer sees is, however, only the start. When you fire up the Subscribe2 Administrators System you'll KNOW we mean business!

Clear, professional and VERY useable..

The Outbox is one of the things which makes Subscribe2 unique. It works just like your email software AND it will happily run in the background sending mail while you prepare more mailings! A visual progress bar gives you a quick visual reference of how your batch is doing and before you know it you'll be all done.

New in Subscribe2

$149.95 is a special opening price. Price will increase soon.

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12 Rate This v5 Emporium Plus / Miva Central

All customers, not just those logged in, are able to view the ratings and reviews made by other customers.

In the event that a malicious customer enters prank ratings, the admin interface allows removal of all ratings by specific customers. Since the module has an email alert feature (if turned onby the store owner), you will know what ratings are being left for your products. There is also a report generator to list all ratings on a specific product code or all ratings by a specific customer.

You can also display and/or delete the ratings of a specific product from the individual product edit screen.

Using a render token, place the Rate This button on the product page so that it better fits your desired look. You canlimit the number of reviews which appear on the product page with a "more"link to show all. You can sort the order of the reviews within the product edit screen so that customers see the reviews in the order you want them seen. You can also require admin approval before the rating/review is displayed to customers visiting your store. Admin reports can be displayed to screen, exported to flat file, and optionally email the flat file to the store. The admin rating reports which display the login have a hot link to the customer login so you can quickly view who the rater is.

Configure through admin, the text and tokens in both the display and prompt for this module as they are customizable templates which can replace the default layouts. You can allow the customer to include their email, name, or location (automatically filled in from their customer account) along with the reviews, depending on the demographicyou choose to allow in the store. As example, a typical rating might be
Reviewer: John in Anglikon, Switzerland 05/14/2001
Great tool and simple to install

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.

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13 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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14 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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16 My Favorites Quicklist v5 Advanced Development Solutions / Miva Central

Give your customers bettercontrol of their shopping experience. This module provides a way forthem to save their favorite items, with selected attribute options, tothe Favorites QuickList. Products can be added to Favorites QuickListfrom Product, Category, Search, Product List pages or the Entire Basketcan be saved, to checkout later. This provides a quick and easy was toorder their favorite or frequently bought items, without having to browse thestore or search for them, all from one screen. The Favorites list canbe sorted by code, title or price, and quickly modified using provided controls.Store developers and managers have complete control over thelook and feel of My Favorites QuickList layout using the automaticallyinstalled, Store Morph Technology™ templates. Thismodule is ideal for busy and wholesale stores.

The ADS My FavoritesQuickList Features:

• Simple ModuleInstallation, Configuration and Controls
  • Automaticcreation, installation and item assignmentof My Favorites Default Page and ProductList Layout templates and settings.
  • Automaticinstallation and assignment of My Favoritespage required items.
  • Automatic modificationof existing page and layout templates. Allyou need to do is insert a text or graphicallink to My Favorites QuickList anywhere in yoursite navigation.
  • Moduleprovides complete design control of My FavoritesPage usingthe new Store Morph Technology™ basedtemplates.
  • Neverworry about making template changes. Moduleutilizes new version history control.
  • Twosample templates are automatically installedfor the My Favorites Product List layout.Thetemplates can be further modified to meetyour needs.
  • Just add a link to My Favorites QuickList anywherein your template and you are ready to go.
  • Notemplate editing required, but is availablefor advanced users. HTML and template scriptingknowledge is required to make template modifications.If you do not have these skills it is recommendedyou contactADS representative to get assistancewith template design and customization.
    
    
• Enhanced User InterfaceFeatures and Controls.
  • Since Customersare required to be logged in to use thisfeature, they are automatically taken tothe Account Login screen if they click onMy Favorites navigation link or try to additems to their Favorites.
  • Customers can save their entire basket to Favorites fromthe basket screen. Product and Attribute/Optioninformation is also saved.
  • Add individual items to Favorites from Product,Category, Search and Product List pages.Product and Attribute/Option informationis also saved.
  • Quickly add multiple selected items, with attributes,and quantities to Basket with just one click.
  • Quickly delete multiple selected items from Favoriteswith just one click.
  • Breadcrumb Navigation for My Favorites QuickList.
  • Product Pagination with Product Totals, PageNumber Links and Previous/Next buttons. Productspagination is controlled through merchant admininterface.
  • Quick Favorites product sorting by Product Code,Name or Price in ascending or descending order.

Samplesnap shot of My Favorites Quick list page layout and controls:

Samplesnap shot of Product Page with Add to Favorites button:

Samplesnap shot of Basket page with Save to My Favorites button:

Samplesnap shot of a My Favorites Page Template administration Screen:

Samplesnap shot of a My Favorites Product List Layout Template administrationScreen:

Module installationand functionality has the following requirements:

• MIVA Merchant Version5.0
• No template editingis required, but is available for advanced users. HTML and templatescripting knowledge is required to make template modifications. Ifyou do not have these skills it is recommended you contactADS