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Miva: Miva Merchant is a dynamic browser based storefront development and management system that allows merchants to create multiple online stores from anywhere in the world where there is internet access. Miva is available with any hosting plan for $10/month, and can be added by using the link below or by clicking the Miva icon in your control panel.
Main Features of Miva Merchant:
- Miva is the most popular, affordable storefront, with over 100,000 customers
- Real-Time Credit Card processing (payment gateway service must be obtained to utilize this feature)
- Many new shipping and payment gateways including PayPal
- Easy to use, unlimited customizable look and feel control
- Includes Miva Marketplace - Marketing network reaches over 10,000,000 shoppers per month. (additional fees apply)
- Excellent reporting and statistics features
- Build and maintain your own affiliate network capabilities
- Complete inventory/product tracking
- Will support an unlimited number of products
- Online Credit card authorization (payment gateway service must be obtained to utilize this feature)
- User-friendly administration through a web-based interface
- Complete set of wizards simplify building your storefront
- Offers excellent scalability and can be integrated with most major payment processing gateways
- SSL integration for secure ordering and reporting
- Automatic shopping basket maintenance
- Unlimited fulfillment options
- Automatic online UPS shipping calculations
- Configurable currency layout
- Email notification of orders
- "Buy Now" button can be added to any web page
- Mall administrator can set-up multiple stores (additional license fees apply)
- Context sensitive online help
- File upload of images and products
Miva Merchant has a complete set of browser based wizards to help you to get your E-Commerce store online, easily and quickly. For more details, take a look at the
most current versions of Miva "How To" Guides at Miva.com. These Guides will help you perform tasks for
building and maintaining your Miva Merchant store. These Guides are grouped into
categories. You can download guides by
category or individual selection. The title of each category is a PDF that contains all the guides of that category.
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Offering your products and services for sale online has gotten easier, cheaper, and much more user friendly over the last year - especially with our new Miva Merchant
shopping cart.
There are a handful of basic steps you need to follow in order to get started with online sales:
- Select A Shopping Cart: Once you have signed up for a web hosting account you can order your Miva ecommerce shopping cart - just contact us. Your Miva cart will be
installed shortly, and you'll be ready to begin setting up shop, adding products - everything you need. Miva Merchant has a complete set of wizards to simplify the process of building your store.
The browser based administration interface provides access to an array of more sophisticated tools to maintain your catalog. Upsell merchandising and order fulfillment are included. And
Miva's modular architecture gives you almost unlimited customization for your storefront. You can also accept PayPal with Miva.
If you are not looking to take credit cards online and wish to sell products or services via check only,
take a look at our Alacart Shopping Cart option.
- Get a Merchant Account and a Payment Gateway: Merchant accounts allow/authorize you to take credit cards. You can find an enormous
number of companies online that will set you up with a merchant account, prices vary. Our advice for the last couple of years... when anyone asks us about merchant accounts or credit card authorizers is, "Go to your bank first." You have an established relationship with your bank, your bank wants your continued business - your bank can even have better prices versus online. Seems hard to believe but not everything is cheaper online, we've seen many of the heavy up front fees lowered by working with a bank. Not only can they get you connected with the merchant account provider but they often have their own relationship with an online processor like Verisign or Authorize.net, and once again they may be able get you a better deal than going directly to the company's web site.
More Info on Payment gateways and Merchant Accounts
- Add Secure SSL (HTTPS) Capability: In order to take credit
card information from your customers you will need to have secure order and cart pages - pages beginning with "https"
and having that familiar "lock" in the lower right corner of the browser window. All hosting customers have FREE access to
the use of our server secure certificates - see SSL Security for more details.
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