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Affiliate Programs
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 Promote
your store by working with affiliates.
- Set affiliate commission levels based on order total,
traffic referred, or a combination of both.
- Online affiliate accounts enable affiliates to see
earnings, retrieve store links and banners, and view program agreement.
- Track all affiliate earnings and payouts through a simple
affiliate management system.
Additional Marketing Services
- Work seamlessly with MIVA Mailer, the mailing list
management and email distribution system.
- Fully integrated with MIVA Marketplace for online
pay-per-click advertising, powered by FindWhat.com.
- Take advantage of MIVA Submit, a suite of search engine
optimization and web presence enhancement tools.
Order Processing
- Batch all new orders and run batch reports.
- Orders provide customer information, payment and shipping
methods, and product details.
- Process all orders through your payment gateway remotely.
- Order encryption provides increased security for customer
payment details.
- Generate confirming e-mail messages for customers when
orders are placed.
- Receive e-mail notifications when new orders are
received.
- Notification emails can be copied to a third party for
drop-shipping, among other uses.
Localization Settings
- State-based sales tax and shopper selected sales tax
settings available.
- Calculate sales tax for Canadian VAT, German VAT, or
customize with a generic VAT setting.
- Use US currency format or European currency, with
conversion rates.
- Create any customized currency format.
- Specify product weights with customized weight label.
- Customizable state and country lists can be modified for
use in any part of the world.
Logging and Analytics
- Generate an ELF2 formatted log file for use with the
Urchin E-Commerce module for the Urchin 5 software.
- Track customer page visits with MIVA Access Log.
- View statistics for revenue, number of orders, and top
selling products.
Shipping Calculation and Payment Processing
- Get automatic shipping rates from UPS, USPS, and FedEx.
- Create custom rate tables based on quantity, order total,
order weight, and more.
- Accept credit cards with a variety of built-in payment
gateways, including Authorize.net, VeriSign, CardService International,
CyberSource, and many more.
- Ability to accept and process credit cards manually.
- Compatible with other payment methods, such as PayPal,
electronic checks, and COD.
- Smart commerce library detection automatically tells you
which shipping and payment modules are supported by your web host.
Data Access
- Import product, customer, and category data for faster
storefront setup.
- Export products, customers, orders, affiliates, and
categories from storefront.
- Additional MIVA Synchro add-on provides real-time
product, customer and order synchronization with QuickBooks.
- New MIVA-SQL technology uses the power of SQL for
enhanced database performance without a SQL-compatible server.
- Configurable for use with MySQL database systems.
- XML-based provisioning for automatic store setup.
"Getting Started" Wizards
- Easy-to-use wizards to walk through every aspect of your
storefront to help get started.
- Wizards provide assistance for getting adjusted to using
an e-commerce solution.
- Simple Mode administration interface provides a
step-by-step walk-through of all required parts of an online storefront.
Modular Architecture
- Easily accepts add-on modules from third party
developers.
- All modules are built around a common API and plug into
the appropriate sections automatically.
- Third party module settings configured directly in your
administration interface.
- Large module aftermarket provides unlimited new features
for storefront.
- Context-sensitive Extras buttons throughout
administration interface direct you to MIVACentral.com for suggestions of
related third party modules.
- Module interface provides access to all installed
modules.
- Remove built-in modules you do not wish to use.
Store Access and Maintenance
- Create unlimited user accounts for administrator access.
- Assign access groups to limit user access to specific
store administration duties.
- Maintenance mode enables you to close the store for
maintenance.
- Customizable maintenance message displayed to all
visitors while store is temporarily down.
- Automated streaming updates means never having to upload
a patch or perform an upgrade again.
- Connection to the MIVA update server notifies you of
available patches, and prompts an optional automated installation.
Documentation and Support
- An overview guide, "Getting Started as an Online
Merchant", provides a readable, magazine-like introduction to the concepts
and language of online shop keeping.
- Comprehensive online Help system, with more complete and
relevant information, enables users to find answers quickly.
- Context sensitive Help icons throughout the
administration interface guide you to relevant online help guides.
- Detailed instructions not only explain how to accomplish
the task at hand, but also provide information to help the user understand
how to use the tool most effectively in their business.
- Active, friendly user communities enable idea sharing and
skill building for businesses using MIVA Merchant, MIVA Merchant online
store designers, and programmers who create innovative new modules to
extend the functionality of the product.
- Phone and email technical support from trained MIVA
technicians available through MIVA Service Club.
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