Miva Merchant:
Miva Merchant Shopping
Cart. 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.
Wizards.
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 enables you with deep-down customization
for your storefront.
Store Management.
Miva Merchant comes complete
with a set of wizards to simplify the process
of building your store. Then, the browser-based
administration interface provides access to
an array of more sophisticated tools to maintain
your catalog and inventory, manage accounts,
create comprehensive promotional campaigns,
handle order fulfillment responsibilities, and
generate detailed sales and website traffic
reports.
Account Management.
Whether you are running
a single store, or a "shopping mall",
Miva Merchant allows you to have complete management
control. You can create a store manager with
full authority and multiple user accounts to
handle the normal day-to-day operations of running
your store. Also, customer accounts can be set
up to provide frequent shopper programs, discounted
pricing and special product availability.
Catalog Management.
Create categories, products,
and attributes within Miva Merchant using wizards,
the Miva Merchant administration interface,
or the product import utility. Use the sorting
capability to quickly organize your products
for display. Create detailed product descriptions
using text and HTML and attributes can be assigned
to products to allow you to identify your products'
characteristics more accurately to your customers.
Merchandising.
Merchandising
is key to success of all stores and Miva Merchant
has the capability to implement a variety of
programs to increase your sales. With Miva Merchant
you can associate complimentary products to
give shoppers the opportunity to purchase others
that are similar . You can also create an upsale
process when shoppers meet pre-defined criteria
such as purchasing specific products, or exceeding
specified dollar amounts.
Pricing Groups.
Pricing groups can be used in combination with
select shopper availability groups to qualify
them for discounts on any or all products in the
store.
Order
Fullfillment. Processing credit card
payments is easy with Miva Merchant's pre-configured
payment processing solutions from industry leaders.
Miva Merchant also configures multiple sales
tax methods and provides your customers with
multiple shipping options. Checking order status
is also simple with our instant order email
confirmations that are sent to both the merchant
and customer.
Payment Gateways.
Miva Merchant is bundled with interfaces to a
large variety of payment gateways and, supports
over 40 others:
osCommerce:
osCommerce Shopping Cart.
osCommerce is an open
source e-commerce solution under on going development
by the open source community. Its feature packed
out-of-the-box installation allows store owners
to setup, run, and maintain their online stores
with minimum effort and with no costs involved.
osCommerce
combines open source solutions to provide a
free and open e-commerce platform, which includes
the powerful PHP web scripting language, the
stable Apache web server, and the fast MySQL
database server.
osCommerce
With no restrictions or special requirements,
osCommerce is able to run on any PHP3 or PHP4
enabled web server, on any environment that
PHP and MySQL supports, which includes Linux,
Solaris, BSD, and Microsoft Windows environments.Features
Although osCommerce is still in its
Preview Release stage, the current Preview Release
package has packed some punch for out-of-the-box
features, which include:
Customer Functionality,
as of Preview Release 2.1
Customer accounts
Customer address books (other shipping destinations)
Order history
Temporary (not logged on) and permanent (logged
on) shopping carts
Search catalog for products or manufacturers
Product reviews by customers
E-mail notifications
Forseen checkout procedure
Secure transactions with SSL
Number of products in each category are shown
Bestseller lists
Display what other customers have purchased
(relating to the current product displayed)
Administrative
Functionality, as of Preview Release 2.1
New design for user-friendliness
Add/Edit/Remove categories, products, manufacturers,
customers, and reviews
Categories-to-categories structure
Statistics for products and customers
Dynamic product attributes
Tax zones, classes, and rates
Configuration parameters in database for remote
editing
Not tied together with the catalog module (admin
module can be installed on another server)
Payment and shipping modules
Connection to oanda.com's currency exchange
rate servers for multi-currency shops
Decide what to display (and the order) in the
product listings
Backup tool
General Functionality,
as of Preview Release 2.1
PHP3/PHP4 compatible
Out-of-the-box functionality
Becoming modular
Localization: English, German, and Spanish;
plus contributions
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