reducing dependency on third party modules by joseph burton

Reducing Dependency on Third Party ModulesJoseph Burton

Benefits of using built in functionality

Increased compatibilityNo support fees or monthly charges

In-house support from Miva Merchant

New Functionality from Miva Merchant

• Alternate Page Templates• Mini Basket• Shipping Estimate• Smart Breadcrumbs• Pagination and Sorting• Shipping/Packaging Rules• Token List• Template Based Batch Reports• Template Based Order Emails

• Custom Fields Module• Built in Google Analytics• Shop as Customer• Pay with Amazon• Paypal Incontext

Checkout• Admin Session

Management• Canada Post

Custom Fields Module• In PR8 Update 9 we released a new version of our Custom Field

module. The new version includes some very useful features.

Custom Fields Module

Google Analytics Module

• The new Google Analytics module was added to make configuring your Google Analytics as easy as possible.

Google Analytics Module

Google Analytics Module

Shop as Customer

• Sign in as customer is a new feature that allows you to join a customers session, or start a new one for the customer. This is useful when helping customers over the phone.

Shop as Customer

Amazon Payments

• The new Amazon Payments module greatly improves the front end customer experience, and is easy to configure.

Amazon Payments

Amazon Payments

Amazon Payments

PayPal In Context Checkout

• PayPal In Context Checkout allows your customers to checkout with PayPal without ever having to leave your site.

PayPal In Context Checkout

PayPal In Context Checkout

Admin Session Management• If you have Administrator Level Access to your Miva Merchant Admin interface,

you can now track and see all the current Admin Sessions being used. This will allow you to keep tabs on who's logged into your store and for how long.

Canada Post• Our new Canada Post module supports real-time rates for both Canadian

domestic and international orders, giving you the ability to display your contracted rates and print your shipping labels directly from the Miva Merchant Admin.

Canada Post

Canada Post

Alternate Page Templates

• Alternate page templates allow you to specify a page template in the admin to be used for a specific product or category.

Alternate Page Templates

Mini Basket

• The new mini basket module allows your customers do display their basket contents anywhere on the site

Mini Basket

Shipping Estimate• The new shipping

estimation feature allows customers to see the available shipping methods before starting the checkout process.

Shipping Estimate

Shipping Estimate

Smart Breadcrumbs• Smart Breadcrumbs

give customers a way to see where they are in the site and where they came from. Smart Breadcrumbs do not require you to pass the category code in the URL to work.

Pagination and Sorting• The pagination and

sorting features allow customers to easily change the order of the products they are currently viewing, as well as choose the number of items to show per page.

Pagination and Sorting

Pagination and Sorting

Pagination and Sorting

Shipping Rules/Packaging Rules

• The shipping rules feature allows you to specify which shipping methods show up under certain conditions such as basket subtotal, state, country, ect..

Shipping Rules

Shipping Rules

Shipping Rules

Packaging Rules

Generating Labels

The shipping rules and packaging rules ties together nicely with the generate labels functionality to make order processing even easier.

Generating Labels

Token List

• Token List allows you to view the available variables on the page, and the values they contain

Token List

Token List

Template Based Batch Reports

• Template based batch reports allow you to create custom order and shipment level exports that you can use to integrate with other services or report information with.

Template Based Batch Reports

Template Based Batch Reports

Template Based Batch Reports

Template Based Order Emails

• Template Based Order Emails allow you to create custom HTML templates to be used for you order and shipment notification emails

Template Based Order Emails

Template Based Order Emails

Template Based Order Emails