for setting up a database driven online store.
Our examples use a rubber stamp store as the demo.
| Product Database layout |
include all the info for your products and upload them as a flat file. Much easier than doing it individually through your web browser. DOWNLOADS: |
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Subject Categories |
Decide what your main categories and sub-categories will be so you can assign all your designs into as many as they need to appear in. DOWNLOADS: |
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Assign all your designs into as many categories as they need to appear in. DOWNLOADS: |
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This is an easy way to make your products available in a variety of ways. Example: etc. |
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| Live Demo Store | Go play with a live Miva merchant demo store. Place an actual order and view the administration area. This is a basic store with many features disabled. |
| Miva Modules |
Miva Merchant's features can be greatly expanded through the use of modules. Here are my recommendations for basic stamp and craft store modules. Your needs may be different. E-Mail me if you have questions or want to suggest a module to add to the list. Coming soon! |
Miva Training Resources:
A Beginner's Guide to Miva Merchant- Version 4 by Pamela Hazleton. This is a downloadable PDF e-book. 200+ page reference for all that you can do within the admin interface, from setting up your store to retrieving the orders. Highly recommended!
Send an email to me for a special discount on this essential Merchant 4 book - click here for Miva Merchant 4 Book discount ordering info
Version 5 available Sept. 8, 2005!
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| Excellent online How-to videos that show you step by step how to set-up and run your miva merchant store. A 1 year basic subscription is offered free for safesecurestore.com annual hosting clients. |
MivaHelp.com Tutorials - (Free) Some good information. Some tutorials are advanced because they modify the scripts for modules.
CD-ROM training set - $99.00 I haven't checked this out, but it's probably very useful.
Miva Modules:
MVCOOL - One stop shopping for a LOT of available modules. Before you purchase any modules, please ask me. I may have a bulk purchase deal going on some of them.
Emporiumplus.com - This company sells server wide licenses. This means that if you are on the shared server - securestorefront.com or safesecurecart.com - all the stores on that server will be able to share the module and not have to buy multiple copies.
Free Miva Merchant Modules:
Miva Resources:
MivaHelp.com- Assorted links to helpful information.
DesignExtend.com - Miva Developer has a great selection of tips. Sign up for their weekly tips e-mail list
HTML Newsletters:
EMailCounts Email Maker - $29.95 per Year for up to 5000 email newsletters. Keeps track of whole database, can import customer info from a text file. Works best on a PC, I haven't tried it with Mac OSX, doesn't work with OS 8.6. Here's some tips for using EMailCounts.
