This document discusses new functionality in Miva Merchant that reduces dependency on third party modules. It highlights built-in modules for alternate page templates, mini baskets, shipping estimates, smart breadcrumbs, pagination, sorting, shipping/packaging rules, token lists, batch reports, order emails, custom fields, Google Analytics, shop as customer, Amazon Payments, PayPal in-context checkout, admin session management, and Canada Post shipping. The new features provide more flexibility and control while removing support fees.

1. Reducing Dependency on Third Party Modules
Joseph Burton

2. Benefits of using built in
functionality
Increased compatibility
No support fees or monthly charges
In-house support from Miva Merchant

3. 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

4. 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.

5. Custom Fields Module

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

7. Google Analytics Module

8. Google Analytics Module

9. 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.

10. Shop as Customer

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

12. Amazon Payments

13. Amazon Payments

14. Amazon Payments

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

16. PayPal In Context Checkout

17. PayPal In Context Checkout

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. Canada Post

21. Canada Post

22. 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.

23. Alternate Page Templates

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

25. Mini Basket

26. Shipping Estimate
• The new shipping
estimation feature
allows customers to see
the available shipping
methods before starting
the checkout process.

27. Shipping Estimate

28. Shipping Estimate

29. 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.

30. 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.

31. Pagination and Sorting

32. Pagination and Sorting

33. Pagination and Sorting

34. 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..

35. Shipping Rules

36. Shipping Rules

37. Shipping Rules

38. Packaging Rules

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

40. Generating Labels

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

42. Token List

43. Token List

44. 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.

45. Template Based Batch Reports

46. Template Based Batch Reports

47. Template Based Batch Reports

48. 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

49. Template Based Order Emails

50. Template Based Order Emails

51. Template Based Order Emails