MIVA Merchant. Almost Perfect.
Software Version
v 5.5 PR8
Modules Used
- ToolKit (Emporium Plus)
- Ship by World Zone (Emporium Plus)
- Ship by State Zone (Emporium Plus)
- HTMLEdit5 (ADS)
- Ultimate Coupons (Sebenza)
- Ultimate Wishlist (Sebenza)
- Tax (Avalara)
- Shipping SuperMod (eMediaSales)
Overall Satisfaction with Miva Merchant
We use MIVA Merchant as our platform of choice for developing both online catalog and eCommerce project for clients. While we might consider WordPress for clients with a very small inventory, MIVA is the only other platform we use. The ongoing development of the platform, responsive MIVA support and the active community of developers make this a very good choice for us.
- Ongoing development. MIVA has, over the years, added features and functions to the platform that keeps it both secure and feature-rich. With recent releases, for instance, MIVA is PCI compliant and many of the most used 3rd party modules have been incorporated.
- MIVA Support. Support is responsive and can be very technical.
- Active forum of developers. This is a great resource for those times when a client has asked for a function I've not seen used in MIVA. Developers on the MIVA forums often have suggestions or solutions to share.
- The internal search function is somewhat basic. Ideally the a search would potentially use multiple data fields.
- Selling digital items for download isn't yet an option.
- MIVA isn't responsive so that it reduces nicely on mobile devices.
- We have lost some business due to lack of easy MIVA connectivity with popular POS systems.
- For the most part, focussing on MIVA as the primary eCommerce platform my company offers has been very positive choice for me and my clients. The choice of MIVA has allowed me to focus on learning a singular platform where I have the ability to modify the look & feel as well as the function of the store. For my clients, MIVA presents an easy to use administrative interface (Magento, by comparison, is a nightmare) with plenty of functionality.
- Magento,osCommerce,WordPress,Avactis
MIVA Merchant is a good choice for both developers and store owners with small to medium size businesses. The platform is secure, feature-rich, easy to modify and easy to administer. MIVA Merchant is actively being developed and so constantly improving via both the official production updates and the committed third party module developers.
Using Miva Merchant
Miva Implementation
- Implemented in-house