Question on ecommerce website

[christianmom]

Just wondering if any of you would know what might be a good ecommerce package. I am not a web master by any stretch of the imagination so I need something that is easy.

Thanks guys for your help!

[PGP_Protector]

I use CCNow at work, works if you're not selling downloadable stuff.

[christianmom]

I use CCNow at work, works if you're not selling downloadable stuff.

Thank you for taking the time to reply to my post. I appreciate your input. I will look into that one. :)

[Chris]

If you are talking about ecommerce software, I use MIVA Merchant. :)

[christianmom]

Thank you, Chris, I'll check into that as well. :)

[Enlightened]

If you are talking about ecommerce software, I use MIVA Merchant. :)

I also use MIVA Merchant. I'm on an older version, v.4.1 I believe.

Chris, what version do you use? Have you upgraded? Is it worth it for me to upgrade?

[Chris]

I also use MIVA Merchant. I'm on an older version, v.4.1 I believe.

Chris, what version do you use? Have you upgraded? Is it worth it for me to upgrade?

I don't have an ecommerce site right now, but MIVA is out with the latest version at 5.5 according to my upstream provider. Here is a list of new feature in the latest release. You might want to view the MIVA merchant website for a detailed listing of all the features to help you decide whether to upgrade or not. :)

New Feature: Revamped UI.
Miva Merchant UI has been redesigned to focus on "click efficiency".
Merchants may now submit the form by clicking the Enter key on Search/Pagination boxes, QuickFind and the Order-Number based sorting features.

New Feature: SEO Settings.
*Tab can be found in the Domain Settings.
Merchants have the ability to configure the global settings for .htaccess rewrite rules.
Merchants have the ability to Enable/Disable Sitemap (Creates a new page "SMAP").

New Feature: META Tag Settings for Products and Categories.
*Tabs can be found on individual Product & Category screens.
Merchants can specify the META Description & META Keywords for each product/category.
Added new component "prodctgy_meta".
Updated PROD & CTGY pages to load prodctgy_meta component.

New Feature: Launchpad.
*Settings can be found in the top frame "Configure Shortcuts" link.
Merchants have the ability to configure 5 internal/external Shortcut links + Home (starting) page.
QuickFind feature (Allows quick searching of products/categories/customers/orders).

New Feature: Frameworks
*Tab can be found in Store Settings.
Merchants have the ability to Add/Apply/Save/Delete the state of their runtime as a framework.
Additional framework(s) provided by Miva Merchant will be available in the upcoming streams.

New Feature: Dreamweaver Import/Export.
*Tab can be found in Store Settings.
***Requires Miva Merchant Dreamweaver Plugin.
Designers/Merchants have the ability to Export their pages into Dreamweaver format.
They can then edit those pages in Dreamweaver and import them back into Miva Merchant.
Import/Export options added to the Pages screen.

New Feature: External CSS files.
*Settings can be found in the Head Tag Content/CSS tab.
Merchants may now upload one or more external CSS files. CSS files may be used as a "Skin" in Miva Merchant CSS Framework (coming soon).

New Feature: Number-based sorting control.
Categories and Products have the ability to sort the order through keying in the desired order numbers instead of clicking the up & down arrows.

New Feature: Product Attribute Template.
*Tab can be found on every Page the product_attributes component is assigned.
Merchants now have the ability to alter the Product Attribute Template.

New Feature: Customer HTML Based Email.
*Settings can be found on the Order Fulfillment Settings screen.
Merchants now have the ability to create HTML Template based emails.

New Feature: Product List "Product Columns" field.
*Option can be found on any Product List page (PROD, PLST, CTGY, SRCH).
This field allows merchants to specify the number of columns they wish to display their products in.

New Feature: Enhanced Order Processing.
Orders and Batches are now displayed in a formatted Batch Edit List (Newest first).
Create Batch has been moved to the Orders Tab.
Added Next/Previous/First/Last buttons to Edit Order screen.
External Payment Links that were listed under Order Processing previously, are now listed in their own menu Payment Links.

New Feature: Enhanced Page navigation.
Edit Item screen now contains the Pages tab. Merchants may now assign/unassign pages from an item.
Next/Previous/First/Last buttons were added to Edit Page screen