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By January 16, 2001 Miva Corporation offers merchants and software developers a complete line of products to build, manage, and operate virtual storefronts. Miva was founded in 1996 and today is a leading provider of merchant e-commerce software to small and medium-sized businesses. The Miva product line includes:
How Miva Works One highlight of the system is the related products feature that allows merchants to feature complementary products and accessories associated with individual items for cross-sell opportunities. Miva Merchant 3.0 is also integrated with QuickBooks from Intuit Software to enable merchants to better synchronize customer and product information between their online stores and any brick and mortar storefronts. At the heart of the Miva system is Miva Empresa, an interpretive engine for the Miva Script programming language that is the core technology behind Miva''s e-commerce products. Empresa is a server-side program that acts as an interpretative engine for Miva Script, an XML-based programming language that is the core technology behind all of Miva''s products. When running Miva Merchant, it is necessary for the Web server to also run a copy of Miva Empresa in order to interpret the commands. Miva Mia, a free downloadable version of Empresa, is available for personal workstation use, such as testing a store before uploading the store to a Web server. A Miva API exposes Empresa for customized database queries, function enhancements to merchant server processing, and additions of custom processing through modules. Miva Empresa is available for a variety of Web commerce servers, including:
Miva also provides a number of venues for users to discuss Miva products. These forums are monitored by Miva technical support to help users with problems and questions. Forums are accessible through majordomo at the Miva Support section of their Web site. Fees, Costs, Etc. For those wishing to purchase the system, Miva Merchant is licensed on a per domain basis plus a license fee for additional storefronts. The basic domain license comes with a license for one storefront; additional storefronts can be purchased separately. Initial Domain Licenses, which include the first store, are $495 per domain. Additional store licenses, under the initial Domain License, are $99 per store. Miva Empresa is licensed per Web server with no per domain or per user fees. Licenses run $495 per server. Miva Commerce Server is a bundle that includes a single Web server license to install Miva Empresa and a single domain license to install Miva Merchant. A license, which includes Miva Empresa and Miva Merchant, runs $895 Per Server/Domain. Recently, Miva and Cobalt teamed up to provide Miva Commerce RaQs as pre-installed and pre-configured server appliances. The system includes Miva Empresa, a web server plug-in for XML based Miva Script, and Miva Merchant. The system is designed for hosted and dedicated e-commerce storefronts. Pricing is as follows:
Miva Commerce RaQ systems many be purchased through Cobalt or any of their distributors, including HostPro and Interliant. All Miva products come with a 30-day money back guarantee. Overall Pros Cons Links: Reviewed by: Mark S. Merkow, CCP |
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