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Your
control panel comes with two on-line store builders, Miva
Merchant and osCommerce.
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This document isn't a storefront management guide. It only
explains how to run integrated e-stores from your control
panel. For instructions on how to operate your on-line shop
visit the corresponding company site.
Miva
Merchant vs. osCommerce
Your
plan may allow you to create an online store with two online
shop builders and managers:
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on-line
store
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Miva
Merchant
www.miva.com/products/merchant
version 4.xx
Miva Merchant is a dynamic browser based storefront
development and management system that allows merchants
to create multiple online stores.
Read the license.
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osCommerce
www.oscommerce.com
version 2.2 (see below on how to update your version)
osCommerce is an open source e-commerce solution
and is released under the GNU
General Public License (GPL). |
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features
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- Store
management (simple wizards and sophisticated tools)
- Account
management (provide frequent shopper programs, discounted
pricing and special product availability)
- Catalog
Management
- Associating
complimentary products to give shoppers the opportunity
to purchase others that are similar .
- Configuring
multiple sales tax methods, configures multiple sales
tax methods and instant order e-mail confirmations.
- Secure
transactions with SSL
- Driving
targeted shoppers to your store with a search engine
and "shop box" that is displayed on popular
web sites.
- Affiliate
Program
- Inventory
Tracking
- Advanced
and simple mode administrative interfaces
- Product
Attribute Template
- Site
Traffic and Sales Statistics
- Quick
Selection when administering your storefront
- Calculating
shipping costs as a percentage of the total order
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- Add/Edit/Remove
categories, products, manufacturers, customers, and
reviews
- Categories-to-categories
structure
- Statistics
for products and customers
- Dynamic
product attributes
- Tax
zones, classes, and rates
- Configuration
parameters in database for remote editing
- Not
tied together with the catalog module (admin module
can be installed on another server)
- Payment
and shipping modules
- Backup
tool
- Customer
accounts
- Customer
address books (other shipping destinations)
- Order
history
- Temporary
(not logged on) and permanent (logged on) shopping
carts
- Search
catalog for products or manufacturers
- Product
reviews by customers
- E-mail
notifications
- Foreseen
checkout procedure
- Secure
transactions with SSL
- Number
of products in each category are shown
- Bestseller
lists
- Display
what other customers have brought (relating to the
current product displayed
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Setting
Up Miva Merchant
To
set up Miva Merchant, do the following:
- Click
Miva E-Commerce on the control panel home page.
- Enable
Miva E-Shop for your e-commerce domain.
- Agree
to charges. If you get the message "Run out of MIVA
Merchant licenses", report to technical support.
- Click
the Apply link in the Status column.
- Click
the Setup icon that has appeared next to the domain
name.
- Click
the Install button and complete the installation:
- Click
the Edit icon to configure your Miva shopping cart.
Alternatively, you can do it using Miva administration panel.
When it prompts you for a login and a password, enter those
you use for your FTP account.
- Click
the View icon to see how your online store looks
from the Internet.
- To
remove Miva Merchant database with all its entries, click
the Uninstall icon.
Setting
Up osCommerce
To
set up osCommerce online shop, do the following:
- Click
osCommerce on the control panel home page.
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On the page that shows enable osCommerce for the
online store domain.
- Agree
with charges, if any.
- Create
a database and a user. osCommerce uses MySQL databases to
store your commercial data, such as products, catalogues,
etc.
WARNING: Assigning a previously
created MySQL database for use by osCommerce will clear
contents of all its tables.
The databases used by osCommerce will
show among your MySQL databases marked "(Locked
By osCommerce)".
You can manage osCommerce databases with
any MySQL GUI client or the built-in phpMyAdmin control
panel.
* For more information on MySQL please refer to MySQL
Support chapter of this manual.
- Set
permissions to the "admin" directory using the
htProtect
utility. This is done to restrict public access to osCommerce
configuration.
Now
let's take a look at the osCommerce controls:
- ON/OFF
- enable/disable the resource. Switching off your osCommerce
will permanently remove all your osCommerce settings, databases,
etc. So the next time you enable it, you'll have to configure
it from scratch and you will be charged the osCommerce setup
fee.
- EDIT
- click the icon in case you somehow corrupted the templates
and want to get them fixed. Also, use it if you have just
set your e-shop to use SSL certificate. This option resets
the config file using the current hosting settings and restores
the osCommerce files from the bundle.
- E-SHOP
- click the icon to go directly to your on-line store.
- ADMIN
- click the icon to go to your osCommerce administrative
panel.
Updating
osCommerce to version 2.2
osCommerce
2.2 contains lots of bugfixes, so if you run the prior version,
we highly recommend you to update your online store building
software to version 2.2:
- Back
up all your custom osCommerce settings.
- In
your control panel, go to the osCommerce settings page.
- Choose
the domain you are running your online store on and click
the Edit icon. That will update osCommerce scripts.
- Click
the Upgrade icon. This will update osCommerce database:
Important:
Please make sure that your current osCommerce version is
older that 2.2 before performing the upgrade.
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