Miva Merchant 5.5 Dream Features

[lesliekirk]

Re: Miva Merchant 5.5 Dream Features

I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight - that the PayPal Standard Module worked with multiple additional stores in a mall setting.

[JoeG]

Re: Miva Merchant 5.5 Dream Features - Fulfillment By Amazon

There is a gaping hole in MIVA's product offerings - Fulfillment.

I have had to build custom solutions three times in past 5 years to get my order file work with fulfillment houses.

May I suggest adding an "order file translator" that batches and exports the order file to Amazon's order file format.

Fulfillment By Amazon (aka FBA) would add a "world class" fulfillment option for MIVA stores.

Just a thought...

[kayakbabe]

Re: Miva Merchant 5.5 Dream Features

Yes and many drop shippers actually use the amazon order file format too. It's becoming a universal format that lots of others are using for their own purposes.

[William Davis]

Re: Miva Merchant 5.5 Dream Features - Fulfillment By Amazon

There is a gaping hole in MIVA's product offerings - Fulfillment.

I have had to build custom solutions three times in past 5 years to get my order file work with fulfillment houses.

May I suggest adding an "order file translator" that batches and exports the order file to Amazon's order file format.

Fulfillment By Amazon (aka FBA) would add a "world class" fulfillment option for MIVA stores.

Just a thought...

I am not familiar with FBA, could you please elaborate just enough to clue me in?

[JoeG]

Re: Miva Merchant 5.5 Dream Features

Amazon will ship your orders for you, ie fulfillment. They call it "Fulfillment by Amazon."

Just setup an account, ship your products to them, send them an order file (formatted to their specifications) and they will pick, pack and ship.

This would greatly enhance MIVA...

[p4k]

Re: Miva Merchant 5.5 Dream Features

Ability to differentiate between commercial and residential addresses when entering orders through the Admin's Miva Orders. Currently is defaults to residential, with no way to get the commercial shipping rates.

[garciap]

Re: Miva Merchant 5.5 Dream Features

I most often have to go back and adjust the shipping on many packages (especially USPS where I find savings), so my shipping options only offer home delivery, and if FedEx validates a commercial address, I can recalc for the customer and show them the savings (or keep it). I find that if I use Direct Signature with commercial rate, it's almost the same as Indirect Signature with residential rate, so not much difference. Are you making no shipping charge adjustments after the orders are placed?

I agree that a checkbox would be nice, or even better, just have the checkout do validation of the address through UPS or FedEx so the customer can't incorrectly mark it as commercial when it's residential in order to get a cheaper rate.

Ability to differentiate between commercial and residential addresses when entering orders through the Admin's Miva Orders. Currently is defaults to residential, with no way to get the commercial shipping rates.

[hmensch]

Re: Miva Merchant 5.5 Dream Features

Import Products From Flat File

After installing/using MM5 PR7...

#1 - I feel as if we have taken a step backwards from the previous version. I have to reselect the "Fields to Import" each time I import from a flat file. The previous version saved my choices for the remainder of my session. The ability to save for future use the preferred Fields Row in the "Fields to Import" would save a lot of time & effort.

#2 - The "Fields to Import" inline window could be improved. The Description line should be shortened.

[Brandon MUS]

Re: Miva Merchant 5.5 Dream Features

Import Products From Flat File

After installing/using MM5 PR7...

#1 - I feel as if we have taken a step backwards from the previous version. I have to reselect the "Fields to Import" each time I import from a flat file. The previous version saved my choices for the remainder of my session. The ability to save for future use the preferred Fields Row in the "Fields to Import" would save a lot of time & effort.

#2 - The "Fields to Import" inline window could be improved. The Description line should be shortened.

I agree with #1. I had hopes that "First Line of File is a Header Row" would allow us to format our import to have those auto-read. Since that didn't happen, I wrote a Greasemonkey script to auto-select the fields for me. If you have Greasemonkey, you can tweak this script (poorly written I'm sure, but at least it works).

// ==UserScript==
// @name           Miva Merchant - Import Products
// @namespace      MUS
// @description    Automatically select the proper fields for a standard product import
// @include        */mm5/admin.mvc*
// ==/UserScript==

//auto select on import
var selects = document.getElementsByTagName('select');
for ($i=0; $i<selects.length; $i++) {
	if (selects[$i].name == 'ProductImport_Field[1]') {
		selects[$i].value = 'code';
	} else if (selects[$i].name == 'ProductImport_Field[2]') {
		selects[$i].value = 'name';
	} else if (selects[$i].name == 'ProductImport_Field[3]') {
		selects[$i].value = 'price';
	} else if (selects[$i].name == 'ProductImport_Field[4]') {
		selects[$i].value = 'thumbnail';
	} else if (selects[$i].name == 'ProductImport_Field[5]') {
		selects[$i].value = 'image';
	} else if (selects[$i].name == 'ProductImport_Field[6]') {
		selects[$i].value = 'weight';
	} else if (selects[$i].name == 'ProductImport_Field[7]') {
		selects[$i].value = 'active';
	}
}

//popup enhancement; automatically select the overwrite checkbox
if (document.forms[0].name == 'FUPL' && document.forms[0].elements[9] == 'FileUpload_Overwrite') {
	document.forms[0].elements[9].checked=true;
}

#2 has been discussed a few times and the popular opinion is that the list should span vertical instead of horizontal.

[habreu]

Re: Miva Merchant 5.5 Dream Features

-Allow Custom Fields (in the Custom Fields tab) to be reordered -or allow them to be grouped by a category name. For example I have Fields1 thru Fields15 which are all related. Adding a new field or editing means they may not remain together which can be confusing.

-related to above it would be good if in the PBED screen you could expand/collapse or show/hide the Custom Fields in the header. I use a fair amount of them and it takes up a lot of room.

-When you have to change a lot of products drilling down in admin to product main>product edit>attributes>attributed edit then going back to Products in the sidebar to start drilling for the next one seems cumbersome. Would it be possible to create waypoints or a breadcrumb trail on the products page, of the last X pages visited (where those pages were not an edit screen to avoid any issues). This way you could quickly backup to the main attribute, product or product main (PBED) page?

-Allow decimal amounts to be toggled on in the order quantity box. This would be useful to those selling items by the square foot for example.

-Consider adding waypoints and bookmarks. Bookmarks like the Launchpad are useful and if they don't fit up there then a simple item added to the left nav menu in admin called 'Bookmarks' where users could add links. Waypoints would be a temporary marker. So if you are working on a product and jumping back and forth you could add the page location to this waypoint menu. Then you could click on items in that menu to go back and forth quickly. When done have a 'Clear waypoints?' button and that's it.

-Some sort of graceful error system - users should not see runtime errors, but should see our template. a message alerting the visitor that something has gone wrong, a report has been generated and sent and if possible save their current state (basket, login etc) and allow them to go back or give them a ticket number so we can follow up with them if needed.

Hope that is all clear.

[InvincibleRecordings]

Re: Miva Merchant 5.5 Dream Features

I wish that the next and previous page buttons which are now only on the bottom of pages were as well on the top. I am wasting time scrolling to the bottom of long pages to get to them. Also the update button, delete and reset button would be better on the left side of the bottom (not the right) and it would be handy if it were on the top left side of page as well as on the left bottom. The left is better as that is were the check boxes are.

[Dan - Glendale Designs]

Re: Miva Merchant 5.5 Dream Features

This is an easy change, shoot me a message off-forum ;)

[SunCam]

Re: Miva Merchant 5.5 Dream Features

I wish that the next and previous page buttons which are now only on the bottom of pages were as well on the top. I am wasting time scrolling to the bottom of long pages to get to them. Also the update button, delete and reset button would be better on the left side of the bottom (not the right) and it would be handy if it were on the top left side of page as well as on the left bottom. The left is better as that is were the check boxes are.

Positioning the "EDIT" buttons along the left side of the page would also be good ergonomic design! It would make it much easier to pick the right product/category/page etc.

[Dan - Glendale Designs]

Re: Miva Merchant 5.5 Dream Features

I wish that the next and previous page buttons which are now only on the bottom of pages were as well on the top. I am wasting time scrolling to the bottom of long pages to get to them. Also the update button, delete and reset button would be better on the left side of the bottom (not the right) and it would be handy if it were on the top left side of page as well as on the left bottom. The left is better as that is were the check boxes are.

Sorry, just found out that InvincibleRecordings was referring to the admin buttons. Please ignore my response :)

[kayakbabe]

Re: Miva Merchant 5.5 Dream Features

I believe Rick did announce that the delete button was being moved. We discussed in the forum even making the text more clear such as "Delete Product" or "Delete Category". But I'm not sure Miva is going to go that far.

Moving it out of such a easy to click spot near the update button will go very far towards making me happy. I've been using miva merchant since htmlscript days... I'm i the admin almost everyday and I still accidentally delete products or categories everyone once in a while (at least 3 times a year) is very annoying and I'm extremely familiar with the interface. I can imagine how it frustrates newer users.

I'm glad Miva is listening to us.