Miva

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Miva	Score7.5 out of 10	Small Businesses (1-50 employees)	Miva Merchant is a point-and-click, online store development and management system that allows merchants to build their online store through a web browser, and lets developers provide aftermarket enhancements for the online store.	N/A

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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Miva employs a revenue-based pricing model. The Miva platform is best suited to growing mid-size and enterprise merchants that have complex business needs and are making (or planning to make) $1 million or more in annual online revenue.

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Considered Both Products	Miva Victoria Cominos Strategic Executive Assistant in Corporate at AlbanyCountyFasteners.com (Consumer Goods, 11-50 employees) Chose Miva BigCommerce, Shopify and Shopware are all superior to Miva. They allow you more power to personalize, power your store, and better B2B options. They have all solved the issues that Miva has with categorizing and subcategorizing products, which Miva doesn't allow that creates … Incentivized Helpful? Paco Goebel Operations Manager in Information Technology at Motonation (Apparel & Fashion, 11-50 employees) Chose Miva Miva is so much more customer oriented and willing to work with and for you. There are many modules you can install to get specific functionality to work, but if there's none available, they are more than willing to work with you to accomplish your needs. Miva actually listens … Incentivized Helpful? Marc Vasquez Director of Global eCommerce at Ideal Clamp Products, Inc. (Machinery, 11-50 employees) Chose Miva Each player has positive features and value to add to a business. BigCommerce and Shopify have brand recognition that has lead to them being the more common choice in eCommerce. Overall, they have their place for simple B2C sites, and less complex B2B sites. Miva was the … Incentivized Helpful? Rebecca Blackburn COO (Chief Operations Officer) in Corporate at GlitzOnline (Apparel & Fashion, 1-10 employees) Chose Miva Versatility and customer service. There is nothing more frustrating than being in the middle of a task and having to do tech support via a computer-generated chat box. Miva Merchant gives you a live tech support engineer 24/7. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Miva Miva is more costly than its competitors. [In my opinion] it's harder to set up and use and user interface is cumbersome. Requires costly customization for integration to services you get from Big Commerce or Shopify right out of the box. No Google Shopping integration. No … Incentivized Helpful? Steven Seale Senior Solution Architect / Technical Project Manager in Information Technology at WFH Systems (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Miva OS Commerce, PHP Cart, and many other open code systems. We find the native feature set ample and the developer community quite active and easy to identify. Some platforms can be difficult to find good qualified consultants/coders that can make good quality, well performing, … Helpful? Chris Janus Owner, Developer in Information Technology at Janus Design (Design, 1-10 employees) Chose Miva Miva Merchant can be customized to fit nearly any design, and it has nearly unlimited custom stand-alone, product and category pages for unique and varying layouts. With some other carts, they don't always allow much, if any, design customization outside of the few options or … Helpful? Verified User Chose Miva Miva Merchant has it's own language which had a high learning curve for me to understand. Customize the template to match a html/css static site was difficult because you needed those Miva Merchant code pieces to be in the correct places. Now that I'm older and wiser, I no … Helpful? Jeffrey Collins CEO / President in Corporate at Nerd Boy Inc (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Miva Miva Merchant for me as a Module Developer I believe scales better than the above. Has better customer support, and as a developer has the most open API. Helpful? Timothy Schneider Co-founder/Multimedia Producer in Information Technology at Pixel Juice Productions (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Miva 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 … Helpful? David Limon Manager in Sales at www.davidlimon.com (Internet, 201-500 employees) Chose Miva The closest solution I found to Miva is Magento. Magento seems to be gaining popularity at a rapid pace but I think this is only because they have done a better job at marketing their product (it's an eBay Company). When comparing the two I gave the slight edge to Miva because … Helpful? Verified User Chose Miva Many years ago, Miva was a good eCommerce platform compared to others, typically offered by a hosting company for free or a small charge. However, it's fallen way behind the pack now and the declining interest in their system and ever increasing fees make it exceptionally … Helpful? Gordon Currie Owner in Corporate at Phosphor Media (Online Media, 1-10 employees) Chose Miva Third-party development programs are not good or non-existent. That is a HUGE warning sign. Helpful? Susan Petracco Co-Founder and Ecommerce Consultant in Information Technology at NetBlazon (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Miva Because I have worked with Miva Merchant longer than any other shopping cart package, I'm comfortable doing anything that needs to be done within the package. I find it easier to develop modules for Miva than to do plug-ins or extensions for other carts, primarily based on my … Helpful? Bill Gilligan Chief Technology Officer / Managing Owner / Co-Founder in Information Technology at Gilligan & Ferneman, LLC (Retail, 1-10 employees) Chose Miva I have used others, but don't recall all the names. In the end though - we always go back to Merchant. Its just easier, and we have full access to our data. Helpful? Deirdre Daily Online Sales & Marketing Manager in Marketing at Woodstream Corporation (Consumer Goods, 201-500 employees) Chose Miva Working with Miva directly reduced the need to utilize someone to help us integrate and become accustom to the platform. Magento does have more flexibility with personalized messaging from my experience however. Helpful? Eric Karkovack Owner in Information Technology at Eric Karkovack Web Design Services (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Miva All of these products are nice in their own way. MIVA's big advantage is their selection of modules, although I have to say WooCommerce is starting to catch up in that area. While MIVA has begun to show its age, it's still a solid way to manage a store that contains a lot of … Helpful? Sabine Sharp President in Professional Services at Glendale Designs (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Miva Magento - BigCommerce - Shopify. In essence it all depends on the end client needs and project specifications. Miva Merchant seems to be the most flexible in the bunch at the most attractive pricing (SaaS model) Helpful? Verified User Chose Miva Other software that I have used are: ShopSite, X-Cart and Quick Shopping Cart. They are less flexible and customization is limited. Helpful? Lee Amon Owner in Marketing at CollabaCore, Inc (Retail, 1-10 employees) Chose Miva When we started using Miva, (in 2003) the other alternatives simply weren't available. Miva was the eCommerce solution our hosting provider offered. Over the years, we considered migrating to several other services, including Volusion, Amazon Storefront, and Zen Cart. Zen Cart … Helpful?
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Features

Miva

Comparison of Online Storefront features of Miva
Feature	Miva 8.2 2 Ratings
Product catalog & listings	8.52 Ratings
Product management	8.52 Ratings
Bulk product upload	9.12 Ratings
Branding	8.52 Ratings
Mobile storefront	9.12 Ratings
Product variations	8.52 Ratings
Website integration	7.92 Ratings
Visual customization	8.52 Ratings
CMS	5.82 Ratings

Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Miva
Feature	Miva 7.6 2 Ratings
Abandoned cart recovery	7.32 Ratings
Checkout user experience	7.92 Ratings

Comparison of Online Payment System features of Miva
Feature	Miva 7.3 2 Ratings
eCommerce security	7.32 Ratings

Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Miva
Feature	Miva 7.2 2 Ratings
Promotions & discounts	7.92 Ratings
Personalized recommendations	7.02 Ratings
SEO	6.72 Ratings

Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Miva
Feature	Miva 7.7 6 Ratings
Multi-site management	9.11 Ratings
Order processing	7.36 Ratings
Inventory management	6.72 Ratings
Shipping	7.62 Ratings
Custom functionality	7.92 Ratings

User Ratings
	Miva
Likelihood to Recommend	7.4 (22 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (16 ratings)
Usability	6.8 (5 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (4 ratings)
Online Training	9.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (5 ratings)
Product Scalability	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.1 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.1 (1 ratings)

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