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In today's world, creating an internet ecommerce presence can be time consuming, expensive and confusing. One of the most popular ecommerce packages now in use is Miva's Merchant. Merchant, out of the box, provides an excellent base to be used in the creation of your store. However, you will soon discover that Merchant has many limitations and constraints that most users find uncomfortable and restricting.
Miva Merchant is an open source system. This allows third party developers to write customized software modules that extend the flexibility and functionality of Merchant. Over the past several years an entire cottage industry has developed that provides more functionality than imaginable for Merchant. However, along with this dramatic increase in functionality there are several potential disadvantages:
- As you add additional module functionality to Merchant, the software overhead degrades page performance, or the time required for a new page to appear when selected can slow dramatically.
- There are many opportunities for conflicts to exist from one module to another. That is, not all modules play well together if the modules do not adhere to Miva's strict API.
- The cost of modules varies widely depending upon functionality and complexity, with some modules costing more than Merchant itself; you could easily find yourself spending thousands of dollars buying third party modules.
CybrHost has been hosting Miva-enabled web sites for nearly five years. Over the years we have become recognized as a leader in this niche ecommerce hosting market. Without question our network, our servers, and our day in day out support to our clients has developed a stellar reputation. Our servers are the fastest Miva-enabled units available anywhere. Our networks redundancy insures continuous connections day in and day out. We have been able to maintain 100-percent uptime for more than a year. Our support is focused wholly upon Merchant and our mail system. We have answered well more than 21,000 support emails in the last year alone and our response time averages less than one hour. All told we have carefully developed a company which is fine tuned to support the complexities of this niche market.
We recently recognized that many clients required far more than a cut and dried ecommerce hosting plan. Day after day, clients were moving away from the hosting giants such as Interland, CI Host, Valueweb and the like. These gargantuan hosting companies provide ecommerce packages, however they are simply inadequate in meeting the demanding needs of the ecommerce marketplace. As a result of our analysis, we first added the option of free web site transfers when you choose either our Standard or our Shared Merchant Hosting Plan. CybrHost physically downloads your site, corrects any issues required and installs your site onto our servers. Once your site is verified it is given to you. But this was only to be the beginning...
CybrHost has always provided, free of charge, the version of Merchant of your choice. After years of daily management of Merchant stores, we began to see a pattern of modules commonly added to storefronts. We then asked ourselves, "Why shouldn't CybrHost negotiate for the purchase of those modules we found to be most useful with Merchant stores?"
Well, we did!
When you join our forces and become one of our clients using our Standard Merchant Hosting Plan you will also receive several third party modules we found to be essential in store front presentation, design and maintenance. Here is the current run down of what you receive:
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Open Look and Feel Module (Inc'l in Special Plan)
The OpenUI Look & Feel module (OpenUI) could also be called, "Customizing Merchant the Easy Way", or "Fire and Forget Merchant Customization". Why? Because if you use OpenUI to modify Miva Merchant, you will not have to enter all your hard earned modifications again when Miva Corp. upgrades Miva Merchant. Just upgrade Miva Merchant, upgrade the OpenUI, upgrade your 3rd party modules and you are ready to go! The OpenUI also gives your store many times more flexibility than the standard MMUI, even if you don't use 3rd party modules.
OpenUI Statistics (Inc'l in Special Plan)
The statistics page gives a total sales summary, and then breaks the total sales down by day-of-the-week and time of day (by the hour) the orders were made. The stats page also lists the top selling products and top revenue generators for the specified parameters. The stats are based on the filtering options you currently have set, allowing you to specify exactly what information you would like to generate. For example, if you are in the customer screen on the OpenOrders tab and click on the stats button, you will see the stats of that customer's order only. If you have filtered the orders based on the order total and the date range, then the stats will be based on this filter. The stats button gives you immense flexibility because it allows you to view stats using a single filter or any combination of filters.
OpenDesigner (Inc'l in Special Plan)
Now you can control EVERY screen in your storefront, with our new OpenDesigner™! Why purchase a separate module for your page templates (~$44.95), and another for your category templates (~$44.95), and another for your welcome screen template (~$44.95), and yet another for the other page templates (~$44.95). That's almost $180 and you'll still need more modules for creating new screens (~$35.00) and doing HTML emails (~$59.95). You can do all of this (and a whole lot more) with one, single module!
QwkGuard Fraud Protection System
QwkGuard prevents your site from becoming a credit card verification warehouse. Fraudulent checks of credit card validity can not be performed due to system lockout when multiple attempts are detected. Timeout duration and email notification of fraudulent attempts are user configurable.
Urchin Web and Ecommerce Traffic Reporting
Urchin offers complete, intuitive and easy-to-read reports on a wide spectrum of parameters that are indispensable to anyone interested in the design, promotion or marketing of a website. Urchin reports on which links and search engines brought people to your site, top keywords used, how users are navigating through your site, and much more.
So, if you desire to go with the largest of the Miva-enabled only web host, desire excellence in hosting, require a free site transfer and desire the software above, then choose CybrHost's Standard Merchant Hosting Plan today!
We do suggest that you compare our offerings with that of the competition then decide for yourself. More bandwidth, more disk space, better performance: Item for item, we offer far more than any hosting Miva-enabled only ecommerce hosting company. CybrHost is truly Beyond The Best.
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