Upgrading

• Upgrading from MM4 to MM5.5 Step 1
  
• Upgrading from MM4 to MM5.5 Step 2
  
• If you have OpenUI in MM4, here's what to do next
  
• Updating MM5.5 with any data changed in MM4 before going live with MM5.5
  
• Upgrading from MM5 to MM5.5
  

Setting Up a Store

• Setting up a store from scratch
  
• Viewing results of brand new store creation
  
• Setting up state-based sales tax
  
• Setting up shipping methods included in Miva Merchant
  
• Setting up payment methods included in Miva Merchant
  
• Setting up credit card payments
  
• Setting up PayPal
  
• Defining what states and countries are available at checkout
  
• Changing order notification emails
  
• Putting content into the storefront
  
• Changing body tags, like background color
  
• The structure of pages and how to manipulate them
  
• Adding a page of content
  
• Restoring a previous version of a Page Template
  
• Page codes, like SFNT, BASK, OSEL, etc.
  
• Changing which customer fields are required in checkout
  
• Changing site's default fonts
  
• Adding checkout instructions
  

Working With Categories and Category Page Layout

• Adding categories
  
• Adding subcategories
  
• Adding a category header & products in categories
  
• Changing how many products are shown on a category page
  
• Changing category page layout, such as columns
• Resorting categories and subcategories
• Custom Category Title Tag Trick
  

Working With Products and Product Page Layout

• Adding a product
  
• Assigning a product to a category
  
• Reordering products & categories, & products in categories?
  
• Attributes defined, and how to add them
  
• Attribute templates defined and how they work
  
• Finding the URL of a product if it's not assigned to a category (how do I see the product page?)
  
• Creating and using Custom Product Fields
  
• Using Custom Product Fields for an extra product image
  
• Error message to show on product pages when bad links (nonexistent product code)
  
• Custom Product Landing Page trick
  
• Show Retail Price and Our Price on product page
  
• Changing Product Page Templates
  
• Showing Sale Price Using Product Cost Field
  

Availability Groups, Price Groups, Upselling

• Price Groups defined and how to set them up
  
• Availability Groups defined and how to set them up
  
• Upselling defined and how it works
  

Checkout Process

• Remove Create an Account option on Login Page
  
• Move Create an Account option to Invoice Page
  
• Change final checkout Continue button to say "Complete Order"
  
• Hide Check # field for Check payment method
  
• Changing Shipping & Payment method drop downs to radio buttons
  
• Changing COD to "Print/Fax Payment" method without a module
  
• Creating a printable Print/Fax Payment form
  

Sebenza Category Template Manager - Click here for info

• Installing Category Template Manager
  
• Category Template Manager tour
  
• Changing 3 across products to 2 across products layout
  

Sebenza Category Tree Template - Click here for purchase info

• Installing Category Tree Template
  
• What to do after install
  
• What to do if you have other template modules
  
• Making category button on product page active
  
• Keeping category tree open all the time showing subcats
  

Sebenza Product Template Manager - Click here for purchase info

• Installing Product Template Manager
  
• Product Template Manager tour
  

Sebenza Ultimate Gift Certificates - Click here for info

• Installing Ultimate Gift Certificate module
  
• Setting up gift certificate products ($25 and $50 examples)
  
• Setting up gift certificate products with attributes for dollar amount
  
• Troubleshooting if gift certificate key is not showing in customer order notification emails
  
• Set up product page option to send recipient an email from buyer
  
• Manually generating gift certificate key codes
  
• Setting up for orders where gift certificate covers 100% of order amount
  
• Setting up "check gift certificate balance" form
  

Sebenza Ultimate Wish List/Registry - Click here for info

• Installing Ultimate Wish List/Registry module
  
• Customizing the Wish List setup
  
• Setting up templates
  
• Setting up the Save Basket function

Image Extra v5 by ADS

• Installing ADS Image Extra v5
• Creating Popup Extra Product Images
• Creating Slideshow of Extra Product Images
• Extra Product Images that Swap Main Image
• Creating Flyover Extra Product Images
• Creating Flyover Extra Product Images with Text
  

Working in Admin

• Admin tour
  
• Admin Edit Store area tour
  
• Launchpad (Shortcuts) at the top of admin
  
• Adding admin users
  
• Adding and managing customers in admin
  
• Setting up Inventory
  
• Processing an order in admin
  
• Showing more than 10 products at a time in admin
  
• Viewing orders in admin (batch reports)
  
• What to do when an update window pops up in admin
  
• Manually updating MM5.5 after telling the update pop up not to update
  
• Maintenance mode defined and how to use it
  
• Exporting, changing and importing data like products, customers, etc.
  

Look and Feel Manipulation

• Working with Page Templates (LOGN page example)
  
• Setting Body Margins to Zero (removing top and left page margins)
  
• Forcing site width and centering
  
• Adding graphics to the Global Header
  
• Changing button text (like "Add One To Basket" to "Add One To Cart") or making buttons into graphics
  
• Showing prices only when logged in
  

Navigation Bar and Category Tree

• Replacing default navigation bar with links in global header
  
• Putting graphics into the category tree
  
• Removing the Nav Bar
  
• Removing the category tree
  
• Making the category button in the category tree link back to the category when on a product page
  

Miscellaneous

• Finding what modules are available
  
• Introduction to Miva Merchant User Forums
  
• Installing a module (example)
  
• Creating a sitemap in admin
  
• Setting up Dreamweaver templates and exporting them
  
  
• Installing the Miva Merchant Dreamweaver Extension
  
• Using Dreamweaver templates in Dreamweaver
  
• Items defined and why you need to know about them
  
• Setting up SEO short links
  
• SEO short links - making your site use them in templates
  
• Using a test order module for test orders
  
• Deleting the Miva Merchant sales message in global footer
  
• Making domain go to the storefront instead of index.html
  
• Putting bookmark/social networking link into Category Tree
  
• Advanced coding tips to help create your own code
  
• Anchor tags in Miva Merchant pages
  
• Setting up Free Shipping over a specific order total without a module
  
• Adding a search form (category tree example)
  
• Two ways to replace static (HTML) pages with Miva Merchant pages
  
• Common User Mistake: Extra tags in content
  
• Using AddThis for Social Bookmarking
  
• Using WordPress as a Content Management System
  

Emporium Plus Toolkit - Click here for info

• Installing Toolkit
  
• Shortening product description on category page
  
• Show Retail Price, Our Price & Savings on product page
  
• Mini basket (two category tree examples)
  
• Calling an HMTL page into a Miva Merchant page
  
• Adding breadcrumbs to product and category pages
  
• Easy-to-maintain featured product content (category header example)
  
• Updating the Toolkit module
• Changing attribute code in basket to attribute prompt
  

Miva Merchant Skins - Click here for info

• Preparing your store for a new Skin
  
• Installing and setting up a new Skin
  
• Making changes to the Skin after installation
  
• Reverting back to pre-Skin settings
  

Latu Volume Discount module - Click here for info

• Setting up in products
  
• Setting up template
  

Sebenza Ultimate Product Reviews & Ratings - Click here for info

• Installing Ultimate Product Reviews & Ratings module
  
• Showing product ratings on category page
  
• Managing product reviews as they come in
  

Sebenza Ultimate Coupons - Click here for info

• Installing Ultimate Coupons module
  
• Setting up Shipping/Payment Method Selection page template for coupon code
  
• Setting up Instant Product Coupons feature
  
• Adding coupons
  
• Setting up for auto-generated subcoupons
• Updating a Sebenza module
  

Copernicus Shipping SuperMod 5 - Click here for info

• Installing Shipping SuperMod 5
  
• Setting up Shipping Supermod and creating a free shipping option
  

Emporium Plus Customer and Product Administration - Click here for info

• Installing Customer Product Administration

Integrating External Affiliate Applications

• Integrating Post Affiliate Pro 3 with Miva Merchant 5.5
  
• Integrating iDevAffiliate 6 with Miva Merchant 5.5
  

Without OpenUI General Topics

• Getting started with Miva Merchant 4
• General admin tour
• Edit Store Area tour
• Domain Settings tour
• Adding categories and subcategories
• Adding products
• Adding attributes to products
• Attribute templates explained and demonstrated
• Editing categories
• Editing products
• Editing the look and feel of categories
• Editing the look and feel of products
• Configuring payment method options
• Setting up basic shipping options
• Advanced shipping options
• Changing button text or using graphics for buttons
• Setting up customer and merchant order notification emails
• Selecting what countries and states are available
• Availability Groups - restricting some products to specific customers
• Price Groups - setting special pricing for specific customers
• Inventory functionality
• Setting up upselling
• Managing customers
• Order processing
  
  
  

Without OpenUI Specific Topics

• Basket and checkout pages tour
• Category tree category graphics
• Editing the navigation bar
• Replacing the navigation bar with code in the global header
• Adding images in headers and other fields
• Screen structure - global headers, footers, etc.
• What are all those screen codes (like SFNT, OPAY)?
• Changing the order of items in admin
• Adding admin users and changing passwords
• Setting the width of the entire site and centering it
• Time saving shortcuts
• Delete Buttons - Warning
• Maintenance Mode - temporary site shutdown
• How to find the URLs of products

With OpenUI

• Manual Installation of OpenUI
• Applying OpenUI to a store
• OpenUI Admin quick tour
• OpenUI Edit Store area tour
• OpenUI conditionals - logged in example
• OpenUI tokens - adding a mini basket
• OpenUI tokens - adding a search form
• OpenUI tokens introduction & navigation bar replacement
• Warnings if you plan to move from MM4 w/ OpenUI to MM5.5

Upgrading

• Converting MM4 store to MM5 (Part 1)
  
• Converting MM4 store to MM5 (Part 2)
  

Setting Up a Store

• Setting up a store from scratch
  
• Shipping methods included in Miva Merchant
  
• Payment methods included in Miva Merchant
  
• Setting up sales tax, and/or making products non-taxable
  
• Defining what states and countries are available at checkout
  
• Using the Inventory features
  
• Adding a page of content
  
• Restoring a previous version of a Page Template
  
• Putting content into your storefront
  
• Page codes, like SFNT, BASK, OSEL, etc.
  
• Changing order confirmation emails (emails that customers and merchants get after an order)
  
• Using storefront for home page instead of index.html
  

Working With Categories and Category Page Layout

• Adding a category
  
• Adding and assigning subcategories
  
• Adding a category header
  
• Reordering products & categories, & products in categories
  
• Having a large image pop up when the thumbnail is clicked on the category page, instead of going to the product page
  
• Adding a quantity box to the category page
  
• Changing category page layout to 3 across
  
• Changing category page layout from 3 across to 2 across
  

Working With Products and Product Page Layout

• Adding a product
  
• Assigning a product to a category
  
• Attributes defined and how to add them
  
• Attribute templates defined and how they work
  
• Reordering products & categories, & products in categories
  
• Finding the URL of a product if it's not assigned to a category
  
• Creating and displaying custom product fields
  
• Having Add to Basket take the customer to the basket instead of reloading the product page
  
• Having Add to Basket button disappear when an item is out of stock
  

Availability Groups, Price Groups, Upselling

• Availability Groups defined and how to set them up
  
• Price Groups defined and how to set them up
  
• Upselling defined and how it works
  

Checkout Process

• Removing the "create an account" option
  
• Changing the "Create an Account" and "Order Without an Account" options in checkout
  
• Changing what customer fields are required in checkout
  
• Limiting Ship To countries, but keeping all countries available for Bill To
  
• Replacing the Shipping Method and Payment Method drop downs with radio buttons
  

Working in Admin

• General Admin Tour
  
• Admin Edit Store area tour
  
• Adding and managing customers in admin
  
• Adding admin user and changing passwords
  
• Cool admin tips and tricks for saving time and effort
  
• Showing more than 10 products at a time in admin
  
• Seeing orders in admin (batch reports)
  
• Using the wizards when first signed into admin
  
• Maintenance mode defined and how to use it
  
• What to do when the "New updates are available for Miva Merchant" screen comes up
  

Look and Feel Manipulation

• Editing Page Templates (LOGN page example)
  
• Adding graphics to the Global Header (or footer)
  
• The structure of a page and how to manipulate it
  
• Rewording buttons (like changing "Add One To Basket" to "Add One To Cart") and making them into graphical buttons
  
• Fixing width of site, centering site, assigning a background color
  
• Changing site's default fonts
  

Navigation Bar and Category Tree

• Replacing default navigation bar with links in global header
  
• Putting graphics into the category tree
  

Miscellaneous

• Adding a Search form to site (category tree example)
  
• Troubleshooting "secure/nonsecure content" errors
  
• Where to find what modules are available
  
• Installing a module (example)
  
• Items and why you need to know about them
  
• Getting and using the free test order module
  
• Updating modules (example)
  
• Changing the basket Remove button to a text link
  

Third Party Modules

• Wow Wow Widget Right Column Example
  
• Wow Wow Widgets mini-basket
  
• Sebenza Ultimate Gift Certificate: manually creating a gift certificate
  
• Installing and using Emporium Plus Flexible Product Descriptions module
  
  
• Sebenza Product Template Manager module tour
  
• Shipping calculator with Emporium Plus Mini Basket module
  
• Setting up a coupon with the Emporium Plus Coupon module
  
• Demonstration of ADS HTML Editor
  
• Sebenza Category Template Manager module tour
  
• Installing Sebenza Product Template Manager module
  
• Using Latu Store Helper: free module to see what tokens are available on each page
  
• Integrating Post Affiliate Pro 3 with my Miva Merchant 5