Display a brief summary of items currently in each customer's basket as they shop within a Miva Merchant store, provide a storefront display of the shipping charges, and list their recently
visited product pages in your store with quick link, add and delete buttons. This module is for MIVA Merchant 5.x. We also have the corresponding module for an older version of Merchant.
Features:
- Summarize basket contents on any Merchant screens
- List product name or code, quantity, and price
- Use image to alert new additions made to basket
- Convenient text/button to delete items in the basket from the mini-basket display
- Display a checkout link when order minimum is reached
- Use store's assigned shipping modules to preview shipping options and charges
- Sort shipping options by cost, name, code or module name
- List recently visited product pages with easy add to basket button
- Use render tokens to place the mini-basket in any place on the screen
- Optionally use token to place visit history outside of the mini-basket
- Render tokens can separate each section of the minibasket (brief, main, shipping, recent history)
- Render token for running subtotal of each item can be placed next to the item
- Owner can monitor live activity of customers visiting product pages through admin interface
- Customize mini-basket look in admin (color, size, headings)
- Built-in link to view main basket
- Optionally hide mini-basket if no products are in it
- Can include mini-basket on a static page using iframe
- Licensed per domain
Feature Details.
The Mini-basket "view" is configured in the admin interface. The title of the
Mini-basket, column headings, font size and color are configurable. You can configure the product
data column to display the full product name, or code, or a portion of the product name (20, 30, or 40 characters). Configure the text to display when the cart is empty. You can also make the mini-basket invisible until at least one item is added to the basket.
You also have the option of a checkout link appearing in the Mini basket when a specific order subtotal has been reached, thus allowing for minimum orders if you have disabled the checkout button in the standard Merchant nav bar.
You can also allow customers to preview shipping options and costs with a single
click if they enter ship to location info. Customers do not need to be logged in to view the shipping options. The shipping option link runs the installed shipping modules such as the UPS, FEDEX, USPS modules or the various World, State, or ZIP Code Zone modules to display the available methods. It is compatible with all API compliant shipping modules, including the Sort Shipping Plus Free Shipping Option and the CBS Shipping Supermod.
Mini-basket title, checkout button, and shipping option link can be displayed with either
text or image. The basket title is linked to the full basket contents display and the checkout is linked to the checkout screens.
The mini-basket includes footsteps of customers' recent travels to the product
pages in the store. The display remains closed unless the customer clicks the link for the recent visits, thus not taking too much space and saving display time. When displayed, an Add to basket button can be included so the customer can easily add products which they had visited earlier and now they want to add them without having to search or drill down though the categories to return to the actual product page. This reminder of pages visited lessens the chance of forgetting something before the customer
checks out. The convenient links allows the customer to quickly go back and take a look at the products again. The recent visit history will remain available for the length the store owner has set for basket timeout. Additionally,
for your customers who login, you can have the history availability extended for any number of additional hours, as they are more likely to return and make a purchase. The recent visit
history can be included within the mini-basket table or outside of it. If you want to place the visit history outside of the mini-basket, you can use a token to place it where you want it.
We have included a "view" feature in admin that allows the store owner to monitor live activity in the store. All recent product page visits are listed the admin screen. Customers not using cookies or whose browser is creating a different session ID with each page click will not be able to display their recent history, however the store owner will still be able to see the pages currently being visited by them.
You can also include an image in the mini-basket immediately after addition of a
product to the basket. Many times customers don't realize a product was added so they click the Add to Basket button again. By displaying a noticeable, e.g. animated, image in the mini-basket, their attention is drawn to the basket and
they clearly see the addition was made.
You can also have a delete button in the minibasket for quick removal of items from the basket.
You can place the mini-basket on a static html page by using an iframe. See the install doc for details.
The mini-basket can be divided into separate sections using its store morph technology templates. The templates have the typical version history features in MM5. Each section can work independantly. There is even a token to display the subtotal of a specific product so that it can be placed next to the product in list displays, e.g. the category page.
License is for ONE mall. Within that single mall, the module can be used in multiple stores without additional license.
This module is also included in the Starter Kit bundle found in this store. Save when you buy bundled module licenses.
The module currently fully supports the mivasql configuration of MIVA Merchant 5. It also supports MySQL as long as load balancing has the data stored on the single MySQL server and
permissions are set correctly on the data
directories. This would be the case in most of the server setups. If you are using Merchant 5.x and your host is web.com, you will not be able to use this module due to the way they configure their servers. There are no known issues with
other hosts.
