The Best Seller Display module interfaces with the internal
Miva Merchant 4.0 statistics modules to provide your customers
with similar best seller information previously only seen
by the store owner in the admin interface. It goes a
step further by breaking down the best seller information
by category. Your customers will not see exact numbers sold,
only relative ranking. As they see the best sellers listed,
the display provides them with a convenient link to the
individual products so that they too can see what all the
excitement is about. You can reset the statistics
through the existing admin statistics interface so that
your best sellers can be kept current as product inventory
changes.
Through admin, the store owner can customize the look of
the display box. You can choose which screens (SFNT,
CTGY, PROD, PLST, SRCH) the display box will appear on.
You can also choose which of four locations on each of
those screens the box will appear. You can specify the
number of best sellers that will display in the box, e.g.
top five. The CTGY screen is slightly different from the
other screen displays, as it shows the best seller in the
category that the customer is viewing at the time. You
have the option of excluding specified category screens that
you do not want to display the best sellers. You can also
vary the color, size and fonts used in the display box. You
can even specify that the module will obey the availability
group settings. This will limit your display if your best
sellers are only available to certain customers and those
customers have not logged in first. The upside is that it
does not show product info for products that are not available
to all customers. If you choose to allow all customers to view
all products in the best seller list, the module will ensure
that only eligible customers can link to the products.
New in the compiled version is the ability to exclude specific products
from the display. This is useful if you have products that are special sellers,
e.g. upsell products. The new horizontal layout optionally allows you to
include the thumbnail and price of each best seller item. You can set the
height and width for your images, hence you should try to keep all of your
thumbnails at about the same aspect ratio. You can vary the
layout at each of the screen type so that some can be vertical while others
are horizontal or no display at all. Using tokens, you can insert the Best
Seller Display in headers, footers and other locations
where OpenUI tokens can be used.
In admin, the store owner can view the best sellers under Utilities. The report feature lets the store owner specify how many products from the top down they want to view. So they are not limited to just the top 5 that the regular admin interface displays.
We also have the corresponding module for the 5.x version of Merchant.
