[thelist] Miva Merchant?
Steven Pierce
steven.pierce at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 22:52:12 CDT 2007
Stuart,
OK.. what do you suggest.. I am open, I was suppose to use the Miva
for a site that I was going to set up. I need ASP.Net Support, but they
only support ASP (Classic) and it will not work.
So who do you think has the best Shopping Cart software?? An why??
I am a totally newbie on this, so baby steps..
On 11/1/07, Stuart Young <drstuey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My first gut reaction is avoid MIVA like the plague.
>
> The main problems with MIVA are:
>
> - It is closed source and it is often difficult to add or change
> anything.
>
>
> - Many of the standard things that you would like to add to your store
> turn out to be MIVA modules, each of which costs 100s or 1000s of
> dollars to
> purchase. For example say you would like to have a breadcrumb trail,
> well
> this is an extra MIVA module you will have to purchase. Or perhaps you
> would
> like to have a mini "your shopping cart contains" box on every page.
> Again,
> this is an extra MIVA module you will have to purchase.
>
>
> - It requires a MIVA server software (as well as the store software)
> which means you are restricted as to which host you can use and you have
> to
> pay server licencing fees (as well as store software licencing fees).
>
>
> - The architecture of the admin system is rather difficult to find
> your way around. I had to prepare Word documents with screenshots to
> remind
> myself where to go to change things, (let alone tell the client where to
> change things if they are editing the site).
>
>
> The MIVA sites I have been involved with use hostasaurus.com as the MIVA
> host and they do seem to be good. It's only the software I have a beef
> with,
> not them.
>
> cheers
>
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