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Features

This section goes over the various features of a Miva Store built with the Genesis framework.

Store Owner Features

Overall/Essential Items

  • Essential ecommerce features & best-practices built-in:
    • Responsive mobile-first website
    • We output key schema, microdata, & open-graph mark-up to help Search Engines crawl your site and display rich-SERPs
    • Comprehensive GA4 & GTM configuration to track page-views and lots of enhanced-ecommerce data
    • Cloudflare CDN is recommended for improved page-load time
    • Optimized for Google's Lighthouse guidelines
  • Training & consultation on how to:
    • Best leverage Miva's built-in functionality
    • Architect and setup your product-catalog
    • Create & manage your content for About Us / Contact Us / FAQs / Privacy Policy pages
    • Setup your tax, payment, shipping, and other essential-ecommerce functionality
  • Fonts, colors, & style of the site are easily configured to reflect & promote your brand

Global Header/Footer Features

  • Promotional text-banners & links that are easily editable
  • Mega menu with drop-down links
  • Search bar with product-result autocomplete
  • Sticky-header on desktop-devices that keeps the search & cart visible after scrolling down the page
  • Cart CTA & cart-count displays, and when it is clicked it reveals the mini-basket
  • Mini-basket shows a summary of the customer's basket-items, charges, & totals with CTAs to drive the customer into the checkout process
  • Social-media icons & links to the client's accounts
  • Form to capture email-newsletter subscriber signups

Home Page

Storefront & static pages can use Miva's Components & Layout module to customize & display the following components:

  • Hero slide & slider
  • Promotional text & background images
  • Show a carousel of featured products from a category
  • Display promotional images in various layouts
  • Display videos and other embeded content
  • Highlight key selling-points, trust-builders, and store information through accordions and other text content

Category/Search & Product Listings

  • Display Subcategories with their images, names, & links
  • Display products-listing with options to for shoppers to filter & find products by:
    • Facets based on prices, product-attributes, and product-custom fields
    • Sorting parameters & direction
    • Pagination & items-per-page options
  • Optionally, display a Components & Layouts > Layout on various product-listings:
    • Category Layout Code: CTGY_[ category-code-here]
    • Product Listing Layout Code: PAGE_PLST
    • Search Listing Layout Code: PAGE_SRCH

Product Page

  • Display detailed information about each product:
    • Main image with thumbnails of alternative images
    • Customers click to view larger/detailed images
    • Product attributes, inventory levels, discounts, pricing, & description
    • Display a list of product-details/custom fields; like: a short-description, spec fields, FAQs html-block, etc.
    • and more!
  • AJAX add a product to your basket reveals a mini-basket and prompts customers to checkout
  • Display related products (products the client has indicated are related to the current product)
  • Add products to your wishlist
  • Allow customers to share products to various social-media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc.)
  • Thumbnail + Main Image Slider. Out of the box supports a Product Custom field (multi-text) of Youtube Video IDs to display Youtube Videos (custom field would need to be set-up)
  • Image Zoom support on click of an Image (Utilizes Photoswipe: https://photoswipe.com/)

Checkout

  • Logged in customers can build & choose their address-book to complete their checkout quicker
  • Leverage any of Miva's built-in payment modules (MivaPay, Braintree, Authorize.net, PayPal, etc.)
  • Leverage any of Miva's built-in shipping modules (USPS, UPS, Fedex, etc.)
  • Basket page provides a continue-shopping link to direct customer back to the last category or product page they viewed
  • Basket page provides "You Might Also Light" product-list section for additional merchandising.
  • Customers can estimate shipping from the Basket page to preview their costs before entering all their information
  • Checkout process with prompts for customer to create or log into their account
  • Streamlined account creation on the invoice page.
  • Customers can share their basket items across multiple browsers & devices when they are logged into their Miva customer account.

Account Pages

  • Account Dashboard
  • Review Order History and Re-order Products
  • Wish Lists
  • Address Book (with Primary Ship-to/Bill-to Addresses)
  • MivaPay Credit Card Wallet
  • Redeem Gift Certificates for Account Credit
  • Subscriptions
  • Login forms
  • Forgot Password / Change Password / Change Login-Email

Developer

This includes the extensions, npm-packages, Miva-pages, Miva-page-layouts, ReadyTheme Content Sections, CSS utilities, SASS setup, etc.