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Price Group Exclusions & Category Filters
Email Marketing - Mailchimp Integration
Caching of Predicted Discounts
How To Use Cached Product Prices
Facets
Facets provide facet/filter functionality on Search and Category pages.
Facets can create filters based on:
- Category
- Price
- Attributes (size / colors)
- Custom Product Fields
Edit Facet
Single Facet vs Multi-Facet
- Single Facets allow for only a single value to be selected. Selecting a second value will remove the first value
- Multi-facets allow for multiple values to be selected using OR statement.
Choose Facet
Facet URL Structure
- Example: www.domain.com/search-results.html?brand=apple&color=red
- Follows Googles Best Practices
- Canonical always to root category
Custom Field Facets
New Search Capabilities
Search Currently In Miva
- Limited To Product Code, SKU, Name & Description
- No Search of Custom Fields or Attributes
- Power Search Module Fills in “Gaps”
- Exact Match Only: “Shirts” won’t return products with “shirt” in title.
Improved Front End Search
- Select searchable fields
- Search Custom Product Fields
- MySQL FullText Search
- Instant Search Preview
Improved Runtime Search
Search Instant Preview
MySQL Full Text Searching
- Creates a FULLTEXT index on the table with the searchable values
- Words 3 characters or less are ignored
- Able to Search Phrases vs single exact match words
Year Make Model Finder
- Phase II - Year, Make, Model lookup
- Uses custom fields to allow a lookup of Year, Make and Module “parts finder”
- Will be after 9.0007
Abandoned Cart Emails
- Ability to customize email template via HTML
- Customize Subject of Email
- Configure Timing of when emails are sent
- Ability to send multiple abandoned basket emails (ie, 30 min, 24 hours, 48 hours)
- Ability to include unique one time use coupon codes in emails (Using Generate Coupons Module) http://apps.miva.com/generate-coupons.html
- If someone buys the cart, they are automatically removed from any future abandoned cart emails
- Google Analytics Tracking code can be added to the abandoned cart email templates to track overall conversions and which emails generate the click thoughts and conversions
- Ability to setup a separate email series for high value baskets via subtotal range
Price Group Exclusions & Category Filters
- Set Products to Exclude vs Include
- Include / Exclude Categories
Rich Text Editor
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Email Marketing - Mailchimp Integration
- Brand New Integration
- Supports Latest Ecommerce Features
- Abandoned Carts
- Automation Rules
- Product Recommendations
Filter By Custom Order Fields
- New Default Fields on Order Batch List: Shipping Total, Tax Total, Shipping Method, Payment Method
- Display & Sort Orders By Any Custom Field
- Allows you to set custom order status
- Sort by any custom fields on all batch lists
Caching of Predicted Discounts
- Pre-calculates “Discount Signature” for each customer & each product
- Generic Discount Signature for non-logged in customers
- Loading on list view pages 2x faster
- Tied into a Scheduled Task to updated prices
Basket / Order Variant SKU
- Problem: How to pass the SKU of the variant ordered into backend systems? (ERP, Shipping, Quickbooks)
- Current Solution: Variant Basket replacement module
Timestamps
- Product Created / Updated
- Category Created / Updated
- Customer Created / Last Login
