Getting Started with Miva Merchant

Miva Merchant is a full-featured shopping cart application that allows your web viewers to order products from your website. When a customer submits an order, the shipping cost of the items they selected can be computed, and their card can be charged the full amount of their order; once an order is placed, you simply ship the products to the customer.

To use the Miva Merchant shopping cart, you must first purchase a license key for the software.

• Log in to the Customer Manager at https://my.opensourcehost.com, then click on the Products tab at the top if you are not automatically redirected to your primary product details page.
• Select the VDS Hosting account that you would like to add Miva to from the products overview page and click View Details.
• From the product details screen, click Add Miva Merchant
• Click Continue, then submit your order.
• Once you have confirmed your order, a Miva license key will be emailed to you. Please keep this license key in a safe place, as it serves as your activation key for the Miva software.

Once you have your Miva license key, you can begin installing the software.

• Log in to your VDS Manager by clicking the ‘Login to VDS Manager’ link from the Products page of the Customer Manager, which is located at https://my.opensourcehost.com.
• Click on Install & Manage on the left
  
• Click on E-Commerce in the middle of the page
• Click on Miva Merchant under the “Available ValueApps” header.
• Agree to the license and click Finish to complete the installation of Miva

Now that the Miva Merchant software has been installed, you can begin setting up your store. In the VDS Manager’s ValueApps section, under the E-Commerce heading, you will see Miva Merchant listed with three links below it:

• SETUP - This link will take you to the Miva installation wizard, which should only be used the first time you setup your store
• ADMIN - This link will take you to the Miva administration area, which is where you will perform your day-to-day operations on the store
• STORE - This link will take you directly to the Miva storefront

Click on the SETUP link to open the Miva setup wizard, and follow the installation steps. You will be prompted to enter your Miva license key as provided by customer support, as well as your contact information that will be listed in the stores configuration. During the installation process, you may be prompted to enter the name of the mailserver that your store should use for sending notices to customers; simply enter mail.yoursitedomain.com