Robert, first off, I feel your pain....I built a Miva shop and ran it for
about several months. During the time I had it up I spent most of my time on
the phone with tech support at my ISP...Oh I could go on with the horror
stories about third party modules, ISPs, loss of sales, etc...but in any
event, at some point this week my ShopSite will go live.
I did plenty of research before moving over to both a new ISP and ShopSite.
I settled on ShopSite Pro, it had most of the features that I had added via
3rd party modules to Miva.
If you would like, I would be willing to show you via email my two sites
(Miva vs ShopSite) and you can compare..they are both kinda live just via
different links. Our miva site was so badly screwed up that I had to link to
our Yahoo Shop temporarily until we can go live with ShopSite.
There is a list on Lexiconn that does show the different features. The basic
difference with Pro and Manager is that in Pro you have digital coupons, the
ability to create custom pages at least that is what I have learned in the
past few days.
Here is one piece of very good news...If you are running the latest version
of Miva 4.13 or if you download the export products to flat file from
ModStop, your new ISP that runs shop site will be able to export your
products and import them directly into ShopSite...you can of course do this
yourself, however, I was pressed for time and paid to have it done
correctly. Do let your importer know that the Cost field in Miva is not the
pricing that you want in ShopSite. I had a good laugh that my "cost" was
being used for retail. It was fixed in a heartbeat.
BTW.....if you need to change ISP's I can highly recommend Megan and Matt
and Yourhost.com. They were great getting me moved over and I should be back
up and running on Monday!
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Love, laughter and friendship!
Lisa Slavik
www.beautycafe.com"Robert Basil" <robert@fieldsheer.com> wrote in message
news:agq8ec$3n7$1@support.shopsite.com...
We currently run *cough* Miva Merchant *cough* for our online store.
(Don't
kill us!)
We are in the process of completely redesigning and rebuilding our two
online stores, and even though we are happy with Miva we are taking
advantage of the rebuild time to look around at other options to make our
life easier.
I have been reading a lot about the Product Manager by Stone Edge
Technologies. I am VERY interested in both the Product Manager and Order
Manager programs. (maybe even the ECom Assembler) But to run the Product
Manager it requires that we run ShopSite. I am open to switching to Shop
Site, but first I have a few questions.
Has anyone here used any of the three products listed above from Stone
Edge,
and if so which one and how do you like it?
What are the big differences between Shop Site Manager and Shop Site Pro?
I
looked for a "compare" list on the ShopSite website but did not see one.
I'm sure I'll have more questions as time goes on. Thank you for any info
you can provide us.
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Robert Basil
Fieldsheer Motorsport Apparel
http://www.fieldsheer.com
