The holiday rush is on! And almost as if on queue – USPS rates went down today…

Just this morning, the USPS rate server was down for about 5 hours. How did your store measure up? If you use the built-in Miva Merchant 5 USPS module, you’re checkout probably looked like this, and you didn’t make any sales:

Runtime error in mm5/5.00/modules/shipping/mvusps.mvc @ [0000002b:00000116]: modules/shipping/mvusps.mv: Line 1468: MvCALL: Unable to open URL

Oops.

Viking’s Shipping Modules + Copernicus Shipping SuperMod = Smart Thinking
If you planned ahead for the possibility – no the inevitability – that USPS, UPS or even FedEx rate servers would be down at some point during the holidays, then you have our Advanced shipping modules AND the Copernicus Shipping SuperMod. Your aftermarket shipping modules were the hero in this time of need – and your store just kept going. You made sales instead of losing money.

If not, the NOW is the time to get the Viking advanced shipping modules AND the Shipping SuperMod.

Unlike the Miva supplied USPS shipping module, Viking’s USPS Advanced can gracefully handle times when the USPS rate server is down.* And the Copernicus Shipping SuperMod lets you configure “fallback” shipping rates that only appear when online rate servers are down and no other shipping methods are available in your store.

Be Prepared. The holiday rush is coming!

*Note: Graceful timeout requires a well configured Miva Merchant hosting environment. Please make sure to ask your host to set your “call timeout” to something reasonable like 15 or 20 seconds.

eMediaSales has updated Login As Customer to version 5.002 at mvtrocks.com.
Do you ever have the need to see exactly what your customer sees when they're logged into your store? Easy, just log in using their user name and YOUR password! No need to ever ask a customer for their password.

PCI Net, LLC has updated PCI Net Tool Belt to version 5.401 at mvtrocks.com.
Get more morph from Store Morph with Toolbelt Version 5.4 adding 20 new commands including: SEARCH by Custom Field and Category; SORTING and PAGINATION on Search, Category and Product List pages; 10 new Product commands. — Toolbelt dramatically extends the Miva Merchant 5 page templates, adding HUNDREDS of new commands making page templates a robust development environment. Finally you can have the ability to create the pages you've always dreamed of. Included page template files show many fully commented, real world examples of how you can easily customize your pages to do things that once required external modules. — Exhaustive indexed documentation is the second to none.

eMediaSales has updated Google Analytics Integration to version 5.0005 at mvtrocks.com.
Google Analytics for Miva Merchant 5 ga.js Integration. Quickly and easily add Google Analytics to your Miva Merchant 5 store. Installation includes setup of Goal Funnels in Google Analytics!

The eMediaSales E-Login module is now compatible with Miva Merchant Wombat PR7. This module allows store administrators to log into any customer account with a self created secret “super-password”. Let us know your thoughts.

eMediaSales has updated WYSIWYG HTML Editor to version 5.0003 at mvtrocks.com.
Simplify your life! Add a validating WYSIWYG HTML Editor to Miva Merchant. Turns product, category, page and store "textarea" HTML boxes into HTML Editors with the click of a button! Works with StoreMorph code, items and entities.

eMediaSales is now selling Category Discounts v5 at mvtrocks.com.
This simple module provides you the ability to offer a discount on one or more categories of products in your store. The discount percent can be set by category, and any product that is in the named category will be discounted for all shoppers.

All eMediaSales modules are now on sale, 25% off for the 2010 Miva Merchant Conference!

eMediaSales has updated Softgoods and Digital Downloads to version 5.012 at mvtrocks.com.
Sell digital goods, PDFs, e-books and even software for instant delivery from your Miva Merchant 5 store. First ever PURE Miva Merchant 5 module softgoods delivery system.

New in v5.012:
– NEW 02/10/2010: Added Import/Export via Flat File capability. Settings
can be imported in the standard Miva Merchant import/export of products.
*Note: can only be used with non-attribute based downloads at this time.

– NEW 01/05/2010: Send instant download links to your customers for individual
products in the product level module administration.

– NEW 07/15/2009: Supports unix-based split files for streaming very large downloads.

– NEW 05/03/2009: Now allows attribute based download files!

Emporium Plus has updated Emporium Plus Tool Kit v5 to version 5.156 at mvtrocks.com.
Easily and quickly extend store morph technology (SMT). The tool kit function library fills in many of the gaps in the SMT coding system by using the module's item tags, similar to those you are familiar with in your pages. Also, includes dozens of feat