BEST SELLER DISPLAY

The Best Seller Display module interfaces with the internal MIVA Merchant 4.x or 5.x statistics to provide your customers with similar best seller information previously only seen by the store owner in the admin interface. It goes a step further by breaking down the best seller information by category. Your customers will not see exact numbers sold, only relative ranking. As they see the best sellers listed, the display provides them with a convenient link to the individual products so that they too can see what all the excitement is about. You can reset the statistics through the existing admin statistics interface so that your best sellers can be kept current as product inventory changes.

Through admin, the store owner can customize the look of the display box. You can choose which screens (SFNT, CTGY, PROD, PLST, SRCH) the display box will appear on. You can also choose which of four locations on each of those screens the box will appear. You can specify the number of best sellers that will display in the box, e.g. top five. The CTGY screen is slightly different from the other screen displays, as it shows the best seller in the category that the customer is viewing at the time. You have the option of excluding specified category screens that you do not want to display the best sellers. You can also vary the color, size and fonts used in the display box. You can even specify that the module will obey the availability group settings. This will limit your display if your best sellers are only available to certain customers and those customers have not logged in first. The upside is that it does not show product info for products that are not available to all customers. If you choose to allow all customers to view all products in the best seller list, the module will ensure that only eligible customers can link to the products. Some of the admin configuration options are shown in the screen shots below.

This module is for Merchant 4.14 - 5.x and is compatible with both the MMUI and OpenUI. If using the OpenUI in 4.x, the screen locations are controlled through admin; no editing required. If using the MMUI in 4.x, the location of the display is practically unlimited, but editing and recompiling the mmui.mv is required. In 5.x you simply insert the token in the page templates at the location you want the best sellers to display.

You can exclude specific products from the display. This is useful if you have products that are special sellers, e.g. upsell products. The horizontal layout optionally allows you to include the thumbnail and price of each best seller item. You can set the height and width for your images, hence you should try to keep all of your thumbnails at about the same aspect ratio. You can vary the layout at each of the screen type so that some can be vertical while others are horizontal or no display at all. In 4.x using tokens, you can insert the Best Seller Display in headers, footers and other locations where OpenUI tokens can be used. In 5.x you can put the display anywhere you want it using the easy to use, default tokens or the custom store morph technology code.

In admin, the store owner can view the best sellers under Utilities. The report feature lets the store owner specify how many products from the top down they want to view. So they are not limited to just the top 5 that the regular admin interface displays.

Online overview and initial setup instructions for our MIVA Merchant modules.

Screen shot showing admin configuration

Screen shot of admin configuration continued

Screen shot of admin configuration continued (images and horizontal layout compiled version only)

Screen shot showing admin display of all products sold