Miva Merchant Announces 5.5 Release

San Diego, CA, 08 May 2008 -- Today Miva Merchant announced the successful release of Miva Merchant 5.5, a powerful upgrade to its widely used e-commerce storefront software product. At 7 AM Pacific Time yesterday, the robust dot-5 release began streaming to Miva Merchant store owners, web hosts and web designers.

The Miva Merchant 5.5 product boasts numerous powerful new features, including:

• A highly intuitive Admin interface focusing on click-efficiency
• Seamless import/export of all items and pages to/from Dreamweaver™
• Built-in SEO features including full control of DOCTYPE, Product, and Category Metatags, and search-friendly links
• The ability to build a new store entirely on the new skins-enabled CSS framework.

To see a demo of the new admin visit: Merchant Tutorials Admin Quick Tour and for a full list of features, enhancements and screen shots visit http://www.mivamerchant.com/ecommerce-software-features/.

Significantly, the Miva Merchant 5.5 product was designed to be a seamless update for our current Miva Merchant 5 users, and early store owner comments are already overwhelmingly positive, such as "...after a little while–the store was up–we did our...module updates and tested. The new version rocks! It's actually faster (if that's possible) than before. Kudos to the Dev team!"

About Miva Merchant

Miva Merchant offers a complete e-commerce solution consisting of PA-DSS validated shopping cart software, PCI compliant ecommerce hosting, credit card processing services and custom website design & development. Over 50,000 merchants use Miva Merchant’s highly customizable, intuitive and scalable ecommerce software. These merchants range from hand-selected boutique product stores to manufacturers directly integrating their manufacturing with distributor access and an online retail presence. To see examples of online stores running on Miva Merchant, visit http://www.mivamerchant.com/.

Contact Information:

Miva Merchant
(858) 731-4100
media@mivamerchant.com