H-Sphere User Guide

Creating an Online Store

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You can easily create an online store with Miva Merchant. It's a browser-based storefront development and management system that integrates:

  • store management,
  • account management,
  • catalogue management,
  • merchandising,
  • order fulfillment.

To add a Miva shopping cart into your domain, follow these steps:

  1. Make sure you have a domain.
  2. Select Domain Info in the Domain Settings menu:



    Then, pick the domain on which you will enable Miva shopping cart and go to the webservices page by clicking the Edit icon next to the Web Service label:



  3. On the page that appears, switch MIVA on:



  4. Look at the top of the page. If the RESTART link has appeared, click it to restart apache:



  5. After you have enabled the Miva shopping cart, new links will appear:
  6. Next, you need to set up Miva database. To do so, click the Setup icon, then press the Install button:

  7. After you have set up Miva database, you can administer your Miva shopping cart. You can access it either by clicking the Edit link or by going directly to the Miva administration panel. When it prompts you for a login and a password, enter those that you use for your FTP account.

Click the View icon to see how your online store looks from the Internet.

Click the Uninstall icon to remove MIVA Merchant database with all its entries.

For more information on the Miva control panel, please visit http://www.miva.com/products/merchant.


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