The MIVA Corp inventory management module for MIVA Merchant 4.x has resulted in numerous stores having their shelves temporarily cleared. As customers place products in their baskets, the store inventory level is decremented. If the customer decides not to buy at that time and leaves the store, the products in that abandoned basket remain unavailable. When the store owner manually deletes expired baskets in admin, those basket contents are reclaimed and the products are placed back in the store inventory. Stores which have one-of-a-kind or low inventory levels of products are significantly impacted as the products are not available for purchase by other customers until the store is manually restocked. Stores which have high traffic are similarly impacted when many baskets are abandoned. This module eliminates the need for the store owner to manually restock. At a frequency determined by the store owner, this module will reclaim the expired baskets and restock the shelves. This module may not be required in future versions of MIVA Merchant as a similar fix has been requested through the MIVA Corp wishlist.

New in the compiled version is an activity log. It accumulates the numbers of baskets which were not converted to orders and have been reclaimed. It also captures the completed order totals. These numbers can be displayed for any time period. See the screen shots below. The information can be useful when evaluating your success at convincing "visitors" to actually buy something. Another useful usage of this tool is monitoring how often and to what extent search engines spider your merchant.mv pages. You will periodically see a glut of abandoned baskets when the restock module runs. You also have the option of the module sending an email to you each time it restocks the shelves. This is useful in identifying problems with your payment gateway as it identifies baskets which were reclaimed, yet had products in them. This is to be expected within reason, but if you see a significant increase, it may be because your payment gateway is down.

Versions: ?
4.x, 5.x

User Interfaces: ?
MMUI/OpenUI

License is: per store

Developer:
Weiland