e-Business Express heads to the Miva Merchant Conference in San Diego, CA.

We’re proud to announce our partnership with Miva Merchant at their annual conference this year. We are featuring the areas we specialize in: e-commerce consulting, custom web design and development, digital imaging and photography and internet marketing.

We are also pleased to announce our continued development of custom modules designed specifically to work with Miva Merchant. These modules streamline the online shopping process, providing simplified and improved functionality. To see how these custom modules can improve your store, check out MV Monster.

Part of our success includes:
Since 1999, we at e-Business Express have provided web development expertise and e-commerce services to help grow businesses. Before, during, and after site launch, our consultants provide innovative ideas that produce results such as…

-A 1st qtr 09 client site redesign resulting in a 38% sales increase
-A product photo shoot resulting in a 25% sales increase for an entire product line
-A 3rd qtr 08 site usability enhancement resulting in a conversion rate jump from 5% to 8.5%

Find out more at Grow.e-BusinessExpress.com

Around 1:30am (EST) the Authorize.net payment gateway went down. The source of their issue has not been released to the public as of yet thus leaving many merchants and companies in the dark.

Until Authorize.net has resolved their issue we are encouraging all of our Miva Merchant clients whom use Authorize.net to switch the payment method in Miva to ‘Credit Card Payment with Simple Validation’. This payment method simply collects the card data so that it can be manually processed at a later time.

If you do not know how to switch your payment method in Miva to credit card payment with simple validation check the steps below or feel free to contact us at 1-877-907-3277.

Here are the work around steps to enable CC w/ Simple Validation:
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There is a bug in MIVA 5.5 caused by only having one country available at checkout.

Here is the fix for that issue:
On ACAD, ACED and OCST pages, Customer Fields tab find:

Code:
<mvt:item name=”countries” param=”Customer_BillCountry” />

Replace with:

Code:
<select name=”Customer_BillCountry”>
<mvt:if expr=”g.Customer_BillCountry NE ‘US’”>
<option value=”" selected>&lt;Select One&gt;</option>
<option value=”US”>United States</option> <mvt:else>
<option value=”">&lt;Select One&gt;</option>
<option value=”US” selected>United States</option> </mvt:if> </select>