Miva Merchant vs LiteCommerce

Miva Merchant ecommerce software is based on modular architecture and powerful template-based layout design. Shopping cart has an open API engine allowing anyone to create their own plug-ins.

However, authorized custom development service is not provided by the company. Technical support based on a fixed fee is quite expensive and only covers general questions and problems (plus some fixed range of shopping cart software services). Most of services and add-ons are much more expensive in comparison with LiteCommerce store builder which allows any customizations to be done by yourself or our skilled engineers upon request.

General

Features

Miva Merchant

LiteCommerce

Cost & licensing

USD 995.00

109.00

Installation and maintenance

USD 149 installation service
Huge list of partner hosting companies without descriptions

Authorized installation service
Wide range of recommended hosting companies offering affordable hosting plans

Technical support

Flat-rate yearly licenses ranging approximately from USD 400 to USD 1000 and including various service packages, forums, knowledgebase.

Authorized technical support service, Forums
Knowledge base in the Private Members Area

Store operation

Features

Miva Merchant

LiteCommerce

Custom look & feel

100% template-based layout
Fully supported CSS
Visual debug panel
Built-in HTML pages
Built-in template editor
Various built-in color schemas

100% template-based storefront
100% CSS-compatible design
4 predesigned skin sets
Category & product thumbnail images
Build-in template editor: preview, edit
and restore templates
Built-in image and CSS editors
Support for WYSIWYG web editors (MS Frontpage, Dreamweaver and others)

Product presentation

Unlimited number of products and categories
Unlimited category nesting
Switchable design schemas

Unlimited number of products and categories
Optimized for smooth performance with up to 7000 - 10000 products and 10000 categories
Unlimited category nesting
Unlimited number of product images
Member-only categories
One-click changes for products and categories presentation (lists, icons, tables, multi-column), menus and navigation bars layout, quick selection of product options to be shown to a customer (Showcase Organizer free add-on)
Unique WYSIWYG-editable layout for any product and category (Layout Organizer add-on)

Security

HTTPS/SSL support
Encryption for sensitive data
Password-protected administrative access

Full HTTPS/SSL support
Secure HTTPS/SSL administrative access
Password-protected administrative access
Real-time security notifications of all failed login attempts
List of recently logged admins
Backup sub-system
Storing images in DB or on the file system

Payment options

Variety of built-in payment gateways
Manual and automatic credit card processing
PayPal, electronic checks, COD

Accept payments in any currency
Real-time credit card processing
(Payment gateway support add-on),
dozens of payment gateways supported)
Manual (offline) credit card processing
PayPal payments
(Payment gateway support add-on)
Checks, purchase orders and phone orders

Shipping

UPS, USPS, and FedEx
Custom rate tables based on quantity, order total, order weight, and more.

Real-time USPS, UPS, Intershipper, Australia Post and Canada Post shipping calculation (Real-Time Shipping Quotes add-on) Unlimited number of custom-defined delivery methods
Flate rate, weight, order total
and range based shipping
Different weight limits for different delivery methods
Handle international, domestic and local shipping
Allow your customers to choose delivery methods

Taxes

Canadian & German VAT
State-based sales tax and shopper selected sales tax settings available

Customizable tax calculation
Import/export predefined tax schemas
Product-specific taxes
Taxes & shipping fees depending on client's location
"Tax exempt" feature
GST/PST (Canadian tax system)
VAT (European tax system)

Custom functionality

Open API for module creation
No authorized development/design services

Authorized custom development service
Authorized web design service
Dozens of available free and commercial open source add-ons for extended functionality
Open source code you can modify by yourself

Marketing & Promotion

Features

Miva Merchant

LiteCommerce

Promotion & Advertising

Upselling products
Discounts
Newsletter
Bestsellers
Newsletter
Search engine
Product options & variants

Advanced multi-parameter product search engine (Advanced Search free add-on)
New arrivals, related & featured products, price changes and availability notifications
(Product Adviser add-on)
Powerful news management system
(Newsletters add-on)
Wish list for every customer
which can be opened to others (Wish List add-on)
Configurable gift certificates
(Gift Certificates add-on)
Special offers, bonus points, discounts, coupons (Promotion tools add-on)
Product options system, wholesale prices for various conditions and membership levels
(Wholesale Trading add-on)
Flexible multi-tier affiliate system
(Affiliate System add-on

SEO

Static HTML pages
Meta tags and title tags definitions for any page

Autogenerated static HTML catalog
(HTML Catalog free add-on)
Autoupdate static HTML catalog feature
(Auto Update Catalog add-on)
Configurable context dependent meta tags

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