Miva Merchant is an ecommerce platform with a long tradition and history rooted in web development. If you're a web developer, and want to learn about specifics features, functionality, and programs we're working on just for you, then this is a session you must attend.

1. Web Developer Roadmap 2014
BRENNAN HEYDE

2. 2013 Milestones
• Launch of Miva Merchant Videos / Updated Developer Training Series

3. Free Developer Stores

4. Bootstrap Responsive Framework

7. More Frameworks Coming
What would help you the most?
Smart Designs
One Page Checkout
Mobile
Custom Designs

8. Miva Merchant Themes

9. Our First Meetup
26 Miva Employees and local San Diego designers
/ developers in the ecommerce space.
Presented on Responsive Web Design for
Ecommerce
slid.es/bheyde/responsive-web-design-for-
ecommerce

11. Miva Meetup Program
• Miva will sponsor a monthly meetup in your city.
• You’re responsible for organizing the event and finding a
location and topic to present on.
• Miva will reimburse expenses for meetup.com website listing
($12/month)
• Miva will cover costs for snacks, beer and soda – Up to
$100/event.
The event must be ecommerce focused and should be geared to
Web Developers in your area.

12. 2014 Plans
Better Visibility / Insight to features and functionality coming
• Quarterly Video Podcast
• What's going on in the
Miva World
• Upcoming Features from
Development
• Google Plus Hangouts

13. Better Training / Documentation
• Code Samples
• How To Leverage Engine Functions (File Read /
Write)
• Updated Developer Training Series
• Stack Overflow Q/A type site
• Developer Portal – Central Place for Information

14. Regional One Day Dev Conferences
• Different Cities Across US
• Developer Training Focused Content
• Attract Miva and Non Miva Web Developers
• First Event Planned for Summer 2014
• City TBD

15. Custom Fields
• Miva Merchants Most Powerful (developer) Feature
• Save any type of custom data you can think of related to
shoppers, customers, categories, products and orders
• New Custom Order/Basket fields allow you to collect any
information during checkout and save it with each order
• Importable / Exportable, Custom Batch Reports

16. Create Your Own Tabs

17. mvt:assign, mvt:eval
• Unlocks all built in Miva Engine Functions
• File read/write, substring, glosub, len, time, math
• Transforms Miva Template Language (SMT) into powerful
scripting language

18. Version 9 – Error Messages

19. Feature Roadmap
SEO Settings
a. Root Level URLs without the need for
category/product/page code
b. Custom Title on per Product/Category/Page
c. Meta Tags that cascade (Product, Category,
Page, Global)
d. XML Google Sitemap (Part of Feeds)
d. Rich Snippets / Schema.org / Microdata
f. Automatic 301 redirects from default Miva links
to Short Link

20. Feature Roadmap
Expand Template Language
Subcat, ParentCat
Price/Availability Group Lookup / Assignments
Product Lookup, Category lookup
Render/Include a Page
Call URL (This may be doable now with the built in
functions)
Better Array handling with mvassign
set cookie
Access to All variant data

21. Feature Roadmap
Product Feeds Module
a. Similar to Template Base Batch reports, but these report write a file
to the server or output content to the page. (Web Accessible)
b. Built In Google Sitemap / Amazon Feed / Google Shopping Feed
c. Ability to set frequency on when feed runs
d. Ability to set output file / path [mivadata vs scripts]
f. Ability to loop through products and product variants
g. Ability to view/download feed from admin
i. Ability to export feeds related to Google Trusted Store (Returns /
Canceled orders)
j. Ability to automatically email feeds at an interval
l. Ability to trigger feed generation via a URL

22. Feature Roadmap
JSON API
retrieve data about anything (store settings,
categories, products, variants, orders,
baskets, customers, etc...)
Additionally, all available data from a page
could be accessed as a JavaScript object.
Kind of like having the tokenlist as a global
JavaScript object.

23. Feature Roadmap
Improved Web Developer Workflow - Some Ideas:
Ability to Edit CSS from the admin. File versioning history and cache
control.
A CSS & JavaScript Asset Manager where you could specify the pages
to include specific css & javascript assets (Concatenation &
Minification if possible too)
Syntax Highlighting / Auto Complete / Line Numbers / Light Editor
Update Pages via FTP
File Manager / Built in FTP

24. Feature Roadmap
Web Service API
SOAP API to send and receive data from Miva
Merchant
Currently can be done with our enterprise tools
- Dynamic Order Export
- Remote Provisioning

25. Feature Roadmap
Custom Global Items - Ability to create custom items that are global.
Custom Fields
a. New custom field type for multi select
b. Ability to Sort Custom Fields
c. On Drop Down list, ability to set default / change order of list
d. Store/Page Level Custom Fields
Template Based Emails
a. All Email Templates Should be here (Lost Customer Password)
b. Emails need to be able to be triggered from template code
c. Emails need Product Level restrictions.
d. Add BCC field to all emails

26. Feature Roadmap
Other Ideas:
301 Redirect Manager
Content Manager
Streaming Updates for Modules
Simple Text Editor
Built in Form Processor
JS Tag Manager
Duplicate Everything

27. Thank You
Questions / Feedback
Brennan Heyde
VP Developer Relations, Miva Merchant
bheyde@mivamerchant.com