We've just finished porting our Remember Me module to Miva Merchant 5. This is one of our most popular modules. It adds a "Remember Me?" checkbox to the login and account screens. When customers check the box to be remembered, it sets a cookie on their computer so that they are automatically logged in on return visits. It's a great way to increase usability, particular if you site has any kind of personalization, or uses price and availability groups.

Looking for the best URLs possible for your Miva Merchant 5 store? We offer unparalleled performance at an outstanding value - our Smart Links for SEO Miva module. It works for Miva Merchant 5 and 5.5 stores running on MySQL. (Not recommended for sites running on the mivasql DBF platform.)

We invite you to visit the newly redesigned DoublePlus Ecommerce Magazine website. In this online-only magazine, we'll be featuring articles for people who run Miva Merchant-enabled websites, as well as general ecommerce information. Read about development and design, marketing, order fulfillment, customer service, and more.

Last month we launched the redesigned website for Penn State Industries on the Miva Merchant 5 platform. The site is by far the most customized Miva Merchant 5 site we've done to date. It boasts a number of great usability and merchandising features, including:

• a rich site search tool
• best sellers
• customer ratings and reviews
• related products
• an online version of their print catalog
• customers who bought this also bought...
• detailed, searchable product specifications
• "category-on-the-fly" capability with product faceting
• a quick order feature for catalog customers
• order status and package tracking
• dynamic category paging, sorting, and product count views
• and much more!

Look for a full case study coming soon.

This week Miva Merchant rolled out version 5.5 of their renowned shopping cart application. It's a free upgrade for Miva Merchant users already running version 5.0, and it's offered as a streaming update. The bad news is that it's quite easy to upgrade. The good news is that it's quite easy to upgrade. Here's what I mean: When you log into your store's administrative interface, depending on your notification settings, you may see a popup window that looks like this:

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