All pertinent aspects of the shopping experience will be recorded and presented for easy examination. Availability The e-Urchin module is built into the Urchin 2.2 release, and can be activated with a license code. Miva Merchant is a browser based Storefront and Catalog development tool that integrates cataloging, product maintenance, category management, shopping basket, order and credit card processing. Multiple stores can be maintained by one central administrator or specific store functions can be delegated to sub-administrators. The software is organized as a series of modules that can be field upgraded to provide new functionality without any changes to the core system.
Merchants manage their stores with a user friendly browser based interface.
Urchin also builds an extremely useful Server Report, which ranks all sites on a server and provides a wealth of additional server-wide data. Finally, once a week Urchin sends the E-mail Report to each site's administrator with a summary of activity for the current week. Founded in 1996, Miva Corporation is a leading provider of systems for business users to create and manage commerce sites and data driven Web sites using only a Web browser. The company's products are open and allow developers to script sites using the popular XML-based scripting language, Miva Script. Urchin is in use by many of the top corporate and government names on the internet, such as Virgin Records, Honda Motor Co., Zentropy Interactive, FreeBSD.org, the National Institutes of Health, the University of California , the U.S. Department of Defense, and thousands of others.