Miva Merchant, a leading supplier of e-commerce software and services to small and medium-sized businesses, has joined with ControlScan (www.controlscan.com), a leading provider of Payment Card Industry(PCI) compliance and e-commerce security solutions, to help its merchants meet mandatory requirements set forth by the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC).

Miva Merchant today announced their strategic partnership with SearchSpring. Designed specifically for E-Commerce, SearchSpring is a hosted site search application that makes it easy for online stores to help their customers find the products they're looking for. SearchSpring does this by providing shoppers with an intuitive and easy-to-use interface that delivers accurate and relevant search results.

Today Miva Merchant announced the successful release of Miva Merchant 5.5, a powerful upgrade to its widely used e-commerce storefront software product. At 7 AM Pacific Time yesterday, the robust dot-5 release began streaming to Miva Merchant store owners, web hosts and web designers.

Miva Merchant has announced that Miva Merchant 4 is now integrated with PayPal's new Website Payments Pro, which includes Express Checkout for the smoothest checkout possible and supports processing of recurring payments.

Miva Merchant is a pioneering shopping cart. First launched in 1995, it rose, and then fell, with the dot-com boom and bust. Findwhat.com, a publicly traded company, purchased Miva Merchant in 2004. Findwhat.com subsequently renamed itself Miva, only to sell the Miva Merchant shopping cart division to private investors in August 2007. One of these investors, Rick Wilson, is a former Miva Merchant executive who rejoined the company. We asked him about the new Miva Merchant.

Miva Merchant and payQuake have announced the formation of a new joint venture, Miva Merchant Payment LLC. This new corporation will combine the market leaders in e-commerce software and credit card processing under one umbrella in the merchant credit card processing business.

Starting immediately, Miva Merchant will offer a new no-fee "Basic" partner category in addition to the current Standard and Premium categories. Benefits of the Basic Partner agreement include rights to resell Miva Merchant software, wholesale pricing for Miva Merchant products and access to Developer, API and Hosting documentation.The Basic Partner agreement is available to both existing and new partners. New partners will be eligible to receive free initial installation and set up training from Miva Merchant technicians. In order to apply as a Basic, Standard or Premier partner, please complete our partner interest form at http://www.mivamerchant.com/partners/signup/.

Starting immediately, Miva Merchant will offer a new no-fee "Basic" partner category in addition to the current Standard and Premium categories. Benefits of the Basic Partner agreement include rights to resell Miva Merchant software, wholesale pricing for Miva Merchant products and access to Developer, API and Hosting documentation.The Basic Partner agreement is available to both existing and new partners. New partners will be eligible to receive free initial installation and set up training from Miva Merchant technicians. In order to apply as a Basic, Standard or Premier partner, please complete our partner interest form at http://www.mivamerchant.com/partners/signup/.

Miva Merchant Conference 2008 is coming to the Marina Conference Center here in beautiful San Diego, California, and is scheduled for February 28th, 29th (Leap Day) and March 1st of next year. Meet the new owners and find out what they have in store for Miva Merchant's future by joining us at the conference next year. Get the complete details at the conference website (www.mivamerchant.com/conference) and save $50 by registering before November 15th.

Miva Merchant has brought its technical support department back to be staffed and managed in-house at its San Diego office. The current support hours are 7AM-3 PM Pacific Time.