San Diego, CA, 2008/05/08 -- 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.

The Miva Merchant 5.5 product boasts numerous powerful new features, including:

• A highly intuitive Admin interface focusing on click-efficiency
• Seamless import/export of all items and pages to/from Dreamweaver™
• Built-in SEO features including full control of DOCTYPE, Product, and Category Metatags, and search-friendly links
• The ability to build a new store entirely on the new skins-enabled CSS framework.

To see a demo of the new admin visit: http://www.mivamerchant.com/products/demo/mm5/admin.mvc and for a full list of features, enhancements and screen shots visit http://www.mivamerchant.com/support/downloads/mm5/production-5.html.

Significantly, the Miva Merchant 5.5 product was designed to be a seamless update for our current Miva Merchant 5 users, and early store owner comments are already overwhelmingly positive, such as "...after a little while–the store was up–we did our...module updates and tested. The new version rocks! It's actually faster (if that's possible) than before. Kudos to the Dev team!"