What are the differences between MivaPay and MivaPay 10.13.01?

[lesliekirk]

I'm asking this for those who currently have MivaPay and want to know what happens to the MivaPay they are currently using? I've read through what the "new" MivaPay is, and I can already feel the confused questions coming. Can you please post something that clarifies all this?

[Keifer Hunniford]

Hey Leslie, here's some clarity.

If we were to go back in time, we would have called the OLD MivaPay something else :). We've recently quietly renamed that to be MivaPay Vault - which is really a better name for it. It's more of a wallet / vault for payment tokens and part of the Miva middlewear stack around payments, used by most of our supported payment processors.

So, with that in mind, consider the new MivaPay to be a new payment processor.. which like the others, leverages uses MivaPay Vault under the hood as part of the stack, for subscriptions etc. The new MivaPay is Powered by PayPal but using a new platform that they have recently released. We've implemented it for a number of reasons, but importantly, it will be easier and faster for us to add additional payment services as they become available within the PayPal offering.

Keifer

[Kent Multer]

Just to be clear: are you saying that "MivaPay" now includes gateway functionality? So users can get rid of Authorize.net, Braintree, etc., and process their payments through Miva's own services?

[Brennan]

Hi Kent,
Yes that is correct. MivaPay is a new Miva branded payment solution (built on PayPal). So if you choose to use it, it replaces Auth.net or whatever payment processor being used today

https://www.miva.com/mivapay

[lesliekirk]

Hey Leslie, here's some clarity.

If we were to go back in time, we would have called the OLD MivaPay something else :). We've recently quietly renamed that to be MivaPay Vault - which is really a better name for it. It's more of a wallet / vault for payment tokens and part of the Miva middlewear stack around payments, used by most of our supported payment processors.

So, with that in mind, consider the new MivaPay to be a new payment processor.. which like the others, leverages uses MivaPay Vault under the hood as part of the stack, for subscriptions etc. The new MivaPay is Powered by PayPal but using a new platform that they have recently released. We've implemented it for a number of reasons, but importantly, it will be easier and faster for us to add additional payment services as they become available within the PayPal offering.

Keifer

Hey Keifer Hunniford, I like "MivaPay Vault" (or even MivaPay Wallet) - don't be so quiet about it. Let store owners know what will become of the "old" MivaPay and how it will impact them.

If possible, let store owners know ahead of time next time so they are not confused by any upcoming releases.

I think the MivaPay Powered by PayPal alliance is a huge plus!

[William Davis]

Hi Kent,
Yes that is correct. MivaPay is a new Miva branded payment solution (built on PayPal). So if you choose to use it, it replaces Auth.net or whatever payment processor being used today

https://www.miva.com/mivapay

Interesting. So where would one perform typical online AuthorizeNet activities?

[Brennan]

When you sign up (which is all done via the Miva admin) you'll get a PayPal dashboard where you can view transactions and run reports like you would in Auth.net or other gateways.

[lesliekirk]

Interesting. So where would one perform typical online AuthorizeNet activities?

If I understand your question, it sounds like you might be concerned as to where you would handle your (current) Authorize.Net transactions?

[GDesigns]

Thanks for the question lesliekirk that was actually NOT clear and we already had clients ask

[William Davis]

If I understand your question, it sounds like you might be concerned as to where you would handle your (current) Authorize.Net transactions?

That is exactly what I meant. Good catch Leslie. lol

[Rick Wilson]

You'd leave your current Auth.net account open as long as you need to process refunds, etc... (usually up to 6 months) and keep handling them the same way you do today.

[William Davis]

You'd leave your current Auth.net account open as long as you need to process refunds, etc... (usually up to 6 months) and keep handling them the same way you do today.

Thanks Rick. And "... PayPal dashboard ..." is via PayPal.com, correct?

[Rick Wilson]

It's served up by PayPal and currently yes via PayPal.com but this new architecture allows us to move features into core Miva over time making it more seamless. There are different features and offers available from MivaPay then just going through PayPal.com.

Today you'll link your PayPal account to your MivaPay account and see a co-branded experience and like I said over time we plan to move more and more of that into the core Admin.

[Rick Wilson]

We also set the pricing for our accounts vs PayPal.

[lesliekirk]

You'd leave your current Auth.net account open as long as you need to process refunds, etc... (usually up to 6 months) and keep handling them the same way you do today.

I'm confused (what's new about that?). What if William Davis doesn't want to use MivaPay? Are all other payment gateways going away? PayPal Complete? Any other payment gateways that I have missed? What happens to all of them?