Pelham-Saddlery

Author: Sabine Sharp – Glendale Designs, Glendale Arizona

Pelham Saddlery has a long relationship with Miva Merchant – actually they started way back when, when Miva was still CoolKat…The store went through several redesigns throughout the years and the update and redesign to Miva Merchant Wombat was almost a no brainer. Now they are PCI compliant as well as having a nice fresh (and very cool) look and feel and added functionality! I am sure we will keep adding to the site as need arises.

This site is very personal to me & Glendale Designs, as I used to be their store manager back in 1996 and got my feet wet in regards to ecommerce design, when Pelham decided to start selling online. I searched high and low and back then, the most stable and user friendly store solution I came across was CoolKat. It all evolved from there – several version upgrades, not to forget Open UI and finally Miva Wombat! Miva Merchant has certainly come a long way and is still on the cutting edge of ecommerce today with a moderate price tag in comparison to other solutions and a terrific community to boot.

Testimonials:

Glendale Designs is managing all online marketing aspects and merchandising on the site – Thank you for all the hard work, we couldn’t do it without you and our online revenue has increased over 300%!
Donna Clark, President

Sabine developed her web-site business based on her first-hand knowledge of equestrian supplies, while managing one of the country’s largest tack shops, Pelham Saddlery in New Hampshire. Because of Sabine, they were probably the ‘first’ tack shop in the USA to enter the 21st century and increase their customer base from a tri-state area to the national arena.
Dorothea Carters, Co-Owner, KL Select

Additional Functionality:

• Coupon Redemption
• Addendum
• Ultimate Category Tree
• Ultimate Wish Lists
• Ultimate Product Reviews
• Image Extra
• jQuery libraries

Pelham Saddlery Stats (forgive the ‘ish’, it’s so long ago, I can’t remember):

• 1996 – FrontPage informational site
• 1997ish – Miva CoolKat
• 1999ish – Miva Merchant 1.xx
• 19xx – Miva Merchant 2.13
• 2001 – Miva Merchant 3.01
• 2001 – Miva Merchant 4.0
• 2004 – Miva Merchant 4.22
• 20xx – Miva Merchant 4.24
• 2010 – Miva Merchant Wombat