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Do you want to boost your income by creating an online shop for yourself or others? Then ShopFactory may be the answer. This powerful e-commerce solution is one of the world's most popular shop builders. Continuously developed since 1995 it was the world's first point and click shopping cart software for do it yourself merchants and professional website developers when released.
Today it has been used in 80 countries to create more than 120.000 shops. One of the reasons for this success is its extraordinary ease of use - and its support for virtually any ecommerce feature you can think of. Of course it helps that users can build shops without programming experience, and that shops run on any website as soon as uploaded - no extra installation required. ShopFactory is available in many languages - and can build shops in any language.
Version 5 ups the ante with more than 100 new features reaching from allowing the creation of a complete website with unlimited pages, to many improved and brand new storefront functions featuring for example cross promotion of products, WYSIWYG editing, inclusion of banner adds or HTML code, email a friend, favourites, many discounts, shipping and tax calculations, compatibility with UPS for shipping and a huge number of real-time payment gateways, as well as one of the fastest shopping carts in the market, improved design freedom and more than 200 professional shop templates which can easily be customized. A unique function allows you to combine several payment gateways and to create your own payment methods: now you can accept payments without restrictions. An add-on enables you to maintain one shop in several languages at the same time.
All this makes creating highly professional Internet catalogues a breeze and explains, why ShopFactory has won many awards around the world. With ShopFactory you can build as many shops as you like. There are no monthly fees, saving you even more money. ShopFactory puts you in control, check it out
| Requirements: | min, Pentium CPU, min. 16Mb RAM, min. 32Mb disk space, n/a video card, Pentium PC with 16 MB of Ram & 32MB of H/Dspace |
| Trial version Limitations: | shareware |
| Awards: | Best e-commerce solution - i-Awards Australia, 6 Stars (Best) - PC PRO - UK, 5 Stars - ZD Net |
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| 11-Feb-2004 |
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I own a e-commerce site created with ShopFactory ver. 5 and would like to express my experience with this tool.
ShopFactory will do if you have a small e-commerce site but when you need to insert a lot of products and images (I have over 1700 products and 4000 images in 4 languages) ShopFactory becomes hell.
What you need to know about ShopFactory and they don’t tell:
1) ShopFactory does not create a database driven website. Instead it creates html-files. Not necessary bad, however if you edit one single word (e.g. mistyping) in a department, ShopFactory recreates the whole site in all languages. This means that it will need to upload all files (in my case over 8000) because the new created files have a date stamp which is more recent than the ones on the web, although their content did not changed. The build in file transfer utility can’t even do this job because it has not a timeout prevention build in. So I needed to buy a good and fast FTP software that uploads at night. You can imagine that the whole process is time-consuming.
2) If you add pictures, ShopFactory will remember the complete path. You don’t tell ShopFactory the path of the folder you put your images in, no, ShopFactory will use the complete path including the driveletter. This means that ShopFactory is not verry suitable to use on a network and does not allow you to move your images to another location (e.g.:if you would like to reorganise your system) unless you agree to relink all your images.(in my case over 4000) Can you imagine how time-consuming this is ?
3) ShopFactory comes loaded with bugs. For example: you are able to change the language file to your own needs. Excellent, but when you do this within ShopFactory your customers won’t be able to buy any products anymore because they can’t give their addresses. The input form is simply not generated anymore. So you need to edit the language files with notepad or another editor to prevent this from happening. ShopFactory’s helpdesk didn’t tell me this, another user did.
4) Concerning postal prices to other countries, ShopFactory let you multiply the postal prices with a number given by you. However since this is dependent on the weight which not always follows the same structure as the local post , you are not able to calculate the right shipping prices for export. Now, there’s a way to work around this problem, but ShopFacory’s helpdesk did not told me, another user did.
5) This brings me to ShopFactory’s helpdesk. Either they don’t want to help or they don’t know how to help, fact is that you can’t count on their service. I’ve reported problems several times where they told me that it was the first time they heard about it and probably the problem would be on my computer, where later I could read in some older forums they have online that the bugs were reported years ago and several times. In the mean time they’ve released a new version without fixing the bugs.
My advise: If you’re happy with a small site, ShopFacory will do. If you want to create a professional site with lots of products and images, don’t buy ShopFactory unless you’re willing to accept above mentioned disadvantages and bugs. I my case I’m still using ShopFactory until I can find a way to move to another software without the need of reinput all the products and images. (Months of work went into it already.)
I hope I’ve informed you with this. |
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| Product |
ShopFactory |
| Version |
5.81 |
| Publisher |
3D3.COM Pty. Ltd. |
| Platform |
Windows all versions |
| Filesize |
1,000 K |
| Released |
06-Oct-2003 |
| License |
Shareware |
| Cost |
$329.00 |
| Expires |
Expires after 30 Days |
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| Downloads |
209 (0) |
| Rating |
7.33 (0) |
| Votes |
9 (0) |
| Summary rating |
+1.73 (0) |
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