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 ShopFactory
This powerful international ecommerce 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 over 240,000 shops have been created with ShopFactory in over 80 countries. 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 - with no extra server installation required and no compulsory ongoing monthly fees. ShopFactory is more than a shopping cart software, it is a complete e-commerce solution with a powerful WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web editor and content management tool aimed at small to medium sized businesses who want to have a professional website to sell their products and services anywhere & anytime in a user friendly and unique looking website with its own shopping cart under their own control. The implementation of a patented fraud protection system as part of making the shopper feel more secure during the ordering process and various marketing tools and functions help boost your online business. Order data can be exported into various backend systems manually and/or via XML feed. The e-commerce enabled websites created with ShopFactory are Search Engine Optimized (SEO) with the implementation of various features and functions such as Website mapping allowing search engines to easily index the website . The professional designer will benefit from the many modern looking Website Themes , which are fully compatible with all mobile devices..
All this makes creating highly professional Webstores a breeze and explains, why ShopFactory has won many awards around the world. ShopFactory puts you in control of your business, check it out now.
| Требования: | Pentium PC with Internet Explorer 9.0 or higher CPU, min. 16Mb RAM, min. 32Mb места на диске, n/a видеокарта, Internet Connection |
| Trial version Ограничения: | shareware |
| Награды: | 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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