We just made the best shopping cart software even better

New in ShopFactory 8

Release 8 of our shopping cart software represents a major overhaul of ShopFactory, with many major and an even larger number of smaller improvements designed to help you become even more successful online.

Faster loading Websites

ShopFactory 8 websites load faster and displays the site indexes much quicker. Faster loading websites mean more customers will look at the products in your shop.

Superfast publishing

ShopFactory 8.2 introduces superfast publishing, with publishing speeds being up to 10 times faster than before. To use superfast publishing your website hosting service must support PHP. The free high availability hosting which comes with ShopFactory Total Care of course supports superfast publishing.

Improved Product management

Internal product management has been streamlined and improved to make working with large numbers of products easier and faster.

Better search engine performance

Ranking highly in search engines has become even easier with ShopFactory 8. Some customers who switched from ShopFactory 7 to ShopFactory 8 have noticed an immediate improvement in their rankings. In fact a new product E.Berghuizen added to his website www.pinballwizard.nl reached the top of Google within only 8 hours! ShopFactory 8 uses no frames and allows adding Meta tags to pages and products.

Internal product search

Shopfactory 8 features an internal content search to allow you to quickly find products and pages you want to change.

Modern website Themes

Many new and improved website themes in ShopFactory 8 help you quickly create a professional shop.

Better Multimedia management

ShopFactory 8 features a modern 'Media lightbox' for larger images and supports multimedia files such as video, flash and others, better than ever.

Easier customization

The 'Customize design' wizard has been reworked to make website customization even easier. Now you can have different design images on different pages. Put shoes in the header of the shoe department and jeans into the header of clothing, for example. When you change a colour now all instances of the colour will change, including the colours in ShopFactory Flash elements.

Automated image size adjustment

If you switch to a product style which uses smaller images, ShopFactory will now automatically display the images at the smaller size appropriate for the new product style

Improved Mini Shopping cart

The mini shopping cart has been vastly improved to give customers more direct feedback. Now they can review the contents of their cart without having to leave the page.

Visible Page Titles

Now all pages show their title in the browser 'Title bar'

Global HTML code

Now you can insert HTML code to all pages at once. Great for Google Analytics for example or to add 'signup forms' or other code to all pages at once.

Global Website footers

Need a 'copyright note' to appear on all pages? With ShopFactory 8 it is now easy.

More HTML code areas

ShopFactory 8 has more 'HTML areas' than ever, allowing you to insert pictures, texts and forms for example above and below the left Index, above or below the website or in the right column above and below the page link box.

Improved PHP search

The PHP search has been improved to return results even faster

Better publishing

ShopFactory 8 makes publishing faster and removes HTML files which are no longer needed from the server.

Inline URL updates

If you link to other pages or products from within your text descriptions, the link URLs are now also managed by Shopfactory and will be automatically updated if required.

Powerful services to boost ShopFactory functionality

ShopFactory Online adds many additional services to ShopFactory such as PCI compliant online order management, Membership management, Vouchers, Reseller tracking and more. ShopFactory Online is included with ShopFactory Total Care.

Enhanced ShopFactory Central

ShopFactory Central now acts as a centralized management hub for the creation and management of your online store.

Supports Windows 7

ShopFactory 8 supports Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.

Free unlimited support, unlimited upgrades

ShopFactory 8 Total Care comes with free unlimited support und free unlimited upgrades.

IE 8 compatible

With the release of Internet Explorer 8 many websites on the Internet no longer work properly. ShopFactory 4, 5 and 6 websites are affected by this. Customers with Internet Explorer 8 can no longer make purchases in old ShopFactory Websites created before Version 7.

ShopFactory 8 is backwards compatible and allows you to quickly upgrade your existing Internet store. Internet Explorer 8 is spreading fast. Don’t risk losing orders to customers who have already upgraded!