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Cart Factory is a comprehensive storefront and shopping cart with basic CMS (content management system) capabilities that enables you or your staff to create and maintain a compelling and dynamic online store easily and quickly

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Cart Factory is a comprehensive web based online storefront and shopping cart with CMS (content management system) capabilities that enables you or your staff to create and maintain a compelling and dynamic online store easily and quickly with no ongoing development charges. It is a totally hosted solution that allows you to easily sell online any product or service or even digital content such as software, e-books, movies or music.

Create and manage a professional online store with Cart Factory, our shopping cart 2 software. Built-in shopping cart, catalogue and content management, credit card processing, shipping calculation, template customization and other powerful tools come standard.

Stores can be created using your existing site look and layout as a template or let us create a brand new look for you (fees and conditions apply).

Pricing

Cart Factory is available in either Standard or Extended versions. Our licensing fees are extremely flexible and start from $89.00(AUD) per month which includes hosting costs. Domain registration (if required) and setup and configuration fees are extra. Extra modules can be added for an additional monthly fee or custom modules can be created to suit your exact needs.

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Features

Please review the Features Matrix below

FeaturesPlease select a Topic below

With full support for Templates, you can completely customise the look and feel of your ecommerce site to your specifications.
Are your customers on the go? No problem! With automatic detection of mobile browsers, optimized storefront content is delivered direct to your customers phone. On the backend, the administrators of your storefront can now receive cell-phone SMS Messages when new orders arrive helping you be number one in customer service.
CartFactory is making your marketing tasks and promotions even easier. Use extensive coupon code functionality, built in ratings and review systems, gift registry and wish list functionality. Email your next newsletter or campaign to your customer base without costly third party software integrations.
If your site is not readily available and visible to your customers, how will you get increased traffic and sales? CartFactory has you covered with the creation of meta tags, keywords, our URL rewrite functionality, and static product & category pages for search engine crawling. We give you the advantage! With the option for e-commerce tracking and metrics, SEO is simple.
Some say there is an art to selling, we agree. Using powerful features such as upsell functionality, product reviews, customer who purchased x also purchased y, affiliate programs and customer levels you can reach and target your customers easier. CartFactory makes it even easier for your business to increase conversion rates.
You are online to sell your company's products and services. CartFactory has come up with a wide range of possibilities for configuring your ecommerce site. With NEW and improved kit products, inventory features, import and export tools utilizing Excel or XML, product management is simplistic.
The ability to manage an ecommerce site and provide a high level of customer service is typically on all of our priority lists. Without customers where would we be? Through the use of features such as Google Analytics and ecommerce tracking, your organization will be able to easily facilitate the needs of your customers and find out what attracts them to your site. Options for retail and wholesale sites are available. With CartFactory's easy site management, even non-geeks can manage the storefront flawlessly.
Payment processing and checkout is now uncomplicated with the integration with Google Checkout, PayPal and over 20 other payment gateways, allowing your company to work with the merchant of your choice. Options such as mini cart and one page checkout help your customer checkout faster and conveniently.
Where are you shipping and how? CartFactory understands your needs. With shipping rates calculated by total, weight, postal code and fixed costs pricing shipping is convenient and straightforward. Real time rates from the most popular carriers help your customer get their sale processed accurately and shipped in time to enjoy your products.
CartFactory's robust out-of-the-box BSB feature set is complemented by features such as: discreet pricing by customer group, the ability to restrict product purchases and visibility, configure discounts, create shipping, tax and coupon rules, the re-order of common items, ability to track shipments and view order history online.
CartFactory continues to provide the highest standard of security. To further your security and that of your customers features such as SSL encryption, CAPTCHA authentication and the ability to mark orders as fraud keep everyone secure.
Sales Tax calculation and compliance can seem daunting. CartFactory allows you to set up tax by State, Zip Code, and Country additionally allowing for items or product categories to be marked as taxable and tax-exempt. Additional options allow you to stay abreast of any tax changes keeping your company compliant.
Do you sell your products globally? With Multi-Lingual and Multi-Currency support, easily sell to everyone. Multiple international payment methods and shipping options are available.
Our web based, fully hosted application makes management and configuration easy. By releasing constant updates based on customer feedback, we keep our software cutting edge and simple to implement.
Feature Status
Content/HTML (topic) pages supported Up to 100
AJAX Support - we use AJAX extensively throughout the front-end and in the admin site.
Dynamic data driven pages via SQL Server
AddIn Support - we can develop your custom code in an external addin and upgrading will be a cinch! Our addin system will maintain backwards compatibility when upgrading.
Support for Templates
Free Templates Included 2
You Can Design Your Own Template
Completely customize the layout & appearance of any category, section, manufacturer, or product page using CSS
User defined string replacement tokens, topic tokens, etc.
Skin Based UI Customization: Store site styles and web design can be completely customized by external HTML skin template and style sheets. See some of our sample client sites to see how different each store can look!
You can link to the cart "pages" from your existing site pages, or use the storefront to run your entire site
Add page header/footer HTML blocks to cart page, and all checkout and order confirmation pages, to provide special notes/text specific to your store or business
Create custom receipt formats and templates
Create custom "your order has shipped" e-mail formats and templates
Automatic e-mail notification to customer with receipt
Receipt can be fully customized
Receipt Formats Supported HTML and PDF
Automatic e-mail notification to store admin of new order received
Notification to Cell Phone of new order received (Optional - requires account with SMS provider)
Mini-Cart - Optional feature that shows customers what has been added to their cart, gives a price estimate, and lets them make changes without taking them off of the current page.
Feature Status
Order receipts automatically e-mailed to customer
Mobile browser support - your site will detect mobile browsers and automatically switch to a (customizable) slimmed-down skin that allows customers to browse the site and add to the wishlist so they can purchase later. COMING
Distributor Pic Lists can be e-mailed to Distributors for Drop Shipping
Customizable Receipt Formats: Customize the format and layout of your store receipts by using a simple HTML template
E-mail notification sent to store Administrator when new order arrives
"Order Has Shipped" e-mail notifications sent to customers with tracking numbers
"Order Has Download Items" e-mail notifications sent to customers for orders with download components. This e-mail can be sent on time of payment clearance or delayed
Delayed Downloads (gives you time to verify buyer payment/fraud metrics before releasing download files)
Feature Status
Gift Registry Supported
Gift Registry Can Be Anonymous (gift registry owner name and address is hidden)
Gift Card Support (E-mail Gift Cards supported)
Customer Add To Wish List Supported (Persists over Customer Visits also)
Order Based Coupons (apply to entire order)
Product Specific Coupons (apply to only specified product)
Coupon discounts by amount or percent
Coupons can offer free shipping
Coupons can have expiration date
Coupons can be marked as use once per customer, use once by only one customer, use N times, etc.
Coupons requires minimum order amount before they are valid (e.g. save $10 if you order $100 or more, etc)
Coupons can be excluded from sale products
Customer specific coupons
Quantity discounts on products (tiered Pricing)
E-Mail Product To A Friend: Product pages can be e-mailed to friends by site visitors
Customers can review & rate products (if enabled)
Administrator can moderate product review comments
Profanity checking provided on product review comment entry
User Polls (find out what your customers are thinking!)
GoogleBase Feed (formerly called Froogle) Supported with automatic generation and FTP upload to your Froogle account
Add other product feeds
(e.g. ShopZilla, shopper.com, etc)
Limited support for 3rd party feeds
Feature Status
URL rewrite rules - easily format your store's URLs the way you want them to look.
EVERY product, category, and department page can have their own custom search engine meta tags (title, keywords, description, no script blocks, etc)...
Static Product & Category Pages: Designed to allow search engines to fully crawl and index EVERY product & category page in your store. This can have a dramatic increase in site traffic from search engines.
Google Xml Site Maps Supported: a direct Google search engine submission method sanctioned by Google
Fully dynamic page titles, and search engine meta-tags
Google Analytics (Urchin) Site Metrics & E-Commerce Tracking Compatible
Fully dynamic site map (optimized for search engines)
Second tree-form dynamic site map (optimized for users)
Feature Status
Related Products: Entice additional sales by listing related products/accessories on each product page
Show Upsell Products Directly On Cart Page
Product prices can be set to "Call for Price"
Product prices can be hidden until product added to cart
Products can require that other products are added to the cart (e.g. Product X requires Product Y)
Recently viewed products
Customers who bought X also bought Y
Customers can be tracked to affiliates
Orders can be tracked to affiliates
Products visible on the site can be filtered by affiliate source id COMING
Real-Time skin changing based on URL/invocation/affiliate id COMING
Customer levels supported, which you can define (e.g. wholesale, retail, or gold, silver, platinum, etc..)
Customers can be tracked to customer levels
Customer levels can have special product pricing, can offer percent discounts, free shipping, tax exception, etc.
Products visible on the site can be filtered by customer level
Quantity discounts on products (tiered Pricing)
E-Mail Product To A Friend: Product pages can be e-mailed to friends by site visitors
Feature Status
Categories/Departments/Manufacturers Supported 200
Categories and Departments can also be fully nested to any level desired (e.g. sub-categories, sub-departments)
Supports cross-matrix of products by category and department. E.g. a product can be mapped to the shoe category, in the women's department
Products can be mapped to more than one category or department
Paged browsing for categories and sections: Keeps page size small, and optimizes user experience.
Category, Department, and Manufacturer "names" can be renamed (e.g. "Brochures", "Products", "Car Parts", whatever you need that is appropriate for your unique store site products).
Disable buy buttons for specific products
Supports Wholesale Only Sites (Prices not shown to general site customers)
From Xml File
From Excel File
Support for 3 images sizes: icon, medium, large
Auto Image Resizing
Supports multiple images per product (icon, medium, and large)
Donation Products (e.g. Customer Enters Price)
Restrict product quantities to preset values (e.g. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, ...)
Enforce product minimum order quantities (i.e. must order at least 10, etc).
Recurring products can have varying intervals (days, weeks, months, years)
Subscription based products & content access
Downloadable products supported, with automatic e-mail to customer with download instructions
Text options on products (e.g. require initials for monogrammed products, require text name for product customization, etc)
Support for sizes & colors. All color/size site "prompts" can be customized in admin site, so you could rename those two options to have completely different meaning.
Multiple Attributes Per Product (e.g. Size/Color/Fabric)
Inventory By Attribute (e.g. Size/Color)
Price can vary by size/color option chosen
Prices can vary by customer or customer level (group)
Sort products in any order desired
Support for simple products (e.g. a book) or products with variants
Setup variants within each product
Each variant can have a different price
Each variant can have different attributes (e.g. size, color, etc)
Each variant can require a text option input (e.g. monogram)
Each variant can have a separate SKU modifier, and price, description, etc
Tell store to locate product pictures by SKU (icon, medium, large)
Tell store to use filename to locate product pictures (icon, medium, large). Allows you to easily use pre-existing images
Support for sale prices
Vary product prices for each customer level (e.g. wholesale/retail)
Product Descriptions can include HTML formatting: We know that having complete control over each product description is important, and no two products are alike. You can use the administration site to enter product descriptions, or even link to fully custom external product description HTML files. Additionally, each product can have an inline or pop-up "specifications" window, providing more detail to the customer, without distracting them from making a purchase

Improved Support for Kits (build to order products). Kits can have dynamic pricing and component selection (e.g. build your own PC) and more specification as to what items can be added, whether they are required, etc.

New AJAX interface handles kit changes and pricing updates without page reloads * Expandable/Collapsible panels to display detailed descriptions for each kit option * Every kit group item can have its own image! * Kit group items can be tied to existing products, for pricing and other details * Kit group items can deduct multiple other products from inventory * Greatly improved kit creation interface in the admin site * Support for required options that cannot be edited

Other storefronts are charging nearly $1200 for adding a "build kit" feature on their storefronts.

Disable buy buttons by product
Set Site to Wholesale Only (Prices not shown to general site customers)
Inventory Tracking
Limit orders to quantity on hand inventory, or allow customers to place orders for items out of stock (admin configurable)
Manage Inventory by variant or attribute (e.g. size, color, etc)
Show inventory on hand status on product page to customer (optional)
Feature Status
You can configure products, prices, taxes, shipping, etc all from the administration site
Once installed, all operational store tasks can be performed via easy to use control panel (e.g. no need to know databases, etc)
Friendly error handling - display a customizable 'friendly' error message to customers in the unlikely event something should go wrong with a page on the store site. The site skin and navigation are maintained on the page so customers can continue shopping. Errors are logged in the admin site for later review.
Customer can view Order History
Customer has address book
Customer one click re-order any prior order
Multiple billing/shipping addresses per customer (similar to Amazon.com style checkout)
Customer Service Web Administration: Comprehensive administrative reports, including revenue trends & graphs, visitor trends & graphs, customer order percentages, affiliate revenue reports, tax reports, etc. You can also search for order by almost any customer record criteria to assist with customer support calls

Customer & Order Reports, Compatible with Google Analystics with E-Commerce ROI Conversion tracking:

  • Easily integrate with your Google Analytics account
  • Tax Reports by Month/State
  • Total Customers by Date/Trend
  • Customer to Purchase Stats (% of visitors that convert, etc)
Recurring orders (e.g. for auto ship products, subscription sites, monthly service type products, etc) COMING
Customer Subscriptions for protected content
Mini-Cart display, so add to cart action leaves user on same page, and updates mini-cart display in left or right column of page
Password Protected HTML Pages (password protected topics)
General Site Disclaimer Message (Agree Before Entering) supported
Can set minimum order product quantities before allowing checkout
Order options supported (e.g. gift wrapping, ship in unmarked box, etc). Additionally, each order option can have a price associated with it. User can optionally select order options during checkout.
Order & Customer & Product Export to Xml
Customer e-mail lists to XML (i.e. produce list of all registered customer e-mails for your mailing manager)
Product & Site Photo Galleries: Create photo galleries of products, activities or other important corporate or store fun events. Showing prospective customers more than just a "store facade" is VITAL in creating brand loyalty COMING
Recent Products Page
Best-Seller Products Page
Shopping cart can persist over visits
Shopping cart can be told to clear in N days
Built in support for the most common display formats: grid, table expanded, table condensed, simple form, right variant bars, and you can completely customize the product pages by altering the output code HTML
Catalog Only Sites (e.g. turn buy buttons off)
Support for Informational Catalog Only Sites: A simple configuration setting removes all "buy" buttons from the site, in effect turning your site into an informational site, still complete with categories, subcategories, sections, product info, product photos, etc
Store News Items Supported (editable via Admin Site): Add real-time news announcements, and items to the site. Inform customers about important new items, or promotions
Order notes can be entered by customer with special instructions
Each cart item can also have notes entered by the customer
Shopping "cart" can be renamed (e.g. Shopping Bag)
Can require customer to agree to Terms and Conditions block (user defined) before proceeding with payment
Support for subscription products. Each product can add N months to a customer subscription. Administration control panel allows override of subscription expiration date COMING
Hide products, categories departments (publish or un-publish capability)
Integrated Product Search
Advanced Product Search Page (by category, section, manufacturer, price range, SKU, etc)
Built In Customer Mailing Manager: Send e-mails or HTML newsletters to registered customers. Design your newsletter in FrontPage or DreamWeaver and send to registered customers, or send to only customer with orders
Remember me option for returning users
Order History Pages: Customers can get their prior order histories, check order status, etc all online
Shopping Cart items can persist over time (even months if desired). Great for return customers, who later wanted to order a product, but forgot which one they wanted
Customer can view all of their prior orders
Administrators can edit customer profiles, delete customers, update their address books, billing information, etc.
Administrator can edit/enter service notes visible by customer regarding order status, special notes, etc
Feature Status
Credit Cards: Accept Credit Cards in Real Time: Cards can be processed and verified in real-time, or you can delay processing until a later time
Cheque By Mail
C.O.D.
Pay In Store
Purchase Order
PayPal
PayPal Express Checkout (see below for PayPal website Payments PRO)
Request For Quote COMING
Lay-By COMING
MicroPay (this is also referred to as a Purse). Customer can put money in an account, and then purchase against it, or add to their balance
Gift Cards
Skip account creation on checkout (Anonymous Checkout - OPTIONAL)
"One Page" Checkout
MANUAL Gateway (just collects order & payment information for offline processing)
Authorize.net
AliPay
Amazon
Assist
Beanstream
CDG commerce
Chronopay
CyberSource
Dibs
eWay (Australia & UK)
Google Checkout
iDeal
Moneris eSELECT Plus (US)
Moneris eSELECT Plus (Canada)
MoneyBookers
PayPal Website Payments Pro (Not Available Australia)
PayPal Express Checkout
PayPal Standard
Pay Junction
PayPoint
PSIGate
QuickPay
Sage Pay Direct (formerly Protx)
SecurePay
Sermepa
Svea
TwoCheckout
USA ePay
Worldpay
Feature Status
Store can be set to authorize only, or auth-capture credit card mode. You can then capture payment at shipment if desired
Void & Refund supported
Partial Refund and Add-Hoc Charges Supported
Mark Transactions As Fraud
Ban Fraud Users from Site
Support for recurring orders/payments (auto-ship products)
Customer can define multiple billing/shipping addresses and select during checkout 1 address per order
Support for CV2 (credit card security code) entry and checking (fraud prevention)
Address Verification codes reported to administrator with order
Credit card numbers never displayed on site, but remembered for user in an encrypted state shown as ****1111 on site). Storage can be disabled by both store admin and customers if they choose.
Disable storing of credit cards if desired (we recommend that you don't store credit cards on your site...it is almost never needed anymore)
Don't require account signup on checkout (e.g. skip registration on checkout or anon checkout)
Hide all references to "shipping" (e.g. useful for software, or download sites)
Set a minimum order total threshold for proceed to checkout (e.g. must purchase over $100)
Multi-level pricing list
PayPal Website Payments Pro - (Not Available in Australia)
PayPal Express Checkout
PayPal (standard)
Feature Status
Calculate Shipping By Order Total
Calculate Shipping By Order Weight
Calculate Shipping By Order Weight & Zip/Post code Zone
Calculate Shipping By Order Total & Zip/Post code Zone
Calculate Shipping By Fixed Item Shipping Costs (e.g. Shipping Cost By Product)
Calculate Shipping By Fixed Percent of Order Total
Specify All Orders As Free Shipping
Real Time Shipping Rates
FedEx
UPS (including Negotiated Rates)
DHL International  
USPS
Australia Post
Canada Post
Admin defined shipping methods (e.g. Ground, Next Day, 2nd Day, Priority, etc)
Real Time Shipping carriers can vary based on Domestic or International shipping address
Filter Real Time Shipping Rates You Want To Allow
Add Shipping & Handling Extra Fee To Orders
Shipping Methods Verified Against User Addresses During Checkout (this avoids the ground shipping to Hawaii situations!) COMING
Shipping Tracking #'s e-mailed to Customers (where applicable)
Support for Download Products
Support for "No Shipping Required" Products (e.g. services)
Allow "Free shipping over $X" for site
Mark Customer Levels/Profiles as free shipping (or tax exempt)
Configurable local pickup option that can be restricted by geographic region
Feature Status
Create customer levels that allow you to filter which products different users see, and even set different prices for each level.
"Wholesale only mode" lets you restrict sales to just the users you approve.
Purchase orders and MicroPay make invoicing your larger clients easy!
Customer's can one click re-order any prior order
Feature Status
Supports SSL Encryption for secure ordering. Cart automatically switches into secure mode appropriately. Supports any brand SSL certificate. Dedicated SSL certificate recommended.
IP Address Tracking: For safety and auditing, IP addresses are logged (PABP)
Integrated MaxMind Geolocation Fraud Detection (requires optional MaxMind account) COMING
Require periodic admin password changes (PABP)
Password Salting + Hashing (PABP)
Store Admin can lock out any customer account for security/fraud reasons (PABP)
Any order can be marked as fraud for later forensics (PABP)
CAPTCHA Image login protection (protects against automated BOT login attacks (PABP)
Comprehensive 1 Year Aged Read Only Security Log built into admin site. Viewable only by admin Super User. (PABP) COMING
Give individual admin operations permissions to view full credit cards or not (PABP) COMING
Allow Customers to individually select if they want their credit card information stored (overrides by store admin possible) (PABP) COMING
All Password Change Operations Logged (PABP)
RegEx AppConfig control over strength of passwords required for store logins and admin logins (PABP)
Support for dynamic encryption key changes via admin site (PABP)
Store Admin specified encryption salting so every order record contains a separate encryption key (PABP)
Secured password protected Store Administrator Control Panel
Integrated security roles and support
Feature Status
Apply Tax by State
Apply Tax by Zip/PostCode
Apply Tax by Country
Tax can be applied to shipping costs
Individual Products can be marked Taxable or tax-exempt
Customer Levels can be tax-exempt (e.g. wholesale)
Tax Classes Supported By Product (e.g. Goods, Services, Alcohol, etc)
Feature Status
(Multi-Lingual) Store site can support dynamic run-time language switching. Customer can select store language at run-time. Store administrator controls allowed languages.
(Multi-Currency). Customer can select store currency to view at run-time. Allowed currencies are under control of store administrator. Support for RBA exchange rate feed (updated daily at 4:00PM).
Store developer/admin has full control over all store site strings used (e.g. prompt used for SKU, Product, Color, Size, shopping cart, etc). Every string used in the storefront can be edited.
Feature Status
Store management Web Based
Provides complete web site solution, including shopping cart, content management, customer management etc...
Designed For Max Capacity Designed for Stores up to 1000 Products
Databases Supported MS SQL 2005 MS SQL 2008/ (Express Versions Ok)
Asp.net 3.5 Compatible
Does not require any special components on the server (Gateway COM objects may be needed)
Built in page and data caching (optionally enabled)

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