ShopFactory is connected to more than 50 payment service providers around the world including Amazon, PayPal, Authorize.Net and WorldPay. They can automatically authorize customer payment methods for you.

Of course you can also accept manual payment methods such as Bank transfer, Cash on Delivery, Send a Check or Pick-up-and-Pay.

Best of all with ShopFactory you can combine different service providers and manual payment methods to appeal to more customers yet still keeping your costs down. Now you can combine PayPal with Cash on Delivery if you want to.

If a payment method is more expensive than another, no problem. Just charge customers who select the more expensive method extra!

Click here for a list of supported payment service providers

To make shipping charge calculations easier, ShopFactory is integrated with a number of online shipping cost calculators by the major shipping providers.

Currently supported are UPS, United States Parcel Service, FedEx, Royal Mail, DHL and Australia Post. More are in development.

Of course you can also define your own shipping charges by weight, price and quantity for different regions and add extra handling costs for each product, if required.

Looking after a business usually includes looking after your accounts with appropriate software. Total Care is integrated with leading accounting packages such as QuickBooks, Sage Line 50 and Lexware.

However most accounting system allow importing orders in XML or CSV file formats — so those formats are supported as well, of course.

The more exposure you can give your products, the more sales you can generate. For ShopFactory Pro and Gold generated websites we have developed Marketeer, so you can give your products more exposure. It allows you to list your products with major product portals such as Google Base, eBay and Shopping.com.

Marketeer also allows you to export product details as a CSV data file, which is supported by most product portals around the world, so you can add your products to as many portals as you want.

ShopFactory Pro and Gold also support extensive search engine optimization to allow you to achieve high search engine rankings. Check out Search Engine optimization for more details.

Advertising tracking support allows you to see which marketing campaigns have been successful (requires Total Care).

Of course, always keep in mind to market your website in the real world as well, to boost your sales even further.