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Boost your income with customer loyalty using incentives and rewards

With ShopFactory 9 + Total Care, you can boost your sales income and marketing using the Customer Membership Management.


How to get customers to ask you for a quote

Sometimes you don’t want to show prices — but want your customers to ask you for a quote. There could be several reasons for this.


Understand the importance of image types and when to use them

ShopFactory has a powerful Picture Manager built in to make your life easy. It can automatically adjust image sizes to create thumbnails, to limit the maximum size of an image and can also link a thumbnail to the larger picture.


Turn your Holiday Season lights on

It’s that time of year when most people turn their thoughts to family, friends and time off, while retailers turn their thoughts to bigger profits.


Easy tool to highlight multiple promotions

Rotating banners and slide-show banners have become very common for web page designs.


Start planning for Holiday Season now

The holiday shopping season is upon us. Based on a 2011 study we found that the first week of October marks the start of the shopping season.


Standard website layouts are the best

When deciding on a layout for your online shop, you want to be particularly careful about keeping it simple and easy to use.


Quick steps to properly photographing your products

Photographing your products properly is an important part of having a professional online store.


8 Recommendations, get the best out of the coupon code

With ShopFactory Total Care services you can set up marketing vouchers to offer discounts with online or off-line marketing campaigns, reward vouchers for customers who have placed orders to encourage them to return or sell gift vouchers to your customers.


How product videos help with search engine optimization

Having videos of your products on your website will help increase your ecommerce sales. Quite often, if videos are done properly, they can help a visitor with their buying decisions.


Do you need more than one online shop?

When you are running an online business that is popular, and you have a lot of information or products, it can start to get pretty cluttered and confusing.


Pay attention to the small details

There are many issues you need to contend with as an online business. When you look at the whole picture — it’s easy to forget the “Big Picture” is made up of smaller details.


10 quick recommendation to assist you with your online business

Renew Your Domain with Optimism : Domain name registration is affordable, if not downright cheap, so go ahead and renew your domain for at least the next five years.


Your Thank You page is not a dead end

Surprisingly, many online shop owners waste the "Thank You" or receipt page by making it a dead end. Instead of encouraging your buyers to close the window, continue to engage them with one of the following suggestions.


Convert your product database into a ShopFactory online shop

If the thought of manually entering all your product details from an existing database into a new online shop sounds daunting, the ShopFactory Database Import Wizard is the solution for you.


ShopFactory and browser cookies

ShopFactory can work entirely without cookies.This makes it easy to comply with the cookie laws which have recently become law in a number of European countries.


Five critical tips for selling online

Selling online is very similar to selling in a real brick store. Actually, it is not that different at all.


Give your business The Edge with ShopFactory

Starting an online business is no small task. The pay off can be enormous though. A solution such as ShopFactory to create your online store can make the process much easier.


How to set up product bundles in your online shop

ShopFactory 9 makes bundling products together easier than ever — with its 'Options and Choices' functions.


ShopFactory: Constantly improving for your business

ShopFactory is continuously being improved based on the feedback of its users and in line with fast changing technologies, market trends and other requirements.


10 Quick tips for updating your site this summer

During the summer months in the Northern Hemisphere, sales slow down for most businesses for a variety of reasons. It’s the best time for you to reflect on and update your website content so you are ready for the buying season that starts in September.


Selling online is a continual process

Every business goes through cycles. Whether it is a seasonal buying trend or a regular economic cycle.


Improved order tracking and Express Checkout coming soon

We are currently working on improving the order tracking functions for your ShopFactory store, so customers can more easily keep track of their orders. There is plenty of evidence which shows that keeping customers properly informed about their order cuts down on phone or email inquiries and increases their level of satisfaction.


Are you prepared for more search engine changes?

Over the last two months there have been many changes to Google’s search algorithms. Are you prepared for these changes? Are you regularly updating the product content on your site?


Quick Q&A session with Steffan Klein

You may recently have noticed that your GlobeCharge account has been re-branded as ShopFactory Total Care. This is an indication of the future strategic developments of ShopFactory.

Bring your store to life with ShopFactory.
ShopFactory is the easy way to create mobile friendly websites and online stores.


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