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Hier finden Sie die neuesten ShopFactory Pro, Gold und Platinum Release Notes. Sie listen auf, welche Funktionen implementiert sind und welche Fehler behoben wurden. Sie können auch die neueste Version von ShopFactory erhalten, indem Sie sich im Online-Support anmelden oder die Update-Funktion in der ShopFactory-Oberfläche verwenden. Bitte beachten Sie, dass die neueste Version von ShopFactory nur für alle ShopFactory 14- und ShopFactory-Mietplanbesitzer  verfügbar ist.


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:23335

(Release Date: 07-12-2023)

Click here to download the latest SF14 build

This latest build improves/fixes the following:

SF-3055: Make cookie opt in setting enabled by default for all shops

SF-3056: Update Sitemap.xml file

- revert the xmlns urn to use http

  1. Download and install the latest release: ShopFactory V14
  2. Open your shop in ShopFactory 14.
  3. Optional: Enable 'Rebuild all' from 'Settings' menu then click on 'Preview' -> Preview in external browser. Go back to the ShopFactory editor and untick 'Rebuild all' from the Settings menu 
  4. Save and preview your shop in external browser. Place a test order to ensure secure checkout works.
  5. Publish your shop again.

ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:23278

(Release Date: 11-10-2023)

This build improves/fixes the following:

SF-3017: Show weight and selected options in the basket page


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:23254

(Release Date: 13-09-2023)

This build improves/fixes the following:

Update xmlns URLs to use https in sitemap.xml

SF-3037: Fix Google Font not loading on home page in other languages

Fixed: All search filter types were being saved as unticked in SFCentral dialog

Fixed: DES-481: SFX-OFF-AA_hat website theme Website Footer section is not displayed in preview and published shop. (Page Footer wasn't showing after the last change to SFX-OFF-AA theme.)

Fixed: SF-3048: Search function - website in other language works differently than the English site in search funtion.

Fixed: DES-669: SFX-BLOG-BASE detailed view style: fix 'Add to Basket' button (and other elements)

Fixed: SF-3051: Shipping provider methods disappear if no method is selected and Secure Checkout button is clicked.


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:23165

(Release Date: 11-07-2023)

Click here to download the latest SF14 build

This latest build improvesfixes the following:

SF-3040: New 16:9 video blocks added

SF-3037: Google Font not loading on home page in other languages

SF-3038: Stamped.io: Add Store Hash field in stamped.io app settings in SF Central dialog

  1. Download and install the latest release: ShopFactory V14
  2. Open your shop in ShopFactory 14.
  3. Optional: Enable 'Rebuild all' from 'Settings' menu then click on 'Preview' -> Preview in external browser. Go back to the ShopFactory editor and untick 'Rebuild all' from the Settings menu 
  4. Save and preview your shop in external browser. Place a test order to ensure secure checkout works.
  5. Publish your shop again.

ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:23135

(Release Date: 17-05-2023)

This build fixes the following:

SF-2995: Fix PayPal Checkout Pay Later messaging where it wasn’t updating with ‘Options and Choices’ prices

- Improve loading performance on department filter pages.

- Fix an inadvertent error in one of the PPCO scripts.

SF-3035: Fix for when a department's page filename is changed and there are multiple hyperlinks to that department, where, not all hyperlinks are being updated.


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:23122

(Release Date: 05-05-2023)

This latest build improves/fixes the following:

SF-3026: English-Australia (en-au) language now supported in Language Link

SF-3019: Fix the filter-enabled departments (that was incorrectly including its productloop twice)

SF-2995: Fix PayPal Checkout Pay Later messaging where it wasn’t updating with ‘Options and Choices’ prices

- Improve loading performance on department filter pages.

SF-3025: Fix for SFX-SHA_1 productloop style and ‘Link Image To’ feature: Unable to navigate into linked page when clicked on. A grey overlay appears instead.

SF-3028: Fix YouTube videos crash in SF internal preview

SF-3029: Fix language href tags for SEO

SF-3031: Fix ‘Doofinder Search app’ Redirection feature

change setting as suggested by Doofinder support

Update missing German translations

SF-3033: UTF-8 characters will sometimes not be found by PHP Search.

SF-3034: Language Link: Fix access to PageFootnote in other languages if the main language PageFootnote is empty.


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:23048

(Release Date: 01-03-2023)

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This build improves/fixes the following:

SF-3008: Various PHPSearch user interaction fixes.

- There are 2 search phrase boxes - in the search filters sidebar and the search header bar. Remove the one in the search filters sidebar.

- Alphabetically sort the list of categories

- The minimum and maximum price slider filter is not showing the minimum and maximum price that is set

- Not able to clear the search phrase box in the search header bar

SF-2992: Proxy cache Google Fonts on demand

- Fix the GoogleFonts in description fields on the home page with the correct url

SF-3010: Sendcloud app - update United Kingdom country code: send GB instead of UK

SF-3011: Fix Restore Basket function when user clicks 'Cancel' to not restore products in cart.

SF-3013: Fix hreflang en-uk language-region must be set to en-gb

SF-3016: 'Show prices only to members and resellers' function: SFX-IAEV productloop style briefly shows discount percentage for products that have discount percentage set

SF-3018: GDPR - Reject/refuse/opt out button is mandatory in cookie notice.


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:22347

(Release Date: 15-12-2022)

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This build improves/fixes the following:

SF-2995 Fixed: PayPal Checkout: Pay Later messaging doesn't update with Options and Choices prices

SF-2996 Improved: Doofinder: Change the way double quotes are escaped in Option names.

DES-651 Fixed: New page style variation of SFX-Content_ 1 with Link Image Group 1 dimension 1920x750
- the changes caused the more details button on the search results page to be covered by the CustomNavWrapper, making them unclickable.

SF-2926 Fixed: Canonical page set to *index.html in sitemap not listed - further correction.
- add alternate-x-default

SF-2919 Fixed: Choice image link is wrong/broken when using "Option template" in another shop

SF-3004 Fixed: Language link: "common.js error" in Translate Website dialog when inserting a 'link to a place in this website'.

SF-2992 New: Proxy cache Google Fonts on demand
(requires Total Care subscription)

DES-666 Fixed: BLOG-BASE detailed product style is incorrectly allowing horizontal scrolling in mobile mode.


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:22255

(Release Date: 13-09-2022)

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This latest build improves/fixes the following:

SF-2949 New: Add Croatian language in ShopFactory languages and GlobeCharge tags

SF-2991 Fixed: LanguageLink: CompanyImage maxwidth and maxheight can now be set in secondary languages

SF-2993 Fixed: Search filter settings cannot be saved or will reset automatically

SF-2982 Improved: Change in EU law for base price - remove base price quantities except for 1kg and 1L. - re-instate m, m2, m3 and pc

  1. Download and install the latest release: ShopFactory V14
  2. Open your shop in ShopFactory 14.
  3. Optional: Enable 'Rebuild all' from 'Settings' menu then click on 'Preview' -> Preview in external browser. Go back to the ShopFactory editor and untick 'Rebuild all' from the Settings menu 
  4. Save and preview your shop in external browser. Place a test order to ensure secure checkout works.
  5. Publish your shop again.

ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:22187

(Release Date: 04-08-2022)

Click here to download the latest SF14 build

This latest build improves/fixes the following:

DES-660 SFX-Base-4 - product loop variation called SFX-Base_5, SFX-Base_6

SF-2922 Filtered page – default filter should be ‘sort alphabetically’ (not ‘best match’ mode that suits the PHP Search function)

SF-2982 Change in EU law for base price - remove base price quantities except for 1kg and 1L.

DES-621 New content block based on #19 ID: k06 = show 4 images across (desktop) and 2 images for mobile mode
- large gap before PageDescription in SFX-SHO-001_nemoW theme.

SF-2985 Marketer: FB and GoogleBase templates should output "in stock" if stock control is not enabled.

SF-2986 SFX-SHA_1 producloop style has links with no anchor text.

SF-2987 Product "More Images" - Resources formatted as Page links with a href="" tags.

DES-663 Alt text Review tab needs to be changed.

  1. Download and install the latest release: ShopFactory V14
  2. Open your shop in ShopFactory 14.
  3. Optional: Enable 'Rebuild all' from 'Settings' menu then click on 'Preview' -> Preview in external browser. Go back to the ShopFactory editor and untick 'Rebuild all' from the Settings menu 
  4. Save and preview your shop in external browser. Place a test order to ensure secure checkout works.
  5. Publish your shop again.

ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:22130

(Release Date: 12-05-2022)

Click here to download the latest SF14 build

This latest build improves/fixes the following:

SF-2980: Fix issue with old detailed product pages not being deleted when no longer required.

SF-2981: Fix individual product shipping cost not saving 4-digit price.

DES-621: Fix content block #79 (ID: k06) display in mobile mode

- Fix for SFX-FAS-GLA_col-js template where, content block added in footer section disappears in browser preview and on publishing. Page becomes very long with no content below products.

DES-652: SFX-BLOG-BASE productloop style has Related products in wrong location.

Update Firewall FAQ link.

  1. Download and install the latest release: ShopFactory V14
  2. Open your shop in ShopFactory 14.
  3. Optional: Enable 'Rebuild all' from 'Settings' menu then click on 'Preview' -> Preview in external browser. Go back to the ShopFactory editor and untick 'Rebuild all' from the Settings menu 
  4. Save and preview your shop in external browser. Place a test order to ensure secure checkout works.
  5. Publish your shop again.

ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:22098

(Release Date: 27-04-2022)

This build improves/fixes the following:

SF-2977: Shipping by weight: Fix "Apply per box" setting

SF-2938: Shop-wide discount with time limit

- Don't show discount message when timed discount has expired

- Show discount message for active timed discount

DES-651: New SFX-BAB template variation with SFX-Content_ 1 page style having 1920 x 750 dimension for Link Image Group 1 and fix Paragraph detailed display for SFX-BASE detailed view style where the Custom Footer Navigation extends outside the content width.


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:22088

(Release Date: 30-03-2022)

This build improves/fixes the following:

SF-2975: Brand and EAN fields added in basket.xml for Stamped Product reviews app.

SF-2969: Improve PayPal Checkout API so that the selected shipping region in the basket page is used in PayPal buyer address.

SF-2959: Fix Voucher discount incorrectly shown in order even when no discount is calculated

DES-657: SFX-PRA productloop style display issue in FireFox browser when product does not have Introduction text.

DES-656: Fixes for content blocks and content.css including blocks #79 and #80 mobile display

SF-2974/SF-2960: Fix shipping popup dialog stray line of code on title bar and add X (close) button on top-right.


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:22066

(Release Date: 09-03-2022)

This build improves/fixes the following:

Revert code fix for SF-2959: Voucher discount field shown in order even when no discount is calculated.

- Revert code to display "valid" Voucher Code applied in the order

- Fix Gift Voucher type to show Gift Voucher code used in the order and get rid of "Fraud suspected" notice.

DES-652: SFX-BLOG-BASE productloop style: "Add Paragraph" has Related products in wrong location.

- part of this change caused the AddtoBasket button to not be clickable in detailed product page using SFX-BLOG-BASE style.

SF-2967: YouTube videos cause crash in SF editing screens due to recent YT update

- further reduce possibility of the crash occurring, specifically targeting YouTube videos as ProductImage.


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:22045

(Release Date: 15-02-2022)

This build improves/fixes the following:

DES-646: New content block for 2-column Youtube videos

SF-2967: YouTube videos cause crash in SF editing screens due to recent update in YouTube

SF-2957: Reinstate changes for "SF-2040 Fix special characters in file names" - accented characters are not being converted to ASCII in page filenames

SF-2963: Facebook XML export description field should be limited to 4999 char-length.

SF-2959: Do not show Marketing Voucher code in Order Details if discount does not apply to current order

DES-598: Content Block #28 alignment issue when combining short text and long text.

- re-add changes that were overwritten.

DES-650: Fix Company logo being reduced in pages with SFX-Content page style and BMP_1L productloop style.

SF-2964: Remove "Add Store to Facebook" button from SFCentral - API is no longer up to date.


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:22017

(Release Date: 18-01-2022)

This build improves/fixes the following:

SF-2944: Fix "Insert Video" function in page image (Page Intro section).

SF-2946: SF crashes when using 'Insert link' function.

SF-2942: Stock Control function: Option choice can be purchased when "Allow buying if out of stock" is disabled

SF-2955: Doofinder Search issue: clicking the browser Back button results in 404 Page Not Found error.

DES-621: Fix content block #79 (ID: k06) display in mobile mode

- Fix big white gap in Desktop mode for the SFX-HEA-AA_sir description section on the homepage

DES-652: SFX-BLOG-BASE detailed view style: "Add Paragraph" has Related products in wrong location - it must be on the right-hand column.

SF-2947: Multilingual shop 'Terms' email attachment filename only shows main language.

SF-2935: Activate Apps feature must use SF Cloud account.

- Don't show message prompt for non-SF accounts such as free GlobeCharge or old GlobeCharge account in shop.


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:21350

(Release Date: 20-12-2021)

This build improves/fixes the following:

SF-2932: Improvements in (SF-2791) metrics caused Link Image Group 1 display problem in mobile mode.

SF-2933: Fix error in Doofinder Search indexing when there are commas in the Option name.

DES-621: Fix content block #79 (ID: k06) display in mobile mode

SF-2935: Activate Apps feature must use SF Cloud account.

SF-2635: Checkboxes in SFCentral for Search filter types display to prevent losing their filters value.

SF-2938: Shop-wide discount with time limit: don't show discount message when timed discount has expired.

SF-2937: Fix script errors in internal Preview for SFX-BLOG-BASE detailed view styles

SF-2940: Fix script errors in SF Editor

Fix custom Konfigurator product display issue

Merged revision(s) 46396 from ShopFactory/trunk: SF-2943: Newline character in Choice SKU causes error in PHPSearch


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:21323

(Release Date: 19-11-2021)

This build is a hotfix:

SF-2932: Improvements in (SF-2791) metrics caused Link Image Group 1 display problem in mobile mode.


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:21320

(Release Date: 17-11-2021)

This build improves/fixes the following:

SF-2928: Align autosplit pagination of regular pages to PHPSearch, Specials, and Shop By Brand.

SF-2920: sFTP publishing - update key algorithm to OpenSSH v8

SF-2926: Further correction for Canonical page set to *index.html in sitemap not listed

SF-2791: Google Pagespeed Insights – CLS error in core web vitals and mobile usability - this layout improvement will reduce your CLS score in Google Pagespeed to 0 or almost 0, tests have shown that it reduces the CLS with a minimum of 90% up to 100%. This will have a positive effect on your SEO.

- added a number of smaller improvements such as site loading in dektop.

- fix hanging issue in Normal view when Afterpay AU product elements is enabled

SF-2927: Fix display of PayPal Checkout: Pay Later messaging in basket page

SF-2929: Fix loading of PayPal Checkout Credit card section in basket page

SF-2635: Fix for checkboxes in SFCentral for Search filter types display to prevent losing their filters value.


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:21301

(Release Date: 01-11-2021)

This build fixes the following:

SF-2924: Fix Facebook Pixel js errors

SF-2918: Fix error in Doofinder indexing when Google Product Type is used.

SF-2915: Fix Stock Control "Error: can't lock data file" with PHP 8

SF-2917: Publish failed error - improve handling of permission errors.

SF-2923: Fix for site Password Protection feature

SF-2905: Favorites List resets when browser is closed then adding new items without viewing the existing list.


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:21286

(Release Date: 14-10-2021)

This build fixes the following:

SF-2791: Google Pagespeed Insights – CLS error in core web vitals and mobile usability

SF-2910: Update Google Structured Data - Brand invalid.

SF-2907: Fix alternate URLs for other languages in sitemap.xml

SF-2901: SFX-FAS-AA website theme - fix home page contents and show Navigation 1 on default pages

SF-2908: Update Zip Pay Australia on-site assets

DES-636: SFX-BASE_4 productloop style - changing font style, font size, add-to-cart, More details, and Product title


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:21263

(Release Date: 22-09-2021)

This build fixes the following:

DES-644: New website theme SFX-BAS-AA_dev

SF-2897: SEO changes for "SiteHeading" H2 and "Related Products" Title text must be anchored

DES-598: Fix content Block #28 alignment issue when combining short text and long text.

GLOB-73: integrate new PayPal Checkout API and render Pay Later messaging in product and cart pages

- ShopFactory Central "My Store" settings: only show the actual PayPal buttons.

SF-2904: Fix tax from getting lost when clicking More images button in Translate Content

SF-2872: Stamped.io app: Write a Review box overlaps footer navigation section in Product pages

SF-2880: Fix incorrect newline for STGetSharedFolderPath=%exepath%\Shared Templates\ in alias.ini file


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:21231

(Release Date: 23-08-2021)

This build fixes the following:

GLOB-73: integrate new PayPal Checkout API and render Pay Later messaging in product and cart pages

SF-2890: Anti-clickjacking enabled in ShopFactory

Fixes for SFX-SHO-AA website theme

SF-2893: Fix for turning off "Delay loading of images" option in SFX-FUR-BB template


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:21208

(Release Date: 28-07-2021)

This build fixes the following:

SF-2885: Show prices only to resellers: Fix "Restore shopping basket" function to ensure product prices are intact

SF-2886: Update French LD translations tag: LD_REVIEWS and LD_PRODUCT_SHIPPING_DENIED

DES-563: 2-column product display in Mobile mode for all GRID productloop styles such as SFX-LITE, SFX-PAL, SFX-BASE, SFX-089, SFX-105, etc. but rollback changes for LIST productloop styles


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:21197

(Release Date: 19-07-2021)

This build fixes the following:

DES-563: 2-column product display in Mobile mode for all GRID productloop styles such as SFX-LITE, SFX-PAL, SFX-BASE, SFX-089, SFX-105, etc.

SF-2882: Update tax exemption country code for Greece to EL

SF-2881: Fix error display for OtherURL function when external link has js syntax errors

SF-2876: Fix Checkout page 1 display of shop Member information overlapping texts in Customer details


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:21182

(Release Date: 07-07-2021)

This build fixes the following:

SF-2873: Fix add-to-basket caused by free product as discount (Get this quantity free and Get free products discount types)

SF-2869: Fix UK Postcode format in basket page

GLOB-137: Show "Reward Voucher" code in online order details 'Overview / status summary' section for merchants to easily identify corresponding Reward Voucher code received for this order.

SF-2737: Product contained in multiple departments: when a product is deleted in one department, this product also disappears from the "Related Products" section

SF-2868: PHP Error Fetching Data in last department (increased the number of digits of the offset addresses of departments)
- js error net.js. merge net.js into sf.js

SF-2851: Translations fix - English text visible when processing a search.

SF-2867: Doofinder Search app images have wrong link in search page.

SF-2591: Afterpay AU payment provider: store front-end assets implementation (Note: currently in Staging environment)
- fix Afterpay messaging in department and product pages


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:21172

(Release Date: 21-06-2021)

This build fixes the following:

SF-2865: Stamped.io product reviews app: do not display structured data for reviews for products without review yet.

SF-2832: Make the canonical URLs the same as in sitemap.xml

SF-2861: Fix product link in Order Confirmation email when product is bought from the "Recommended Products" section.


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:21166

(Release Date: 16-06-2021)

This build fixes the following:

SF-2710: Stamped.io product reviews app - send review emails trigger API for 'shipped' orders

- new 'Review ID' field in Product Properties

SF-2842: Fix saving options and choices as template

SF-2855: Fix SFX Website Themes where it continues to show Home link in Navigation even if setting is disabled.

SF-2847: Shop by Brand - Fix incorrect height when loading images

SF-2862: French translations for Shipping setup dialog


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:21151

(Release Date: 01-06-2021)

This build fixes the following:

SF-2591: Afterpay AU payment provider: store front-end assets implementation (Note: currently in staging environment)

- 4: Merchant Admin – Item Restrictions

- My Store: select Badge Theme

Store Pickup checkbox in Shipping charges dialog: this prefills the 'delivery details form' with shop details in the checkout page. Refer to FAQ article.

- If using realtime shipping providers with "Store pickup" option - then simply publish the shop after updating to this build.

- If using “Enter my own shipping charges”, merchant needs to indicate that a shipping method is a 'Store pickup' method. This is done by ticking the new “Store pickup” checkbox. (Edit the shipping method region and enable the 'Store pickup' checkbox.)

SF-2852: Publish function - specify http request with user agent string for the extraction phase

SF-2853: Show Body background image in iPhone browsers (portrait mode).


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:21123

(Release Date: 04-05-2021)

This build fixes the following:

SF-1841: Import Wizard new fields supported - More images/slideshow images, product Delivery Time, Specifications
- More Images: the field accepts full paths, delimited by either ~| or new line
- Product delivery time
- First choice is selected: Only applicable to Dropdown, Radio and Checkbox types. Prepend a 1 to the “Option checked” field for ImpWiza to make the First or Selected choice flag on for Dropdown and Radio, and ticked for Checkbox option style. Prepend a 0 (zero) to explicitly state the flag should be off. It is not necessary to have this leading 0. That is, 011 is equivalent to 11.
- Specifications: similar setup to Options/choices setup

SF-2684: Import Wizard new field "SEO Page Filename" supported for SEO

DES-627: New custom contents block #80

SF-2822: Fix PHP Search for SKU using numbers with - (hyphen)

SF-2829: Fix SFX-FUR-BB page style to display products

SF-2833: Improve saving speed

SF-2830: remove Isle of Man under European Union regionset

SF-2835: Fix marketing voucher where shipping amount is removed after applying voucher code

SF-2801: UK Zipcode required in basket page if autocomplete address app is enabled.

SF-2841: Stock control feature: checkout page keeps loading.
- fixed issue caused by using / (forward slash) as the combine character for combined Product Options and Choices SKU, and having / in the SKU itself

SF-2591: Afterpay AU payment provider: store front-end assets implementation (Note: currently in staging environment)
- 4: Merchant Admin – Item Restrictions
- Fix "Product Templates" feature

  1. Download and install the latest release: ShopFactory V14
  2. Open your shop in ShopFactory 14.
  3. Optional: Enable 'Rebuild all' from 'Settings' menu then click on 'Preview' -> Preview in external browser. Go back to the ShopFactory editor and untick 'Rebuild all' from the Settings menu 
  4. Save and preview your shop in external browser. Place a test order to ensure secure checkout works.
  5. Publish your shop again.

ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:21081

(Release Date: 23-03-2021)

This build fixes the following:

SF-2811: Support for English generic language (shop language in the URL will be 'en' instead of en-us or en-uk)

GLOB-139: Fix Marketing Voucher with "Reduce price by the following percentage" type and limited to "Discount code (customers)" incorrectly gives free shipping.

SF-2701: Update description field for Google Ads

SF-2800: Improvements to the new checkout page

SF-2803: Customise Design: handle Access Denied iframes

- when saving the project whilst in Manage Products view, check for modified product and create detailed product pages

- Fix SFX-ANI-BB website theme: Unable to select Products in View Page

SF-2801: UK "Locality" field must be displayed in the auto-complete address app

- Basket Page error message for UK Postcode format invalid: provide UK postcode sample format in the error prompt

SF-2806: Validate NL Postcode format

- only validate for NL and UK (all other countries will not have the Postcode format check)

- trim leading and trailing whitespace

- NL Postcode accepts lowercase letters

SF-2798: SFX-BMP productloop style: choice name/image incorectly shows under product image when choice name has > " / symbols.

Doofinder Search app: Fix 'Shop by Category' display issue

SF-2820: Fix SFX-SPO-CC website theme - cannot select "Edit Product" when there is PageFooter as it was covering the products.


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:21046

(Release Date: 16-02-2021)

This build fixes the following:

SF-2789: Fix Stock levels traffic light not showing up - deprecated syntax in JSON.php module

SAL-2579: New layout for secure checkout pages and 'auto-complete' address verification app

- 2nd page of checkout should jump to the top when using iDEAL payments (Select a bank dropdown on the payment section)

SF-2794: Realtime shipping methods not showing when Vouchers function isn't enabled.

SF-2767: GST calculation must be country-level for Australia and do not preselect state (show "Select a state") in basket page

- Show shipping cost after the required State is selected.


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:21029

(Release Date: 01-02-2021)

This build fixes the following:

SAL-2579: New layout for secure checkout pages and 'auto-complete' address verification app

- This build shows the checkout pages with new layout. Save and preview your shop in external browser -> place a test order to ensure the checkout is working. You can update your checkout form fields in Central dropdown -> Customer Details.

(If you encounter an issue with the new checkout display, you can contact ShopFactory Support with more information and revert back to the old checkout format by ticking "Enable legacy checkout" checkbox in Settings -> Global Settings -> Settings for this website -> Shopping basket -> Ok.)

- To enable the 'auto-complete' address verification app in your shop, click 'ShopFactory Cloud' link in SF Central page -> Account -> Apps Store. Enable "Auto-complete Address Verification" app here

DES-622: New variation for Productloop style SFX_126_3

DES-621: New content block with 4x images across

SF-2777: Allow users to install ShopFactory in a different folder

GLOB-75: New marketing voucher type to offer 'free shipping'

SF-2784: VAT changes after UK Brexit - remove UK from EU regions list

SF-2782: Auto-calculate VAT exemption ID when buyer enters the VAT number in the box (EU regions only)

SF-2783: Sub-navigation menu links incorrect height whilst page is loading

SF-2775: Fix choice images display when choice names contain bracket symbols [ ]

SF-2744: Show shipping country dropdown for 'Free shipping' and 'One price for all' setup.

SF-2761: Fix "Related Products" section where invisible product continues to show

SF-2762: SFX-BMP, SFX-BMC, SFX-PLCT, SFX-PRA list Productloop styles: show choice image when main product image does not exist.

SF-2779: Fix SHO-AA_lrs with Navigation 2 style SFX-BASE_1b: Footer contents don't show when department doesn't have any products.

SF-2498: Fix for extra $0.01 incorrectly added to the Order Total for USA (Tax Exclusive) shop.

SF-2785: Fix for country drop-down list in shipping section

DES-626: Fix for SFX-FUR-BB website theme where subpage mouseover font size text always reverts to 0.9 em

SF-2709: Fix for multilingual shops with broken LD translation tags

SF-2788: Fix ShopFactory startup when ProtonVPN is enabled.


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:20310

(Release Date: 18-11-2020)

This build fixes the following:

SF-2759: Update Breadcrumbs in detailed page to the active department when product is initially created in a page that has been set to invisible.

SF-2559: Improve Cookie alert on websites
- Adjust Cookie bar height in browsers

SF-2767: GST calculation must be country-level for Australia and do not preselect state (show "Select a state") in basket page

DES-618: SFX-JWL-AA, SFX-SPO-AA website themes - fix display for Link image group 2 and Link image group 3


ShopFactory V14.6.0 Build:20294

(Release Date: 21-10-2020)

This build fixes the following:

DES-615: New variations showing Catalog number/SKU for SFX-LITE_1-sku and SFX-PAL_2-sku productloop styles

SF-2754: Fix line break tag incorrectly added in Longer description "custom html code" block.

SAL-2579: Changes in basket page for the (upcoming) Address verification app

SF-2760: Free shipping setup incorrectly removes tax after redirecting to the secure checkout.

SF-2658: Search function must also search for Choice catalog number/SKU and show results.

SF-2740: Resolve issues when selecting shipping methods.
- ensure the language js files are refreshed when they have changed.

SF-2765: New shop projects will now be saved in C:\ShopFactory\ShopFactory V14 Websites folder; this is to overcome issues when Desktop and Documents folders are under OneDrive cloud drive.

SF-2726: USA shipping region must not require county to be selected if tax is only applicable to the state

SF-2764: V14 Non-SFX Shops: fix js search function

SF-2559: Improve Cookie alert on websites

DES-611: Fix mobile display in Productloop pages

DES-612: Fix grid productloops such as SFX-BASE_2 and SFX-102_1 display alignment issue.

DES-614: Show complete 'Product Introduction' texts in SFX-PCLT productloop style


ShopFactory V14.5.0 Build:20244

(Release Date: 03-09-2020)

This build fixes the following:

SF-2752: Marketeer: Facebook export XML

SF-2749: Fix script errors on basket page in normal mode & internal preview caused by new language tags (for changes in SF-2740)

SF-2751: Fix basket page when using non-SFX theme (apply changes for SF-2740 to non-SFX themes)

SAL-2579: Show Postcode/Zip field on basket page if shipping provider is used when (upcoming) Address verification app is enabled

SF-2726: "Select a shipping method:" must show if there are more than 1 shipping methods for the selected shipping State. (Do not show County field when not required)

SF-2747: Show Product intro text in Search Results page

SF-2748: Fix Shop-wide Discount by Brand setting from getting reset everytime the shop is closed and opened again.

SF-2681: Update Favorites button when shop is using an old icon

DES-591: SFX-FUR-BB website theme: fix product display in wide screen monitor.


ShopFactory V14.5.0 Build:20227

(Release Date: 17-08-2020)

This build fixes the following:

SF-2741: Tax Exemption ID being removed when going to secure checkout (Order Total includes tax in checkout page)

SF-2733: Fix for "Free shipping" setup

SAL-2579: only show Postcode/Zip field on basket page if shipping provider is used for the upcoming Address verification app is enabled.

SF-2726: "Select a shipping method:" must show if there are more than 1 shipping methods for the selected shipping State.

- Do not show County field when not required

SF-2735: Voucher code validation must ignore leading space(s) and trailing spaces.

SF-2740: Resolve issues when selecting shipping methods.

SF-2492: 'Show prices only to members and resellers' function: PHP Search price slider issue and “View Source” reveals price even when you’re not logged in.

SF-2739: Show shipping provider company logos in basket

DES-604: SFX-BASE-4 product style: Product title will not be centered.

SF-2730: Script error in customize design.

DES-560: Mobile Mode: product image PADDING (top, right, left, bottom) missing.

- fix for SFX-SHA_1 productloop style

DES-608: changing background color of Product Price Introduction will also affect the Shop Wide Discount message.

DES-605: DES-586 fix must be applied to ALL Grid productloop style variations.


ShopFactory V14.5.0 Build:20199

(Release Date: 21-07-2020)

This build fixes the following:

SF-2725: Fix line break tag incorrectly added in Intro and Highlights fields when adding new product/paragraph

SF-2718: SEO Structured Data - Breadcrumb List must include the exact sub-department where product is contained.

SF-2726: Show "Select a shipping method:" if there are more than one shipping methods for the selected region

SF-2727: Fix deprecated array and string offset access syntax with curly braces (deprecated in JSON.php)

DES-600: Fix Mobile display for Recommended Products (Customers who bought this item, also bought...)

SF-2717: Fix product link on Basket page when clicking "Add more" from the Homepage

SF-2672: Improve shipping location security on the basket page

SF-2709: Fix LD translation tags for multi-language shops where German is the main language

SAL-2579: Postcode/Zip field required on basket page for address verification app

SF-2720: Update German translations and fix text overlapping issue on SF startup dialog


ShopFactory V14.5.0 Build:20171

(Release Date: 22-06-2020)

This build fixes the following:

SF-2272: Support for Mailchimp Signup forms - popup subscription and embedded form via custom HTML dialog and Plugins content block
Refer to this article on how to copy the mailchimp code, https://mailchimp.com/help/about-integrations/#Connect_your_custom_website
- In ShopFactory, you can paste the mailchimp subscribe popup code in any content block. It will also work in custom HTML areas with "Field contains javascript code" ticked. The custom HTML code area is more suitable for the mailchimp popup code as there won't be any visible elements initially.
- The mailchimp form embed code will work when pasted in any block, but best suited to the custom code block and mailchimp block under Plugins dropdown in the block editor. Pasting into custom HTML code area will also work.

SF-2700: Update Google Maps content blocks in normal editing mode: Internet Explorer browser not supported by Google Maps js api.

SF-2715: Sendcloud shipping - shipmentID must be passed on to Sendcloud

SF-2719: Prepend EU shipping country code in the Tax Exemption ID field

DES-596: Customize Design - center alignment of product title and price bold formatting


ShopFactory V14.5.0 Build:20161

(Release Date: 10-06-2020)

This build fixes the following:

SF-2707: Options and Choices - Price of previous choice selection is used when buyer immediately clicks on a different choice

DES-595: Navigation style SFX-BASE_3 - fix missing page nav icons and show correct preview.image


ShopFactory V14.5.0 Build:20149

(Release Date: 01-06-2020)

SF-2706: Improved "View Page | Manage Products" tab


ShopFactory V14.5.0 Build:20127

(Release Date: 07-05-2020)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2696: Add 'Collect in Store' shipping regionset for new shops

SF-2691: Improve security of PHP Search

DES-583: New detailed view style SFX-BASE_2-no-ean variation

DES-584: New navigation style SFX-BASE_3 that wraps menu items to the next row

SF-2692: PHP Specials page: Selecting a different Category from the dropdown breaks the search function.

SF-2695: Basket page: Order total incorrect when there are several products added to cart.

SF-2619: Fix window size of SF startup video tutorial

DES-586: Fix Grid ProductLoop styles: product diplay (alignment) issue in a wide screen monitor. Fixed in the following styles: SFX-LITE_3, SFX-BASE_2, SFX-IAEV_intro, SFX-IAEV_no-intro, SFX-LITE_1-(124px), SFX-PAL_1-(124px), SFX-PAL_2-(124px), SFX-PAL_2%20(175px), SFX-BASE_2-124x124

DES-588: SFX-LITE_3 productloop style: addtocart/favorites button - fix missing right border color


ShopFactory V14.5.0 Build:20090

(Release Date: 31-03-2020)

This build fixes the following issues:

GLOB-88: Integrate "Stripe for ShopFactory" payment platform

- Open "signup / activate" window in the default browser.

SF-2688: Include the Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable in SF installer.

Custom template: Fix ChoiceImages lightbox showing the 3rd image below the progress circle and image lightbox closing on its own.


ShopFactory V14.5.0 Build:20084

(Release Date: 25-03-2020)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2674: Incorrect "Shipping tax message" in Shipping subtotal section if shipping tax is separate setup.

SF-2673: Required Option: Fix choice selection for this setting: Initial value must be "First or selected choice"

SF-2678: Shipping Tax is not re-calculated when enabling tax exemption and then disabling the field again.

SF-2650: JS error with PHPSearch when "Don't allow buying" is ticked.

SF-2687: Pass on SendCloud postnumber and fix for the address pickup sometimes not popping up.

SF-2683: Productloop pages loading issue (flickering - images shrinking/expanding) in Mobile mode in these productloop styles: SFX-BASE, SFX-IAEV, SFX-LITE, SFX-PAL, SFX-PIN, SFX-SHA

DES-578: SFX-TS_2 productloop style: Fix product intro padding and 'more details' button border missing on right

DES-579: Related Products section: "More details" button is cut-off in FireFox, Internet Explorer, and MS Edge browsers.


ShopFactory V14.5.0 Build:20056

(Release Date: 04-03-2020)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2672: Improve shipping location security on the basket page.

SF-2492: Remove the price from the OpenGraph meta tags for 'Show prices only to members and resellers' function when buyer is not logged in.

SF-2666: Fix page loading where it flickers as you scroll down the page

DES-573: Show the "More images" Previous/Next buttons within the lightbox in FireFox browser.

DES-564: New website theme SFX-SOL-003_did and productloop style SFX-TS_2
- Checkmark and Sample texts introduction on the sample products
- Weight field is displayed twice
- Clicking the Product image in Normal view  causes the product image to disappear


ShopFactory V14.5.0 Build:20045

(Release Date: 18-02-2020)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2655: SEO Google Search Console: Fix Breadcrumbs issue detected for website (data-vocabulary.org schema deprecated) and Paragraphs must not have Product microdata. Note: When ShopFactory shows a prompt to apply style changes, select "Yes" or manually reselect your website theme to apply the SEO structured data.

Click 'Designer' menu -> Select Website Theme -> untick "Include Sample Data" -> locate your current template and click 'Select' button. Your mapping and color customizations will be automatically applied after the website theme is reselected.

DES-571: SFX-SPO-AA_did: Custom TopNavigation links must show in mobile mode.

SF-2667: French translations in Publish SETUP dialog box.


ShopFactory V14.5.0 Build:20041

(Release Date: 10-02-2020)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2660: Edit Image function - inline picture properties dialog: changing an existing image by deleting it first then selecting a new one incorrectly removes the image instead.

SF-2662: Search Results page and Shop by Brand pagination issue - 2nd page and succeeding pages do not show the correct items.

SF-2598: PHP Search function: Shop by Brand - filter by category: 'undefined' shows on the title section

SF-2664: Zoom function not working in detailed product page when delay loading of image is disabled.

SF-2400: Google Chrome browser: Detailed product page must load properly for products with options and choices

SF-2661: Sendcloud combined with other shipping provider(s): "Select a shipping method:" error prompt continues to show in Basket page if shipping selected is not Sendcloud method.

DES-560: Mobile Mode: fix padding for product display in grid productloop styles

SF-2663: Text link color not taking effect in the content blocks when Doofinder Search app is enabled.

DES-564: New website theme SFX-SOL-003_did and detailed view style SFX-TS_2

DES-569: new productloop style variations with 124px x 124 px thumbnail size for SFX-BASE, SFX-LITE, SFX-PAL, and SFX-BMP


ShopFactory V14.5.0 Build:20031

(Release Date: 03-02-2020)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2659: Image(s) in new content blocks having 2 or more images aren't getting saved properly.

SF-2607: View Page mode:  Show products in split-page 2 and succeeding pages.

SF-2541: External font is lost after re-opening shop - external preview shows wrong Times New Roman font

SF-2654: PHP Search: Exact product isn't shown in the search results when searching for part number with # symbol in Product Title.

SF-2653: white stripes appear in product images (trans.gif media file is showing as box at the left side of product images)

SF-2387: hreflang: Homepage must also list all other languages - parent language reference.

SF-2190: Language Link: Setting products to invisible in main language must be applied in all other languages
- The 'Visible' checkbox in Edit Product will enact on the flag in all translated languages.
- The 'Visible' checkboxes in Translate Contents will enact on the flag only for the individual language that the checkbox is for.


ShopFactory V14.5.0 Build:20016

(Release Date: 20-01-2020)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2634: Search function: Clicking on the 'Find' icon remembers the last searched words.

SF-2654: PHP Search issues: Exact product isn't shown in the search results when searching for part number in Product Title and 'No results found.' error when search word has # symbol.

SF-2640: trans.gif media file is showing as box at the left side of product images

SF-2624: PHP Search Error: increased the read length on fgetscsv call

SF-2649: Fix product titles and description so it doesn't disappear after copying a product to another page

GLOB-89: Integrate Sendcloud as shipping service provider -- handle multiple providers

SF-2648: Designer issues with font formatting and alignment + link image group 3 only shows 1 image.

- Fix issue with link image group 3 flickity - FLO-AA website theme

- Fix issue where "Description" in detailed view can be set to bold - all detailed product styles

DES-565: Search results page display in mobile device incorrectly shows tall image as horizontally stretched.


ShopFactory V14.5.0 Build:19350

(Release Date: 18-12-2019)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2635: Fix for checkboxes in SFCentral for Search filter types to display to prevent losing their filters value.

SF-2633: Fix 'View Page' mode display - showing only 3 columns instead of 4-column grid.

SF-2631: Show 'Edit Product' and 'Detailed View' buttons in View Page mode

SF-2630: Fix Youtube video added as Product image (embed video share) so it doesn't crash in Detailed View page.

SF-2629: Show product image when adding a product in List of Contents.

SF-2626: Fix search results page to display product images

PHPSearch error when member login service is enabled. (Shop setup to Show prices only to members/resellers.)

SF-2624: Error Fetching Data in some servers

- Fix for the PHPSearch index files when they haven't been created or have never been published and Publish All is not ticked, the index files wouldn't be created.

GLOB-89: Integrate Sendcloud as shipping service provider.

- accept a Sendcloud method when no pickup point is selected.

- unselect shipping method when no pickup point is selected.

DES-559: New website theme: SFX- HEA-BB_dew

2 New block snippets h01


ShopFactory V14.5.0 Build:19336

(Release Date: 04-12-2019)

This build fixes the following issues:

GLOB-89: Integrate Sendcloud as shipping service provider.

SF-2614: Search and Filtered pages: fix search box field in all templates.
- Fix Mobile Mode: Search results page has missing responsive design.

SF-2624: Error Fetching Data in some servers
- build PHPSearch index locally

SF-2621: Remove the Designer and Publish items from the menu bar.


ShopFactory V14.5.0 Build:19324

(Release Date: 21-11-2019)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2613: Fix Search results page - use our own method instead of URI encoding sidebar HTML to prevent the PHP URI encoder output being incompatible with javascript URI decoder.

- Show results when 2 or more search words are entered

SF-2552: Language Link: Fix editing of images in translate contents

SF-2608: Fix 'Runtime Error' when deleting one or more products in Recycle Bin


ShopFactory V14.5.0 Build:19317

(Release Date: 15-11-2019)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2614: Search and Filtered pages: fix search box field in all templates

SF-2613: Fix Search results page - use our own method instead of URI encoding sidebar HTML to prevent the PHP URI encoder output being incompatible with javascript URI decoder.

SF-2617: SFX-FUR-BB_wide and SFX-BUI-AA_nav: Search and Filtered pages missing the 'best match' dropdown and Display Style buttons


ShopFactory V14.5.0 Build:19316

(Release Date: 13-11-2019)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2610: Improve speed with "Indexing Items" and converting sf.js

SF-2608: Fix 'Runtime Error' when deleting products in Recycle Bin


ShopFactory V14.5.0 Build:19310

(Release Date: 07-11-2019)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2545: Fix Microdata

SF-2585: Updates in ShopFactory 14.5

◦ When upgrading, don't do an immediate rebuild of the whole project.

◦ JS error after removing sample content

◦ Text fields in Edit Page/Edit Product should have the text selected when focus is on them.

◦ Show 14.5 instead of 14 with SF icons on desktop and also in top bar of ShopFactory

SF-2537: Improved PHP search

◦ Call delay image loading to load images in search results.

◦ Fix Error Fetching Data

◦ Allow search for Page Title and Paragraph Title

◦ Image HTML

◦ Bowser history

◦ Fix 'sort by price' filter - Default should be best match

◦ Use names of Navigation titles, not page titles.

◦ Index building speed improvements for extremely large number of products (~50k)

SF-2522: Enhance ShopFactory speed

1. Add a checkbox to Filter page - “Show list view first” so user can show list view before Grid view.

2. stop building more details pages in normal mode / edit mode when switching pages unless user goes to a more details page.

3. New products added will be added to the start of the department product list.

4. If you left or right click on any of the Navigations - 1, 2 or Unlisted pages, do not rebuild any indexes.

5. If you right click on any page or or index, do not rebuild anything and do NOT switch to the page

6. Change secondary toolbars to reflect different workflow

7. Speed up search.

SF-2589: Include these fields - SKU, EAN, keywords in search function

SF-2538: Adjust publishing dialog.

SF-2530: Fix PHP Search filters menu to ensure only enabled "filter fields" show

SF-2598: Fix the new PHP search function.

◦ Page Title and Page contents and Paragraph Title must be searchable

◦ Fix color for Categories box and from down arrow for pricing

SF-2600: fixes for Search index

◦ Allow search for # at beginning

◦ Re-instate search text box in search results

SF-2605: Fix search results page for products with special characters.

SF-2552: Language Link fix where SF closes down when editing images in other laguages

SF-2587: Fix Import Wizard V14 and Marketeer add-ons where it wasn't opening when accessed via ShopFactory Startup screen.

SF-2564: Import Wizard V14 must run on Windows 7

SF-2516: Integrate Doofinder search as an app.

◦ mobile mode fix: don't show left side bar.

◦ products on auto-split pages were being pushed down

SF-2549: Improvements for Doofinder App

◦ Increase search results page to show 1,000 products per page

◦ Increase the default number of characters for requests (which are based on the characters typed by user in the search box)

◦ Products listed on the Doofinder Search page have broken link if "Publish URL" does not have / at the end.

SF-2570: Fix Member/Reseller Login link when Doofinder search app is enabled in shop.

SF-2569: Fix Tabs Disabled Status colors.

SF-2581: Fixes for Block editor.

◦ Allow editing specific content block

◦ Ignores fixed image ratio when editing images. Use a rectangular image and fixed image ratio is simply ignored.

◦ Note strange link on button.

SF-2568: Update language search message

SF-2494: Timed Discount setting enabled: Discount message briefly shows and then disappears.

SF-2586: View Page | Manage Products tab: Fix split pages behaviour

SF-2596: Fix editing of product title when going to EditView mode

SF-2563: Fix Anchor link losing position.

SF-2603: Show ShopFactory 14.5 Start-up Tutorial in SF Central page

SF-2602: Fix color and padding for Shop by brands page

SF-2580: Remove Preview alert.


ShopFactory V14.0.0 Build:19260

(Release Date: 24-09-2019)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2477: Image crop function not working in "More Images"

- Show correct 'larger image'

- Show larger image with correct dimensions

DES-541: Fix padding between blocks for widths up to 1170px

SF-2526: Find Products (CTRL+F) section and Items List section: Product Name and introduction randomly deleted when editing product price in Items List whilst Find section is active in a page.

SF-2528: SEO - remove index.html from sitemap.xml file

DES-538: SFX-JWL-AA: Navigation 2 menu must continue to show after clicking on sub-page in Navigation 1.

SF-2532: Inline Image disappears in Blockeditor when editing the existing image

SF-2516: Integrate Doofinder search as an app

SF-2484: Language Link - Translate Contents: Scrollbars (vertical and horizontal) are missing when there are plenty of contents.

SF-2536: JS 'datalayer is undefined' error showing up in every page when the Google ID is added outside the IF statement.


ShopFactory V14.0.0 Build:19207

(Release Date: 30-07-2019)

This build fixes:

SF-2482: Fix display issue for non-SFX website theme in mobile devices


ShopFactory V14.0.0 Build:19198

(Release Date: 22-07-2019)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2506: Limit filters for default Search page: turn off filters completely for search page without Search filters app.
- Includes speed improvements where most filter types are disabled; go to SF Central page -> My Store -> Search/Page Filters -> untick the Filters Settings i.e. Specifications, Brand, etc. -> then click Close.

SF-2500: Delete a non-block inline image: shortcut menu must show 'Delete' option & select "Inline Picture Properties" must show X button.

SF-2486: "File/Cleanup" and "Cleanup unused files on server": deleted products (detailed product page) must be removed in the language folder so it no longer exists on the server.

SF-2303: PHP search results: Fix Product links becoming invalid when Product Titles have single quote

SF-2501: PHP Search - fix 'Specifications' filter

SF-2492: 'Show prices only to members and resellers' function: PHP Search price slider and 'View Source' has the product price even when you’re not logged in
- Restore  'Offers' Google structured data, caused by this fix.

DES-513: Fix display of "Recommended Products" (Customers who bought this....) in all Detailed view styles. Reselect your 'Detailed View Style' to apply the fix.

DES-535: SFX-JWL-BB_sir website theme: Fix products display in wide screen monitors (high screen resolution).

SF-2493: Search Filtered page doesn't show products
- Department filter search results was limited to 500; show results of up to the first 500 items found.

SF-2472: SFX-FOO-COF theme: Fix Link Image Group 2 location at the right-most column.

SF-2496: add French translations to LD tags


ShopFactory V14.0.0 Build:19179

(Release Date: 08-07-2019)

This build fixes the following issues:

PHPSearch: Remove the use of anonymous function to reduce the minimum PHP version requirement to 5.2

SF-2492: 'Show prices only to members and resellers' function: PHP Search price slider and 'View Source' has the product price even when you’re not logged in

SF-2388: Customize Design: Changing background colour of Cookie bar

SF-2493: ShopFactory takes a long time to respond after closing options and choices dialog when products are contained in multiple departments

DES-525: SFX-FUR-BB website theme: Fix Link Image Group 1 and Link Image Group 2 display issues

DES-524: SFX-BUI-AA_nav website theme: Fix Navigation display when subpages are added - menu incorrectly displayed twice on top section

DES-527: SFX-BLOGBASE_1/SFX-MERL_240x360/SFX-MERR_120x240/SFX-PICA_1/SFX-PICAW_1/SFX-PIKU_1 detailed view styles: Fix Choice image being stretched in Google Chrome browser


ShopFactory V14.0.0 Build:19169

(Release Date: 19-06-2019)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2490: iOS devices: Fix 'checkout' button in Add to basket dialog where it goes back to product page instead of redirecting to the basket page.

SF-2338: Output > in place of > (greater than) symbol

SF-2481: Fix editing of an existing product image caption where it incorrectly regenerates the larger image to become thumbnail size

SF-2460: Improved checkout progress bar

DES-520: Only show one Search icon on search bar - fix alignment issue on Site Header for all website themes

SF-2469: Show "From" price headline if product has choice pricing
[SF-1407: Display the cheapest price of a product when actual values are in choice prices]

DES-511: SFX-FUR-BB - fix top bar contents from moving to the left when scrolling down.

SF-2472: Facebook social media block and implement moderation

DES-482: SFX-BEV-AA - Fix link image group 2 display - show correct order of image links.

SF-2398: Fix rogue texts "inc/exc price" in Recommended Products section

DES-516: SFX-GIF-AA - fix Footer description texts from showing at the right-hand side instead of bottom footer section.

DES-515: SFX-ANI-BB - fix mobile mode issue: menu and mini cart overlap with the website name.

DES-518: SFX-089/102/100/105/115: Grid productloop styles Mobile Display issue - show one product per row.

SF-2487: Fix JS error when resizing browser window when using horizontal MEGA navigation styles.

DES-512: SFX-HEA-AA_sir - Fix 'Link Image Group 1' height


ShopFactory V14.0.0 Build:19140

(Release Date: 21-05-2019)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2476: Realtime stock control: allow Checkout after updating quantity in basket page.

SF-2424: Fix product level structured data

- change from microdata to JSON-LD

- Offers in productloop pages

- MPN and GTIN13 fields

SF-2464: Fix error when opening Import Wizard V14

SF-2470: Editing an existing product image doesn't open the correct 'media' folder.

SF-2459: Source image incorrectly deleted from source folder when clicking X button in Link Image and Navigation image dialog.

SF-2474: SFX-FOO-COF theme - fix "Link Image Group 2" display issue

DES-506: Fix SFX-BUI-AA theme issues

DES-508: Fix SFX-FUR-BB: wrong location of X button in search bar

DES-509: SFX-JWL-AA theme: Link Image group 2 and Link Image Group 3 – 3rd image link is not always visible

DES-505: SFX-FAS-AA theme: fix search results page display issue


ShopFactory V14.0.0 Build:19130

(Release Date: 14-05-2019)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2467/SF-2468: Mobile mode issues with PHP Search results display, Filter page, and Brands page

SF-2391: new blocks: Custom code, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter

SF-2465: custom code and css fixes overwritten after converting to V14
- Remove unwanted code within iframe start and end tags
- Fixed the SFX-FAS-GLA_col-js website.css to make PageContainer11 be full width.

SF-2463: fix Search Filter page 
- IE browser external preview / internal preview shows the products as pushed down
- Clicking on "More details" link for products without detailed pages
- Search filtered page doesn't show any products anymore if you click on a product and click "Back" link.


ShopFactory V14.0.0 Build:19116

(Release Date: 30-04-2019)
Click here to download the latest ShopFactory 14

ShopFactory 14 is here. You can start using it right now, if you have a current ShopFactory rental subscription.

Higher listings in Google thanks to the many SEO improvements and our powerful new search have already proven their value to early users of ShopFactory 14. Resulting in more visitors and more sales.

While many changes such as the improved SEO are under the hood, you'll be easily able to spot features such as the new social content blocks for Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Comments or the improved checkout and new mobile mode.

If you haven't seen our content block editor in action yet, check out the video below. Now you can create great looking page content and product descriptions just by dragging content blocks onto your page and editing them. We introduced it in ShopFactory 12 and improved it for ShopFactory 14.

The new search feature makes finding the right product easier than ever by returning better matches and giving customers more options to filter results. Search by keywords, price, category, options, specifications and more.

We also improved the way you add and edit pages and products and added many improvements under the hood.

Worried this might affect your existing shop? Don’t be.

ShopFactory 14 installs itself as a separate program and makes a copy of your existing store. So you can install and try it out without any risk.

Your current version of ShopFactory and your current project will continue to work.


ShopFactory V12.3.0 Build:19011

(Release Date: 17-01-2019)

Click here to download the latest ShopFactory 12

This latest build fixes the following issues:

SF-2355: Update PHPSearch code to fix PHP errors in Filters and Search results

SF-2352: Display surcharge for PayPal Express in basket page.

SF-2297: Fix dragging of snippet to a newly added custom HTML area.

SF-2362: Fix anchor links in Product INTRO section for productloop styles: SFX-BMP_1, SFX_BMP_1-240X240, SFX-EMA_1

DES-470: Fix display for Link Image Group 1 in other pages: the banner js changes that were put into SFX-HOME_1 must also be added in SFX-Content_1 page style

SF-2363: Marketeer is unable to open project folders with a dot "." in its shop project name.

DES-482: SFX-BEV-AA theme: fix order of display for Link Image Group 2.

DES-469: SFX-FAS-AA_nav: Fix dimensions for Link Image Group 1 sample contents

SF-2369: Remove Google+ from social media custom code

  1. Download and install the latest release: ShopFactory V12
  2. Open your shop in ShopFactory 12.
  3. Optional: Enable 'Rebuild all' from 'Settings' menu then click on 'Preview' -> Preview in external browser. Go back to 'Normal' mode and untick 'Rebuild all' from the Settings menu 
  4. Save and preview your shop in external browser. Place a test order to ensure secure checkout works.
  5. Publish your shop again.

ShopFactory V12.3.0 Build:18337

(Release Date: 06-12-2018)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2338: Fix stray ">" symbol that's causing conversion errors in the shop

SF-2345: Fix js error (Unterminated string constant) caused by invisible newlines in Navigation name

SF-2291: Fix issue with synchronizing stock levels using SecureFTP.

DES-463: New SFX-LITE productloop style variations: LITE_2 and LITE_3

SF-2351: random JS errors show up when editing shop

SF-2342: Verdana font caused the Delete button in blocks to be hidden.


ShopFactory V12.3.0 Build:18325

(Release Date: 22-11-2018)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2329: Fix font formatting functions in EditView and normal editing mode

SF-2324: Fix script error  when going to Languages -> Translate navigation texts.

DES-459: Block #40 (ID: u04) Fix display of social media buttons in description section.

DES-414: SFX-IAEV productloop style: Mobile Mode should only show one product per row.


ShopFactory V12.3.0 Build:18289

(Release Date: 16-10-2018)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2323: Fix text color formatting feature

DES-454: Top Navigation links: Image title text must be displayed in mobile mode

SF-2316: H2 font size tag must remain intact when added in the HTML editor.


ShopFactory V12.3.0 Build:18282

(Release Date: 10-10-2018)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2313: Fix top block content from being randomly removed when editing pages in previous ShopFactory release (build 18276)

- Fix the algorithm implemented for SF-2220

SF-2315: Fix javascript errors in build 18276 (caused by issue in SF-2313)

GLOB-3: Reseller/Member login - fix path information in http referrer for Firefox browser.


ShopFactory V12.3.0 Build:18249

(Release Date: 12-09-2018)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2223: Link image group 1 images must be displayed at all times when delay image loading is enabled.

(For existing shops using these templates: SFX-HOM-AA, SFX-JWL-AA and SFX-SPO-PAT, you need to reselect the website theme to apply the fix.)

Your Website theme must be reselected to apply the fix:

- Click 'Designer' menu -> Select Website Theme -> untick "Include Sample Data" -> locate your current template and click 'Select' button. Note: Your mapping and color customizations will be automatically applied after the website theme is reselected.

SF-2296: Page/Product Introduction box disappears when using copy/paste function

SF-2295: Fix the issue with Options & Choices not showing up when an Option name contains "double quotes" symbol

SF-1794: Fix clicking of Back button from detailed product page to load the site properly

SF-2235: Options/choices - popup keeps asking to select a required option even when the selection has already been made.

SF-2269: Publishing function - incorrect hosting details error - fix timeout value to the FTP library

SF-2270: Request Quote / Request Sample feature must be independent of the 'addtocart' function.

SF-2264: Fixes in the Block Editor

• fix the page refreshing after adding a block

• When copying content in WYSWIG mode from one block to another - keep the formatting.

SF-2271: Canonical loop and canonical tag issues

• Sitemap: fix incorrect HREF for home page

DES-412: Fix new Content blocks when changing the images to your own and setting own links.

Remove IE version compatibility meta tag (to allow Zopim chat to work in Internet Explorer).

DES-408: New Product styles (Detailed view styles) with 3 variations (image dimensions - 120x240, 240x360 and 300x400)

SF-2093: Use "PHP Search" in SF Pro version.

SF-2274: Improve the File Dialog

SF-2285: Do not show content when selecting Navigation 1/2

SF-2278: Add "Kosovo" in the list of shipping regions.

SAL-2487: Pass on merchant details custom fields with XML during checkout.

SF-2273: Link Image Group - Internet Address: "Show in new browser window" checkbox goes missing after first one is added.

Fix js error in SFCentral that happens when SF is launched by double-clicking on the .sfc file

SF-2281: Change project link on startup dialog.

SF-2229: Fix editing a non-block inline image: right-click & select "Inline Picture Properties" shows incorrect popup.

SF-2280: Fix editing block text if the inserted image is linked.

DES-418: Fix SFX-HOM-AA template

SF-2277: Fix issues when converting old version shop to V12 - products not displayed & indexing takes too long + update split page setting.

SF-2279: Fix conversion error when adding other language - addressformat.js wasn't being copied over when opening a project created in an earlier version of SF.

DES-417: Fix SFX-FUR-BB and all related templates - auto-adjust height if company logo or shop name is not available.

Always provide height for the formatting toolbar in EditView.

SF-2286: Link Image Groups: linking to departments should pre-populate the dialog box with Department Navigation details rather than Department details


ShopFactory V12.3.0 Build:18197

(Release Date: 18-07-2018)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2266: Always enable Dynamic pricing for options and choices - remove checkbox in Global Settings

SF-2268: Fix 'File/Cleanup' function causing existing PDF Links to break

SF-2240: Fix Language Link add-on to support block contents (Improve UI of Overview, Page, Product, Website, Navigation pages)

DES-408: New Detailed View Styles with 3 variations (image dimensions - 120x240, 240x360 and 300x400)

Update some BlockEditor snippets.

BlockEditor: fix js error

DES-401: fix js error for SFX-MEGA_2 navigation style in SFX Themes: FAS-AC and FAS-AB

DES-405: fixes for new SFX-SHO-AA_lrs website theme

SF-2233: Quantity box in basket page must trigger "Calculate" function when pressing Enter key.

DES-406: Show breadcrumbs on product detailed pages (customization)

SF-2211: Mobile Portrait Mode: Order Total value in basket page is cut-off in German language


ShopFactory V12.3.0 Build:18170

(Release Date: 21-06-2018)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2262: Normal PHP Search improvements

SF-2254: PHPSearch in non-SFX themes must display search results

SF-2146: Choice price not added to subtotal when up/down arrow keys are used to change the Choice selection.

Fixed SFX-SPO-AA_did, SFX-MUS-AA website themes: added content blocks in custom html areas will not appear

DES-401: SFX-FAS-AB and SFX-FAS-AC: remove horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the website

SF-2265: Customise Design: Javascript error when SVG elements are present on the page

SHO-AA_lrs new website theme

DES-407: SFX-FUR-BB: SFX-MEGAPIX-1_2 subnavigation menu incorrectly pushes the content area underneath the navigation menu


ShopFactory V12.3.0 Build:18163

(Release Date: 13-06-2018)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2259: SEO fix - duplicate content index.html and front.html when linking to Homepage

SF-2256: Google Chrome browser issue: Product image appears to be stretched

SF-2257: Fix setting up of new Link Image Groups and Related products: Pages/Products list are not populated.

New SFX website themes:

  1. SFX-BEV-AA_sir
  2. SFX-BUI-AA_nav
  3. SFX-FAS-AA_nav
  4. SFX-FUR-BB_wide
  5. SFX-HEA-AB_sir
  6. SFX-JWL-BB_sir
  7. SFX-MOB-BB_sir

SF-2258: Show "Product discount buy ranges" to productloop styles: SFX-BLN_*-tabs, SFX-BMC, SFX-BMP, SFX-PCLT, SFX-PRA

JS errors in shops: Remove old code from SFCentral that isn't required anymore (retrieving the FAQ) which sometimes causes a js error to occur, when the net object isn't available.

SF-2228: Fix "Excl. Shipping" link in Related Product to show popup for related product info

- Fix js error when "Show shipping charge" is not ticked.

SF-2254: Search Filters app improvements

- 1: Translations for the "More details" button and PRICE (in filters column)

- 2: Order of display for Specifications must be displayed the same way as it was setup in the shop

- 3: AND separator must be used when narrowing down search filters

- 4: Changing "sort by" option i.e. 'sort by price ascending' will show the categories with html tags around it

- 5: iPhone: Filters menu is cut-off in width

- 6: Mobile mode: add translation for "Show Filters" button

- 7: On mobile device, when clicking on "Show Filters" - show the products section straight away

- 8: The products haven't been filtered according to price. There are still products displayed less than filtered price range.

- 9: The search filters menu incorrectly shows up when you get to a filtered page for the first time

- 10: Filtered products are pushed UNDER the search filters menu

- 11: Normal products are displayed AFTER the filtered products

- 12: Remove Shipping link in search results page

- 13: Search progress bar moved to the content area and not set as transparent for better display

- 14: Character-encoding issue (html entity shows up) in search results page for comma (,) and " (double quotes)

- 15: added scroll if more than 6 options appears under any filter

- 16: only 6 options appears if more than 10 otherwise all appears with scroll 6 at a time

- 17: be able to open product detail page in new tab by right click >> open in new tab

SF-2250: GDPR Compliance / Cookies

- If "Show cookie warning" is off, the Opt Out text and button on the Privacy page wasn't being displayed.

- Add BlockContent class to the "Opt Out" text on the Privacy page


ShopFactory V12.3.0 Build:18143

(Release Date: 23-05-2018)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2254: PHP Search errors in online shop when the 'Search Filters app' is not enabled in ShopFactory account

SF-2250: DSGVO-Konformität / Cookies
Wenn Sie Produkte an Kunden in der Europäischen Union verkaufen, müssen Sie die Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DSGVO) einhalten, unabhängig davon, in welchem Land Sie sich befinden. Das bedeutet, dass Sie Kunden die Möglichkeit geben müssen, Cookies abzulehnen, die sie persönlich identifizieren können. Fügen Sie unten den Code für die betroffenen Tracking-Cookies ein, damit Kunden auf Ihrer Datenschutzseite die Cookies ablehnen können. Sie müssen ihnen nicht erlauben, Google Analytics abzulehnen, sofern Sie das Google Analytics-Konto auf anonymes Tracking eingestellt haben. Weitere Informationen zur DSGVO finden Sie hier.
 Um der DSGVO zu entsprechen, müssen Sie auch eine Datenverarbeitungsvereinbarung mit uns vorweisen. Sie können diese hier herunterladen.

Search Filters app now available
To enable Search Filter:
- Go to ShopFactory Central -> My Store
- Click 'Filters' at the left menu
<New browser window opens to the Filters product in the AppStore>
- Purchase the app
- Once the app is paid, go back to ShopFactory Central -> click "Activate Apps" button
- Click My Store
- Click Filters
- Tick the checkboxes for the departments that you want Filters to be enabled
- Select the Display Styles
<Two LD tags can be changed here. "Close Shop by Category by default" is only applicable for themes with a left sidebar.>
- Publish the shop
- Navigate to a department with Filters enabled to see the "Search Filters" function in action

SF-2244: Internet Explorer browser is saving the last choice selected and showing a misleading product price

SF-2245: Add Scotland as a separate Shipping country

SF-1972: "Link to another page or website" & "Related Product" link gets broken when SEO Page Filename of the link is changed.

SF-2243: Block content formatting is lost when only an image is edited in the BlockEditor

SF-2192: Shipping subtotal | Products subtotal | Payment Surcharge subtotal fields in basket page must be separate LD translation tags

SF-2217: Language Link: Updating custom html areas (global and page level) incorrectly applied to all languages

SF-2248: Language Link: editing "Search Engine Title" in Translate content must update the site properly

DES-401: SFX-FAS-AC: remove scroll bar at the bottom of the website

SF-1644: SFX templates issue: Signup link should only show when "Allow visitors to become members" option is enabled

SF-2251: French translations for ShopFactory interface


ShopFactory V12.2.0 Build:18093

(Release Date: 05-04-2018)

This build fixes the following issues:

 SF-2237: Realtime Stock Control function: Improve setup logic and fix issue with special characters in Product Title & SKU.
- 1. Enabling stock control should allow checkout when stock file isn't on the server (The stock file is published separately via Stock Levels dialog)
- 2. Stock traffic light doesn't show in detailed product page if there are Special characters in Catalog Numbers such as #, &, and comma symbols
- 3. Stock not deducting if there are special characters such as exclamation point and asterisk symbols in the Product Titles

SF-2230: Detailed Product page: image caption display and alignment
- 1. Center-align image caption
- 2. Show image caption of 1st image (when you select another slideshow image and then click on the 1st image again)
- 3. Fix "Slideshow Thumbnail Slider" display in Windows 10 IE browser

DES-395: SFX-IAEV productloop style: Show price when product has options and choices

DES-397: SFX-FOO-AA website theme: Index 1 scrollers jumping out and unwanted horizontal scrollbar on bottom page


ShopFactory V12.2.0 Build:18067

(Release Date: 08-03-2018)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2223: Show product images at all times (when delay image loading is enabled)
- Fix ProductImage (in detailed product page) disappearing on hover zoom.

DES-396: SFX-015,SFX-019,SFX-029,SFX-031,SFX-089,SFX-100,SFX-105,SFX-115,SFX-371 productloop styles: alignment and padding fixes

SF-2224: Fix "Add Page" function when in List Mode and in Unlisted Pages

SF-2226: Fix the issue when deleting some contents and clicking outside the content area that causes SF to shutdown unexpectedly

SF-2219: Customize Design: Fix Script Error when changing "Color #1" for Website Colors

SF-2225: Host-specific error: "Publish failed"
- The server was reporting a port of 80 (http) even when the request was made with https. Put a fix to ignore the port reported by the server.

BlockEditor Improvements
- Working with icons
- Ability to edit textual contents with text links
- Fix problem with Font sizes
- Fix bullet points
   - padding
   - show bullet points
   - bullet selection pop-up - move closer to toolbar button


ShopFactory V12.2.0 Build:18047

(Release Date: 20-02-2018)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2082: Add "X" (Cancel) button in EditView dialog (improve saving focus)

SF-2193: Line height: when adding new block contents, keep font style and size consistent
- Added UI to change line-height and font-weight sitewide (of the Content area) 

SF-2146: When a browser tab is closed and shop is opened in new browser, a customer can restore products added to cart in previous visit. If a customer directly enters the exact product page of a product already in cart (after restoring the basket), choice prices must stay correct.

SF-2213: Language Link: EDIT button for Product Image must open the image dialog in Translate content mode

SF-1158: SEO: Add meta-description to all split pages

SF-2207: SEO: img alt text for social media buttons (tooltip shows when you hover over the buttons)

SFX-ANI-BB / SFX-GAR-BB themes: Index2 menu items not clickable in tablet device landscape mode

SF-2199: Remove deprecated settings: "Keep style changes" in Product Properties detailed view style and "Charlength" in Customer Details (form fields) settings.

SF-2208: LD_BUY_FOR tag: Remove trailing space in Quantity discount message

SF-2206: Login and Signup buttons must use the correct page style so it works properly

DES-392: SFX-HOM-AA_bmc template: New block content #71
- Left image must be adjusted to the left to align with textbox placeholder.

  1. Download and install the latest release: ShopFactory V12
  2. Open your shop in ShopFactory 12.
  3. Optional: Enable 'Rebuild all' from 'Settings' menu then click on 'Preview' -> Preview in external browser. Go back to 'Normal' mode and untick 'Rebuild all' from the Settings menu 
  4. Save and preview your shop in external browser. Place a test order to ensure secure checkout works.
  5. Publish your shop again.

ShopFactory V12.0.0 Build:18029

(Release Date: 30-01-2018)

This build fixes the following issues:

PHP Search function: Fix js error in Specials and Shop by Brand pages

SF-2131: Fix "File - Cleanup..." function from removing link images of products, active product images, sub-navigation link images, and H texts.

Mobile mode improvements
- Add revision control for some files, so that they will propagate to individual shop projects. (Some shops had old js files causing mobile menu display issue and script errors.)

SF-2195: Fix selection of succeeding products within the normal editing window.

SF-2196: Content Block #20 and #41: Fix I-beam to edit textual contents when there are button link and linked image in the block content

DES-390: SFX-BAB-AA, SFX-HEA-AA, SFX-ANI-BB, SFX-GAR-BB, SFX-HOM-BB, SFX-FLO-AA): Fix blank gap at the bottom of Link Image Group 1 images


ShopFactory V12.0.0 Build:18019

(Release Date: 23-01-2018)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2193: Font formatting for new blocks must be the same as the existing non-block contents when  adding new block contents (fix "line height")

SF-2164: Fix block inline image from incorrectly getting enlarged when linking the image

SF-2146: Fix radio button option style options and choices to ensure choice price remains correct when deleting and adding the same product to cart and when basket is restored.

SF-2187: Automatic Stock control - checkout will fail if all products in basket do not have catalog numbers.

SF-2188: SFX-Flickity productloop: Fix thumbnail images when switching between bigger and smaller in Google Chrome browser

BlockEditor
- 2 new grid snippets in the "Images + caption" category
- Fade disabled formatting toolbar buttons
- Improve detection of content-editable elements
- Color picker dialog
- Improved dialog by having it populate the text box with the color value of the dropdown list item.
- Add website theme colours
- Allow for editing permalinks
- Links that bounds an area, rather than just text, and shouldn't be allowed to be removed.
- Reload BlockEditor if a snippet with permalinks is dropped into a dropzone.
- show snippet ID in tooltip
- Fix js error when changing Background color

SF-2183:
- add buttons for add image and table to the BlockEditor toolbar
- Adjust interface for color selector
- Make table scroll bar appear whenever required
 - improve hasLayout detection
    - 5px padding for dropzone frames

Mobile mode improvements
- Reseller/Member login in mobile mode must show in the Navigation menu
- Flatten menu panel and move shadow
- language selection across top of menu
- add padding on left side
- allow menu to grow up to 80% of device width

SF-2179: Fix for Free product not copied in product discounts with product templates

SFX-126_2 Show quantity discount message and discount button in one line

SFX-FLO-AA website theme: add padding on the left side of the content area (noticeable when the WebSite div has a background image or has a different colour)

- Improve the styling of the search help popup.
- Too many results message: add a button that will link to the Advanced Search form page.

SF-2138: ANI-BB and HOM-AA templates: Fix missing TopNav images in mobile mode

SF-2197: Script errors caused by enabling 'navigation languages' (Allow navigation in other languages) feature but did NOT enable "Translate contents"


ShopFactory V12.0.0 Build:17324

(Release Date: 21-11-2017)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2168: Block Contents with inline images such as #12, #13, #16, #17, #18: fix image cropping tool

SF-2174: SFX-JWL-AA website theme: show product images if block contents exist

SF-2169: Allow inserting inline images using the the context (properties) menu

SF-2173: Zipcode not required for PostNL shipping provider (but show Zipcode field if there are multiple shipping providers)

SF-2153: Double quote and Apostrophe/Single quote symbols in ProductTitle must be saved properly

SF-2170: Prevent deletion of block images


ShopFactory V12.0.0 Build:17297

(Release Date: 31-10-2017)

This build fixes the following issues:

DES-388: New productloop variation: SFX-126_2

SF-2157: SFX-MEGA_1b and MEGAPIX-1_1 navigation styles
- fix display of child pages

SF-2153: Apostrophe/Single quote symbol in ProductTitle must be saved properly

New website theme: SFX-SHO-001
- default theme when creating new shop

SF-1836: Remove 50% width restriction on Index1 for the following website themes: SFX-BAB-AA, SFX-FAS-AB, SFX-FLO-AA, SFX-HEA-AA
Website theme must be reselected to apply the fix:
- Click 'Designer' menu -> Select Website Theme -> untick "Include Sample Data" -> locate your current template and click 'Select' button. Note: Your mapping and color customizations will be automatically applied after the website theme is reselected.

SF-2162: Show "Activate Apps" button in SF Central page to enable "App Service" feature

Block Editor
- allow for more flexibility in snippets code.
- fix blocks layout in Block Editor going into mobile mode too early

SF-2165: Sample Content - Company logo must show in other languages

  1. Download and install the latest release: ShopFactory V12
  2. Open your shop in ShopFactory 12.
  3. Optional: Enable 'Rebuild all' from 'Settings' menu then click on 'Preview' -> Preview in external browser. Go back to 'Normal' mode and untick 'Rebuild all' from the Settings menu 
  4. Save and preview your shop in external browser. Place a test order to ensure secure checkout works.
  5. Publish your shop again.


ShopFactory V12.0.0 Build:17283

(Release Date: 12-10-2017)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2161: Editing product discount level must not remove tax in product

Block Editor
- Updating font must not append unwanted block to the dropzone.
- Updating texts to use a new font style must take effect immediately
- indicate number of custom code items in the Custom Code areas tabs

SF-2111: Mobile Mode
- 10: Content Block #24: Add a Padding if the buttons have long names


ShopFactory V12.0.0 Build:17248

(Release Date: 06-09-2017)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2155: Fix PayPal Express checkout in V12

SF-2139: Block content #18: Fix padding and Image Alignment

SF-2154: Mobile mode: Content Blocks right-padding issue

SF-2148: Language Link: Cannot set a product as invisible in other languages

SF-2118: ShopFactory Demo Splash Screen: Show "Activate" button


ShopFactory V12.0.0 Build:17230

(Release Date: 21-08-2017)

ShopFactory 12 is finally ready.

You can start using it right now, if you have a current ShopFactory rental subscription.

The biggest new feature is the new integrated block editor.

Now you can create great looking page content and product descriptions just by dragging content blocks onto your page and editing them.

Check out a video to see how easy this is.

We also improved the way you add and edit pages and products and added many improvements under the hood.

There are more functions to come, but we did not want to hold back the new block editor. It is just such a huge improvement, when it comes to working on website content.

Worried this might affect your existing shop? Don’t be.

ShopFactory 12 installs itself as a separate program and makes a copy of your existing store. So you can install and try it out without any risk.

Your current version of ShopFactory and your current project will continue to work.


ShopFactory V11.2.0 Build:17283

(Release Date: 12-10-2017)

Click here to download the latest build

This latest build fixes the following issues:

SF-2155: Fix PayPal Express checkout in V11 

  1. Download and install the latest release: ShopFactory V11
  2. Note that fixes within a product style or page style or navigation style or detailed view style may require selecting the current style again via Designer menu.
  3. Optional: Enable 'Rebuild all' from 'Settings' menu then click on 'Preview' -> Preview in external browser. Go back to 'Normal' mode and untick 'Rebuild all' from the Settings menu 
  4. Save and preview your shop in external browser. Place a test order to ensure secure checkout works.
  5. Publish your shop again.

ShopFactory V11.2.0 Build:17248

(Release Date: 07-09-2017)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2108: "Turbo Publishing" should work when publishing shop for the first time

SF-2144: Shop Tax must be assigned to new products and when importing products into shop

SF-2104: Fix "Favorites" feature

SF-1993: ShopFactory crashes when opening a project when there are departments missing in the database.

SF-1794: Fix clicking of Back button from detailed product page to load the site properly

SF-2143: Newline character in LinkImage description incorrectly causes the link image to display in mobile menu. 


ShopFactory V11.2.0 Build:17166

(Release Date: 19. Juni 2017)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2100: Norton Security Toolbar enabled in Google Chrome: product options and choices must show in Chrome browser

Limit the display height of product thumbnail images on the basket page.

SF-2072: Improve loading of prices of "Related products" on the detailed product page

SF-1976: When "Add to basket dialog" is disabled in shop, adding product to cart stays in the products page (do not redirect to basket page)

SF-2038: Show prices only to members/resellers setting: Quantity discounts must not show up in Detailed page without being logged in. 


ShopFactory V11.2.0 Build:17128

(Release Date: 8. Mai 2017)

This build fixes the following issues:

DES-338: New variations for SFX-SGK detailed view style

Fix user interface language settings
- update localised language DLLs

SF-2056: Fix underscore being incorrectly added to image filename

SF-2040: Fix special characters in filenames

SF-2037: Add "Jersey" in the list of shipping regions

SF-2041: Shop-specific issue: fix restore basket function 


ShopFactory V11.2.0 Build:17114

(Release Date: 26. April 2017)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2031: Ensure all product options/choices show in internal preview

SF-2030: Realtime shipping provider - rates must be recalculated when deleting a product in basket

SF-2034: PayPal Express - refresh basket page when a buyer closes PayPal payment popup and be able to click on the 'Secure checkout' button

Realtime Stock Control: stock message and availability do not appear in some Hosting servers with PHP 7

DES-346: SFX-PIN-GRID - Fix "Link to another page" feature

DES-348: New productloop style: SFX-SHA

DES-349: SFX-BMP productloop style new variations (240 x 240px thumbnail dimensions)

DES-329: New productloop style: SFX-IAEV

DES-341: SFX-PAL productloop style: Show Mousever ALT text

SFX-ANI-BB website theme: Remove hardcoded text color in Index2

  1. Download and install the latest release: ShopFactory V11
  2. Note that fixes within a product style or page style or navigation style or detailed view style may require selecting the current style again via Designer menu.
  3. Optional: Enable 'Rebuild all' from 'Settings' menu then click on 'Preview' -> Preview in external browser. Go back to 'Normal' mode and untick 'Rebuild all' from the Settings menu 
  4. Save and preview your shop in external browser. Place a test order to ensure secure checkout works.
  5. Publish your shop again.

ShopFactory V11.2.0 Build:17079

(Release Date: 22. März 2017)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2023: Stock Control - automatically regenerate stock cache file if it is empty

SF-2024: Language Link: Setting a page as invisible in base language should not disable the page in other languages

New navigation style: SFX-BASE-ASV_nopix (Similar to SFX-BASE-ASV_1 but without images and without EqualHeight

SF-717: Missing http protocol in custom html contents
- Revert this change as this is no longer required in V11

SF-2022: youTube video as Product image: fix display issue in basket page

DES-341: SFX-PAL Productloop: show Mousever ALT text


ShopFactory V11.2.0 Build:17061

(Release Date: 2. März 2017)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-2019: Basket remains empty if adding the same product that you didn't restore in basket

SF-2020: Safari browser for Apple devices and Mac OS: Product with options/choices deleted in basket and then added to basket again will not include choice price.

SF-2021: Show popup properly when clicking on "Excl. Shipping" link"


ShopFactory V11.2.0 Build:17055

(Release Date: 27 Februar 2017)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-1290: Show prices in Mac OS/iPhone or iPad SAFARI browser when in "Private Mode"

SF-2012: Fix reserved characters in query string of URL causing error on the payment pages

SF-2009: Stock levels file is removed after closing the stock editing dialog

SF-2008: SFX-BMP Product image display issue

SF-2003: Show shipping charges when updating the shop to current build

Allow for Turbo Publishing extremely large shops.

SF-2002: Calculate shipping charges for overseas customers when shipping country is limited to merchant country

SF-2005: Sub-store with member/reseller login returns to main store, rather than the sub-store.

SF-1794: Fix clicking of Back button from detailed page to load the page properly
- FMQ-261426 - Search result links must show the page properly

SF-1991: Shop with v10 template: OFEE mini-cart style (irrelevant "FALSE" text appears in mini-cart when adding product to cart).

DES-335: Update SFX-BMP_2 and SFX-BMP_2L product styles to have "Product title" linking to detailed view page

DES-312: Update SFX-Blog-Base Detailed view style
- If product or paragraph ONLY includes description - without longer description and/or specifications, then do NOT display the "description tab"


ShopFactory V11.2.0 Build:17017

(Release Date: 18 Januar 2017)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-1995: Improve display of manual shipping methods dropdown listbox - show "Select a shipping method" in the dropdown box.

SF-1986: Fix Copy/Paste and CTRL+B keyboard shortcut functions

PZD-680668: Editing existing code in Custom HTML dialog caused some event handlers to break
- Update fixes made in SF-1947: (Links on ShopFactory Central and preview must open in the default browser) to ensure all event handlers are intact.
Note: If you have opened up your custom HTML dialog in the previous build, you must delete the existing html code and then copy/paste your "working/correct" custom html code again into the HMTL editor. If you haven't opened up the custom HTML dialog box in the previous build, then your code is intact and working - no further action required.

SF-1983: Show Cookie warning bar
 
DES-328: Update grid display productloop styles in mobile mode: use full width if only 1 product/paragraph exists in a page
 
SF-1978: SFX-SPO-PAT template: Show mobile Menu
 
Remove unnecessary HTML code in Product Introduction sample content in Normal view

SF-1957: Keyboard shortcuts to copy/paste CTRL+C and CTRL+V no longer works in List mode and SEO analytics & meta-tags codes


ShopFactory V11.2.0 Build:16349

(Release Date: 16 December 2016)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-1974: Improve internal checkout loading – Speed up pop-up check-out further and add support for Windows 10 mobile. Adjust loading text for checkout to make clearer what is happening
- French translation: Shopping cart => Panier d'achat

Fix for languages other than English: Publish Setup dialog (Requested function not available error)

Allow for https in the express checkout payment providers logos i.e. PayPal Express

SF-1466: Show base price in Search Results page

SF-1971: Show currency symbol for base price in productloops and detailed view styles

SF-1967: Show shipping cost when setup is only for handling charge (without shipping cost ranges)

SF-1970: Show shipping methods consistently

SF-1975: Show shipping costs consistently at basket page and fix alignment issues

SF-1881: Facebook store app: load entire content window

SF-1957: Keyboard shortcuts to copy/paste CTRL+C and CTRL+V no longer works in List mode and SEO analytics & meta-tags codes

SF-1948: Fix Error: page not found when you click within the youtube video box (in product image)

DDI-127885: Fix & char in the image filename used for the body background image that causes script error

DES-327: New productloop styles (SFX-BASE_4 and SFX-PIN-TXT_4) - display stock message + Traffic light


ShopFactory V11.2.0 Build:16337

(Release Date: 07 December 2016)

This build fixes the following issues:

Improve reliability of checkout to deal with issues caused by external scripts.

SF-1936: One-click checkout
- Dutch translation: 1. Shopping Cart in breadcrumbs at Checkout pages

SF-1965: Setting up "Free shipping" incorrectly requires 'State' to be selected in basket page

SF-1962: Incorrect calculation of option price when adding to basket.

Script errors appear when Website Name has (single quote) – escape quotes in shop title in the session storage code

SF-1921: 'Remember shopping cart' function does not include option price in order subtotal, when restoring from the page that the product is on.

SF-1939: Updating stock levels always requires the shop to be published again (when Automatic stock updates is not enabled).

SF-1914: Shop converted to v11: 8-VTE var.1 and var.4: subnavigation display issues

DES-239: New product style: SFX-PRAD_buy

DES-282: Fix for SFX-FOO-COF_col-sm website theme

DES-302: Fix SFX-BMP product style for options and choices display

DES-203: Fix detailed product pages – quantity box and add to cart button must line up properly


ShopFactory V11.2.0 Build:16322

(Release Date: 18 November 2016)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-1936: More fixes for One-click checkout
- Realtime shipping provider calculations
- Shipping link per product popup loading issue

SF-1921: 'Remember shopping cart' function does not include option price in order subtotal, when restoring from the page that the product is on.

Fix Dutch translation of LD_CHECKOUT_TOP_TEXT


ShopFactory V11.2.0 Build:16321

(Release Date: 16 November 2016)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-1872: Improved (One-click) Checkout
These are the changes that you'll see inside your shop with improved checkout:
- "Add to Basket dialog" has been simplified to only display the actual product added to cart (to avoid confusion where it used to display other information, for example, ITEMS: 4 – if you have previously added 3 other items)
- Basket page and ordertotal/shipping page are now merged as one
- Remember shopping basket (if this setting is enabled in Global settings) – when a buyer adds products to cart but does not proceed to checkout and then decides to close the browser - the next time they visit the shop, a popup appears whether they want the products in cart to be loaded - click OK or Cancel
- Checkout pages will appear as a secure popup window
- Checkout page contents - checkout form fields in 2 columns
- Checkout page 2 will now show the product thumbnails at the Product Details section and billing/delivery details are displayed in 2 columns

DES-311: New variations of the product styles: SFX-BLW and SFX-BLN
- SFX-BLN_a750w-tabs, SFX-BLN_b12000w-tabs, SFX-BLW_a750w-tabs, SFX-BLW_b12000w-tabs

DES-206: New variations of SFX-BASW and SFX-BASN detailed view styles to show choices in wide column (one choice per row)
- SFX-BASW_1RW, SFX-BASW_1RW (750px), SFX-BASW_2RW, SFX-BASW_2RW (750px), SFX-BASW_3RW, SFX-BASW_3RW (750px), SFX-BASW_4RW, SFX-BASW_4RW (750px)

DES-168: New variations of SFX-BMP
- SFX-BMP_1L (shows "More details..." link) and SFX-BMP_2L (with tabs)

DES-166: New Product Style: SFX-SANTU

SF-1836: Allow scrolling horizontal top-level navigation if there are more items than can fit in the space provided.
- Fix dropdown display of SFX-MEGA navigation styles.

SF-1924: SFX-CAR-MO_flo - FF, Chrome and Edge browsers: Index 1 and Index 2 items are cut-off (height only shows half)

SF-1926: Turbo publishing fails when publishing to host redirecting to HTTPS

SF-1947: Links on ShopFactory Central and preview must open in the default browser

SF-1945: Adding > symbol to a screentip visible on the home page will fail to convert i.e. Link Image Group 1 caption

SF-1943: SF Editor crashes when changing stock levels for products

Fix encoding issue with JS search and international characters in the file name.

SF-1880: Social media buttons
- Text can now be pasted correctly into the Yelp URL.

DES-204: New SFX templates - SFX-ANI-BB_sira, SFX-ANI-BB_sirg, and SFX-SPO-CC_siro
- Fix mapping and css for SFX-SPO-CC template

SF-1869: Update all product styles and detailed view styles to show "Excl. Shipping"

Improvements and fixes for SFTP publishing and Turbo Publishing.

SF-1942: Shop-specific issue: crashes when navigating after adding new product


ShopFactory V11.1.0 Build:16235

(Release Date: 23. August 2016)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-1892: add new navigation styles based on the old v10 VSA and v10 VSC.
- VSA => ASV in v11, VSC => CSV in v11
- 1c variation: menu displayed between PageIntroduction and PageDescription.

Design improvements in the following website themes: (this requires selecting the website theme again and then you can restore the customizations and mapping by going to Customize Design)
- DES-284 MUS-AA, SPO-AA
- DES-292: SPO-PAT_pat
- DES-279: MOB-AA_bma
- DES-287: CAR-MO_flo
- DES-285: JWL-AA_eeb
How to apply the website theme and restore customizations & mapping:
- Open shop and click on Designer menu -> Select a website theme -> your current theme will be selected by default.
- Untick "Include Sample data" if you don't want the sample pages, products and link image groups to show.
- Then immediately go to "Customize Design" and a prompt should appear asking you to restore your customizations and mapping -> click OK.
- Your font styles, font sizes, font colours, background colours, and Design Image will be restored. If you have used a 'body' image, you simply add it again in Designer.
- Click 'Save' to go back to normal mode
NOTE: The navigation style will have to be manually reselected in Normal mode as this is not included in the mapping file.
- Click on Designer menu -> Navigation 1 Select a navigation style... -> select the navigation style you want -> click OK
- Click on Designer menu -> Navigation 2 Select a navigation style... -> select the navigation style you want -> click OK
- Save and preview shop

DES-311: New Blog-type product styles: SFX-BLF, SFX-BLN, SFX-BLP, SFX-BLQ, SFX-BLR, SFX-BLS, and SFX-BLW

DES-312: New Blog-type detailed view styles: SFX-BLOG-BASE_1, SFX-BLOG-BASE_2, and SFX-BLOG-BASE_3

SF-1894: Sitemap.xml generation

DES-254: SFX-GIF-AA: Index 1/Index 2 incorrect mouseover font color
Note: Merchants affected will have to select the website theme again to have the issue resolved and then re-do your customizations. If you don't want to re-do your customizations, please contact ShopFactory Support so they can give you the instructions on how to send your website.css file and we can manually fix it for you.

Update LD_TERMSFORRETURNINGPRODUCTSTITLE_OTHER for German language: change to Widerrufsbelehrung instead of Rückgabekonditionen

DES-303: Price introduction/price headline display: Fix in all detailed view styles

SF-1825: Banner images cut-off in SFX-BASE, SFX-CAR, SFX-COM, SFX-FAS, SFX-FOO, SFX-GIF, SFX-JWL themes

DES-302: SFX-BMC, SFX-BMP, and SFX-PCLT: Fix price headline and options/choices text wrapping

SF-1873: Show asterisk for required Options

SF-1869: Change "+ Shipping" link to "Excl. Shipping" in all product styles and detailed view styles.
- Merchants will need to edit the LD tag in Languages -> Translate navigation texts -> locate "LD_EX" language tag.

SF-1787: Language Link: Cannot translate "Top Navigation" and "Custom Navigation" (footer navigation)

SF-1895: Show Tooltip for minicart, login/signup links
- Added tooltips for minicart and login/signup links for ALL themes, note that the mini basket tooltip won't show unless you reselect the theme.

DES-252: Currency link not showing in Index 1 pages and detailed pages.

SF-1870: images size is not the same in ShopFactory interface and in published shop

SF-1876: Update flag for Taiwan

Update product loops to create paragraph versions
- DES-308: SFX-BMC
- DES-307: SFX-Base_1 and SFX-Base_2
- DES-309: BMP

SF-1875: Fix 'Hover to zoom' box when image file names have special character such as © character

Use option(s) rather than option/s for LD_OPTION_ERROR_FIELDS to make it more consistent.

SF-1843: Add - (minus symbol) before discount percentage value in product styles and product detailed pages.

SF-1883: Add link to Vouchers in ShopFactory Central page

SF-1799: Use Flickity for slideshow lightbox
- bottom part of image was being cut-off when viewed in landscape on iPhone mobile device.

Timed discounts: Update the macro hiding the discount message

SF-1840: Link Image Group 2 - linking via "Add Image" incorrectly uses the same image for all image links

Enable Customer region detection by default for new shops.

SF-1602: V11 Home link in other language is incorrect - goes to main language (mobile mode)
- Also apply to Index2.

Update German translations in Customize Design: Spezial to Rabatt and Verbindung to Link

Video tutorial and Tutorial menu button now goes to new Tutorial page in the ShopFactory Website for English.

DES-313: Added new variations for SFX-PIN-TXT: SFX-PIN-TXT_2 and Added SFX-PIN-TXT_3

SF-1388: Translate Content: Page Link Box "EDIT" dialog - only show relevant fields
- Options and choices should display even when run from Language Link.

DES-244: Detailed product styles: Fix problems with background colors and padding.

SF-1882: Language Link: Translate Content – Choice images must be accessible for editing in other languages

SF-1893: SFX-FAS-AB: Using "Add image" in Link image group 1 will link to the same page
- Also fix SFX-BAB-AA, SFX_CAR-MO templates

SF-1886: Shop-specific issue: Inline image in Description section is not mobile responsive

Fixed memory handling in GetDepartmentList and CStackedDialog.

SF-1890: Alignment issue: Tax Text displayed with product when "Show prices incl AND excl tax" is enabled (Note: You must reselect your product style for the change to take effect.)

Fix issue where the 10-PAAI_Banner1/2 style would throw JS errors if you had a banner at the bottom.

SF-1900: Editing discount of product which is linked to multiple departments will not update on the detailed view page until you preview externally

SF-1899: Language Link: Setting page as invisible in other language will not take effect
- Pages which are not visible in non-base languages will no longer be created.


ShopFactory V11.1.0 Build:16194

(Release Date: 13. Juli 2016)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-1795: Detect template updates and offer to update all styles but not the theme
- Also update the productloop styles used in shop.

SF-1700: SFX-FOO-COF, SFX-FAS-GLA, SFX-GIF-AA, SFX-JWL-AA: big gap/space in page content when switching from portrait to landscape mode on iPad device
How to apply the website theme and restore customizations & mapping:
- Open shop and click on Designer menu -> Select a website theme -> your current theme will be selected by default.
- Untick "Include Sample data" if you don't want the sample pages, products and link image groups to show.
- Then immediately go to "Customize Design" and a prompt should appear asking you to restore your customizations and mapping -> click OK.
- Your font styles, font sizes, font colours, background colours, and Design Image will be restored. If you have used a 'body' image, you simply add it again in Designer.
- Click 'Save' to go back to normal mode
NOTE: The navigation style will have to be manually reselected in Normal mode as this is not included in the mapping file.
- Click on Designer menu -> Navigation 1 Select a navigation style... -> select the navigation style you want -> click OK
- Click on Designer menu -> Navigation 2 Select a navigation style... -> select the navigation style you want -> click OK
- Save and preview shop

SF-1859: Fix Horizontal Navigation scroll buttons in MSEdge browser

SF-1836: Improvement in horizontal navigation menus: allow scrolling horizontal top-level navigation if there are more items than can fit in the space provided. If a shop has more departments, Navigation 1 or Navigation 2 will show scroll (left/right) buttons so that the 'hidden' pages can be viewed.
- The float override was breaking navigation which had a float right set.
- Navigation images weren't shown in PIX navigation styles.
To fix the issue, you need to reselect your navigation style:
- Click on Designer menu -> Navigation 1 Select a navigation style... -> select the navigation style you want -> click OK
- Click on Designer menu -> Navigation 2 Select a navigation style... -> select the navigation style you want -> click OK

Design improvements in the following website themes:
- DES-283: SFX-BAB-AA
- DES-287: SFX-CAR-MO
- DES-283: SFX-FAS-AB
- DES-285: SFX-JWL-AA
- DES-284: SFX-MUS-AA
- DES-288: SFX-OFF-AA
- DES-288: SFX-SPO-AA

Fix horizontal scrollbars showing on ShopFactory Central page in Dutch interface.

Recommended products weren't showing up on some product styles caused by missing product icons.

SF-1863: SEO issue with 404 errors
- Now standardize JS template tags to use <script type="text/template"> rather than putting it inside a DIV so search engines would ignore templates.
  - Add CDATA to the template tags.
 
Google Base format actually supports html so we now export various fields without removing the html.

SF-1864: Navigation shows non-existing links - it was creating emtpy <ul> tags.

Google Base format actually supports html so we now export various fields without removing the html.


ShopFactory V11.1.0 Build:16186

(Release Date: 5. Juli 2016)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-1834: Recover style changes after re-selecting the same website theme
- A mapping_recovery.xml file is now created if we detect that the mapping.xml file is different than the default one when you select the same theme. Designer will then detect if there's a recovery file and prompt the user which will overwrite the existing mapping.xml file with the old one and reload it into Designer.
- Remove the recovery file if the mapping is saved.
How to apply the website theme and restore customizations & mapping:
- Open shop and click on Designer menu -> Select a website theme -> your current theme will be selected by default.
- Untick "Include Sample data" if you don't want the sample pages, products and link image groups to show.
- Then immediately go to "Customize Design" and a prompt should appear asking you to restore your customizations and mapping -> click OK.
- Your font styles, font sizes, font colours, background colours, and Design Image will be restored. If you have used a 'body' image, you simply add it again in Designer.
- Click 'Save' to go back to normal mode
NOTE: The navigation style will have to be manually reselected in Normal mode as this is not included in the mapping file.
- Click on Designer menu -> Navigation 1 Select a navigation style... -> select the navigation style you want -> click OK
- Click on Designer menu -> Navigation 2 Select a navigation style... -> select the navigation style you want -> click OK
- Save and preview shop

SF-1848: Stock Control - display stock levels for products in the list view
- Go into List of Contents -> right click on the field header -> View Settings -> enable "Available Qty"

SF-1820: Using File/Cleanup function incorrectly hides slideshow thumbnail images
- Clicking on the intro of a product and then selecting Detailed view would crash the spell checker.

SF-1835: Editing font for "Content" -> Edit text...  distorts the more detailed pages and other pages
- it was picking the wrong selector when editing the #Content text.

SF-1790: Longer description is visible as you load a detailed product page and productloop page
- Also update SFX-BMC_1, SFX-BMP_1 and SFX-PCLT_1 product styles

SF-1836: Improvement in horizontal navigation menus: allow scrolling horizontal top-level navigation if there are more items than can fit in the space provided. If a shop has more departments, Navigation 1 or Navigation 2 will show scroll (left/right) buttons so that the 'hidden' pages can be viewed.
- Fix so the CopyDepartmentsTemplates actually copies all page templates rather than failing on the first non-existing template like LOAP.

SF-1830: Buy Now button shows up in Related Products for product with "Don't show add to basket button" if the related product does not have options/choices
- add a check whether the add to basket button should be visible.

SF-1828: Added a FixData for selecting an image using an old ShopFactory build on Mac Parallels created invalid paths to the thumbnail images.

SF-1811: Changing Index 1 item font size does not get saved in Designer

SF-1825: Fix banner images being cut-off in these website themes: SFX-BASE, SFX-CAR, SFX-COM, SFX-FAS, SFX-FOO, SFX-GIF, SFX-JWL

SF-1826: Improve breakpoint for iPad landscape mode

Eliminate additional white space in the Google sitemap file when you have products in the recycle bin or have invisible products.

Design improvements in the following website themes:
- DES-276: SFX-BASE-AA
- DES-277: SFX-CAR-CA
- DES-282: SFX-FOO-COF
- DES-278: SFX-GIF-AA
- DES-279: SFX-MOB-AA
- DES-280: SFX-HOM-AA

SF-1849: Navigation styles variant 2: left sidebar menu sometimes appears on detailed product pages.

SF-1842: Add SEO Analysis link to ShopFactory Central page
- Renamed Search Engine Optimization to 'General' and fixed the link to include account details.

Fix alignment for product images for non-SFX website themes.

SF-1731: Improvements for vertical Navigation 2 
- SFX-BOM navigation style font-size in Customise Design.
- SFX-GIF-AA website theme

SF-1846: Mobile phones: Header Area width must not exceed the screen width.

SF-1839: Mobile mode: Irrelevant "Discount applies" field with incorrect currency shows up on the basket page

SF-1847: Import wizard should filter the import for page and product names with CRLF and TAB characters before creating the page file name

Small adjustment to core.html to allow it to be minified better.

SFX template preview image must display at all times on the ShopFactory Central page.

SF-1850: Changing fonts globally in Designer doesn't apply to all areas for most themes
- The mapping.xml file was updated and cleaned up some website themes that had font-family set for certain areas - SFX-BAB-AA, SFX-BASE-AA, SFX-CAR-MO, SFX-FAS-AB, SFX-FAS-GLA, SFX-FAS-JEA, SFX-FLO-AA, SFX-FOO-COF, SFX-FUR-AA, SFX-GIF-AA, SFX-HEA-AA, SFX-MUS-AA, SFX-OFF-AA, and SFX-SPO-PAT.


ShopFactory V11.1.0 Build:16127

(Release Date: 11. Mai 2016)

This build fixes the following issues:

DES-208: updated SFX templates
- Custom navigation areas added to these templates: SFX-BAB-AA_dew, SFX-CAR-CA_bes, SFX-FAS-AB_fas, SFX-FAS-AC_base, SFX-FLO-AA_sir, SFX-FOO-AA_jui, SFX-FOO-COF_col-sm, SFX-FUR-AA_juj, SFX-HEA-AA_sir, SFX-MOB-AA_bma, SFX-MUS-AA_did, SFX-OFF-AA_hat, SFX-SPO-AA_did, SFX-SPO-PAT_pat

SF-1764: Sub page navigation: adjust font sizes.
- Consistently display the SubPageNavigation images when DelayImageLoading is enabled

SF-1744: Improvements to hover bars for page and website level.
- improve detection of product

SF-1758: Search issue with Timed discount: Discounted price must be displayed properly in Chrome and IE browsers

SF-1721: Ability to change border color of "Index 2 subpage item".
- For existing shops, you must reselect your navigation style

DES-236: Footer navigation issue for templates that had custom content areas 5 and 6
- For templates that had the old footer navigation such as SFX-BASE, SFX- AQA, SFX-CAR, SFX-COM, SFX-FAS-JEA, SFX-GIF, SFX-HOM, SFX-JWL

SF-1697: SFX templates: index1 & index2 display for RTL language such as Hebrew
- Fix display of payment methods as well.

SF-1775: Fix for Custom page contents tab feature on top right

SF-1753: Fix Youtube video as product image when a product has Options/choices

SF-1771: Save the preferred detailed view style from Designer menu

Enable delay loading of images if it's been turned off in the shop.

SF-1384: SEO for multilingual sites: Google shows missing "hreflang" tags
- includes hreflang="x-default" in both the page and the site map to improve the automatic language detection

SF-1773: OSX Safari and iPad Safari: Display choice prices properly after going back to the product page from basket page
- Also fixed an issue when reloading the page in Safari if clicking on the product link in the basket page

SF-1742: Update website theme selector

Initial font size of mouseover text for navigation top level should be same as non-mouseover text.

EqualHeight should set height even if there's only 1 in the collection.

SF-1384: SEO for multilingual sites: Include "hreflang" tags in the sitemap.xml file
- Now also includes hreflang for the main language so Google will know which language the main site is in.

SF-1759: Recommended products: do not display "Buy Now" button if the product has options/choices
- Apply the same for "Show prices only to resellers/member" feature

SF-1708: New video tutorial on startup - Help/Tutorial now also shows the same one.

Demo splash screen must display the Buy Now

Prevent users from entering illegal mutable page names in the page dialog.

SF-1710: SFX-BASE-ESV and SFX-BASEPIX-1 subnavigation links position: new 1b variation shows subpage navigation below the Page Description.

Improve page loading speed when using SFX-BASE-ESV navigation style.

SF-1619: SFX-BASE-ESV subnav images must have equal height and maximum height
- fix vertical alignment in Safari.

SF-1728: Apostrophe/Single quote symbol in Page Links is incorrectly removed

SF-1730: Banners and other flickerty objects needs to delay load images
- Delay loading is now enforced for some templates which use flickerty and also fixes a bug in the SFX-FLICKITY_1 product loop when delay loading is enabled.
- Fix the flickery delay loading by using our other delay loading code instead.

SF-1722: Fix Megapix display issue in Chrome and Edge

SF-1715: index 2 navigation style DDM_2 and DDV are not cascading the right way when old v10 template is still in use

SF-1726: Incorrect H1 tags assigned to related products and recommended products
- More details templates have been updated to use H2 since the page template uses H1 for the shop name.

SFX-FLO-AA, SFX-HEA-AA website themes
- fix display of detailed product pages in mobile mode.

SF-1734: Internet Explorer 8 browser is no longer supported in ShopFactory 11
- V11 Installer will now refuse to execute on anything less than Windows Vista

SF-1717: Improve mobile mode

SF-1718: Use IHTMLElement6 to read the attributes in IE8 Standard and above.

SF-1736: Add Og Meta Data
- More details pages will now also have Facebook compatible Open Graph tags.

SF-1713: Currency link must display in Mobile mode

SF-1738: Mobile menu tap button becomes white on white after navigating to another page and then going back to home page or another page.
- also fix the side-effect where all elements received a color change.

SF-1729: Missing magnifying glass icon in detailed page

SF-1743: When clicking on link image group jump to correct image clicked on
- Now selects the link as well

Display progress window when you select a new index style

SF-1727: French translation: Properties... Custom Content

SF-1740: Inline image in cookie warning does not appear
- Cookie warning doesn't support html - disable the html editor for this field similar to the slogan dialog.

SF-1751: Custom Navigation - re-order (sort up/down) function does not work
- Need to preserve the order better and keep the IDs.

SF-1752: Opening project with single quotes in the name of the project doesn't always work
- Fix the file names where it wasn't escaped properly.

SF-1578: Index items mouseover background color, font size, and font formatting
- Update background colour and font size in this order: change the background colour first - then set the font size

SF-1741: Fix thumbnail regeneration code
- Also create thumbnails for old .gif => .png thumbnail images.
- Update the code which was generating duplicate thumbnails for the same source image.
- Code detection when images had the same name but had different contents.

SF-1724: Navigation breaks when remapping mouse over colors in advanced mode

DES-217: SFX-GIF-AA main content area is pushed down on iPad landscape mode
- Reselect website theme to apply fix
- If you do not want to reselect the website theme, you can manually edit your website.css file  - please contact ShopFactory Support for more information.

Publish function: Fix issue with some servers returning warning messages when trying to create folder in the recommended product script.

SF-1732: Improve text widths in navigation.

SF-1731: Improve vertical Navigation 2 

SF-1692: Googlebase issue - Google information "Condition=New" will not appear
- Now also compares age group and gender the same way.

SF-1602:  Mobile mode fix - Home link in other language

SF-1714: Apostrophe/Single quote symbol in Product title is incorrectly removed in productloops with detailed pages

DES-197: Fix subnavigation location
- created 2 variations for SFX-BASE-ESV navstyle.

CEQ-231844:  homepage not displaying properly in mobile

DES-152: Check gallery mode product loops for buy now function.
- BASE-1 and PIN-TEXT changes.

SF-1699: Fix Marketeer shutting down in Windows 10

DES-202: Updates to the SFX-FLO template

SF-1701: "Add Image" in Link Image Groups

SF-1432: Tax message must be displayed in the basket popup and basket page (inclusive and exclusive tax settings) - KVJ-839647: Incorrect label of Tax on Shipping Cost

SF-1679: Recommended products: Product Prices are not showing up and product headline are cut-off
- Show prices even if the product has options.

SF-1644: SFX templates issue: Signup link keeps showing up even if membership management service has been turned off
- Signup link is no longer displayed unless Setup membership is enabled.

SF-1686: SEO Details – “Search word” box does not allow break line/enter and missing horizontal scrollbar so you can’t see all keywords
- Changed it to wrap the text correctly.

SF-1681/SF-1702: New hover toolbars for editing in Normal view.
- Fix  editing images in LanguageLink: clicking on the logo should display the correct dialog.
- toolbars for Page content, CompanyImage - click on vertical navigations to navigate immediately.

SF-1703: Language Link doesn't display images if "delay loading of images" option is activated

SF-1627: Improve display of choice images and slideshow images
- VPS-273647 - Choice images do not display properly

SF-1695: Detailed page does not show “Description” information by default.

SF-1704: Custom nav and other page link links will no longer use otherurl
- Rewrite the macro for page links to not use otherurl.html anymore.
- New internet links from Pageview will no longer default to use otherurl.html when the target is blank.

SF-1682: Klarna and WireCard payments must have buyer country filter in v10 and v11.

SF-1709: CAR-MO theme: unable to delete background image tile in the top bar (DesignImage1).


ShopFactory V11.0.0 Build:16034

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-1318: Add extra fields in Page properties
- Updated the checkbox in navigation style dialog to "Use page link information image as fallback in navigation" to make it clearer.
- Added updated French, Dutch, and German translations.

SF-1600: SFX-OFF-AA template: footer does not appear in detailed pages
- Fixed mapping and background colour so it would accurately display the footer in the right colour and in the right position.

SF-1601: Navigation images not displayed if copy base language is turned off
- Fix the image lookup if copy base language value was turned off.

Fix potential crash if the Publish URL you're trying to publish to is invalid.

Improvements to XLIFF translation export where we now ignore department and text fields which shouldn't be exported at all.

SF-1579: v11 generates an index file with all the pages: slows down loading of products page 

SF-1606: SFX-MUS-AA: Adding inline image in Slogan text box does not show up online
- Site slogan box only allows adding texts.

Navigation styles - allow for more than 5 columns of sub-navigation.
Includes SFX-BASE_1, SFX-BASEPIX_1, SFX-GRIDPIX_1, SFX-MEGA_1, SFX-MEGAPIX-1_1, SFX-MEGAPIX-2_1.

SF-1602: Home link in other language is incorrect - goes to main language
- Link should now be correct for that case.

SF-1611: SFX-MEGAPIX-1 navigation style flyout almost hidden in Chrome/FF.

SF-1610: Fresh v11 installation defaults to English even when using Dutch Windows locale

Allow time for the lang js scripts to download and execute before applying the LD tags - fix the theme selector especially for French.

SF-1587: Added French translations in SF11 interface


ShopFactory V11.1.0 Build:16166

(Release Date: 16. Juni 2016)

This build fixes the following issues:

SF-1795: Detect template updates and offer to update all styles but not the website theme
- Only display the prompt once and add menu item in designer to allow you to check it again. Also made it more consistent to say style rather than design in a lot of menu items.

SFX-LITE_1 product style - discount display

SF-1815: Base Price not recalculated when updating product prices using Import Wizard
- Now recalculates the base price if we detect Import Wizard has been modifying the project.

SF-1038: Deleted products still appear in Stock Levels dialog
- Force the cache to be flushed if a product is deleted or moved from the recycle bin to a page again.

SF-1816: Updating payment methods accepted in ShopFactory Cloud
- Ensure the payment methods are rebuilt every time when you publish.

New: Detailed product styles: BASW, SGK, BASE, BASN, PICA, PICU
- removed SFX-SGK_1c (replaced with SGK_1)

SF-1820: Using File/Cleanup function incorrectly hides slideshow thumbnail images
- Fix ProductMoreImages macro for More details pages and will skip the generation of more images in certain conditions.

Fix problem with clicking on the Display shipping information link in SFX-EMA_1 product style and unmatched tags warning in IE dev console.

SF-1821: Enable "Show catalog number" by default for new projects

SF-1819: iPad issue with SFX-LITE productloop: tapping on the product image is not linking to detailed page

Fixes to SFX-MEGA-1/2 and SFX-MEGAPIX-1/2

SF-1794: Clicking on back button from detailed page doesn't load the page properly.

Fix issue where the index1.css stylesheet wasn't copied correctly when selecting a new website theme.

Ensure that the index 1 and index 2 stylesheets are copied when creating a new shop.

SF-1785: Left Sidebar nav: Subpage navigation menu too narrow on detailed view page
- Navigation styles that have a dropdown/flyout, and where there are too many subpages at the 2nd level, double vertical scrollbars would appear.

New productloop variations of SFX-LITE, SFX-PAL
- maximum display height 175px and 200px

SF-1780: IE11 browser issue: Thumbnail images are incorrectly resized/zoomed in (SFX-BASE and SFX-LITE productloops) - requires reselecting the product style to fix the issue.
- Make images stop jumping around as they load.

SF-1803: converting v10 shop to v11
- Choice thumbnail images

SF-1797: SFX-JWL-AA: Link Image Group 1– linked image does not appear if screentip and caption are not added
- Add dummy link around images to get the same behaviour as a normal link except for displaying a different cursor.

SF-1756: Shop-specific issue: importing v10 shop to v11 - shop freezes using SFX-BMP productloop
- Bug in the option rendering code where it would loop on itself.

SF-1506: Google updates on product types taxonomy
- Now understands the new taxonomy structure as well.

SF-1798: SFX-Flickity productloop: thumbnail images missing caued by delay loading of images
- Delay loading doesn't work for flickity because of the preview images below it.

SF-1799: Use Flickity for slideshow lightbox

DES-257: SFX-FLO-AA: mobile display issue in SFX-PIN, SFX-PIN-GRID, and SFX-LITE productloops - requires selecting product style again

DES-244: Detailed product styles: Fix problems with background colors and padding.
- ProductImage area
- ThumbnailSlider buttons
- Fix to SFX-BASE_2 and also new detailed product styles.
- Fix issue with checkboxes on iPhone 5 having the top cut off slightly.

DES-267: SFX-BMP productloop
- Move the ProductHighlight field out of the Description tab, to be above the ProductIntroduction. Remove the Description tab, which will now be empty.
- Page Custom content 3 is showing up in 2 places

SF-1781: Image incorrectly zoomed on more details page on small devices
- Fix to scale properly with square images.

Fix problem with Firefox where it wouldn't make the select full height if you made the font size bigger of the select.

DES-275: No Banner, but space for banner is maintained
- PageLinkBox condition wasn't working correctly.
- Changed some of the titles to Website Analytics and the top one to Search Engine Optimization.

SF-1779: The SEO dialog on the central page also needs the ability to edit SEO description
- Html page title doesn't wrap properly.

SF-1781: Image incorrectly zoomed on more details page on small devices
- Changed how the image is centered vertically.
- Fixed problem with a vertical scrollbar appearing on some images.

SF-1784: Improve loading speed when using ESV and GRIDPIX navigation styles.

Stop SF from crashing if we can't create a web control.

DES-234: Mobile mode issue: Incorrect position of "Add to cart" button in product detailed page when you have related products
- Also fix issues where flickity would kick in for the wrong widths and standardized the code used for the cross promotion area

Do not apply thumbnail regeneration fix for non-SFX themes.

Improvements to the error logging and timeout for turbo publishing to fix problem with large uploads.

Disabled automatic template upgrading. Users will now have to reselect a theme or style for it to apply the latest changes.
- Allow shared_files to auto update.

SF-1789: Automatic rebuild of files doesn't happen when a navigation language is selected.

DES-234: Mobile mode issue: Incorrect position of "Add to cart" button in product detailed page when you have related products
- Adjusted the cutoff numbers and removed some duplicate code.

Improve display of basket page.

SF-1310: Improve SEO in robots.txt
- cload.html shouldn't be blocked anymore.


ShopFactory V10.2.5 Build:16096 Patch: 16332

(Released: 11 October 2016)

We have a latest patch for ShopFactory V10.2.5 - note that the build number has changed in this patch due to a change in the core.html file. However, this patch applies to the current release 10.2.5 installation.

The patch can be downloaded through this link:

Download patch

This patch fixes the following issue:

SF-1907: Ensure the shopping basket works for online customers while merchant is publishing shop at the same time.

SF-1921: 'Remember shopping cart' function does not include option price in order subtotal, when restoring from the page that the product is on.

SF-1773: OSX Safari and iPad Safari: Display choice prices properly after going back to the product page from basket page
- Also fixed an issue when reloading the page in Safari if clicking on the product link in the basket page

How to apply patch

  1. Close ShopFactory 10
  2. Download the patch and save it on your computer.
  3. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the directory where you saved the patch.
  4. Double-click on the 'patch_1025_16263.exe' file to apply the patch.
  5. Click 'RUN'
  6. IMPORTANT: Open your shop in ShopFactory 10 -> click Properties -> Taxes -> click Ok. If you don't have taxes setup, click Properties -> Shipping charges and click Ok to update the ordertotal.html file. You can also go through the payment methods setup wizard without changing anything - Properties -> Payment Methods Accepted -> next -> next -> until Finish.
  7. OPTIONAL: Enable 'Rebuild all' from 'Settings' menu then click on external 'Preview' -> place a test order in your shop to ensure checkout can be completed.
  8. OPTIONAL: Go back to 'Normal' mode and untick 'Rebuild all'.
  9. Save and preview your shop in External browser. Place a test order to ensure secure checkout works.
  10. Publish your shop again.

ShopFactory V10.2.5 Build:16096

(Release Date: 26. April 2016)

Click here to download the latest build

This latest build fixes the following issues:

SF-1598: Selecting an image on a network share in Pageview doesn't set the right path when you add inline images

SF-1653: Import Wizard: Images are not imported

SF-1699: Marketeer shuts down in Windows 10

SF-1604: Stock Control message shows out of stock if no choices are selected for combined option.

  1. Download and install the latest release: ShopFactory V10
  2. IMPORTANT: Once installation has completed, open your shop in ShopFactory 10 -> click Properties -> Payment Methods Accepted -> go through the wizard without changing anything until finish. Or you can click on Properties -> Taxes -> click Ok. If you don't have taxes setup, click Properties -> Shipping charges and click Ok to update the ordertotal.html file.
  3. RECOMMENDED: Enable 'Rebuild all' from 'Settings' menu then click on 'Preview' -> Preview in external browser. Note that fixes within a product style or page style or navigation style may require selecting the current style again.
  4. Go back to 'Normal' mode and untick 'Rebuild all' from the Settings menu 
  5. Save and preview your shop in external browser. Place a test order to ensure secure checkout works.
  6. Publish your shop again.
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