K-Factor Technologies, Inc is pleased to announce that the long awaited AgoraCart Version 5.0.0 Release Candidate One (5.0.0 RC1) was released today, February 18th, through it's membership program. Agoracart is an Open Source based shopping cart targeting small businesses and runs on Linux/Unix based servers.

This intial Version 5.0.0 release has been three years in the making and includes massive feature overhauls such as: improved UPS and USPS shipping, order management, better navigation, improved organization of the online management features, increased security, a new template structure that allows for complete customization or use of standard templates, a thorough CSS implementation, a version upgrade manager, and many more features.

AgoraCart supporters and members may download a copy of the cart distribution and install file at http://www.AgoraCartPro.com in the members only download sections.

Release Candidate One only comes with the Offline payment gateway enabled. Other gateways are to be updated and added with each Release Candidate.

The final Version of AgoraCart 5.0.0 is slated for release in March 2006 and will be available for free download at http://www.AgoraCart.com .