About Us

Greater Vision, based near Cape Town in the Western Cape, has been established as the exclusive South African Distributor for Actinic Ecommerce software solutions. Actinic are based in West Byfleet, Surrey, England.

Founded in July 1996, Actinic® is a company focused on developing ecommerce software. Actinic specialises in leading edge solutions for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that want to sell online. These are sold through channel partners including web designers and developers, Internet Service Providers, web hosts and traditional IT VARs.

Actinic products are boxed software solutions for setting up and managing a secure online store. They combine a desktop application with server software, which provides a powerful and familiar PC-based user interface.

The flagship product, Actinic Developer is a development tool for commercial web designers who deploy ecommerce solutions for SMEs and need an interface to Dreamweaver. For merchants Actinic offers Actinic Catalog®: a complete business-to-consumer ecommerce solution with catalogue, shopping cart, ordering, payment, security and order processing included as standard. Building on Catalog's functionality, Actinic Business® is a more sophisticated application for those wanting to integrate ecommerce and back-end systems. It is suitable for those selling B2B and/or B2C. Digital Download is an add-ons for Business, which enables stores to sell downloadable products like music, ebooks, films, etc. Users can obtain annual maintenance via purchase of Actinic Cover.

Actinic, recognised as the UK ecommerce software market leader, is used on many thousands of live sites in 40 countries. Some of Actinic's better known UK users include the Royal Opera House, Land of Leather, Lloyds of London, The British Library, Oxford University, Bill Wyman, Royal Navy, Help the Aged, Royal National Institute for Deaf People, Sunningdale Golf Club, Kangaroo Poo, Devon and Moray County Councils and many more.