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X-Cart: The ultimate PHP shopping cart software

X-Cart is an award winning ecommerce shopping cart software that has all of the necessary tools required to operate a successful ecommerce store. We help customers deploy this ecommerce shopping cart solution in days, we can do in three days, what will take those with no ecommerce experience weeks.

Here's a listing of some of the features that are built into X-Cart.

When creating X-Cart, we have included all the necessary tools required to build a successful ecommerce store. Plus, we are constantly improving and upgrading the software according to our clients requests. We have listed some of the features that are built into X-Cart for you below.

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Compare X-Cart Gold vs Pro

X-Cart GOLD vs X-Cart PRO: which one do you really need?

X-Cart Gold is a solution that allows selling products online. The products sold with the help of X-Cart Gold can be of your own production or made by third parties, however only one seller can access the cart back-end and operate the store. No third-party sellers are allowed.

X-Cart PRO, on the other hand, is a solution which allows multiple companies to sell their products online. So a store owner can let third-party sellers use the store. The store owner will be referred to as the administrator, while the third-party sellers are referred to as providers.

Feature	X-Cart Gold	X-Cart Pro
Front-end	The same shop for all products and categories. Customers shop through a single catalog.
Back-end	One store owner/administrator for an entire shop.	A store administrator with a separate back-end. Each provider has his or her own password-protected area to upload and maintain items and settings.
Orders	All orders go to the site owner.	Each provider gets orders only for his products. Respectively, after having placed a single order a customer gets separate invoices for the items supplied by each provider.
Payments	All payments go to the merchant account of the administrator.	All payments go to the merchant account of the administrator. The administrator can check the income of each provider at any time. The store administrator takes care of transferring funds to providers, controls the amounts due and actual funds transfers. Please note: X-Cart does not hold information on how much the administrator pays the providers. The deal is between the administrator and the provider.
Shipping	The administrator fully controls the shipping.	The administrator controls the list of available shipping methods and specifies whether real-time shipping cost estimation is enabled or not. Each provider defines rates for user-defined shipping methods and specifies the origin location for real-time shipping cost estimation via carrier companies (USPS, FedEx, UPS, DHL, Canada Post, Australia Post).
Taxes	The administrator fully controls the taxing system.	The administrator creates a list of tax types applicable to customer orders. Each provider assigns his or her own rates to the tax types which the store administrator has defined.
Price	$229.00	$575.00

X-Cart Feature Tour

Requirememts& Compatibility	Storefront	Customer Service
Setup & Support	Merchandising & Inventory	Administration
Configuration	Search Engine Optimization	Sales Analysis & Tracking

Hot X-Cart features

CSS-based software design
Unlimited product options/variants/properties
Multiple SEO tools
Lots of payment gateways (including Authorize/capture support)
Real-time USPS, FedEx and UPS shipping calculation
Dimensional per-provider shipping
Flexible tax calculation system

Although X-Cart is a turnkey ecommerce shopping cart that is ready to go online, it can be tailored to suite your business. Our development staff will be happy to discuss custom development services to suit your needs.

X-Cart Gold features

X-Cart Pro features

X-Cart Pro is an advanced edition of X-Cart Gold software designed to be operated in multi-vendor mode (though it has the ability to operate in single-vendor mode as well). X-Cart Pro allows multiple product providers (vendors) to share a single store for selling their products. Each provider manages his own products, orders, taxes, etc and is able to set their own shipping rates for pre-defined shipping methods independently of other providers. However the store has a joint catalog and a common checkout point, so the customer needs to place only one order. Customers see it like a single shop with different products, and they can purchase products from different providers at a time, and will get a notification from each provider they've bought products from. Respectively, each provider will get orders for his products only.

In summary X-Cart Pro extends features of X-Cart Gold by adding specific functionalities:

Unlimited number of isolated provider/seller accounts
Sellers/providers can edit only products belonging to them
Different providers/sellers can set their own shipping rates for pre-defined shipping methods
Admin account is separated from provider/seller accounts
Independent tax settings for providers/sellers

X-Cart Pro solution is ideal for:

Online store selling products from multiple suppliers.
Web-supermarket with several departments.
Online distributor/wholesaler.
Internet mall with joint catalog

X-Cart Pro is compatible with:

1. Setup and Support

No programming required
Web-based installation wizard
Complete store-builder package
Easy-to-use web interface
Export of X-Cart store data: config data, states, users, categories, products, destination zones, taxes, shipping rates, orders, membership levels, etc.
Import of X-Cart store data: config data, states, users, categories, products, destination zones, taxes, shipping rates, membership levels, etc.
Out-of-the-box storefront system
Customizable localization: multi-language, configurable currency symbol and weight/dimension measurement units, configurable list of states/provinces
Free access to all future releases

2. Design and Layout

16 skin templates available for free
100% template-based design with separate template sets for the storefront and back end
Fully customizable CSS-based design & layout
W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant code
Intuitive navigation
WYSIWYG editor for product/category/manufacturer descriptions, language variables and static pages
Automated product thumbnails generation with a sharpness filter
Category thumbnail images
Side-bar "mini-cart" viewable at all pages
Build-in template editor: preview, edit and restore templates
WYSIWYG text editor (webmaster mode)
Debug console: displays a tree of templates for all pages
The possibility to find, create and modify static HTML pages
Customizable heading tabs
HTML emails

3. Customer Care

All orders stored in MySQL database
Customers can search & browse personal order history
Integrated configurable store product search
Real time order tracking
Customer can choose between account registration and express checkout
Fast Lane Checkout module for quick and intuitive checkout
The possibility to disable checkout without registering
Password reminder for customers
Customizable e-mail notifications/invoices
Wish list
"Send to friend" section
Ability to save the customer's cart
Newsletter management for multiple lists, edit/import/export of subscribers, news archive for customers
Printable versions of pages
Multiple customer types w/unique pricing for every customer type
Memberships and special pricing
"Clear cart" button
Edit product options in cart/wishlist/Gift registry wishlist
Printable invoices
Configurable contact form
Second address line for user profiles
Ability to change the order of products on the customer side

4. Product Catalog

Unlimited number of products
Unlimited number of categories
Unlimited category nesting
Products can be assigned to unlimited number of categories
Ability to modify multiple products simultaneously
Members-only categories
"Featured Products" box
Automated display of bestsellers
Related products, up selling and cross selling
1-click enable/disable switch for products and categories
Support for up to two different currencies in the products catalog (NOTE: payment processing is possible in one currency only!)
Automatical currency conversion
Configurable search by title, description, category, SKU, price and weight
"Stop words filter" for product search facility (a special filter ensures that service and link words occurring in the search pattern are ignored when search by individual words is performed - available for English language only)

5. Product Details

Unlimited product options/variants/properties w/optional price modifiers
Unlimited custom input fields for products
Customer-defined prices
HTML-enriched product descriptions
Unlimited number of product images
Storing images in DB or on a file system
List a product in several categories
Manufacturers module
Ability to display product detailed images in popup windows

6. Merchandising and Inventory

Discount coupon codes and gift certificates
Full inventory control
"Out of Stock" Messages
Quantity discounts
Retail and wholesale price
Limit minimal order amount

7. Shipping and Tax

Real-time USPS, FedEx and UPS shipping calculation from one location
Unlimited number of custom-defined delivery methods
Flate rate, weight, order total and per-item based shipping
Different weight limits for different delivery methods
Markups for realtime shipping
Mark your products as "free shipping" products
Promotional "free shipping" coupons to your customers
Add handling/freight charges
Handle international, domestic and local shipping
Ability to clone a zone and all zone information
Restrict shipping by location
Allow your customers to choose delivery methods
Support for downloadable goods (e-goods)
Customizable tax calculation
Product-specific taxes
Taxes & shipping fees depending on client's location
"Tax exempt" feature
GST/PST (canadian tax system)
Canada post shipping
DHL (Airborne) ShipIt API support
Australia Post's Delivery Rate Calculator support
Shipping Label Generator for USPS and UPS
AustraliaPost order tracking

8. Sales Analysis & Tracking

Comprehensive statistics:
- Number of orders
- Number of customers
- Product views
- Category views
- Products removed from cart by customers
- Sales by product / best sellers
- Total sales
- Client environment settings
- Statistics on search patterns customers use when searching products
Searchable order data
Order data is easy to print
Printable shipping labels
Automatic creation of shipping labels for orders intended to be shipped by USPS and UPS
Search engine & incoming traffic tracker: the cart keeps referrer data for all customers
Shipment/fulfillment interface
Export sales & customer data for use in a spreadsheet
Export orders to QuickBooks format

9. Payment Gateways & Methods

Accept payments in any currency
Allow payment via several online payment modules
Payment systems (including PayPal payments)
High variety of real-time credit card processors (over 100 payment gateways)
Check processors
Manual (offline) credit card processing
PayPal payments
Google Checkout as an alternative to X-Cart's standard checkout
Predefined set of payment methods (offline): checks, purchase orders, phone orders, wire transfer and etc.
Authorize/Capture processing mode for several payment gateways

10. Search Engine Optimization

Pages can be indexed by all major search engines
Custom META tags for product, category and static pages
Custom URLs for product, category and static pages
Customer referrer info is stored in database
Product catalog can be generated as static HTML pages for better website performance
Search engine optimization options group
Page contents is placed at the top of the page HTML-code
Search Engine Friendly URLs for product, category and static pages

11. Database and Platform Compatibility

Open source PHP code
Support for UNIX/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X servers
Powered by MySQL database
Multi-language: your e-store can work with unlimited number of languages
Multi-lingual products
Multi-lingual categories
Multi-lingual product options
Payment processing modules for all major gateways
Flexible implementation: you can easily add new features and/or disable existing ones.

12. Repeat Customer Accommodation

All customer's data is stored in database
Greet regular visitors
Registered customers can be offered discounts
Registered customers do not have to enter their data again
Registered customers can edit their profile
Registered customers can access history of their orders
Built-in newsletter engine
Export of newsletter subscribers
Real-time order tracking for registered customers
Moderated product reviews and ratings
Return Merchandise Authorization add-on to return customers' payments.

13. Web-based control panel

Password-protected administrative access
All changes are real-time
Control the cart from anywhere in the world using your web browser
Unlimited number of admin accounts
Support for restricted "shipping/fulfillment" admin accounts
User-defined date/time format
Ability for administrator to act on behalf of other users (e.g. to place phone orders for customers and use X-Cart as web based point of sale system)

14. Security

Full HTTPS/SSL support
Secure HTTPS/SSL administrative access
Password-protected administrative access
Strong Blowfish encryption for sensitive customer data
PGP-encrypted e-mail notifications
Real-time security notifications of all failed login attempts
Anti-Fraud module validates customer's address during checkout
Stop list module allows disabling shop usage from specific IP
Backup sub-system
System fingerprints: ability to compare the status of the store files before and after modification and to discover which files have been deleted, added or modified
Protect registration pages and e-mail forms with a random-number image

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