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X-Cart Ecommerce Shopping Cart Software


X-Cart is the time-proven shopping cart software trusted by thousands of successful business owners worldwide. It is a fully-featured, extremely advanced ecommerce solution for those who require highly functional and robust shopping cart software.

X-Cart is template based software with open source code. This means you can modify look, feel and functionality of the shopping cart the way you need should you require any business specific features.

Streamline your role as X-Cart Administrator and enhance your customer's online shopping experience with our huge selection of X-Cart Mods and Add-Ons. Learn more here.



X-Cart Gold v4.2.0 Demonstration

Try out X-Cart yourself using the demonstration stores below. There are also numerous add-on features that you can explore. No real products. No real charges. Feel free to place an order. Using the test accounts you can add/delete/modify products and edit the store configuration as you like. Please take into account that the original configuration is restored every 120 minutes.

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X-Cart Features


1. Setup and Support

1 No programming required
1 Web-based installation wizard
1 Complete store-builder package
1 Easy-to-use web interface
1 Export of X-Cart store data: config data, states, users, categories, products, destination zones, taxes, shipping rates, orders, membership levels, etc.
1 Import of X-Cart store data: config data, states, users, categories, products, destination zones, taxes, shipping rates, membership levels, etc.
1 Out-of-the-box storefront system
1 Customisable localisation: multi-language,

      configurable currency symbol and

      weight/dimension measurement units,

      configurable list of states/provinces
1 Free access to all future releases

2. Design and Layout

1 100% template-based design with separate template sets for the storefront and back end
1 Fully customisable CSS-based design & layout
1 W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant code
1 Intuitive navigation
1 WYSIWYG editor for product/category/manufacturer descriptions, language variables and static pages
1 Automated product thumbnails generation with a sharpness filter
1 Category thumbnail images
1 Side-bar "mini-cart" viewable at all pages
1 Build-in template editor: preview, edit and

      restore templates
1 WYSIWYG text editor (webmaster mode)
1 Debug console: displays a tree of

      templates for all pages
1 The possibility to find, create and modify

      static HTML pages
1 Customisable heading tabs
1 HTML emails

3. Customer Care

1 All orders stored in MySQL database
1 Customers can search & browse personal order history
1 Integrated configurable store product

      search
1 Real time order tracking
1 Customer can choose between account

      registration and express checkout
1 The possibility to disable checkout without

      registering
1 Password reminder for customers
1 Customisable e-mail notifications/invoices
1 Wish list
1 "Send to friend" section
1 Ability to save the customer's cart
1 Newsletter management for multiple lists,

      edit/import/export of subscribers, news

      archive for customers
1 Printable versions of pages
1 Multiple customer types with unique pricing

      for every customer type
1 Memberships and special pricing
1 "Clear cart" button
1 Edit product options in cart/wishlist/Gift

      Registry wishlist
1 Printable invoices
1 Configurable contact form
1 Second address line for user profiles
1 Ability to change the order of products on

      the customer side

4. Product Catalog

1 Unlimited number of products
1 Unlimited number of categories
1 Unlimited category nesting
1 Products can be assigned to unlimited

      number of categories
1 Ability to modify multiple products

      simultaneously
1 Members-only categories
1 "Featured Products" box
1 Automated display of bestsellers
1 Related products, up selling and cross

      selling
1 1-click enable/disable switch for products

      and categories
1 Support for up to two different currencies in the products catalog
(NOTE: payment processing is possible in one currency only!)
1 Automatic currency conversion
1 Configurable search by title, description,

      category, SKU, price and weight
1 "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

1 Unlimited product options/variants/

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

6. Merchandising and Inventory


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

1 Real-time USPS, FedEx and UPS shipping

     calculation from one location
1 Unlimited number of custom-defined

      delivery methods
1 Flat rate, weight, order total and per-item

      based shipping
1 Different weight limits for different

      delivery methods
1 Markups for realtime shipping
1 Mark your products as "free shipping"

      products
1 Promotional "free shipping" coupons to

      your customers
1 Add handling/freight charges
1 Handle international, domestic and local

      shipping
1 Ability to clone a zone and all zone

      information
1 Restrict shipping by location
1 Allow your customers to choose delivery

      methods
1 Support for downloadable goods

      (e-goods)
1 Customisable tax calculations
1 Product-specific taxes
1 Taxes & shipping fees depending on

      client's location
1 "Tax exempt" feature
1 GST/PST (canadian tax system)
1 Canada post shipping
1 DHL (Airborne) ShipIt API support
1 Australia Post's Delivery Rate Calculator support
1 Shipping Label Generator for USPS and UPS
1 Australia Post order tracking

8. Sales Analysis & Tracking

1 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
1 Searchable order data
1 Order data is easy to print
1 Printable shipping labels
1 Automatic creation of shipping labels for orders intended to be shipped by USPS and UPS
1 Search engine & incoming traffic tracker:

      the cart keeps referrer data for all

      customers
1 Shipment/fulfillment interface
1 Export sales & customer data for use in a

      spreadsheet
1 Export orders to QuickBooks format

9. Payment Gateways & Methods

1 Accept payments in any currency
1 Allow payment via several online payment

      modules
1 Payment systems (including PayPal

      payments)
1 High variety of real-time credit card

      processors (over 100 payment gateways)
1 Cheque processors
1 Manual (offline) credit card processing
1 PayPal payments
1 Google Checkout as an alternative to X-Cart's standard checkout
1 Predefined set of payment methods

      (offline): cheques, money orders, direct

      debit, phone orders, etc

10. Search Engine Friendly

1 Pages can be indexed by all major search

      engines
1 Custom META tags for product, category and static pages
1 Customer referrer information is stored in

      database
1 Product catalog can be generated as static

      HTML pages for better seacrh engine

      indexing and ranking
1 Search engine optimisation options group
1 Page contents is placed at the top of the page HTML-code
1 Search Engine Friendly URLs for product, category and static pages

11. Database and Platform Compatibility

1 Open source PHP code
1 Support for UNIX/Linux, Windows and Mac

      OS X servers
1 Powered by MySQL database
1 Multi-language: your e-store can work with

      unlimited number of languages
1 Multi-lingual products
1 Multi-lingual categories
1 Multi-lingual product options
1 Payment processing modules for all major

      gateways
1 Flexible implementation: you can easily

      add new features and/or disable existing

      ones

12. Repeat Customer Accommodation

1 All customer's data is stored in database
1 Greet regular visitors
1 Registered customers can be offered

      discounts
1 Registered customers do not have to

      enter their data again
1 Registered customers can edit their profile
1 Registered customers can access history

     of their orders
1 Built-in newsletter engine
1 Export of newsletter subscribers
1 Real-time order tracking for registered

      customers
1 Moderated product reviews and ratings
1 Return Merchandise Authorisation add-on

      to return customers' payments

13. Web-based control panel

1 Password-protected administrative access
1 All changes are real-time
1 Control the cart from anywhere in the

      world using your web browser
1 Unlimited number of admin accounts
1 Support for restricted "shipping/fulfillment"

      admin accounts
1 User-defined date/time format
1 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

1 Full HTTPS/SSL support
1 Secure HTTPS/SSL administrative access
1 Password-protected administrative access
1 Strong Blowfish encryption for sensitive customer data
1 PGP-encrypted e-mail notifications
1 Real-time security notifications of all failed

      login attempts
1 Anti-Fraud module validates customer's

      address during checkout
1 Stop list module allows disabling shop

      usage from specific IP
1 Backup sub-system
1 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
1 Protect registration pages and e-mail forms with a random-number image