Feature tour

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. If you are not sure what some features do, why not sign up for our free evaluation version and try it all for yourself?

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• What's new in X-Cart v4.4
  • Improved and re-organozed admin back-end
  • Google maps for shipping and billing addresses
  • Build-in modules: X-Affiliate, X-Configurator, X-FeatureComparison, X-GiftRegistry, X-SpecialOffers, X-Magnifier, and X-Survey
  • Build-in connector for X-Payments PA-DSS certified solution
  • Build-in MailChimp integration
  • XML sitemap
  • ZIP+4 support for US customers
  • E-mail can be used for login
  • Address book for customers
  • "My account" section for customers
  • Customers can now view Product map, which includes all the products alphabetically
  • Pre-login shipping calculator
  • One page AJAX checkout
  • A customer can leave notes, subscribe for your newsletters, and accept your terms and conditions during checkout
  • Tracking of percentage comisisons paid to providers (X-Cart Pro only)
  • Hot skin changer
  • X-Cart v4.4 can change skins on the fly without copying over files
• How to offer free shipping
  • Mark some products as "free shipping" ones
  • Free shipping through X-SpecialOffer build-in module
  • Promotional "free shipping" coupons to your customers
• X-Cart installation
• Customers experience. Part 1
  • E-mail can use as login
  • Registered customers can edit their profiles, use addressbook to manage their shipping and billing addresses, can browse their order history, print out order receipts, create return requests
  • Admin can issue credits for returned products
  • X-Cart converts a credit to A Gift Certificate and sends it to the email address of the customer
  • Customers ca choose between account registration and express checkout
  • Password reminder for customers
  • Greet Visitor module
  • Customers can post feedbacks about products
  • Admin ca edit product ratings and reviews
• Storefront Design and Layout. Part 1
  • Hot skin changer: you can change build-in X-Cart skins "on the fly"
  • X-Cart is fully compliant with the XHTML 1.0 Transitional W3C standard
  • X-Cart design is 100% template-based. This means you can customize your online store, making it exactly what you want it to be
  • All the templates are grouped into separate folders. You can manage template files and folders right in the admin back-end.
  • You can use built-in template editor for customizing X-Cart templates or download template files and edit them using some plain text editor.
  • Accidentally broken templates can be restored from backup copies
  • X-Cart has CSS-compatible design. Cascading Style Sheets allow you to change easily style of your pages
  • Webmaster mode is very convenient for editing texts in X-Cart templates.
  • You can change texts in X-Cart templates in WYSIWYG mode
  • Changing a text label used in many places of storefront you change it in every place where it appears.
• Customers experience. Part 2
  • Customers can add products to their wish lists and create gift registries
  • Customers can get a variety of discounts and bonuses under certain conditions
  • One page AJAX checkout
  • Customers can subscribe to the news lists in which they are interested
  • All store visitors can subscribe to newsletters in the 'News' section
  • Registered customers can also subscribe to newsletters in their accounts
  • Products Map
  • Printable versions of pages
  • Customers can send information about products to their friends, ask the store admin a question about a particular product right from its page, submit messages to the store's Help/Support department via customizable Contact Us form
• Storefront. Design and Layout. Part 2
  • You can create informational ("static") pages embed them into your X-Cart based store keeping design "look'n'feel"
  • Each informational ("static") page can have page title and meta-tags for better SEO
  • Customizable heading tabs - You can configure shortcuts to the most important pages of your store to be displayed at the top of your customers front-end.
  • X-Cart can send messages in either plain text or HTML
  • E-mail notifications are controlled via template files as well as X-Cart storefront. This means you can change their layout, colors, fonts, etc.
  • X-Cart allows using HTML tags in product descriptions.
  • Also you can use built-in WYSIWYG editor to create and edit product description. Similar functionality as available for category and manufacturer descriptions.
• Payment gateways and methods
  • X-Cart provides a set of "offline" payment methods: checks, purchase orders, phone orders, wire transfer, etc
  • X-Cart can integrate with over 100 payment gateways out of the box
  • You can provide your customers with a choice of payment methods
  • You can define a surcharge for any payment method
  • You can grant access to some payment methods to customers with certain membership
  • X-Cart integrates with over 100 online credit card processors, payment systems and check processors
  • X-Cart supports Authorize/Capture processing mode for some payment gateways
  • X-Cart can accept payments in any currency
  • X-Cart integrates with PayPal methods
  • PayPal Express Checkout is available in addition to standard X-Cart Checkout
  • Other PayPal methods are available during standard X-Cart checkout flow
  • Google Checkout
  • Checkout by Amazon
• Product Catalog. Part 1
  • Unlimited products and categories
  • Members only products and categories
  • Featured products
  • Bestsellers
  • Upselling/cross-selling/related products
  • Search
  • Product lists sorting
  • Recently viewed products
• Merchandising and Inventory management
  • Inventory tracking
  • "Out of Stock" messages
  • Minimum order quantity on a per product basis
  • "Low limit in stock" warnings to orders department
  • Global purchase discounts
  • Discount coupon codes
  • Wholesale prices
  • Gift Certificates
  • Gift Certificate can be used as payment method
  • Egoods
• Product Catalog. Part 2
  • Manufacturers
  • Detailed images
  • X-Magnifier build-in module
• Multiple languages
  • Support for unlimited number of languages
  • Multi-lingual products
  • Multi-lingual categories
  • Multi-lingual product options
  • Import/export of multi-lingual data
• Users management
  • You can search users by various criteria
  • Users can be imported/exported
  • You define what information to collect in users' profiles
  • You can control address books of your users
  • You can operate as a customer from the admin back-end
• SEO features
  • Page title nad meta tags
  • Clean URLs
  • XML and HTML sitemaps
  • HTML catalog
  • Froogle/GoogleBase
• Orders management
  • You can view information about new orders
  • You can search for orders by certain criteria
  • You can print a receipt, view history of changes, see where a customer is located on the map, modify details of an order, add more products, change customer information, change other order details
  • You can put tracking id for shipped orders
  • You can print receipts foe multiple orders at a time as well as packing labels
  • Orders can be exported in multiple formats
  • A customer can track delivery for his/her orders
• Statistics in X-Cart v4.4.x
  • Dashboard shows quick info about sales and top sellers
  • Summary page gives overview of your entire shop state
  • Advanced Statistics module collects information about your shop
  • X-Cart integrates with Google Analytics for advanced web-site stats
• Custom-defined shipping estimation
  • Unlimited number of custom-defined delivery methods
  • Flat rate, weight, order total and per-item based shipping
  • Different weight limits for different delivery methods
  • Add handling/freight charges
  • Handle international, domestic and local shipping
  • Restrict shipping by location
  • Allow your customers to choose delivery methods
  • Pre-login estimator
• Some X-Cart admin back-end features overview
  • Web-based control panel
  • Password-protected administrative access
  • Intrusion detection system which notifies a store administrator if some one fails to log in
  • All the changes are applied in real time
  • Unlimited number of admin accounts
  • Support for restricted "shipping/fulfillment" admin accounts
  • A "fulfillment staff" administrator has access only to orders and statistics
  • Primary and alternative currency
  • Ability to temporary close the store front
  • 1-click enable/disable switch for products and categories
  • Ability to modify multiple products simultaneously
  • View customer wish lists
  • The store administrator can temporarily disable accounts of users
  • X-Cart allows your to compare the status of the store files before and after modification
  • X-Cart has the ability to keep logs of errors and other information about the store functioning
• Membership levels and wholesale prices
  • How to configure bulk pricing discounts and membership pricing
    in X-Cart v4.4.x
• Real-time shipping calculation
  • UPS
  • USPS
  • FedEx
  • DHL/Airborne
  • Australia Post
  • Canada Post
  • test real-time shipping estimation
  • Dimensional shipping
  • Shipping Label Generator for USPS and UPS
  • Markups for realtime shipping
  • Intershipper hub service
• Tax system overview
  • Customizable tax calculation
  • Product-specific taxes
  • Taxes depending on client's location
  • "Tax exempt" feature
  • import/export taxes
• X-Configurator built-in module
  • X-Configurator simplifies the process of creating and tracking made-to-order products with many interchangeable or optional components.
• How to make a product with options/variants
  • Product options
  • Product variants with their own SKU, image, weight, price
  • Product modified
  • Customization text fields

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.