Actinic Business is a highly functional and feature-rich out-of-the-box online business system. It has very flexible design engine which allows easy integration of available solutions. Also it has very rich import/export and integrative features.

Still, the main problem is that this product is extremely overpriced according to the current ecommerce market standards. And thats not where the problem ends. Since this product is not open sources, you will be unable to modify it to suit your needs as the support service is very poor and no custom development services are available. Most of extra features available in Actinic (and any other functionality you may need) can be developed by our team in a short time and with much less expenses. X-Cart also offers many ready-made add-on modules and design schemas at very affordable prices.

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General

Catalog & Storefront

Marketing & Promotion

Store operation

Features	Actinic	X-Cart
Support for downloadable egoods
Affiliate system	Available	X-Affiliate add-on
Real time shipping rates calculation	UPS, USPS	UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL/Airborne, Intershipper, Canada Post (see X-Cart Feature Tour: Real-time USPS, FedEx and UPS shipping calculation)
Product export/import feature	Product & customers export/import via database, XML or CSV/Excel file format	Product export/import via database or CSV/Excel file format
Moderated product reviews and ratings	Not available	Yes, (see X-Cart Feature Tour: Moderated product reviews and ratings)
Statistics tools	Reports on products, sections, orders	General statistics and shop summary, Shop statistics, Top Paths Through Site, Top Pages Views, Shopping Cart Conversion Funnel, Log in history, Visitors environment statistics, Search statistics, Google Analytics integration. Also, dozens of standard and customized reports available with Sales-n-Stats software
Taxes	Various tax zones for different geographical zones, tax-inclusive and tax-exclusive prices	US states with counties support, EU VAT, UK VAT, Canadian PST/GST, Australian PST (see X-Cart Feature tour: Customizable tax calculation
Orders management	Order statuses, notifications, export of order details, order details editing	Order status system, automated order notifications, automated and manual credit card processing, order search, X-AOM add-on for complete management of all order details and order history
Inventory tracking	Stock availability report, bestsellers, number of products in stock, low stock level for every product	Reports for number of orders, number of products, product/category views sorted by date period, bestsellers, bulk inventory update, Out of stock messages, number of products in stock for every item (see X-Cart Feature Tour: Sales Analysis & Tracking)
Security	SSL/HTTPS support	Full HTTPS/SSL support Encrypted customer data (Blowfish encryption) PGP-encrypted e-mail notifications Customer/admin access restriction by IP Anti-Fraud module (see X-Cart Feature Tour: Security)