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AgoraCart vs. X-Cart

Revision date: Dec 21, 2006

AgoraCart is a free shopping cart software with a long history. There are many storefronts based on this ecommerce solution and the community of users is quite large and active. This ecommerce software is constantly developing and the new releases become available several times a year.

Free products for online business like AgoraCart can be fine solution for the beginners and for small e-shops with few products, limited needs and functionality. However, this software can hardly win in comparison with more complex shopping cart solutions.

General

Features AgoraCart X-Cart
License fee Free USD 229.00
Trial period Unlimited 30 days
Technical support No authorized technical support service. Only forums and online articles. Authorized technical support service, forums, knowledge base in the Private Members Area
Turn-key installation service Only third-party services Authorized installation service
Authorized hosting solution Not available X-Cart hosting, wide range of recommended hosting companies
Authorized design and development services Only third-party services Comes with 100% of source code out of the box, Custom development services
and web design services

Catalog & Storefront

Features AgoraCart X-Cart
Number of products in catalogue Unlimited Unlimited
Storefront customization Only header and footer are 100% customizable, only basic design scheme changes via admin interface, more complex changes require source code modifications, no standard support for CSS included 100% template-based storefront, 100% CSS-based skin, separate template sets for storefront and back-end, fully customizable menus, customizable heading tabs, customizable heading tabs, changing templates text via browser (webmaster mode), built-in text editor, debug console, ability to create embedded static HTML pages
Multi-language support Not available Product descriptions, store interface, e-mail messages completely multi-lingual
Extended product specifications Product options Extra fields, product options, product variants
(see X-Cart Feature Tour: Products management),
Feature comparison add-on

Marketing & Promotion

Features AgoraCart X-Cart
SEO Tools No built-in configurable components Static HTML catalog
Dynamic "clean" URLs support
Meta tags and URL definition
for individual pages
Referrer statistics for search engines
SEO options group
Marketing and promotion tools Discounts, Featured products Coupons, Gift Certificates, Discounts,
(see X-Cart Feature Tour: Merchandising & inventory, Featured products, Upselling products
X-Specialoffers add-on

Store operation

Features AgoraCart X-Cart
Support for downloadable egoods
Affiliate system Add-on available X-Affiliate add-on
Real time shipping rates calculation UPS, USPS, FedEx 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 database import/export 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 No built-in components 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.
Taxes Manual taxes configuration based on location US states with counties support, EU VAT, UK VAT, Canadian PST/GST, Australian PST
(see X-Cart Feature tour: Customizable tax calculation
Orders management Automated order notifications, automated and manual credit card processing, only manual order processing supported 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 Number of each item in stock 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 Encrypted customer data, PGP-encrypted e-mail notifications, Stop list can be implemented only by manual editing of .htaccess 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)


Revision date: Dec 21, 2006
      
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