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.

Printable version 

General

Catalog & Storefront

Marketing & Promotion

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. Also, dozens of standard and customized reports available with Sales-n-Stats software
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)