MonsterCommerce is one of the best-known hosted shopping cart solutions. It means that you'll receive completely pre-setup hosted ecommerce system with ready hosting solution and turn-key installation.

However, such approach may cause many problems. Hosted software for online business is less configurable, has more strict capacity and customization limitations. Theres also a very high monthly fee. Instead, our product, X-Cart, requires only one-time license fee and it can be hosted either by one of the affordable recommended hosting companies or at your own compatible hosting space. Thus you are not tied to the platform and hosting provider. Besides, you do not have to publish X-Cart labels and advertisements on your storefront.

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General

Catalog & Storefront

Marketing & Promotion

Store operation

Features	MonsterCommerce	X-Cart
Support for downloadable egoods
Affiliate system	Only third-party affiliate programs	X-Affiliate add-on
Real time shipping rates calculation	UPS, FedEx & USPS calculations	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	Ability to import the existing database	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	Search terms analysis, traffic reports, total sales by payment type, total shipping charges	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	Tax calculation by state or country, free shipping, ship by price or weight	US states with counties support, EU VAT, UK VAT, Canadian PST/GST, Australian PST (see X-Cart Feature tour: Customizable tax calculation
Orders management	Inventory control, backorders and partial shipments allowed	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	Live order tracking, order history, automated confirmation emails, bestsellers	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	Full HTTPS/SSL support All data is stored in database	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)