SunShop is the shopping cart software from the same price range as X-Cart. This product is very flexible if we speak about storefront design, taxes, shipping and many other features. The company which sells this ecommerce platform also offers a good range of services such as design, web development etc.

There are some weak sides, still: only one recommended web hosting solution which is quite expensive, no availability for additional skins and plug-ins, quite poor statistics system. Also, theres only a flat-rate support subscription for general questions while small modifications require separate development projects. Upgrades are also paid after 1-year period.

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General

Catalog & Storefront

Marketing & Promotion

Store operation

Features	SunShop	X-Cart
Support for downloadable egoods	Add unlimited downloads to each product
Affiliate system	Available	X-Affiliate add-on
Real time shipping rates calculation	USPS, UPS, Australia Post, InterShipper, FedEx, DHL, Canada Post	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 import/export via CSV with custom field order	Product export/import via database or CSV/Excel file format
Moderated product reviews and ratings	Edit/Delete product reviews	Yes, (see X-Cart Feature Tour: Moderated product reviews and ratings)
Statistics tools	Transaction reports for products, clients, regions	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	Separate tax rates for each area, add handling charges, set product specific shipping costs	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 status system, order notifications, order search, automated and manual CC processing	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 products in stock, transaction reports	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	HTTP and HTTPS support SSL support Encrypted sensitive information	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)