Migrate Your Magento eCommerce Website To X-Cart
Get All the Functionality You Need for Only 1/4 of Your Ecommerce Budget
X-Cart is a super customizable and scalable eCommerce shopping cart designed to be your super-charged vehicle for growth. We offer a variety of packages to suit every business size and that range from Business for small companies to Ultimate for corporations. Best of all, you can begin with our starter plan and then seamlessly upgrade at any time as your business grows.
Switching From Magento to X-Cart Will Bring You
2x-2.5x speed improvement
Mobile and SEO readiness out-of-the-box
1-click app installs from built-in marketplace
Automated upgrades even for heavily customized websites
No limitations on number of products or revenue
24/7 customer and technical support for users of any X-Cart edition
Migrating From Magento to X-Cart – Everything You Need to Know
We have gathered all the information and outlined all of your options so you can make the best possible decision for your business when it comes to next steps.
The Basics
20+ Years of Experience
Released seven years prior to Magento, X-Cart is a mature shopping cart software with a solid background in eCommerce. It has been approved by over 38K business owners and developers from all over the globe.
75% More Affordable Than Any Other Tool Out There
X-Cart is four times more cost-effective to initially develop on, maintain, host, and customize when compared to Magento. Plus, there are no hidden fees that silently pop up during checkout. According to our internal math, launching an online store powered by X-Cart can save you up to $300K at the start, and $270 in the following years.
The lowest entry point for Magento’s Cloud Edition starts at 10K/month, making it undesirable for small and growing businesses. Costs that increase based upon yearly revenue and number of products can also make it difficult to stay winin budget.
Gain a 150% Performance Boost
Migrate products from Magento to X-Cart to double your store’s speed while staying on the same server hardware. This will inevitably result in better customer experience and higher positions in Google. Unlike X-Cart, Magento stores are often sluggish and easily slowed down, even on dedicated servers or with expensive hosting packages.
Customize Your Store to the Fullest
Thanks to our modular architecture, the X-Cart eCommerce platform is super easy to customize and tweak as you need. Neither the plan you are on nor the number of apps in the X-Cart Marketplace will ever limit your success. When you feel like you’ve outgrown your current eCommerce solution, you’ll be able to extend it with new addons or upgrade to the next plan with a single click.
Though Magento is also open-source and allows for customization, the process is in no way easy or obvious — even for experts. To create a beautiful website, you’ll either have to hire someone with profound knowledge of front and back end development, or invest much time developing your store yourself.
Though Magento is also open-source and allows for customization, the process is in no way easy or obvious even for experts. To create a beautiful website, you’ll either have to hire a whizz, the one with profound knowledge of front and back end development, or invest much time developing your store yourself.
Before moving to X-Cart 5, we investigated a few other options with other companies. However, we found that X-Cart was the most flexible and customizable shopping cart compared to the others.
SEO & Mobile
Finally Start Driving Organic Traffic to Your Store
It’s no secret that indexing is one of the biggest bottlenecks for Magento online stores. It is especially tricky and causes the most issues if you have a vast product catalog. The reason is that Magento has a bloated database with millions of records in its log tables, which is too much for an average online store. All that makes upgrades tedious and kills organic lead generation.
X-Cart stores are speedy and secure enough to compete in search engines. Magento to X-Cart migration is sure to bring you more organic traffic. To top it all, there is a bevy of tools for search engine optimization, including the ability to:
Set up SEO-friendly URLs
Tweak title, ALT, and meta elements
Check the overall SEO health of your website
Access robots.txt and XML sitemap, and allow Google to do the same
Use Google Analytics to track your website performance
Get Ready For the Mobile Era
Judging by the reviews, eCommerce retailers migrate their businesses to X-Cart in order to create mobile-friendly websites. X-Cart templates are ready for mobile out-of-the-box, satisfying both smartphone shoppers and search engines alike. Magento, by contrast, has poor optimization for mobile — websites are fast on PC but 3x slower on mobile.
We migrated to have a mobile-friendly store.
Look and Feel
Design the Perfect Look for Your Online Store Within Budget
Export your Magento store to X-Cart for a fully-responsive site that looks perfect on tablets, desktops, and mobile devices.
Magento offers a limited number of eCommerce themes, pricey at the very start (up to $499 for a single template), and getting even more expensive if you need to customize them to your unique business needs ($41K for web development).
Magento offers a limited number of eCommerce themes, which can be pricey at the very start (up to $499 for a single template), and get even more expensive if you want custom features for your unique business needs ($41K for web development).
Improve Workflow With Seamless Navigation
Export your Magento store to X-Cart to have a fully-responsive store that looks perfect on tablets, desktops, and mobiles.
Migrate Magento websites to X-Cart, and you’ll be able to create an enchanting journey for your customers. Even the default X-Cart eCommerce templates are designed with users (both shoppers and employees) in mind.
a) Genuinely intuitive storefront, checkout, category, and product pages create a seamless shopping journey.
b) Compared to Magento, X-Cart’s back office is easier to manage on a daily basis when adding products, creating new content pages, running sales, and more. This means your internal team can respond quicker and support initiatives without outside help.
a) A genuinely intuitive storefront, checkout, category, and product pages create a seamless shopping journey.
b) Compared to Magento, X-Cart back office is easier to manage on a daily basis when adding products, creating new content pages, running sales, and doing other stuff like that. This means your internal team can respond quicker and support initiatives without outside help.
Marketing
Enhance Your Store With Apps
There are 1.5K addons in the X-Cart marketplace, and while that’s less than what Magento offers, all of them are thoroughly tested and proven to work correctly with X-Cart. Most addons even include a free demo.
With almost 6K extensions in the Magento Marketplace, only a few hundreds are inbuilt (114 in Magento Commerce and 749 in Magento Community). The other 5,5K are from 3rd party developers, and most of them are of poor quality. Plus, they are rarely designed and tested to be performant with large catalogs. And even a tiny slip-up in extension development can result in performance disasters.
With almost 6K extensions in the Magento Marketplace, only a few hundreds are inbuilt (114 in Magento Commerce and 749 in Magento Community). The other 5.5K are from third party developers, and most of them are of poor quality. Plus, they are rarely designed and tested to be performant with large catalogs. This is concerning because even a tiny slip-up in extension development can result in performance disasters.
There are many third-party integrations, as well as out-of-the-box features that are included. If there is something missing, it is easy to work with their [X-Cart] development services to implement the change — and fairly reasonable pricing and timelines.
Catalog
eCommerce Platform For 1 Million+ SKUs Catalogs
X-Cart open-source shopping cart software gracefully handles large product catalogs while still keeping your store fast. Even if you upload millions of unique products with images, attributes, and inventory info, site performance and indexing won’t be affected.
Magento is the platform least prepared to handle big catalogs, especially Magento 1 and its Community Edition. To speed it up a bit, your developer will have to upgrade your hosting plan, customize your store heavily, and bring in third-party applications for better indexing, search, and caching. SEO issues may still remain, however.
Magento is the platform least prepared to handle big catalogs, especially Magento 1 and its Community Edition. To speed it up a bit, your developer will have to upgrade your hosting plan, customize your store heavily, and bring in third-party applications for better indexing, search, and caching. SEO issues may still remain, however.
Boost Conversions 2-3x With Faceted Search
Migrate from Magento to X-Cart to impress your shoppers with better search and filtering. Magento’s search function tends to be slow and resource-greedy, and its accuracy and relevance also leave much to be desired. You can potentially replace the default search with third party addons, but that requires a good bit of coding and costs $648/year.
Hosting
Cut Your Hosting Expenses in Half
X-Cart PHP shopping cart is several steps ahead of Magento when it comes to server resource usage. Unlike Magento, it requires 20% fewer resources from the server, which is rather cost-effective. Installed on our VPS hosting, X-Cart stores show even better results. Why? We host X-Cart and X-Cart only, hence the finely-tuned hosting environment that ensures the maximum performance of our shopping solution.
Magento, on the contrary, requires their customers to host elsewhere. And, due to Magento’s extensive server requirements, this is often very costly. Running Magento stores definitely needs more resources, including a dedicated VPS hosting with plenty of memory and a multi-core CPU. Also, a multi-node server installation may be necessary to handle the load.
We tried other hosting solutions, and when we moved it to the X-Cart platform, one-speed differences were extreme, to say the least — 2-3 times as fast.
Magento requires 2-3 times more resources to run, which results in hosting costs following suit (resulting in 2-3 times the original cost).
Customer Support & Maintenance
Get Professional Help When You Feel You Need It
Switch from Magento to X-Cart to get access to a catch-all customer support service from X-Cart platform developers. Though support is included in Magento’s Cloud Commerce edition, it is limited to the core issues and can be quite costly. Magento’s CE store owners get no support whatsoever. You’ll have to hire a third-party developer.
X-Cart has 100+ in-house eCommerce specialists, who are more dependable than any third-party agency. Technical support is included in the hosting fees and, if bought separately, is quite affordable, too. When migrating your Magento store to X-Cart, you get three months of free post-launch support as a bonus.
They deliver on all the deadlines, and they solve my issues and handle my questions almost around the clock.
Receive Regular Updates and Install Them in a Few Clicks
X-Cart shopping solution is way easier to maintain even after it is heavily customized. Upgrades are well-oiled and done in just a couple of clicks. With Magento, you risk falling out of the upgrade path due to its complex and troublesome upgrade process. This is probably why only 5-10% of Magento stores are being upgraded, compared to 80% of X-Cart’s.
X-Cart makes it extremely easy to upgrade, whereas, in Magento, the costs are extremely high since a third party developer has to get involved.
Enjoy One-Click App Installs
Whenever you need another app, feel free to install it from our built-in App Store. No coding needed.
Ensure Your Store Is Up 99% of the Time
Compared to Magento, X-Cart’s shopping platform is more stable — and that’s a fact. If you happen to encounter an issue, our 24/7 support team is ready and waiting to fix it. A well-established troubleshooting process also means you’ll have better performance and longevity. Not only is Magento slow at solving bugs, but it’s also tricky to develop, and finding a decent Magento developer is next to impossible.
As far as stability, there isn’t a platform that’s 100% stable. That’s impossible, but the ability for the client and I to reach out to the X-Cart team to report bugs is a plus, whereas Magento support not only ridiculously expensive, but I’ve dealt with them, and they are terrible at coming to a solution.
X-Cart vs Magento [Q&A]
Migration to X-Cart won’t take more than a month — compared to three months with Magento.
Note: Your store will be up throughout the whole Magento data migration process. Switching DNS records, however, takes a while. No matter where you head, be it Magento 2, or Shopify, or X-Cart, you’ll have to spare at least a couple of hours or more for the changes to propagate. It’s a necessary evil 🙂
It’s not. However, there’s a downloadable edition for developers that you may use for 30 days free of charge. You’ll have to host it somewhere, though, at least locally. You can also schedule a free X-Cart demo with our solution advisors and get a definitive tour of the key features. This will help you get a clear picture of what our shopping cart looks like from the inside and make the right decision.
Data migration is way more comfortable if you have a clear plan. This step-by-step guide will explain how you can migrate to X-Cart in five easy steps.
Sure. X-Cart data transfer can be performed with a store migration app — either by Cart2Cart or the one by LitExtension. However, our team can migrate data from your Magento store to X-Cart better and more carefully. Due to the established workflow, migration is performed at a price that is lower than the one charged by automated shopping cart migration services.
Below are the things the Magento to X-Cart migration app can transfer automatically. Our replatforming experts can migrate everything — including custom-developed design and features — with professional support and post-launch testing.
What is migrated automatically:
Categories
Orders
Languages
Migrating from Magento to X-Cart
Replatforming your Magento store with X-Cart will double your site’s speed speed and save both time and money. Get feature-rich, fast, mobile-ready software, plus live customer and technical support for users of any X-Cart edition.
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