X-Cart

1. Setup and Support

• No programming required
• Web-based installation wizard
• Complete store-builder package
• Easy-to-use web interface
• Export of X-Cart store data: config data, states, users, categories, products, destination zones, taxes, shipping rates, orders, membership levels, etc.
• Import of X-Cart store data: config data, states, users, categories, products, destination zones, taxes, shipping rates, membership levels, etc.
• Out-of-the-box storefront system
• Customizable localization: multi-language, configurable currency symbol and weight/dimension measurement units, configurable list of states/provinces
• Free customer support
• Free access to all future releases
• Built-in self-upgrade engine

2. Design and Layout

• 100% template-based storefront
• Fully customizable design & layout
• W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant code
• A choice from several pre-designed template schemes and color sets
• Intuitive navigation
• WYSIWYG editor for product/category/manufacturer descriptions, language variables and static pages
• Support for thumbnails
• Category thumbnail images
• Side-bar "mini-cart" viewable at all pages
• Build-in template editor: preview, edit and restore templates
• WYSIWYG text editor (webmaster mode)
• CSS-compatible design. Cascading Style Sheets allow you to easily change styling of your pages.
• Debug console: displays a tree of templates for all pages
• The possibility to find, create and modify static HTML pages
• Customizable heading tabs
• HTML emails

3. Customer Care

• All orders stored in MySQL database
• Customers can search & browse personal order history
• Integrated configurable store product search
• Real time order tracking
• Customer can choose between account registration and express checkout
• Fast Lane Checkout module for quick and intuitive checkout
• The possibility to disable checkout without registering
• Password reminder for customers
• Customizable e-mail notifications/invoices
• Wish list
• "Send to friend" section
• Ability to save the customer's cart
• Newsletter management for multiple lists, edit/import/export of subscribers, news archive for customers
• Printable versions of pages
• Multiple customer types w/unique pricing for every customer type
• Memberships and special pricing
• "Clear cart" button
• Edit product options in cart/wishlist/Gift registry wishlist
• Printable invoices
• Configurable contact form
• Second address line for user profiles
• Ability to change the order of products on the customer side

4. Product Catalog

• Unlimited number of products
• Unlimited number of categories
• Unlimited category nesting
• Products can be assigned to unlimited number of categories
• Ability to modify multiple products simultaneously
• Members-only categories
• "Featured Products" box
• Automated display of bestsellers
• Related products, up selling and cross selling
• 1-click enable/disable switch for products and categories
• Support for up to two different currencies in the products catalog (NOTE: payment processing is possible in one currency only!)
• Automatically currency conversion
• Configurable search by title, description, category, SKU, price and weight
• "Stop words filter" for product search facility (a special filter ensures that service and link words occurring in the search pattern are ignored when search by individual words is performed - available for English language only)

5. Product Details

• Unlimited product options/variants/properties w/optional price modifiers
• Unlimited custom input fields for products
• Customer-defined prices
• HTML-enriched product descriptions
• Unlimited number of product images
• Storing images in DB or on a file system
• List a product in several categories
• Manufacturers module
• Ability to display product detailed images in popup windows

6. Merchandising and Inventory

• Discount coupon codes and gift certificates
• Full inventory control
• "Out of Stock" Messages
• Quantity discounts
• Retail and wholesale price
• Limit minimal order amount

7. Shipping and Tax

• Real-time USPS, FedEx and UPS shipping calculation from one location
• Unlimited number of custom-defined delivery methods
• Flat rate, weight, order total and per-item based shipping
• Different weight limits for different delivery methods
• Markups for realtime shipping
• Mark your products as "free shipping" products
• Promotional "free shipping" coupons to your customers
• Add handling/freight charges
• Handle international, domestic and local shipping
• Ability to clone a zone and all zone information
• Restrict shipping by location
• Allow your customers to choose delivery methods
• Support for downloadable goods (e-goods)
• Customizable tax calculation
• Product-specific taxes
• Taxes & shipping fees depending on client's location
• "Tax exempt" feature
• GST/PST (Canadian tax system)
• Canada post shipping
• DHL (Airborne) ShipIt API support
• Australia Post's Delivery Rate Calculator support
• Shipping Label Generator for USPS and UPS
• Australia Post order tracking

8. Sales Analysis & Tracking

• Comprehensive statistics:
  • Number of orders
  • Number of customers
  • Product views
  • Category views
  • Products removed from cart by customers
  • Sales by product / best sellers
  • Total sales
  • Client environment settings
  • Statistics on search patterns customers use when searching products
• Searchable order data
• Order data is easy to print
• Printable shipping labels
• Automatic creation of shipping labels for orders intended to be shipped by USPS and UPS
• Search engine & incoming traffic tracker: the cart keeps referrer data for all customers
• Shipment/fulfillment interface
• Export sales & customer data for use in a spreadsheet
• Export orders to QuickBooks format

9. Payment Gateways & Methods

• Accept payments in any currency
• Allow payment via several online payment modules
• Payment systems (including PayPal payments)
• High variety of real-time credit card processors (over 100 payment gateways)
• Check processors
• Manual (offline) credit card processing
• PayPal payments
• Google Checkout as an alternative to X-Cart's standard checkout
• Predefined set of payment methods (offline): checks, purchase orders, phone orders, wire transfer and etc.

10. Search Engine Friendly

• Pages can be indexed by all major search engines
• Define custom META tags for every category
• Customer referrer info is stored in database
• Product catalog can be generated as static HTML pages for better SE indexing and ranking
• Search engine optimization options group

11. Database and Platform Compatibility

• Open source PHP code
• Support for UNIX/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X servers
• Powered by MySQL database
• Multi-language: your e-store can work with unlimited number of languages
• Multi-lingual products
• Multi-lingual categories
• Multi-lingual product options
• Payment processing modules for all major gateways
• Flexible implementation: you can easily add new features and/or disable existing ones.

12. Repeat Customer Accommodation

• All customer's data is stored in database
• Greet regular visitors
• Registered customers can be offered discounts
• Registered customers do not have to enter their data again
• Registered customers can edit their profile
• Registered customers can access history of their orders
• Built-in newsletter engine
• Real-time order tracking for registered customers
• Moderated product reviews and ratings
• Return Merchandise Authorization add-on to return customers' payments.

13. Web-based control panel

• Password-protected administrative access
• All changes are real-time
• Control the cart from anywhere in the world using your web browser
• Unlimited number of admin accounts
• Support for restricted "shipping/fulfillment" admin accounts
• User-defined date/time format
• Ability for administrator to act on behalf of other users (e.g. to place phone orders for customers and use X-Cart as web based point of sale system)

14. Security

• Full HTTPS/SSL support
• Secure HTTPS/SSL administrative access
• Password-protected administrative access
• Strong Blowfish encryption for sensitive customer data
• PGP-encrypted e-mail notifications
• Real-time security notifications of all failed login attempts
• Anti-Fraud module validates customer's address during checkout
• Stop list module allows disabling shop usage from specific IP
• Backup sub-system
• System fingerprints: ability to compare the status of the store files before and after modification and to discover which files have been deleted, added or modified
• Protect registration pages and e-mail forms with a random-number image