Shopping cart software used worldwide. Web-based administrator area and installation wizard make setup and maintenance of the shopping cart as easy as point and click.
No PHP or other programming knowledge is required to set up and run a world class online store.

X-Cart is template based software with open source code. This means you can modify the look & feel and functionality of the shopping cart the way you need should you require any business specific features.

The software has no logical limitations on the number of products. The code is optimized for smooth performance with up to 20 000 products. Due to the fact that performance depends on server configuration special hardware and software optimization allows X-Cart to run with up to 500 000 products.

X-Cart Overview and X-Cart Features - Videos on YouTube.

Wide range of ecommerce features

• Flexible “tableless” design
• Easy text content modification using WYSIWYG tools
• SEO friendly product catalog
• Web-based administration
• Online Payment Gateways support
• Real-time shipping cost estimation based on product dimensions
• Inventory management
• Full multilanguage support
• Reports management
• 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

Design and Layout

• 18 skin templates available for free
• 100% template-based design with separate template sets for the storefront and back end
• Fully customizable CSS-based design & layout
• W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant code
• Intuitive navigation
• CKEditor, TinyMCE, and InnovaStudio WYSIWYG editors for product/category/manufacturer descriptions, language variables and static pages
• Automated product thumbnails generation with a sharpness filter
• Category thumbnail images
• AJAX-powered “mini-cart” visible on all pages
• Flyout and expanding Categories menu
• Build-in template editor: preview, edit and restore templates
• WYSIWYG text editor (webmaster mode)
• 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

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

for more info vist www.X-Cart.com.

We are not affiliate with x-cart.

What is eCommerce and Shopping cart software?

Electronic commerce, commonly known as (electronic marketing) e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. The amount of trade conducted electronically has grown extraordinarily with widespread Internet usage. The use of commerce is conducted in this way, spurring and drawing on innovations in electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web at least at some point in the transaction’s life cycle, although it can encompass a wider range of technologies such as e-mail as well.

A large percentage of electronic commerceis conducted entirely electronically for virtual items such as access to premium content on a website, but most electronic commerce involves the transportation of physical items in some way. Online retailers are sometimes known as e-tailers and online retail is sometimes known as e-tail. Almost all big retailers have electronic commerce presence on the World Wide Web.

Electronic commerce that is conducted between businesses is referred to as business-to-business or B2B. B2B can be open to all interested parties (e.g. commodity exchange) or limited to specific, pre-qualified participants (private electronic market). Electronic commerce that is conducted between businesses and consumers, on the other hand, is referred to as business-to-consumer or B2C. This is the type of electronic commerce conducted by companies such as Amazon.com.

Electronic commerce is generally considered to be the sales aspect of e-business. It also consists of the exchange of data to facilitate the financing and payment aspects of the business transactions.

What is shopping cart software?
Shopping cart software is software used in e-commerce to assist people making purchases online, analogous to the American English term ‘shopping cart’. In British English it is generally known as a shopping basket, almost exclusively shortened on websites to ‘basket’.

The software allows online shopping customers to accumulate a list of items for purchase, described metaphorically as “placing items in the shopping cart”. Upon checkout, the software typically calculates a total for the order, including shipping and handling (i.e. postage and packing) charges and the associated taxes, as applicable.

Timeline
1979: Online shopping was invented in the UK by Michael Aldrich.
1982: Minitel was introduced nationwide in France by France Telecom and used for online ordering.
1987: Swreg begins to provide software and shareware authors means to sell their products online through an electronic Merchant account.
1990: Tim Berners-Lee writes the first web browser, WorldWideWeb, using a NeXT computer.
1992: J.H. Snider and Terra Ziporyn publish Future Shop: How New Technologies Will Change the Way We Shop and What We Buy. St. Martin’s Press. ISBN 0312063598.
1994: Netscape releases the Navigator browser in October under the code name Mozilla. Pizza Hut offers pizza ordering on its Web page. The first online bank opens. Attempts to offer flower delivery and magazine subscriptions online. Adult materials also become commercially available, as do cars and bikes. Netscape 1.0 is introduced in late 1994 SSL encryption that made transactions secure.
1995: Jeff Bezos launches Amazon.com and the first commercial-free 24 hour, internet-only radio stations, Radio HK and NetRadio start broadcasting. Dell and Cisco begin to aggressively use Internet for commercial transactions. eBay is founded by computer programmer Pierre Omidyar as AuctionWeb.
1998: Electronic postal stamps can be purchased and downloaded for printing from the Web.
1999: Business.com sold for US $7.5 million to eCompanies, which was purchased in 1997 for US $149,000. The peer-to-peer filesharing software Napster launches. ATG Stores launches to sell decorative items for the home online.
2000: The dot-com bust.
2002: eBay acquires PayPal for $1.5 billion. Niche retail companies CSN Stores and NetShops are founded with the concept of selling products through several targeted domains, rather than a central portal.
2003: Amazon.com posts first yearly profit.
2007: Business.com acquired by R.H. Donnelley for $345 million.
2008: US eCommerce and Online Retail sales projected to reach $204 billion, an increase of 17 percent over 2007
 

There are several type of shoping cart solutions open source and paid.

We are not affiliate with any of shopping cart.  We can design and develop eCommerse website using almost any existing shopping cart software.  We can create, customise and promote your ecommerce business.

11th eCommerce Summit in Atlanta, GA early June 2009