X-Cart Hosting – Web App Overview

X-Cart is a commercial, open source shopping cart solution that comes with two e-commerce platforms and a built-in marketplace of add-ons

The X-Cart 4 (Classic) and X-Cart 5 are both PHP-based, 100% PCI-DSS compliant, and feature-rich. They include a template editor, WYSIWYG text labels editor, and CMS capabilities.

However, X-Cart 5 has an edge over the classic version for its more advanced functionality. This includes customization panel, store upgrades, platform maintenance & development, marketing & sales, and SEO tools.

Who uses X-Cart?

Both X-Cart platforms have been powering a wide range of e-commerce websites, including automobiles, electronics, clothing, fitness equipment, and antiques.

Features

• Excellent cost of ownership
• Open source PHP code
• Smart and hassle-free performance
• Fast & Secure
• Great community support
• Sell anything – products, services, even downloads
• Unlimited products and categories
• Integration with all popular payment gateways and shipping carriers
• Sell everywhere – multiple currencies and languages
• Fully customizable design
• Marketing tools including coupons, banners and more
• Mobile Ready and Free Skins
• Fully compliant with payment data security standards
• Even sell via Facebook with f‑Commerce GO
• Built-in fully adaptive Ideal Responsive template
• Cross-Browser, Multi-Platform
• Online demonstration of skins bundled with X-Cart
• Authorization via social profiles (Facebook, Google, etc)
• Catalog Management Features
• Shipping & Tax
• Marketing & Search
• Multiple payment options
• Administration features

See the difference between X-Cart 4 and X-Cart 5 features here.

A closer look at X-Cart

X-Cart 5.3.4 is the latest release.

Find out how this software works first hand, go to the demo page.

Websites using X-Cart

There are 11,000+ live websites using X-Cart, and about 570 sites are located in Australia. (source: BuiltWith.com)

A sample of X-Cart-powered online businesses:

• Pitimana (pitimana.fr)
• Affordable Designs Canada (adcleeann.com)
• Pearls Only (pearlsonly.com)
• Collectibles Of The Game (collectiblesofthegame.com)
• Corvette Store (corvettestoreonline.com)

Hosting Requirements

• PHP 5.4 or higher
• PDO extension with MySQL driver
• Phar extension
• mbstring extension is highly recommended (though X-Cart has a polyfill for it, native extension will speed up string processing)
• MySQL 5.1.31 or higher. You can also use MySQL-compatible database engine MariaDB.
• 200-300Mb of disk space
• libCURL module support (minimum required CURL version is 7.39.0; version 7.43.0 is recommended)
• ini_set enabled
• safe_mode disabled
• file_uploads  enabled
• post_max_size set to 2M+ and larger than the upload_max_filesize value (critical for installation)
• upload_max_filesize set to 2M or higher
• magic_quotes_runtime disabled (for PHP versions prior to 5.4.x)
• memory_limit set to 128M or higher (if you are using 64-bit processors in your server environment, the memory_limit value must be 256M or higher)
• GDLib 2.0 or ImageMagick (recommended for proper image resizing routines)
• PHP time limit properly set according to your server config
• mod_rewrite-like components to enable proper work of SEO-friendly URLs
• if xdebug is enabled, xdebug.max_nesting_level must be set to 300
• if OPcache is enabled, opcache.save_comments and opcache.load_comments must be true (set to “1”). Any other cachers should not strip comments from the code too.

Getting started with X-Cart

Get the X-Cart software through Hosting Cloud via the One Click Application Installer.

The software is also downloadable directly from X-Cart website. Installation tutorial is provided.