X-Cart Review
The X-cart website offers many products but for some reason gives little information about the company itself. It is possible that the product was developed in Russia. The company claims X-Cart is used by over 14,000 online stores.
Highlights
There are multiple grades of X-Cart products (Gold and Pro). Once you purchase the software, it must be installed on a server (you must procure hosting). There is an admin back-end from which you manage products, customers, the store’s layout and so on. The company encourages users to contact their technical support team to respond to questions.
X-Cart is a PHP and MySQL database software product. As with many shopping carts, in order to use X-Cart, you must create a template site design and stick with that framework.
Pages can be PHP-based meaning that many sites using it can have PHP URLs. However, you do have the ability to create static HTML pages. Note that these pages are based on the product names so your page might be called something such as “www.yourstore.com/p-934-black-shoes.html” which is still good for search engine spiders and optimization. It seems that depending on how you use the software, some URLs might be underscores and others are hyphens.
You can alter the important tags and make many modifications as needed.
Limitations
The page naming ability of the cart is a bit limited which may turn away some potential web store owners.
After visiting and analyzing their client websites, it is clear that Google sees most of their PHP URL pages as repetitive and barely indexed them. For this reason, focusing on the HTML version is important.
As with some other companies, X-Cart does not offer or recommend outright a merchant account company so you must find one on your own.
Overall
The X-Cart is used by a large variety of online stores. It has many features that are search engine friendly.
Visit the site: http://www.x-cart.com/
My website runs on EROL which is a desktop html shopping cart application. Unfortunately directors of the Company who make and support this software have just gone into voluntary liquidation hence the reason for looking for an alternative on your site. I have be told that X-Cart is good but did not realise that is didn’t name the pages – will have to check out the html version as you suggest. Thanks
The X-Cart is used by a large variety of online stores. It has many features that are search engine friendly.