10+ reasons of upgrading to X-cart 4.4.x

1. 100% PCI-DSS compatible

PCI DSS  is a worldwide information security standard assembled by the major credit card vendors, including American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide, and Visa, Inc.  X-cart store owners may adjust certain parameters in admin console when try to comply with PCI-DSS standards

2. User login with email address

You must be tired of doing customer support when your store shoppers call you for missing user name and password.  The most fashion solution on this issue is to use the email address to replace the user name.

3. Multiple pictures of an item

Visualize more pictures of an item on the item page when mouse over the small thumbnail images in below the large one.

4. One page checking out

Used to be in 3 pages.  Due to larger monitor and higher resolution monitors is getting popular, it’s now been well-layout into one single page.  All key blocks, such as billing address, shipping address, shipping options, payments, order total, shipping charge, tax, and discount coupons, have be integrated in 3 columns.

5. Product Feature Comparison

This feature used to be only seen in large-scale online store, now you have have the Feature Comparison in your own store.  When your shoppers is expecting to shop by the item’s specification.  It’s is an instrumental tool for them.

6. Auto-generated sitemap

A sitemap is not just helping your store shoppers to locate the items and pages in your website. More importantly, it’s a killer app for search engine optimization.  Once you have the sitemap in place, the search engine crawler will use it to fully go through all your pages, i.e. all your pages will be indexed by search engine databases.

7. Registered user has a Address Book

Another nice to have, and only seem from major online store feature.  If you are selling gift-related items, address book will allow your shopper to save not just one address, but the shopper’s friends and families addresses.

8. Magnifier of product pictures

With this tool, there is no quality loss when magnifying. Customers can freely zoom in and out on any area of an image, as well as drag the image around in the viewer work area to examine every detail of the item displayed.

9. Configurable products

It allows you to create and sell composite products or systems that can consist of many interchangeable or optional components (like computer systems, home cinemas, etc). It can also be used for creating sets of products (for example, suits, accessories sets, etc).

10. Special Offers

It provides you extreme flexibility in defining bonuses/discounts and setting up conditions under which they will be made available to your
customers.  such as buy over $100, get a free CD from music department; buy 3 get the 4th one free; and buy this item get 20 bonus points.

11. Return Merchandise Authorization: RMA

is created to facilitate the procedure of returning the products, which may be very annoying if you do not have a tool to deal with it.

PCI DSS stands for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, which is a worldwide information security standard assembled by the major credit card vendors, including American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide, and Visa, Inc.

12. Survey

PCI DSS stands for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, which is a worldwide information security standard assembled by the major credit card vendors, including American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide, and Visa, Inc.

13. My Account : new design

PCI DSS stands for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, which is a worldwide information security standard assembled by the major credit card vendors, including American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide, and Visa, Inc.