1. Setup and Support
 No programming required
 Web-based installation wizard
 Complete store-builder package
 Easy-to-use web interface
 Bulk export/import functionality for almost all store data (products and all related information, categories, coupons, destination zones, users, etc)
 Out-of-the-box storefront system
 Customizable localization: multi-language, configurable currency symbol and weight/dimension measurement units, configurable list of states/provinces

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
 Automatical 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
 Flate 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
 Full 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

 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
 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)
 Cheque processors
 Manual (offline) credit card processing
 PayPal payments
 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
 
 
10 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.

 11. 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. 
 
12. 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