Includes Merchant Account for Payment Processing

No

Yes, you need to pay minimal amount

Rate review annually to lower rates as business grows and establishes reliability.

No

Yes

Reliable Hosting

No, X-Cart is not a hosted service. Hosting has to be setup with a hosting company for which extra charges occur.

Yes

One-Page Check Out

No, XCart does not offer a one-page checkout.

Yes

24/7 Technical Support?

Free Technical Support for limited time period.

Yes

Custom Payment Options?

Yes

Yes

Unlimited Products and Categories?

No, Depends upon the hard disk space provided by the hosting company, not X cart

1000 items at this price level. Unlimited options available with higher options.

Catalog Display capability

Limited - XCart software supports limited catalog display capability.

ExtensiveNo - Depends Display of a product as category featured and homepage featured.

Marketing and Promotion Tools?

Yes, options are limited. Affiliate Program, cross sell feature, up sell options and a newsletter feature.

Yes, Newsletter Management, Bulk E-mailing System, Integrated Affiliate Program Manager, Cross Sell and Up Sell options.

Search Engine Optimization

Only offers capability to include meta tags and keywords

Offers capability to include meta tags, keywords, alt tags. Additionally one can also make dynamic category, product and content pages look static by defining unique page names. This makes the page easily indexable by search engines.

Tell a Friend module for Products and Product Groups?

Yes

Yes

Reliability of the Software and Hosting

Software is provided by X-Cart while the hosting is done by some other hosting company.

Yes, GoECart being a hosted application, our Technical team assures reliability and efficiency 24/7

Includes EMail Accounts?

Depends upon the hosting company with which the contract is signed.

Yes