This article depicts about the comparison of Magento to other eCommerce platforms currently available in the market such as X-Cart. This is the most recent comparisons that will provide you with all the updated and detail information of the eCommerce market.
Magento:
Magento is rich in feature, a professional open-source eCommerce solution which gives the merchants the complete flexibility and better control over the appearance, content, and operating functionality of their online store. Moreover, the most significant tool that Magento holds is the powerful marketing technique, catalogue-management tools and search engine optimisation (SEO), enables the merchants to create eCommerce sites that cater the requirement of their unique business needs. In the year 200, Magento came into existence and has formed a recent partnership with eBay. That action enhanced its growing community of developers who are constantly improving and creating new extensions, features, and modules. Magento is best known for its best technical support teams at eCommerce platform. Magento is preferably suited for companies that require a professional online store presence. However, Magento does support the Linux, Windows, and Unix operating systems.
Magento is now playing as a part of the X.Commerce integrated eCommerce platform that consists PayPal, eBay, Magento, Where, Milo, RedLaser, and GSI Commerce as well.
X-Cart:
X-Cart is the however the provider of a PHP shopping cart technology which is PCI DSS acquiescent. X-Cart is established and supported by a group of Creative Development, which was commenced in the year of 2000 and is based out of Russia. X-Cart was founded in 2001 and is offered by Creative Development and LiteCommerce (2003) and Ecwid (2009). X-Cart’s predecessor is F-Cart, was the world’s first commercial open source shopping carts. X-Cart’s target objective is to make the web convenient and productive business environment. Now the recent version of X-Cart 4.4.4 is available in the market, though X-Cart has given some insight into the future of the eCommerce platform also.
These are the listed the reality of X-Cart’s current situation, it is not suggestible for anyone to continue using X-Cart. However Magento has a clear road map in option with for future expansions with published release dates. Apart from that, investments from PayPal and eBay and the recently released X.Commerce virtually ensure that Magento has a bright future in eCommerce.