Difference between revisions of "X-Cart:What's New in X-Cart 4.6"
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==Design and appearance== | ==Design and appearance== | ||
| + | * A new skin: ''Ideal Responsive''.<br />The [http://www.x-cart.com/blog/new-responsive-template.html New Responsive Template for X-Сart] released recently as a separate add-on module has been included in X-Cart v4.6 and is now available out of the box as X-Cart's "Ideal Responsive" skin. This fully adaptive skin will ensure a great shopping experience for your customers, no matter what kind of device and screen size they are using to access your store site. Cross-browser, multi-platform, easily customizable - this skin is just the thing you need to reach customers across multiple devices.<br />[[File:Ideal_responsive.jpg|border|600px]] | ||
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| + | * Convenient 'Modules' page in Admin area (now with tabs)<br />[[File:Modules_tabs.png|border|600px]] | ||
| + | * 'Next'/'Previous Product' buttons on the product details page<br />[[File:Next_previous.png|border|600px]] | ||
| + | * Context help in Admin area<br />[[File:Help.png|border|600px]] | ||
==Shipping & payments== | ==Shipping & payments== | ||
| + | * Klarna integration (Payment solution)<br />[[File:Klarna_product_page.png|border|300px]] [[File:Klarna_checkout.png|border|300px]] [[File:Klarna_checkout_0.png|border|300px]] | ||
==Taxes== | ==Taxes== | ||
| − | + | * Avalara integration (Tax calculation engine) | |
==Performance optimization== | ==Performance optimization== | ||
| + | * X-Cart v4.6 is by far the fastest version of X-Cart we've ever developed.<br /><br />X-Cart has already won a reputation for being a reliable and speedy ecommerce solution; however, this v4.6 release takes X-Cart's overall performance to an entirely new level. For this release, we've put much effort into optimizing X-Cart's code to make X-Cart even faster than before.<br /><br />Firstly, X-Cart's search scripts have underone a major overhaul, so now X-Cart takes a lot less time and server resources to do searches. This is important because in X-Cart the search mechanism is employed not only when someone uses the search box to find a product on the site, but also on a number of other occasions. For example, a product search is done even when X-Cart simply needs to select category/manufacturer products to be displayed on the page.<br /><br />We also made a number of improvements to X-Cart's session handling mechanism, import scripts, categories behavior in both Admin and Customer areas, etc.<br /><br />We managed to eliminate a number of performance bottlenecks and did a lot of testing to ensure the resulting product meets our expectations. Shown below are some of the results we got while testing the new X-Cart on the Amazon EC2 M3 (Large) server (12000 products in the database, 1-50 visitors online).<br />[[File:Speedup_1.png|border|300px]] [[File:Speedup_2.png|border|300px]] [[File:Speedup_3.png|border|300px]]<br /><br />The results we got show that X-Cart v4.6 is up to almost 5 times faster than the previous versions. | ||
| + | :{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" width="80%" | ||
| + | ! colspan="4" | '''X-Cart v.4.5.5 and v 4.6 with 12000 products in database, 50 users online, on Amazon EC2 M3 (Large) server''' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | ! style="width: 25%" | '''page''' | ||
| + | ! style="width: 25%" | '''max value for v.4.5.5''' | ||
| + | ! style="width: 25%" | '''max value for v 4.6''' | ||
| + | ! style="width: 25%" | '''win in speed''' | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | search | ||
| + | | 27.55s | ||
| + | | 5.78s | ||
| + | | 4.76 times | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | category | ||
| + | | 8.83s | ||
| + | | 5.18s | ||
| + | | 1.70 times | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | home | ||
| + | | 20.70s | ||
| + | | 4.92s | ||
| + | | 4.2 times | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | product | ||
| + | | 9.42s | ||
| + | | 5.97s | ||
| + | | 1.57 times | ||
| + | |} | ||
| + | |||
==Modules== | ==Modules== | ||
| + | * A number of X-Cart's modules and add-ons have been updated, among them: | ||
| + | :* Advanced Customer Reviews, | ||
| + | :* Antifraud, | ||
| + | :* Checkout by Amazon, | ||
| + | :* CloudSearch, | ||
| + | :* Hot Products, | ||
| + | :* Product Notifications, | ||
| + | :* Socialize, | ||
| + | :* Social Login, | ||
| + | :* TaxCloud, | ||
| + | :* X-Monitoring, etc. | ||
| + | * Froogle/Google Base module has been renamed to Google Shopping. | ||
| + | * SnS Connector module has been removed. | ||
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==New X-Cart 4.6.x versions== | ==New X-Cart 4.6.x versions== | ||
* [http://www.x-cart.com/blog/x-cart-v-4-6-released.html X-Cart v4.6 released] | * [http://www.x-cart.com/blog/x-cart-v-4-6-released.html X-Cart v4.6 released] | ||
Revision as of 00:56, 7 June 2013
X-Cart 4.6or above
Design and appearance
- A new skin: Ideal Responsive.
The New Responsive Template for X-Сart released recently as a separate add-on module has been included in X-Cart v4.6 and is now available out of the box as X-Cart's "Ideal Responsive" skin. This fully adaptive skin will ensure a great shopping experience for your customers, no matter what kind of device and screen size they are using to access your store site. Cross-browser, multi-platform, easily customizable - this skin is just the thing you need to reach customers across multiple devices.
- Convenient 'Modules' page in Admin area (now with tabs)
- 'Next'/'Previous Product' buttons on the product details page
- Context help in Admin area
Shipping & payments
- Klarna integration (Payment solution)
Taxes
- Avalara integration (Tax calculation engine)
Performance optimization
- X-Cart v4.6 is by far the fastest version of X-Cart we've ever developed.
X-Cart has already won a reputation for being a reliable and speedy ecommerce solution; however, this v4.6 release takes X-Cart's overall performance to an entirely new level. For this release, we've put much effort into optimizing X-Cart's code to make X-Cart even faster than before.
Firstly, X-Cart's search scripts have underone a major overhaul, so now X-Cart takes a lot less time and server resources to do searches. This is important because in X-Cart the search mechanism is employed not only when someone uses the search box to find a product on the site, but also on a number of other occasions. For example, a product search is done even when X-Cart simply needs to select category/manufacturer products to be displayed on the page.
We also made a number of improvements to X-Cart's session handling mechanism, import scripts, categories behavior in both Admin and Customer areas, etc.
We managed to eliminate a number of performance bottlenecks and did a lot of testing to ensure the resulting product meets our expectations. Shown below are some of the results we got while testing the new X-Cart on the Amazon EC2 M3 (Large) server (12000 products in the database, 1-50 visitors online).
The results we got show that X-Cart v4.6 is up to almost 5 times faster than the previous versions.
X-Cart v.4.5.5 and v 4.6 with 12000 products in database, 50 users online, on Amazon EC2 M3 (Large) server page max value for v.4.5.5 max value for v 4.6 win in speed search 27.55s 5.78s 4.76 times category 8.83s 5.18s 1.70 times home 20.70s 4.92s 4.2 times product 9.42s 5.97s 1.57 times
Modules
- A number of X-Cart's modules and add-ons have been updated, among them:
- Advanced Customer Reviews,
- Antifraud,
- Checkout by Amazon,
- CloudSearch,
- Hot Products,
- Product Notifications,
- Socialize,
- Social Login,
- TaxCloud,
- X-Monitoring, etc.
- Froogle/Google Base module has been renamed to Google Shopping.
- SnS Connector module has been removed.
