X-Cart:What's New in X-Cart 4.6
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.
