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

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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.
    Ideal responsive.jpg
  • Convenient 'Modules' page in Admin area (now with tabs)
    Modules tabs.png
  • 'Next'/'Previous Product' buttons on the product details page
    Next previous.png
  • Context help in Admin area
    Help.png

Shipping & payments

  • Klarna integration (Payment solution)
    Klarna product page.png    Klarna checkout.png    Klarna checkout 0.png

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).
    Speedup 1.png    Speedup 2.png    Speedup 3.png

    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.

New X-Cart 4.6.x versions

See also