X-cart offers a licensed version of their ecommerce solution directly from their web site and makes recommendations on hosting companies to use. Like Pinnacle Cart, X-cart is a PHP / mySQL shopping cart application. But unlike Pinnacle Cart, it's difficult to customize and doesn't offer FREE US-Based support.

General Information Pinnacle Cart X-Cart Pro
Location of Support US Based Support Support based in Russia
Technical Support Plan 30-Day, 24/7 toll-free phone support and 1 year unlimited email support INCLUDED with any new cart purchase. Email Support, charged per incident.
No phone support avaliable.
Pricing $54.95 Per month hosted
$597 Licensed		 $575 Licensed
Design and Development Services We have developed a Third-Party Developer marketplace of Pinnacle Cart experts who compete for your development projects guaranteeing competitive pricing for all custom design and development projects. All development is done in-house. No choices on price and service.
Number of Categories / Products Unlimited Unlimited
Storefront Customizations 100% template driven design. - Large selection of color designs, buttons, headers, color templates and design templates available. Easy to use administrator area allows you to change anything on your site quickly and easily with no programming experience. Create addition text pages for SEO. 100% template driven design. - Limited template selection and difficult to understand administrative area makes changes difficult. Coding experience required for many changes.
Multi - Language / Multi - Currency Support Yes both multi-language and multi-currency support Yes both multi-language and multi-currency support
Ability to customize the look of your site without programming knowledge Yes. Pinnacle Cart's easy-to-use "Appearance Settings" tools allows you to set up your site quickly and easily with just a few clicks. Not really. Cluttered administrator area makes setting up the cart very difficult.
Provides assorted buttons / headers / graphics Yes, The cart has over 100 different sets of button and header sets Wasn't able to locate any buttons or headers available through the cart
Supports wholesalers Yes
Plus the ability to create pricing / discount groups 		Yes
Supports Digital Downloads Yes No
Image Zoom and Magnify Yes
Pinnacle Cart gives you the ability to select how you would like your customers to view all images on the product page. 		No
Create "buy x get x free" promotions Yes No
Ability to create Product Update Newsletters Yes No


Technical Specification Pinnacle Cart X-Cart Pro
Application Language PHP PHP
Database mySQL mySQL


Payment Features Pinnacle Cart X-Cart Pro
Supports PayPal Yes Yes
Supports Google Pay Yes Yes
Allows for custom payment methods Yes Yes


Shipping Features Pinnacle Cart X-Cart Pro
Supports UPS / FED-EX / USPS / CANADA POST Yes Yes
Supports Custom Shipping Methods Yes
Allows you to set up shipping by number of items ordered, order total, shipping weight and more. Add additional shipping and handling fees, increase / decrease rates from major shipping carriers, set-up international shipping methods, ability to enable "shipping quote" feature and more.		 Supports some custom shipping methods and does support international shipping.

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