New Free Shopping Cart Shows Promise: ECWID by X-Cart

A New Free Shopping Cart from the makers of X-CartThe builders of X-Cart have developed a new shopping cart this is very easy to integrate into an existing web site. And it’s Free.

X-Cart has produced an amazing new shopping cart that can be integrated into your website within minutes, , it’s easy to use, it’s lightening fast, and it’s free. What’s the catch? There really isn’t a catch. ECWID, the new shopping cart, is free, but they will offer a more powerful version in the future for a fee.

But in it’s current version, ECWID can fulfill the need for a quick, basic shopping cart. What makes ECWID different is that it runs on ECWID servers, but it displays on your website. The advantage of this is that you don’t have to install any software on your web server; just insert some ECWID code in a web page and your store is up and running.

When ECWID adds new features or fixes bugs, you don’t need to upgrade; you site is automatically upgraded. Of course, you don’t get access to the source code for customization, but most people don’t need that. You can, however, customize the look and feel of ECWID by customizing the CSS stylesheets.

ECWID includes the following features:

  • Products in multiple categories
  • Product options
  • Egoods; eg, downloadable products
  • Realtime shipping quotes for UPS, USPS, DHL and FedEx
  • Dedicated plain HTML version for mobile devices and SEO purposes
  • Shipping and Tax Zones.

Don’t take my word for it. Take ECWID for a test drive. You can create a free account and have ECWID up and running on your site in about 15 minutes. http://www.ecwid.com/

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