
Bottom Line
I highly recommend CS Cart. In fact, it’s the most exciting shopping cart software I’ve seen since I started building shopping cart websites 10 years ago. The fact that you can download the Community Edition for free makes it even better. You can try it before you buy it. You might find the free version is more than enough for your needs.
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Alex says
> CS Cart is PCI compliant as long as your web server is PCI compliant.
Nope, software must be compliant, too.
Check PCI requirements.
> X-Cart 5 seems like vaporware at this point.
It is called X-Cart Next now.
http://next.x-cart.com
Pat Fortino says
This is great news. X-Cart is finally bringing out the new software. Regarding PCI compliance: I have two differenet clients using X-Cart without X-Payments, and both passed PCI compliance review on Hostgator shared servers. Hostgator had to make a couple adjustments to the server config and the sites passed their PCI compliance review. Neither of these sites store credit card info, but both use Authorize.net AIM to process credit cards on their site. Also, I have one client using CS-Cart and it too passed PCI compliance on Hostgator shared hosting.
Oscar says
Thanks for a review.
Actually both carts are great. X-Cart did some rebranding and offered new opportunities. However, CS-Cart 3 also came with some upgrades.
It was a curious thing to find out that both platforms are designed in Russia.
Pat Fortino says
Some guys from x-cart, which is in Russia, created CS-Cart. It’s pretty easy to see the similarities, but cs cart is so much better due to the ease of upgrading.
GalinaJ says
CS-Cart is also better because it supports multi store features and this helps it compete with such powerful free platforms as Magento and PrestaShop.
June Fray says
I’m pretty salty about cs-cart folks charging a monthly fee for the mobile version. We were thinking about switching over from the last good copy of Interspire shopping cart but even that abandoned product had mobile templates included a long time ago and pretty much all the bells and whistles cs-cart plugin developers are charging an arm and a long to add… like the “like this” feature, etc. I always get salty when software companies want to people to “rent” their software. Sometimes it makes sense but most of the time it doesn’t. We’ll stick with our current cart.
Pat Fortino says
I agree. I think cs-cart should include a mobile responsive template with the default install. Instead they use an add-on that is not responsive, but a different template entirely. But since the carts I’ve done with cs-cart are under the product limit, the mobile version is free. Plus I love the ease of use of cs-cart, both for me and for client.