PrestaShop vs. X-Cart

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
PrestaShop
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
PrestaShop is a free, open source e-commerce solution available under the Open Software License and officially launched in August 2007. The software is written in PHP and based on the Smarty template engine and is currently used by 165,000 shops worldwide. The PrestaShop group was founded in Paris, with a second Headquarters opened in Miami in 2011. PrestaShop is translated into 63 languages, with English, French, Portuguese, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Polish and Russian having full…N/A
X-Cart
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
X-Cart is an eCommerce and shopping cart platform built through PHP code.
$199
per month
Pricing
PrestaShopX-Cart
Editions & Modules
PrestaShop
Free
Platform
Starting at $199
per month
Auto
Starting at $299
per month
Marketplace
Starting at $399
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
PrestaShopX-Cart
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
PrestaShopX-Cart
Online Storefront
Comparison of Online Storefront features of Product A and Product B
PrestaShop
7.3
5 Ratings
6% below category average
X-Cart
7.7
1 Ratings
1% below category average
Product catalog & listings9.75 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Product management7.75 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Bulk product upload5.04 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Branding5.04 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Mobile storefront9.75 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Product variations5.04 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Website integration9.85 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Visual customization6.04 Ratings10.01 Ratings
CMS7.85 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
PrestaShop
6.9
5 Ratings
11% below category average
X-Cart
9.5
1 Ratings
21% above category average
Abandoned cart recovery6.03 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Checkout user experience7.95 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Online Payment System
Comparison of Online Payment System features of Product A and Product B
PrestaShop
7.8
5 Ratings
7% below category average
X-Cart
10.0
1 Ratings
18% above category average
eCommerce security7.85 Ratings10.01 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Product A and Product B
PrestaShop
6.6
12 Ratings
14% below category average
X-Cart
8.7
1 Ratings
13% above category average
Promotions & discounts7.95 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Personalized recommendations5.14 Ratings10.01 Ratings
SEO6.912 Ratings6.01 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Product A and Product B
PrestaShop
9.0
5 Ratings
13% above category average
X-Cart
9.2
1 Ratings
15% above category average
Multi-site management7.85 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Order processing8.85 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Inventory management9.65 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Shipping10.04 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Custom functionality8.75 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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PrestaShopX-Cart
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Shopify Plus
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Score 9.1 out of 10
Shopify Plus
Shopify Plus
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Digital Commerce
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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IBM Digital Commerce
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
PrestaShopX-Cart
Likelihood to Recommend
7.6
(13 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
1.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
3.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
2.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
PrestaShopX-Cart
Likelihood to Recommend
PrestaShop
This is a great system for small and medium businesses dealing from 1 product to 100,000 products. It is elegant to use and very stable. The system may not be great for converting into a marketplace and the handling of > 1million products. The system is also not suitable for services selling like events, registrations, subscriptions and ticket bookings etc.
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Qualiteam eBusiness Solutions
X-cart uses Smarty Templates in a PHP environment which means there are many developers who could probably pick it up relatively quickly to provide new features. The smarty template engine is very robust and well documented, and the cost of x-cart is very low which makes it easy for anyone to get started with their e-commerce business. It is a really great e-commerce software and suitable for every business. I actually cannot find any serious objection to what it does. They regularly update it, add new features, fix flaws, offer support. The software itself offers many integrations for shipping and payments, everything you need for sales. Although it covers many things, there will always be something missing, because many things happen in between customer visit and final delivery. Therefore, if you plan to expand your business, also plan to expand your X-Cart - but do not worry, it won't be hard.
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Pros
PrestaShop
  • The PayPal button modality was integrated with the PrestaShop system, which helped our clients to complete payments digitally in just a few seconds, this integrated button allowed to streamline many transactions.
  • Performing inventory reviews and modifying the PrestaShop catalog was one of the things that I liked the most, I could make changes to the catalog, make changes to the conditions of the products in the catalog and all those changes were reflected on my website in a instant, no need to wait some time.
  • The PrestaShop system created a digital invoice for each client who made the advance payment of a property, which made it even easier to complete the property negotiation. Customers came to our company with the digital invoice for the advance payment and it was easy to identify the property that was paid, thanks to the digital invoice.
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Qualiteam eBusiness Solutions
  • For everyone. From small to huge business you get everything out of box. Just setup company details, payment and shipping methods and you are ready to go.
  • Upgradable. There are many plugins one can integrate with X-Cart. Over time, many of them became part of the software, and you are one click away to enable them.
  • Well organized code. It uses Smarty template engine, which I find great, specially for debugging (famous Webmaster mode).
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Cons
PrestaShop
  • Not a lot of free templates.
  • Images can sometimes be too compressed and lose their full quality, so better settings for that could be introduced.
  • Being able to change the look of your automatic emails via default settings can also be introduced.
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Qualiteam eBusiness Solutions
  • Creating new plugins the way X-Cart wants is maybe not complicated, but hard to implement because there are no hooks. One has to manually change each file. This is similar to patching the core and therefore one has to know basics of web development.
  • Even if you get everything styled correctly with base skin, there is a bunch of unused styles you have to cope with. Start skin should be much cleaner. You may find thousands excess lines of code.
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Likelihood to Renew
PrestaShop
Considering the problems we had and still have, 0.
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Qualiteam eBusiness Solutions
No answers on this topic
Usability
PrestaShop
The lack of performance and the unstable system make it very hard to use it for a serious e-commerce application.
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Qualiteam eBusiness Solutions
No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability
PrestaShop
100s of implementation and so far no major security breaches.
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Qualiteam eBusiness Solutions
No answers on this topic
Performance
PrestaShop
Some caching and optimization is definitely needed. However, it is not as bloated as other CMSs with lots of plugins needed.
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Qualiteam eBusiness Solutions
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
PrestaShop
Since we use PrestaShop OpenSource there is only community support. What we found is that many other users fight with the same problems and there seems no solution or input from the PrestaShop developers' side.
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Qualiteam eBusiness Solutions
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
PrestaShop
It's a no-brainer for e-commerce stores. BigCommerce and Magento both far out-distanced PrestaShop in every major category. If you're just getting into e-commerce, I would highly recommend either BigCommerce or Magento. Their online documentation and support far outweigh any advantages you'd have over going with an open source software like PrestaShop.
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Qualiteam eBusiness Solutions
No answers on this topic
Scalability
PrestaShop
This is the best example of "If it's not broken, don't fix it!".
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Qualiteam eBusiness Solutions
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
PrestaShop
  • It slowed down our Hosting service. Our website took a long time to fully load on our clients' devices due to the high consumption of the integration with the PrestaShop service.
  • It provided us with a fast billing service, where our clients obtained invoices in PDF mode for the electronic payments they made for the properties. These digital invoices helped us to recognize the property they wanted faster and streamlined the negotiation process.
  • The templates that had an optimized design, were too expensive, this caused that our catalog design was very simple and did not capture the interest of customers.
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Qualiteam eBusiness Solutions
  • Flexibility in presentation as well as functionality
  • Full open source software allows for unlimited possibilities with the store function, though some developers who create modules do encode their modules which have errors in their code which therefore can't be fixed
  • A fully functional professional level application at a fraction of the cost of similar applications such as magento.
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