Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce) vs. X-Cart

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce) provides companies with a platform to manage, personalize, and optimize the commerce experience across every touch point and across the customer journey. ACC is built on Magento Commerce Pro and is integrated with Adobe Experience Manager. It was originally developed as an open-source eCommerce content management solution by Varien, Inc. Varien was acquired by eBay in…N/A
X-Cart
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
X-Cart is an eCommerce and shopping cart platform built through PHP code.
$199
per month
Pricing
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)X-Cart
Editions & Modules
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Platform
Starting at $199
per month
Auto
Starting at $299
per month
Marketplace
Starting at $399
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)X-Cart
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.—
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Community Pulse
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)X-Cart
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)X-Cart
Online Storefront
Comparison of Online Storefront features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
8.3
32 Ratings
8% above category average
X-Cart
7.7
1 Ratings
0% above category average
Product catalog & listings8.031 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Product management8.032 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Bulk product upload6.927 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Branding8.128 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Mobile storefront8.230 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Product variations9.530 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Website integration9.530 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Visual customization7.932 Ratings10.01 Ratings
CMS8.531 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
7.0
31 Ratings
8% below category average
X-Cart
9.5
1 Ratings
23% above category average
Abandoned cart recovery7.026 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Checkout user experience7.131 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Online Payment System
Comparison of Online Payment System features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
9.1
31 Ratings
9% above category average
X-Cart
10.0
1 Ratings
18% above category average
eCommerce security9.131 Ratings10.01 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
7.4
30 Ratings
1% below category average
X-Cart
8.7
1 Ratings
15% above category average
Promotions & discounts8.730 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Personalized recommendations6.727 Ratings10.01 Ratings
SEO6.827 Ratings6.01 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
8.9
32 Ratings
13% above category average
X-Cart
9.2
1 Ratings
17% above category average
Multi-site management9.826 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Order processing9.731 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Inventory management8.731 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Shipping7.929 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Custom functionality8.431 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)X-Cart
Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
(40 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.8
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)X-Cart
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe
Ultimately, if a company is looking for a solid industry-known E-Commerce system, Magento Commerce does exactly what it's intended to do. The headaches start when your company wants to start getting granular in customizations of the platform to meet specific business needs (which every company eventually has). This becomes a major issue down the road when trying to upgrade said customizations as the core software updates.
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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
Adobe
  • Magento Commerce Cloud allows us to develop our own custom solutions for problems that we need solved.
  • Magento Commerce Cloud can also be integrated with many of the third part vendors that we use. This has made many implementations go very smoothly and tends to be much quicker than developing our own custom solution.
  • There are many features available right out of the box. Many of them we have not implemented yet, but it is great to have them available to us when we are ready.
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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
Adobe
  • The platform is difficult to tune and can be slow. Even with expensive best in class hardware the platform performance can be an issue. Even with caching poor coding can lead to unacceptable performance and user experiences.
  • The total cost of ownership for the platform can be quite high as a great deal of technical expertise is required to modify, develop, troubleshoot and maintain the platform. The costs of initial development are only a down payment on what a Magento store will cost. For mid size companies with substantial web revenues this can be overcome for smaller businesses the total cost of ownership may be prohibitive.
  • Security of the platform can be an issue. Magento is often targeted by hackers and much of the security is the responsibility of the store owner.
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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
Adobe
Magento is well-supported by a big development team at eBay, which not only addresses bug reports very quickly, but also is constantly working on improvements to the platform. The wealth of Magento third party modules ensures that the platform will be up to date with future changes to
Payment or ERP systems.
Security is always a concern and with the Zend framework as a foundation, Magento has had very few security-related patches since I have started to work with it
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Qualiteam eBusiness Solutions
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Usability
Adobe
Magento offers lots of templates and themes to customize the look and feel of the store, and even optimize it for mobile phones. The have an extensive library of forms and templates.
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Qualiteam eBusiness Solutions
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Adobe
The technical service was impeccable. They were on point and were very knowledgeable.
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Qualiteam eBusiness Solutions
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Online Training
Adobe
Great value for an flexible, open source platform.
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Qualiteam eBusiness Solutions
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe
Magento scales much better than any of the other software when it comes to very large e-commerce websites. But all the other options are more user-friendly for smaller sites as there is a bit of a learning curve in learning to manage Magento. Customization is better along with WooCommerce and OpenCart as self-hosted solutions vs. BigCommerce and Shopify which are hosted. Magento should be the first choice for large, extensive e-commerce solutions,but for smaller stores, I would recommend the others first.
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Qualiteam eBusiness Solutions
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Return on Investment
Adobe
  • Magento definitely lets us get a return on our investment. Because we have developers who can customize Magento to our needs, we have been able to create a beautiful and effective website, run promotions, and serve up customized product display pages that are effective and beautifully branded.
  • Magento has also caused a lot of time to be invested in doing something that seems simple, but without a lot of knowledge, end up taking far more time than could otherwise be better-spent.
  • We have had to outsource some of our development work due to Magento being developer-focused rather than marketer/merchandiser-focused. I've used other website management software that is comparable to Magento's capabilities but is far easier to use, that even someone like me (with basic HTML/CSS skills) can customize the front-end without requiring a back-end developer to intervene.
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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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