Major improvements since v4.1

CUSTOMER FRONT-END

“Recently Viewed” product list
Site Map - It is now possible to create a site map and make it available to customers. Use the Sitemap module to configure the contents and the look and feel of the site map page.
Product Map - Customers can now view Product map, which includes all the products alphabetically. Only the products whose names begin with a specific letter can be viewed.
Tabbed Menu on Product Details page
Add a Message to ‘Send to Friend’ emails
Ask a Question pop-up window on each product
Printable version now activates automatic printer window pop-up
Ajax Mini Cart
Ajax One Page Checkout now available in conjunction with Fastlane Checkout.
Gift wrapping at checkout
Use of Email Address for profile username
Address Book attached to each user profile
Terms and Privacy acknowledgement tickbox prior to allowing order submission
Details images additional and enhanced display options

It has become possible to enable such a mode of display of detailed product images where all the detailed images of a product will be displayed in the Customer area on the Product details page of the respective product as thumbnails below the main product image. When the mouse hovers over one of the detailed product image thumbnails, the respective detailed product image will be displayed in the place of the product's main product image; the size of the detailed product image in this case will be reduced to the size of the main product image. When a

mouse click occurs on a detailed product image thumbnail, the respective detailed product image will be displayed at full size in a modal window. The modal window used to display detailed product images provides simple navigation controls allowing the user to view the next/previous detailed image of the product or select a specific detailed image of the product from the set.
Product List multi-column display of sub-categories with thumbnails option
"My Account" page has been added to the customer area, where a customer can control all the account information.
Clean URLs - inbuilt SEO functionality down to the product level including custom URLs and meta data.

It has become possible to define description and keywords meta tags for the product pages of your store. In previous versions of X-Cart, these meta tags were generated for product pages automatically based on the contents of the ‘Product name’ and ‘Short description’ fields. Now you have full control over the meta description and keywords of your product pages and can adjust these tags separately.

It has also become possible to define description and keywords meta tags for the manufacturer and embedded static pages of your store.

We also added an option allowing the description and keywords meta tags defined for a category to be used for the subcategories and products contained in that category.

As before, the 'General settings/SEO options' section of the Admin area allows you to provide description and keywords meta tags for your store site in general; however, these meta tags are now used differently: they are now applied only to those pages that do not have any meta description and keywords tags of their own and are not using any other meta description and keywords.

ADMIN

Revamped admin interface
All previously built X-Cart.com add-on modules are now included including featured comparison tool (X-FeatureComparison), gift registry (X-GiftRegistry), fly-out menu option (X-FancyCategory), image magnification tool (X-Magnifier), online surveys (X-Survey), affiliate programme (X-Affiliate), product configuration (X-Configurator), special offers (X-SpecialOffers), expanded orders management facilities (X-AOM) and return merchandise provision (X-RMA).

X-AOM add-on has been included into the core X-Cart as Advanced Order Management (AOM) module and has been extended with order modifications history functionality. The module now tracks order changes and keeps their history.

X-RMA add-on has been included into the core X-Cart as RMA module and now includes some improvements of inventory tracking for confirmed return requests.

X-FancyCategories add-on has been included into the core X-Cart as Flyout Menus module and extended with 'tree-like expanding' menu style.

X-FeatureComparison: some minor improvements have been made: it is now possible to specify short feature descriptions, to disable search by some features, and to search by features in one of "All words/Any word/Exact phrase" mode.

X-Configurator: it is now possible to specify a base price for a configured product, to specify a default product for a slot, and to specify a quantity limit for product in slots. The layout of configurator pages has also been improved.

X-SpecialOffers: the procedure of specifying the offer conditions on products is now more flexible (product sets can be used). Free bonus products are now automatically added to the cart. Applying global discounts and coupons to already discounted (by special offers) items can now be disabled, etc.

X-GiftRegistry: orders can now be gift-wrapped, and the price of gift wrapping be included into the order total. A couple of other minor improvements have been done.

X-Survey includes some minor improvements in logic (generally, code optimization) and layout design.

X-Affiliate: some improvements of banner system have been done. Multi-level affiliate plans logic has been improved. Partner statistics reports are now made more detailed.

X-Magnifier: it is now possible to import hi-res images and batch re-slice these images for displaying in the magnifier window. The magnifier window itself has also undergone some changes.
Google Maps - Admin can see shipping and billing addresses on the map.

Shipping Enhancements

Dimensional shipping

It has become possible to specify dimensions for each of the products in the store (See the Product details page) and to use these dimensions for shipping rates calculation by such online real-time shipping rate calculation services as UPS, USPS, FedEx, Australia Post etc.

X-Cart now provides a packaging algorithm that allows it to split a single shipment into multiple packages in accordance with the limitations (maximum package weight and dimensions) imposed by the selected online real-time shipping rate calculation service. With this algorithm, it has become possible to receive real-time shipping rates for a shopping cart even if this cart contains a large quantity of products whose total weight and volume make sending these products in a single package impossible due to the limitations of the selected online real-time shipping rate calculation service.

Shipping from providers and per-provider shipping cost (X-Cart PRO)

It has become possible to specify an individual seller address for each provider and to use this seller address for shipping rates calculation by online real-time shipping rate calculation services. This improvement makes it possible to use X-Cart PRO for warehouse stores in which a common storefront is used to showcase the products of several different stores that ship products from different locations. A provider’s seller address can be specified in the provider’s user profile.

A customizable 404 error page for your store site

X-Cart now has its own 404 error page. This is a new page in your store which can be used to display the 'Page not found'error (HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found) when a visitor attempts to access the store site using a URL for which no page exists.

The 404 error page looks similar to the rest of your store site and provides navigation links allowing the visitor to go back to the store's home page or to take a look around the site.

The look and feel of X-Cart's 404 error page, as well as its textual content, can be changed by editing an HTML file. In stores supporting languages other than English, a version of the 404 error page can be easily created for each of the languages.

More efficient management of news list mailing lists

X-Cart now provides an easy method to export the entire list of subscribers of any news list to a CSV file. It has also become possible to remove selected subscriber addresses from a specific mailing list or from all the mailing lists by importing them into X-Cart as a list in CSV format. For more information, see the section Mailing Lists.

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Major improvements since v4.1

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