Why pick X-Cart Gold Shopping Cart Software?

Let's face it, there are hundreds of shopping cart systems on the internet, and a new one popping up almost every month! Out of all the shopping carts, why is X-Cart rated one of the top shopping carts year after year? Here's the main reasons why Hands-on Web Hosting has been providing X-Cart Web Hosting for so many years!

Back in 2000, Hands-on Web Hosting was approached by a customer to find a shopping cart system that we would run ourselves. After many weeks of trying various shopping cart systems, we stumbled upon X-Cart Gold. The software (at that time) did not have any support forums and was instead supported by a few people through Yahoo Groups! Late in 2000, X-Cart Gold recognized the growing support for their software and introduced their X-Cart Forums which now boasts over XX,XXX members and more than XXX,XXX threads or topics. The forum system is locked down so that only owners of the X-Cart software can view their forums, but this aids in the ability for users to share code directly in the forums knowing that members are also purchasers of the software!

X-Cart is rated number one for many reasons and by many people;

The software works right out of the box. If all you want to do is add a logo and maybe change a few colors, the system works flawlessly, and at the same time the software can be customized beyond your wildest dreams. Since you are provided the code to the software you have full rights and ability to modify every aspect of the software. If the software doesn't do something you like, you can change it. If you need a custom module built, you don't have to go to the makers of the software, you can do it yourself, or hire a 3rd party. Whether you have 5 products or 20,000, the software runs circles around other software packages.

One of the biggest complaints that we see on a regular basis with other shopping carts is the complexity of the code and the lack of extensions. X-Cart is designed around the Smarty Templates system and uses PHP and MySQL (the most common language and database on the web today). X-Cart can be extended to your hearts content. Do you want to interface with QuickBooks? No problem, you can do that. Do you want to keep inventory of products and sync the data to a 3rd party POS system? No problem, you can do that too! If you can think it, it can be done, the only two things holding you back would be Time and Money.

X-Cart is not Open Source Software in the sense that it's FREE, but the source to the program is Open and viewable/editable. This is the backbone of why the system is the right choice for many people. It's designed with the Small Business in mind, however even the smaller businesses (one or two man shops) will rejoice in the fact that the software is useable and highly fexable.

Why choose Hands-on Web Hosting to host your X-Cart Shopping Cart? We get this question from time to time. There are many other hosts that claim to be THE BEST hosting solution for X-Cart, but lets drill down some facts why Hands-on Web Hosting is a better choice:

• We were one of only 3 companies listed in the X-Cart Manual in 2000, and are still listed today!
• We are a highly recommended Hosting Solution in the X-Cart Forums
• We are listed on the Recommended Hosting Providers page on X-Cart's main site
• We host thousands of X-Cart stores, more than any other hosting provider!
• When X-Cart needed a hosting provider for their clients (Ready-2-Go Hosting), Hands-on was chosen to provide the hosting!
• If X-Cart themselves entrusted us with THEIR clients to provide reliable hosting, we must be good!
• Our staff are all trained in X-Cart for quick knowledgeable answers to our clients! It's our main goal!
• We have LIVE HELP or LIVE CHAT on our site daily, unlike other hosts that have the graphic but show OFFLINE.
• Our servers are optimized with X-Cart in mind. With thousands of stores relying on us daily to provide quality, fast service, it's imperitive that we have the machines optimized with their sites in mind!

We could go on and on why we are a better choice to host your X-Cart Gold or Pro shopping cart, but why don't you make that decision. We offer a 30 day money back guarantee on our shared hosting solutions. We offer site transfers, and daily backup solutions. We offer a free installation service to get you up and running in minutes!

Try us today, we'll even move your site for you from your existing host! X-Cart will work on any of our hosting packages, there are two shared hosting platforms that are popular for eCommerce Stores as they come with a Dedicated IP Number included as part of the package; MiniCommerce Hosting and eCommerce Hosting. We also offer Virtual Dedicated Servers which are ideal for stores that need a little more power but not quite ready to go with a fully dedicated system.

X-Cart will work on ALL of our servers. Productive Online Stores are suggested to host on the eCommerce Hosting Plan