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Actinic vs. X-Cart

Revision date: Dec 21, 2006

Actinic Business is a highly functional and feature-rich out-of-the-box online business system. It has very flexible design engine which allows easy integration of available solutions. Also it has very rich import/export and integrative features.

Still, the main problem is that this product is extremely overpriced according to the current ecommerce market standards. And thats not where the problem ends. Since this product is not open sources, you will be unable to modify it to suit your needs as the support service is very poor and no custom development services are available. Most of extra features available in Actinic (and any other functionality you may need) can be developed by our team in a short time and with much less expenses. X-Cart also offers many ready-made add-on modules and design schemas at very affordable prices.

General

Features Actinic X-Cart
License fee USD 1,199.00 USD 229.00
Trial period 30 days 30 days
Technical support Support is limited to bugs and errors in the Actinic software. The company is not responsible for supporting customized html, web design or any configuration issues. Expensive flat-rate subscription for phone support on a yearly basis. Authorized technical support service, forums, knowledge base in the Private Members Area
Turn-key installation service Not available Authorized installation service
Authorized hosting solution Only one, very expensive recommended hosting X-Cart hosting, wide range of recommended hosting companies
Authorized design and development services Only design services Comes with 100% of source code out of the box, Custom development services
and web design services

Catalog & Storefront

Features Actinic X-Cart
Number of products in catalogue Up to 10,000 Unlimited
Storefront customization Fully template-based, CSS-compatible store design
Several built-in design and color variants
Template are editable with Macromedia Dreamweaver
Static HTML pages
100% template-based storefront, 100% CSS-based skin, separate template sets for storefront and back-end, fully customizable menus, customizable heading tabs, customizable heading tabs, changing templates text via browser (webmaster mode), built-in text editor, debug console, ability to create embedded static HTML pages
Multi-language support Not available Product descriptions, store interface, e-mail messages completely multi-lingual
Extended product specifications Product options and variants Extra fields, product options, product variants
(see X-Cart Feature Tour: Products management),
Feature comparison add-on

Marketing & Promotion

Features Actinic X-Cart
SEO Tools Ability to set different meta & title content for each section page in the store, site map generator Static HTML catalog
Dynamic "clean" URLs support
Meta tags and URL definition
for individual pages
Referrer statistics for search engines
SEO options group
Marketing and promotion tools Discounts, Featured products Coupons, Gift Certificates, Discounts,
(see X-Cart Feature Tour: Merchandising & inventory, Featured products, Upselling products
X-Specialoffers add-on

Store operation

Features Actinic X-Cart
Support for downloadable egoods
Affiliate system Available X-Affiliate add-on
Real time shipping rates calculation UPS, USPS UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL/Airborne, Intershipper, Canada Post
(see X-Cart Feature Tour: Real-time USPS, FedEx and UPS shipping calculation)
Product export/import feature Product & customers export/import via database, XML or CSV/Excel file format Product export/import via database or CSV/Excel file format
Moderated product reviews and ratings Not available Yes, (see X-Cart Feature Tour: Moderated product reviews and ratings)
Statistics tools Reports on products, sections, orders General statistics and shop summary, Shop statistics, Top Paths Through Site, Top Pages Views, Shopping Cart Conversion Funnel, Log in history, Visitors environment statistics, Search statistics, Google Analytics integration.
Taxes Various tax zones for different geographical zones, tax-inclusive and tax-exclusive prices US states with counties support, EU VAT, UK VAT, Canadian PST/GST, Australian PST
(see X-Cart Feature tour: Customizable tax calculation
Orders management Order statuses, notifications, export of order details, order details editing Order status system, automated order notifications, automated and manual credit card processing, order search,
X-AOM add-on for complete management of all order details and order history
Inventory tracking Stock availability report, bestsellers, number of products in stock, low stock level for every product Reports for number of orders, number of products, product/category views sorted by date period, bestsellers, bulk inventory update, Out of stock messages, number of products in stock for every item
(see X-Cart Feature Tour: Sales Analysis & Tracking)
Security SSL/HTTPS support Full HTTPS/SSL support
Encrypted customer data (Blowfish encryption)
PGP-encrypted e-mail notifications
Customer/admin access restriction by IP
Anti-Fraud module
(see X-Cart Feature Tour: Security)


Revision date: Dec 21, 2006
      
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