After almost a year of developing and testing we proudly announce that X-Cart: Shopping Cart Software version 4.0 is now available. We have spent much time analyzing requests and suggestions of thousands of owners of live online stores powered by X-Cart that helped us much to improve the product. We believe that the new version of X-Cart software will bring you brand new experience of managing an online store and will become sturdy support for your business. We surely will keep doing our best to improve our product in future.

As usual all existing customers have free access to the new version of the software.

Here you can find an overview of enhancements introduced in version 4.0:

- improved categories management mechanism (unlimited categories);
- inventory tracking based on product options;
- new payment gateways support;
- Airborne (DHL) ShipIt API support;
- RMA (Return Merchandise Authorization) add-on;
- ability to sort out products on the customer storefront;
- customer area scripts moved up to the root directory of X-Cart;
- new HTML template for invoice;
- HTML-format for e-mail notifications turned on by default;
- a more flexible tax management system;
- Smarty template engine upgraded up to version 2.6.3;
- ability to select UK or Canada pre-configuration during X-Cart installing;
- fully multilingual interface, including admin/provider part;
- considerably improved usability of administrator/provider interface;
- memory usage optimization;
- new integrated 'UPS OnLine Tools' module, supporting not only shipping rates calculation, but providing an address validation tool and the possibility to register a UPS account via X-Cart site;
- new integrated 'Manufacturers' module enabling you to classify your products by the brand names;
- new integrated 'News Management' module enabling you to have multiple news lists for your customers;
- printable version for all information pages in the customer zone;
- additional options enabling you to optimize your e-store for search engines;
- gathering of statistical data on product search queries in the customer zone and on the client's environment (browser type, screen resolution, operating system, JavaScript support);
- renewed first page in the administrative zone: new orders statistics and top sellers info are added;
- customizable product search form, extended set of search fields;
- simultaneous editing of multiple products;
- ability to adjust the registration form for different user types;
- Antifraud module: verification of the customer's address in the process of checkout (check-up information can be included into the order details);
- ability to edit the options of a product contained in the shopping cart;
- ability to export products in Froogle format.

Sincerely yours,
X-Cart Team