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All X-Cart customers should have received a security patch update today, 4/11/2012 from Qualiteam that affects all 4.1.x through 4.4.x X-carts.  While X-Cart has categorized this as a “minor” threat, we feel that there is potential for a larger threat if this patch is not applied.  If you are a BCSE hosted customer we will automatically apply this patch.  If you are not a hosted customer and are not able to apply your patch, please contact us and we will help you.  Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Many X-cart sites that have been around a while start to get slower and slower.  This is especially true if you have the Advanced Statistics module on.  This module is required to be on for the bestsellers module to work.  The good news is, there’s usually a really easy quick fix for speeding up your X-cart site!  We have a free module that you can upload and either run manually or set it up as a cron (ask your host how to do this if you don’t know how).  We’ve been using this free module for years for all of our hosted customers that need extra speed.  Check out our FREE Clean Stats mod for X-cart!

The module simply cleans out the xcart_stats tables that you don’t need for bestsellers to work.  Many people do not use the data in these because they have better analytics when using Google Analytics or something similar.  For larger or order sites, these tables just keep getting bigger and bigger, eventually getting millions of rows of data in them.  When a user browses the site, a new row is entered.  In simple terms, if you have too many rows then this will slow down the site to insert a new row.

Some sites need more work to speed them up than this but many times this is all that is needed!  Contact Us if you need more X-cart Speed help!

We just released today an update to our ever popular Point of Sale system.  The Authorize.net DPM solution is now available in the Point of Sale system if you have the DPM module installed!

If you already have the Point of Sale system and would like to update your software to include the DPM support, drop us an email and we’ll see if you qualify for a free upgrade.

The Authorize.net DPM module is a very popular payment gateway choice that runs on top of your existing Authorize.net AIM solution.  It helps get you closer to PCI compliance than using regular Authorize.net.  It has been the choice of many X-cart clients with the new PCI standards that came out in July of 2010.

On Jan 25th, X-cart released the latest version of the 4.4.x branch.  4.4.5 is now available for download.  If you downloaded it prior to January 30th, you will want to re-download it as they found a bug and updated the version with the fix for it.  You can view more details and a change log on this X-cart Forum thread.

Many clients are taking advantage of the latest release and are upgrading their old X-cart stores.  Feel free to use our Free Quote form to send us an upgrade request.  We’ve been performing X-cart upgrades since 2004 and have upgraded from simple to very complex and very customized X-cart sites.

We recently attended the X.Commerce conference in San Francisco and a key takeaway was the importance of websites being fully accessible by mobile devices. The line between retail and ecommerce sales is blurring by way of mobile devices. For example, a customer may be in the store shopping and will research the item online to see if they can find a better deal elsewhere before buying in person. If they find it, they will likely purchase the item via their mobile device foregoing the offer that is right in front of them.

We have had a great deal of success in converting existing websites to a mobile version. We no longer offer a mod for this due to the variances between devices and the intricacies within each site. However, we have found we can achieve this goal through custom work at a very reasonable and fair price. If you want assistance with making your site mobile, please feel free to contact us! View Details and Example Mobile Site(s)