XLEcom Compared to other Ecommerce Services
PC Magazine recently wrote a review article that compared the prices, plans, and features offered by the most popular low cost Ecommerce Service Providers. To read this article, refer to the following links. Easy E-Commerce and Summary of Features: Site-Building and Hosting Services
XLEcom was developed not only to include many of the same features offered by these low cost Ecommerce Service Providers, but to offer the user complete independence from these service providers. Also, XLEcom supports multiple web stores at no additional cost.
The table below is a feature comparison of XLEcom to these low cost Ecommerce Service Providers. As you can see, XLEcom in combination with a low cost hosting service, offers the best and most versatile solution at a fraction of the cost.
Summary of Features
as of 2005 | XLEcom and Hosting Plan | bCentral Commerce Manager | Bigstep | SimpleNet Commerce | Yahoo! Merchant Starter | Free Merchant Silver | Interland Online Marketing Suite | StoreSense | Number of Individual Stores Supported | No Limit | 1 / plan | 1 / plan | 1 / plan | 1 / plan | 1 / plan | 1 / plan | 1 / plan | Costs ($) | One Time Software Cost | $ 35 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Purchase Transaction Fee | None | None | None | None | 1.50% | None | None | None | Setup Fee | None | None | None | $ 50 | $ 50 | $ 25 | $ 50 | $ 100 | Service / Hosting Fee / mo. | $ 7 * | $ 25 | $ 30 | $ 35 | $ 40 | $ 50 | $ 50 | $ 50 | Merchant Gateway / mo. | None | $ 15 | $ 15 | $ 15 | $ 15 | $ 15 | $ 15 | $ 15 | 1st Year Cost for 1 Store | $ 119 * | $ 480 | $ 540 | $ 650 | $ 710 | $ 805 | $ 830 | $ 880 | 1st Year Cost for 5 Stores | $ 119 * | $ 2,400 | $ 2,700 | $ 3,250 | $ 3,550 | $ 4,025 | $ 4,150 | $ 4,400 | 1st Year Cost for 10 Stores | $ 191 * | $ 4,800 | $ 5,400 | $ 6,500 | $ 7,100 | $ 8,050 | $ 8,300 | $ 8,800 | Store Management | Mass Produce multiple Web Stores | | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Host multiple copies of the same Store | | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Easily setup to use for non product Service Business | | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Option to change Shopping Cart service | | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Create, import, and export Store Modules | | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Keep an active copy of your site on your computer | | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Product Management | Number of Products Supported | 65,534 ** | 10,000 | 20 | No Limit | No Limit | No Limit | No Limit | No Limit | Mass Produce 1000's of products Ad in seconds | | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Copy and Paste Capability to create additional ads | | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Products can have different Display Options | | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Turn off "Add to Cart" button on individual Ads | | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Globally Turn off "Add to Cart" button on all Ads | | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Shows Discount Amounts | | No | No | No | No | | | | Site Management | How you Manage the Design of your Web site | MS Excel | Online through a Web Browser | How you Manage your Products Ads | MS Excel | Online through a Web Browser | Actual HTML Pages reside on web server | | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Design Entire Web Site Offline | | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Web Site / Product Preview Capability | | No | | | | | | | Supports third-party HTML editors | | | | No | | No | No | | Built-in Web Design Themes | | | | | | | | | Hosting Management | Option to choose any Hosting Service | | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Gives you 100% complete control of your web site | | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | High Probability of Search Engine Indexing | | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | SSL enabled throughout the order process | | | | | | | | | * Both the XLEcom software and hosting price is included in these values. You can however choose any Hosting Service you want. The hosting prices shown reflect the excellent low cost service plans offered (see the Hosting page). Assumes 1 store per domain name. With the $6.95/mo. plan, host up to 6 domains; $12.95/mo. plan, host 16 domains; $16.95/mo. plan, host an unlimited number of domains. Prices subject to change without notice. | ** The number of products supported is 65,534 products per product database. However, you can combine multiple published databases into one site to increase the number if needed. |
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