X-Cart, the ultimate PHP shopping cart software, have just released version 4.3. Besides functional changes there is the main one : change in X-Cart licensing model. Earlier people that wanted to test-trial X-Cart had to buy a license before deploying it. Now online merchants don't have to do that. One can easily download X-Cart and register (i.e. buy a license for usage) it later after he/she is ready to go live.

More new features in this release include :

• Built-in modules: X-AOM, X-RMA and Flyout Menus with new "Tree-like expanding menu" scheme
• New "Vivid Dreams - Chromo" and "Light & Lucid (2 columns)" W3C-compliant storefront skin with a CSS layout
• Ajax add-to-cart buttons, minicart and product ratings
• A quick order/product/user search panel that can be opened with a keyboard shortcut
• Integration with three popular WYSIWYG editors: CKEditor, TinyMCE, and InnovaStudio
• Revised item groups in the backend menu
• History of order changes
• Certified integration with PayPal Website Payments Standard, PayPal Website Payments Pro (US & Canada merchants) and PayPal PayFlow Pro; plus support for Fraud Management Filters
• Integration with Carrier-calculated Shipping API for Google Checkout
• Integration with Global Gateway, Amazon SimplePay, NAB Transact, HSBC Secure ePayments (API) and Cybersource (SOAP API) payment gateways
• in addition to a revised shipping and payment modules

For more information http://www.x-cart.com/