Automotive Storefront User Experience
Ensure car parts buyers quickly find the exact fit for their cars among thousands or millions of SKUs in your catalog.
Native Make/Model/Year filtering options and VIN lookup
Ensure real-time product search with the built-in Make/Model/Year search and VIN lookup. With these features, customers can quickly view a list of parts or accessories that fit their vehicle, narrowing the search in the store’s catalog by year, make, model, vehicle identification number (VIN), or any additional fields configured. You can use the add-ons to configure up to four levels of inventory filtering.
‘My Garage’
Offer your clients the ability to save their vehicle in a virtual garage for next-time purchases. With the ‘My Garage’ feature, they can save information about their car models in their account profile. Next time they shop at your store, they will be able to see the parts for their specific vehicle right away without the need to adjust the filters.
Real-Time Smart Search: CloudSearch and CloudFilters
CloudSearch is a real-time product search engine with auto-suggesting and spelling correction features that comes preinstalled in all X-Cart-based stores. The search covers static pages and product attributes such as product name, description, SKU, product options, extra fields, category, and manufacturer.
CloudFilters is designed to navigate an extensive list of products, making it easy for car parts buyers to find items that match specific filters. With CloudFilters, customers can conveniently filter by price, category, brand, size, color, or any other attribute they need.
Cater to customers’ convenience with CloudSearch and CloudFilters and increase conversion rates.
Automotive Website Design
Mobile-first automotive design themes
Automotive web design on mobile devices should minimize distractions and provide only essential information, enabling visitors to shop quickly and confidently. Our automotive-specific themes are built to fit any screen size and support the Year/Make/Model navigation.
7 free design themes
AutoSync Visualizer for Wheels and Tires
AutoSync Visual Vehicle Studio helps deliver an interactive shopping experience to your clients. It allows users to see how the selected wheel or tire looks from different angles on their car models. Accurate factory colors and built-in fitment validation reduce the risk of returns and increase customer satisfaction. Plus, you can save up to 50% of what you would otherwise spend on product photography.
SEO-friendly Web Design
X-Cart stores have all of the necessary features of an SEO-friendly car parts eCommerce website:
- a solid website structure facilitates product search for shoppers and helps Google index it;
- mobile responsive web design compliant to Google’s mobile-first approach to crawling, indexing, and ranking pages;
- accurate product details and fitment data.
Auto Parts Product Data Management
Integrate accurate product information from reliable auto parts catalog suppliers into your eCommerce store quickly and easily. Convert your data over to ACES and PIES data standards. Reduce the time and effort required to structure and update complex fitment data.
ASAP Network, AutoSync, and SEMA Data integrations
Connect to ASAP Network, AutoSync, and SEMA Data and upload auto parts data, including brand names, fitment details, prices, dimensions and weights, images and descriptions. Automate data management by collecting and updating data in real time and feeding it into your product catalog using API-driven integrations with the major aftermarket catalog providers.
Automated Catalog Imports
Automate catalog imports from selected data suppliers to be done periodically on a schedule.
Smart Category Management
When importing automotive catalog data from ASAP Network, AutoSync, or SEMA Data, the category structure in your X-Cart store may need to be aligned with the supplier’s catalog structure. X-Cart Category Mapping functionality allows you to import product data from a provider’s catalog into specific categories in your online store.
Parts Compatibility & Fitment
The Make/Model/Year/ (MMY) add-on ensures a convenient search for car components in your online catalog and guarantees that your buyers find the right parts for their vehicle. A customer uses handy modern selectors to choose a car’s make (vehicle brand), model, year, and engine and then gets a list of parts for the vehicle with the set characteristics.
Manage Large Multi-faceted Catalogs
Create and edit thousands of SKUs quickly, regardless of the size and shape of automotive data, using API-driven integrations with catalog providers. Easily export and import your data in CSV, XML, XLS, and SQL formats.
Automotive Order and Inventory Management
Simplify auto parts inventory management with automated connections to stock suppliers. Track inventory levels, stock movements, and pricing for more efficient order fulfillment. X-Cart centralizes and automates supplier and data connections, allowing you to spend more time growing your sales and less on operational tasks.
Integrate with auto parts suppliers
Connect to trusted automotive warehouse distributors via ready-made integrations to procure high-quality inventory: Turn 14 Distribution, Keystone Automotive Operations, and AutoSync.
Synchronize stock levels
Use your X-Cart admin panel as a single source of truth for your inventory data. Consolidate stock information across your auto parts suppliers, distribution, and sales channels for more efficient and straightforward order fulfillment.
Get full control over your inventory
From a single dashboard, you can set up product availability for your customers, track and monitor stock levels across your sales channels, and route orders for more efficient aftermarket parts distribution.
Edit inventory data in-bulk
Using a bulk editing tool, bundle multiple SKUs into one unit for sale and update the inventory for more than one product.
Cross-channel stock transparency
Automate stock updates and adjust product details and pricing from multiple sources within one dashboard. Get a clear picture of your stock levels on Amazon or eBay to maintain accurate inventory levels and avoid less or excess stock.
Automated stock, price, data updates
Schedule the start time for the periodic catalog imports from data providers. Hourly stock updates and daily price adjustments ensure customers get accurate and up-to-date product information.
Auto Parts Warehouse Distribution
Connect your X-cart store to Turn 14 Distribution and Keystone Automotive Operations to automate catalog imports and order fulfillment. We are constantly working on growing the number of integrations with auto parts distributors.
You can also fulfill all orders from your warehouse without a distributor integration, using all available functionality allowing you to edit the order details, check the order history, maintain notifications and invoices, communicate with the customer, print packing slips, and process returns if required.
Multichannel Retailing: Amazon, eBay Motors, and more
Listing your products on Amazon, eBay Motors or selling auto parts via Google Shopping or Meta (Facebook, Instagram) ensures a broader outreach and new sales.
Sell your products across multiple channels and manage orders received through these channels in one place – X-Cart dashboard. We provide scalable solutions to synchronize product data and inventory across your sales channels.
Sell Auto Parts on Amazon
The integration allows the automatic transfer of product listings from your X-Cart stores to the Amazon store, as well as import orders from your Amazon stores onto the X-Cart platform.
The integration includes automation of inventory and price updates, synchronization of inventory, prices, order status and order fulfillment between X-Cart and Amazon, and other features.
Website Navigation and UX Tools
Ensure comprehensive website navigation with the advanced UX design tools, such as:
- Single sign-on;
- Custom product tabs;
- Advanced menu customization and Flyout categories menu;
- New Arrivals, Coming Soon, Recently Viewed, etc.;
- Featured products, Best Sellers, Related products;
- Product comparison, Product carousel and Product tags;
- Quick checkout and Multi-step checkout;
- Shop by brand and more.
- Wishlist;
Payment Integrations and X-Payments
120+ Payment Processing Providers for Global Customers
A significant number of integrations with payment gateways, such as PayPal, Opayo, Affirm, and Authorize.net allow you to accept payments in multiple currencies and languages from all over the world.
X-Payments is a global payment ecosystem that supports various payment types and ensures fraud protection.
We offer a PCI DSS Level 1 service that allows your store to accept subscription payments, “save” credit cards securely, and provide a one-page checkout without redirecting.
X-Payments also offers a secure way to “remember” a credit card for future payments by encrypting payment information, creating a token (an encrypted key), and keeping the token instead of sensitive credit card data. Once encrypted, the credit card information can be used to modify orders or charge a customer after the initial order.
Native Marketing and Advertising Tools
In the X-Cart store, you can effectively promote products or sales for a specific period of time using various marketing activities, including paid advertising, social media, email campaigns, and pre-built promotional options.
Prebuilt Marketing Features and Tools:
- Back-in-stock notifications
- Free shipping customization
- Backorder / Preorder
- Gift wrapping
- Hide prices
- Special offers
- Banners
- Loyalty program
- Banner system
- Post-checkout upselling
- Coupons / Discount codes
- Sales
- Coupon giveaways
- Urgency notifications
- Exit offers
- Pop-up modules
- Feedback solicitation
- Social sharing
- Product reviews and ratings
Email Marketing Tools
You can use the default X-Cart Newsletter Subscriptions add-on or integrate with Mailchimp, the leading email marketing automation platform, to automate email collection and newsletter sending.
Google AdWords (via Segment Integration)
X-Cart allows you to submit data to Google AdWords and access all the advantages to improve the efficiency of your ad campaigns via the Segment Integration add-on facilities.
Facebook Ads and Instagram Ads
Upload your products to Facebook and form a catalog there. Facebook then will use this catalog to create personalized ads on both Facebook and Instagram to reach the right audience in the right place at the right time.
SEO and Analytic tools
Integrate accurate product information from reliable auto parts catalog suppliers into your eCommerce store quickly and easily. Convert your data over to ACES and PIES data standards. Reduce the time and effort required to structure and update complex fitment data.
Search Engine Optimization
SEO is the process of improving your site to increase its visibility when people search for products or services related to your business on Google and other search engines.
Adjust Titles, Meta Descriptions, Keywords, SEO-Friendly URLs, XML Sitemap in the X-Cart SEO Settings in the admin panel.
You can also get professional SEO services from our in-house team of experts.
Shipping
X-Cart’s smart order fulfillment, inventory management system, and 10+ shipping integrations allow you to deliver auto parts quickly and accurately.
There are also such features as Shipping Methods, Geolocation, Real-time shipping quotes, and Shipping Taxes.
Security
Integrate accurate product information from reliable auto parts catalog suppliers into your eCommerce store quickly and easily. Convert your data over to ACES and PIES data standards. Reduce the time and effort required to structure and update complex fitment data.
The following X-Cart security features will help you minimize the threat of fraud:
- HTTPS/SSL support
- XSS- and CSRF-attack protection
- Full access to the code
- Failed sign-in attempts notifications
- Lifetime access to software updates
- Limited staff access to the store back end
- Block visitors by IP/Country/User Agent
Technical Support and Onboarding
X-Cart provides 24/7 personalized technical support to its automotive customers.
Each free support package includes the following set of services:
- 4 hours of onboarding sessions with personal manager;
- X-Cart software installation and configuration;
- Add-ons and extensions setup;
- Assistance with the online store setup;
- And more
Personalized approach to each business
Assisted onboarding with a dedicated technical engineer
Guaranteed timely resolution for onboarding requests
Please find the full scope of the Standard Support Subscription here:
https://www.x-cart.com/ecommerce-support.htmlOnboarding
We provide four one-hour onboarding calls for automotive online businesses with a customer success manager and a technical support engineer as part of your Automotive subscription.
eCommerce Expertise
The X-Cart team has unlimited in-house technical resources and over 20 years of experience in ecommerce.
Our experts will help you with:
- Onboarding and technical support
- Custom design creation
- Custom development
- SEO analysis
- Migration from other platforms
X-Cart’s Professional VPS Hosting
The X-Cart Automotive subscription includes a VPS instance, suitable for up to 50-80k visitors monthly, with the following specifications:
- Off-site data protection (Backups are stored off the main site on two separate mirrored backup servers for the double protection of customer’s data)
- Daily backups with 30-days rotation period
- Memory DDR4 RAM: 8GB
- Processor: 4 Core
- SSD disk space: 160GB
- 24/7 hosting support
- Cloud spam filter
- Free CDN service
- Dedicated SSL
For a more powerful site there is an option to make an upgrade plan and get a more powerful dedicated server.
Headless Technology and Custom Development
Unlike traditional eCommerce platforms where the front and backend are tightly bound (limiting customization opportunities and design flexibility), X-Cart headless eCommerce solutions separate an eCommerce website’s interface from the backend infrastructure.
Plus, our in-house eCommerce Development team can connect your store to suppliers, data sources, and other systems to maximize your online store efficiency. With API-driven solutions like X-Cart, you can easily integrate your web store with inventory management systems, apps, data sources, third-party payment gateways, ERP or CRM systems, and marketing automation tools of your choice.
The benefits your store will get:
- Flexibility of Storefront in UX and customization
- Flexibility for Developers
- Scalability
- Enhanced SEO and Website Performance
- Faster Development
- Faster Time-to-Market for Features
- Automation via Open API