Cheers Paul - thanks for the great feedback/comments, really appreciate it.
Hi Timmer,
Will here from The xCart Store, we are the developers of xBanners. As Paul mentioned, xBanners is a very powerful banner manager module for x-cart. To answer your question, "yes" - all upgrades are free. We have been upgrading xBanners with each iteration of x-cart and we have also added some extra features throughout this time - all updates are free to existing customers.
We do have plans to create an "xBanner 2" module in about 6 months - this will be a total re-write of the module with many extra features, transitions, etc. Mostly likely, we will offer existing xBanners customer a 50% discount if they would like to upgrade to this new version. As xBanner2 will be a totally new product, we can't offer this an an free upgrade as it will contain a large number of new features not seen in xBanners1. That is how we are thinking about it at the moment.
That's the general plan anyway
Let me know if there is anything else.