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Old 02-23-2018, 06:34 AM
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Default Re: Xcart 5 benefits over Classic

This pretty much depends on your budget, business, the way you maintain and support the cart, etc.

It will cost you less to upgrade to latest XC4 than to move to XC5.
However XC4 support and maintenance in a long run will cost you more compare to XC5.
Both XC4 and XC5 have annual subscription fee.
XC4 modules are one time fee compare to XC5 modules which are annual subscription fee.
You are not required to pay the subscription fee (although XC will automatically opt-you-in). If you do not have active subscription you don't get the upgrades but cart will not stop working.

The way current XC4 landscape is you are basically forced to either move to XC5 or move to another cart if you do not like XC5.
You can upgrade to latest XC4 and get another 4-5 years out of it but it will be either mostly stock cart or you have to pay for custom coding. No one releases any new modules for XC4 and whatever is there right now is either abandoned or not supported much anymore.

I think you are looking at the same scenario that happened with LiteCommerce - all of a sudden all using it were left dead in the water. Same will happen with XC4 sooner than later I think. We are getting to a point where XC5 starts to overrun XC4 simply because it is the only platform actively supported. It is not a bad platform but it has its issues too.
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