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X-cart Responsive Template – Mobility!

X-cart Responsive Template – Mobility

Fully Responsive Template, Foundation based, SEO Skin!

Clean, Fast, with modern features!

X-cart Responsive Template - Mobility

X-cart Responsive Template, Mobility, is available for 4.6.x AND 4.7.x.  Contact us if you’d like us to create it for your version of X-cart!

Tired of the boring old built in templates?  Want something modern, fresh and easy to customize?  Then the Mobility X-cart Responsive template is for you!

Main Features

  • Easy Installation
  • Fully Responsive
  • Drag and Drop Store Logo, Invoice Logo and Email Logo
  • Optimized One Page Checkout for conversions
  • Configurable layouts in the admin
    • Options for the home page
    • Options for the product pages
    • Options for the category pages
    • Options for the static pages
  • Search Engine Optimized HTML
  • Seamless wordpress integration
  • Vacation/Announcement Message option that appears on every page
  • SEO rich snippets
  • Sticky Header option
  • Easy to modify themes!  – Pick your colors in the admin!
  • Low cost for an easy customized skin!
  • Unlimited Colors and customizations!

Layout Options

  • Individually Select Layout options for Home Page, Product Page, Category page and Static pages
    • 1 Column
    • 2 Column – Sidebar Right
    • 2 Column – Sidebar Left
    • 3 Column
  • Upto 4 footer column options, including options for:
    • Twitter Feed
    • Pinterest Feed
    • Instagram Feed
    • Facebook Feed
    • Static Pages Menu
    • Newsletter
    • Speed Bar
    • Hard Coded links
  • Browsing Transition Options Include
    • Fade
    • Slide Right
    • Slide Left
    • None
    • Transition Speed
  • Page Width Options
    • Wide
    • Narrow
    • Full
  • Center Content Style Options
    • Contained (Shows center content in a framed area)
    • Open (Shows center content unframed)
  • Category Location choice of Top Bar or Side Bar
  • Manufacturers Location choice of Top Bar or Side Bar
  • Home page Content -Choose from default home page of banner and featured products or Static page of your choice!
  • 404 Page Content – Choose from default home page of banner and featured products or Static page of your choice!

Responsive Admin Layout Options

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Theme Options

  • Unlimited Color options!
  • Pick a Reference Color and 8 more theme colors will be automatically generated!
  • Optionally adjust each of the 8 theme colors to your liking!
  • Background color options of Solid or Repeating Pattern
  • Unlimited Repeating pattern options!
  • Fully Customize Button Colors!
    • Main Buttons
    • Success Buttons
    • Secondary Buttons
    • Alert Buttons
    • Info Buttons
    • Disabled Buttons

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Social Options

  • Facebook URL
  • Twitter URL
  • Twitter Username (for feeds)
  • Google Plus URL
  • YouTube URL
  • Pinterest URL
  • Tumbler URL
  • Instagram Name

Social Options

Home Page Options

  • Banner Position Options
    • Within Page Content
    • Full Page Width
    • None (no banner)
  • 4 Banners with links to help promote products or sales!
  • Drag and Drop images to update banners!

Homepage Banner Options

Checkout Options

  • Cart on Left with Checkout process on right
  • Cart on Right with Checkout Process on left
  • Cart Narrower than checkout process
  • Cart wider than checkout process
  • Cart same size as Checkout Process
  • Special optional checkout message to customers

Checkout Options

Search Options

  • Enable/Disable Auto-completion for products in the search header
  • Minimum number of characters before auto-completion suggests
  • Maximum number of suggestions to display

WordPress Options

  • Enable WordPress Integration
  • Directory for wordpress
  • WordPress Layout options
    • 1 Column
    • 2 Column – Sidebar Right
    • 2 Column – Sidebar Left
    • 3 Column
  • WordPress Link Title

Wordpress Options

Page Speed Options

  • Enable/Disable Lazy Load Images
  • Minify CSS
  • Minify Javascript
  • Minify HTML

Page Speed Options
Purchase Mobility Template for your site today!

Hyatt Gun Stores X-Cart Upgrade and Mobility Improvements

A new look and a mobile friendly site were high on the list of improvements that Hyatt Gun Store wanted for their existing site. We’re pretty proud of the work that Henry completed on this site and thought it was just too good not to share!

Site Improvements
• Upgrade to X-Cart 4.7
• Customized Mobility Template
• Wordpress Integration
• Custom Layaway Feature
• Customized Search feature
• Responsive Skin With Customizations

Justin, of Hyatt Guns, has noticed a significant increase in the page views on the site and a large decrease in the bounce rate as well. This is all great news for our long-time customer! More views with less bounce rate=increased sales and that’s always a great thing!

Homepage Old vs.New

New Site Home Page
Cleaner look & feel, much easier site navigation and showcasing products and services in a more visible manner.

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Old Site Home Page
Note the side columns have been replaced by drop down menus on the new site. This site was pretty busy with many areas competing for attention.

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New Product Pages
All product info is on one page, not hidden in tabs and requires minimal clicks to get to the information.

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New Check Out
Features our Smooth One Page Checkout that guides the customer through the required information and also requires minimal clicking & page reloads! As the customer scrolls, the cart is always visible on the left hand side of the screen.

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We’d love to help you get the site that you want for your business. Contact Us to day for a Free Quote! No project is too big or too small!

BCS Engineering – Providing Customers with the proper resources to help their business succeed since 2002!

The Global Shipping Platform for X-Cart & Magento is Now Available!

BCSE has partnered with global technology and ecommerce leader, Pitney Bowes, to offer international shipping for X-Cart & Magento. (Contact Us) to download the Global Shipping Platform for X-Cart or Magento Extension and you can start seamlessly selling and shipping your products to 70+ countries around the world!
The Pitney Bowes Global Shipping Platform for X-Cart & Magento simplifies international sales by providing:

  • Guaranteed, fully-landed international cost quotes for 70+ countries on your store’s checkout page. Quotes include real-time duty, tax, brokerage fees and international shipping & handling
  • Unparalleled international shipping rates that no other service can offer
  • Reliable coordination of parcel management across borders including routing, logistics, tracking, insurability and last mile delivery
  • Transparent international shipping restrictions based on country-specific import rules and product classifications

We’re very excited to offer this industry leading solution to our customers! By presenting clarity and accuracy in the buying process, certainty and transparency in delivery, and dependable, competitive pricing, delivering a successful cross-border experience to your customers will be just one click away.

For more information, please visit X-Cart International Shipping or Magento International Shipping. Feel free to Contact Us if you have any questions regarding this fantastic opportunity!

 

BCS Engineering Celebrates 13 years!!

It’s lucky Friday the 13th for us! Today is the 13th anniversary of our business that started in the basement of our home and has grown to so much more! We want to thank our many loyal customers for their support and allowing us to assist them with their business needs. Thank you to our 10 terrific employees for your dedication and for helping us to provide excellent products and services to our worldwide customer base. 2016 is shaping up to be a great year for BCSE; filled with bigger and better opportunities and innovative products! Visit our store to take advantage of our anniversary sale, all BCSE mods are 13% off until 11/20/15 …here’s to another great year!

Henry’s 10 Year Anniversary with BCS Engineering

Congratulations to Henry on his 10 year anniversary with BCS Engineering! Henry was our first employee hired and has been an integral part in making BCSE a global leader in our industry.

Thank you Henry for your commitment to excellence, leadership, and for being an all-around great guy. You make the office and our business a better place just by being you!

Henry 10th Anniversary

Future of X-Cart 4

We have some exciting news to pass on to customers using X-Cart 4 (a.k.a. X-Cart Classic) as their platform of choice. While Carrie was in attendance at the X-Cart Meetup in Orlando last week, the X-Cart team provided updates regarding the future status of X-Cart 4. It is our understanding that X-Cart will be continuing to support the X-Cart 4 branch for at least another 5 years.

Part of the reasoning for this appears to be that most of the current users of X-Cart are using the X-Cart 4 branch as opposed to X-Cart 5 – to the tune of approximately 75%. As such, customer demand seems to be the propelling factor behind the continued support. However, X-Cart 5 leads the way among users new to the X-Cart family.

BCS Engineering will continue to support the X-Cart 4 branch as long as we have customers requesting support. We are also in the process of ramping up our involvement with X-Cart 5 by porting some of our more heavily-requested mods to this branch. At the same time, we are increasing the number of X-Cart 5 related customer projects we are fielding. As always, if you are looking for support on an upcoming X-Cart project, feel free to contact us for a free quote!