X-Cart is a commercial open source shopping cart platform distributed through the SaaS solution, or via download package. It was originally released in 2000 by Creative Technologies LLC, a Russian web development company that later worked on Ecwid. Upon release, it was the world's first PHP shopping cart software.

X‑Cart is the only PCI DSS compliant software you can run on your own server. It works on any hosting, even a shared one, while featuring industry leading security — naturally! Seamless integration with the top payment gateways means your ecommerce store can start selling today.