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Brief Overview of X-Cart

X-Cart is a solid, open-source based shopping cart developed in 2000. The key was targeting a lower price point than other ecommerce solutions on the market. After nearly 16 years in the market, it’s reached revenue of over 2 billion dollars and there are 35,000+ online stores worldwide. It’s easy to use and install approach has made it quite popular for the less technologically inclined user. Here are some great features of X-Cart to help out your business.
Main Features of X-Cart

It has a clean responsive design that makes it easily accessible for customers to navigate for phone or tablet devices if they aren’t on a laptop/desktop platform. The mobile commerce is very appealing because it has a mobile friendly platform along with a good shopping app to make purchasing easier. Additionally, the mobile POS helps process card payments on any kind of phone or tablet platform. You can also integrate with eBay to help you update products, orders, prices, images, and more to build your customer base. The quick access to shopping cart content will help your customer get more options to pay for things. Here’s how you can integrate the software.

How it’s Compatible with OSI Affiliate Software

First of all, make sure you sign up for an OSI Affiliate Software plan. From that point on, add code to your landing page. Add the sale tracking code to a skin in your X-Cart template. After you implement this code, you can go test it by copy the link under “Link to Promote.” Then go and make a test purchase to see if everything works accordingly. Go to “How to Setup an X-Cart Affiliate Program” for more details.

X-Cart OSI Affiliate Software Step by Step Instructions

Step 1 Start the Getting Started Setup

Click "Start Setup" shown below:

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Step 2 Add Referral program Name and Description
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Step 3 Select the Type of Referral program and add additional Details

You may select to reward your affiliates a percentage of a sale, a fixed amount or a custom reward.
Additionally if you do not want to reward users, you may also just use the software to track referred leads.

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Step 4 Select where you want affiliates to send people

You may select to have your affiliates send people directly to your site or to a coupon page.

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You have now created an affiliate program for your X-Cart. It is time to add affiliate tracking software to your X-Cart.
Step 5 Click on Getting Started -> Setup Software
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Step 6 In the pop up window click "I want to get code to insert on my landing and thank you page" shown here:
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You are now on the Integration page where you can select the shopping cart that you have to get the code for the thank you page.
Step 6 In the pop up window click "I want to get code to insert on my landing and thank you page" shown here:
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You are now on the Integration page where you can select the shopping cart that you have to get the code for the thank you page.
Step 7 Get code for Thank you page

Select X-Cart from the list of shopping carts. You will see the X-Cart instructions like these:

Open wp-content/themes/name of your theme/x-cart/checkout/thankyou.php and place the code that is shown at the bottom below this line of code: do_action( 'X-Cart_thankyou', $order->id );

Congratulations! Once you add this X-Cart affiliate tracking code you have completed the setup and integration of the Omnistar Affiliate Software into your X-Cart Store.