xt:Commerce Guide for Merchants in Germany: Suitability, Features, Editions, and Costs

xt:Commerce has been one of the established e-commerce platforms in the German-speaking market (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland) for many years. The current generation, xt:Commerce 6, is aimed at merchants who want to design their store structure individually and organize the technical operation themselves. This guide explains the editions, features, and costs and shows how to connect additional sales channels with magnalister.

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xt:Commerce 6 at a Glance: The Key Facts

• Operating model: xt:Commerce 6 is self-hosted store software. You choose the hosting provider and, together with your technical partner, are responsible for day-to-day operation.
• Editions: PRO is aimed at merchants with a single online store. With Multishop, you manage several brand, country, or target-group stores centrally.
• What sets it apart: xt:Commerce 6 combines self-hosted store operation with features and extensions that are tailored specifically to e-commerce in the German-speaking (DACH) market.
• Costs: The PRO license starts at €499 net, the Multishop license at €998 net. Depending on the project, hosting, extensions, implementation, and ongoing support come on top.
• Scaling: With magnalister, you transfer and synchronize product, price, inventory, and order data between xt:Commerce and international online marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay, or Temu.

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What Is xt:Commerce?

xt:Commerce is commercially licensed store software with open source code for self-hosted online stores. In the central back end, you manage the product catalog, process orders, and maintain the associated customer data. Templates define the look of the store, while plugins and integrations add features and connect external systems.

xt:Commerce GmbH, based in Innsbruck, Austria, develops the platform primarily for the requirements of e-commerce in the German-speaking market. The vendor puts the number of licenses issued at more than 150,000 and the annual transaction volume of the stores running on it at over €2.5 billion. ^{1, 2}

Which Editions of xt:Commerce 6 Are Available?

xt:Commerce 6 is available as a PRO edition for a single online store and as a Multishop edition for several centrally managed stores.

With Multishop, you manage customers and orders through a shared back end, while configuring design, product range, languages, currencies, payment methods, and shipping separately for each subshop. This makes the edition suitable, for example, for different brands, countries, or B2B and B2C offerings. ^{1, 3}

The following table shows the main differences:

What Features Does xt:Commerce 6 Offer?

xt:Commerce 6 covers classic store processes as well as differentiated pricing, customer, and Multishop structures. You can sell products, process orders, and define separate prices or tax displays for different customer groups. The Multishop edition adds separately configurable storefronts. ^{3, 4}

The feature set includes:

• Catalog and products: Categories, product variants, digital products, images, files, cross-selling, and inventory levels
• Customers and orders: Customer groups, order statuses, billing and shipping data, and a permissions system for administrators
• Pricing and B2B: Tiered prices, quantity-based discounts, minimum order values, and net or gross prices by customer group
• Internationalization: Multiple languages, currencies, tax rules, countries, and shipping zones
• Marketing and SEO: Coupons, search-engine-friendly URLs, metadata, and automatable export feeds
• Design: A responsive standard template plus additional and individually customizable templates

Through plugins and integrations, you connect xt:Commerce 6 with ERP and inventory management systems, PIM systems, and payment services, among others. For custom data connections, the system supports JSON and SOAP. ^{1, 3, 4}

How Much Does xt:Commerce 6 Cost?

xt:Commerce 6 starts at a net price of €499 for the PRO edition and from €998 for the Multishop edition. This license price includes twelve months of updates. After that, you can keep running your existing store version indefinitely; for newer updates, however, you need to extend the update entitlement by one year at a time. ^{3, 4, 5}

The following table summarizes the current license prices and the cost of a twelve-month update extension ^{6, 7}:

Depending on the project, additional costs arise for hosting and infrastructure, templates, plugins, setup, custom development, and ongoing support.

What Are the Pros and Cons of xt:Commerce 6?

What Are the Advantages of xt:Commerce 6?

The greatest strengths of xt:Commerce lie in the control over technical operation and in its flexible store structures:

• High customizability: The accessible source code and the modular plugin system enable custom features and integrations.
• Flexible business models: Customer groups, pricing logic, and tax displays support B2B and B2C offerings.
• Central Multishop administration: You manage several brand, country, or target-group stores together while still configuring each one individually.
• DACH focus: German-language documentation and suitable integrations make implementation easier for e-commerce in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

What Are the Disadvantages of xt:Commerce 6?

Running the system yourself comes above all with technical and ongoing organizational demands:

• Own operational responsibility: For security, backups, and updates, you need internal responsibilities or a technical partner.
• Project-dependent effort: Custom designs and integrations increase the implementation and support effort, depending on your requirements.
• Limited update period: Newer versions require a paid extension once the included period has expired.

Who Is xt:Commerce 6 a Good Fit For?

xt:Commerce 6 is best suited to merchants who want to decide on hosting and technology themselves and configure B2C, B2B, or Multishop processes in a targeted way.

The following table offers a compact assessment by project requirement:

How Do You Operate xt:Commerce 6 in Germany in a Legally Compliant Way?

You operate an xt:Commerce store in Germany in a legally compliant way by providing the legally required information, configuring the checkout correctly, and taking data protection, the right of withdrawal, and accessibility into account. For several of these tasks, xt:Commerce provides its own features or suitable integrations.

Which Legal Areas Should xt:Commerce Merchants in Germany Check?

Pay particular attention to the following areas in your xt:Commerce store:

• Provider information: The legal notice (Impressum) must provide all legally required details completely and in an easily accessible way ⁸.
• Prices and checkout: Price information, shipping costs, delivery information, and the order button must meet the legal requirements ^{9, 10}.
• Consumer information and right of withdrawal: Provide the required contract information, an appropriate withdrawal notice, and the prescribed ways of exercising the right of withdrawal ¹¹.
• Data protection, cookies, and tracking: Inform users transparently about data processing and obtain the required consent before consent-based services store or read information on end devices ^{12, 13}.
• Accessibility: Check whether your offering falls within the scope of the German Accessibility Improvement Act (Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz) and its implementing regulation ¹⁴.

Which xt:Commerce Features Support Legal Compliance?

xt:Commerce 6 supports legal compliance with the included cookie consent extension, integrations with Janolaw, IT-Recht Kanzlei, and Protected Shops, and accessibility-oriented standard themes.

Since version 6.7.1, the system has also included a withdrawal button. These features create the technical foundation, which you need to configure to match the services and business processes you use. ^{15, 16}

Setting Up xt:Commerce 6 and Starting to Sell

What Are the Requirements for xt:Commerce 6?

For the installation, you need a valid license, a domain, and a compatible hosting environment. Before buying, clarify the following points with your hosting provider or service provider:

• License: valid PRO or Multishop license
• Domain and SSL: registered domain with an SSL certificate
• Server environment: PHP 8.4 or 8.5 as well as MySQL 5.6 or later or MariaDB 10.3 or later
• Server features: cURL, JSON, SOAP, SimpleXML, and mod_rewrite, among others
• Performance: a PHP memory limit of at least 128 MB, with 256 MB or more recommended; for Multishop, the vendor recommends a dedicated server ¹⁷

How Do You Get Started with xt:Commerce 6?

After purchasing the license, you upload the installation package to the prepared server, add the license file, and start the setup wizard in your browser. For configuration and later operation, you need the appropriate technical expertise or an experienced service provider. ¹⁸

Typically, you proceed in these steps:

1. Choose an edition: Decide between PRO and Multishop.
2. Prepare hosting: Align server performance, PHP, the database, and the required extensions with the current xt:Commerce version.
3. Set up a test environment: Install and configure the store separately from the live system first.
4. Configure the store: Set up products, customer groups, taxes, payments, shipping, content, and design.
5. Test integrations: Check plugins, integrations, checkout, emails, and data flows under realistic conditions.
6. Secure the go-live: Plan backups, monitoring, updates, and fixed responsibilities for operation.

Pro Tip: Scaling xt:Commerce 6 Through Multichannel Selling – With the magnalister Store Plugin

With magnalister, you connect xt:Commerce with major marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay, Etsy, and Temu as well as European marketplaces such as Kaufland, METRO, and OTTO Market – and manage central sales processes directly from your store’s back end. ¹⁹

This not only reduces manual work but also opens up millions of potential new customers with different profiles. It also reduces your dependence on individual sales channels.

The magnalister plugin is compatible with xt:Commerce 6 as well as the older versions 3, 4, and 5 and offers the following core features:

• Product listing: Publish items from xt:Commerce on connected marketplaces
• Attribute mapping: Match product attributes with the respective marketplace fields
• Price and inventory synchronization: Transfer changes centrally from the store to the sales channels
• Order import: Bring marketplace orders into xt:Commerce and process them there
• Status synchronization: Synchronize shipping and order statuses between the store and the marketplaces

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Conclusion: An E-Commerce Platform for Controlled Self-Managed Operation

xt:Commerce 6 combines a one-time software license with hosting of your choice, which makes it suitable for merchants who want to control their technical environment themselves. PRO covers a single store, while Multishop bundles several brand, country, or target-group offerings in one back end.

The system shows its strengths in custom B2B, B2C, and Multishop projects with reliable technical support. magnalister extends your own store with centrally managed marketplace processes, making it easier to expand your multichannel selling.

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