{"id":8416,"date":"2017-02-10T13:14:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T10:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.x-cart.com\/?post_type=success-stories&#038;p=8416"},"modified":"2023-09-12T09:23:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T06:23:41","slug":"success-storiespearls-only-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.x-cart.com\/success-stories\/pearls-only.html","title":{"rendered":"Pearls Only"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Hello, this is Paul Lepa from Pearls Only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been using&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.x-cart.com\/software-pricing.html\" target=\"_blank\">X-Cart eCommerce platform<\/a>&nbsp;over a decade. As the CEO and founder of PearlsOnly, I initially started on hosted platforms, but have quickly found that any customizations and modifications we wanted to get done, was very expensive and slow.<\/p>\n\n\n<link  rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/miniflat\/build\/css\/elements\/post\/quote.css?var=1742284057\" \/><blockquote class=\"gb-quote gb-quote--photo\">\n            <div class=\"gb-quote__photo p-blog__image-shadow\">\n                <picture><source  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.x-cart.com\/img\/16327\/Paul-Lepa.jpg 1x, https:\/\/www.x-cart.com\/img\/16327\/Paul-Lepa-t200x200.jpg 2x\" type=\"image\/jpg\" media=\"(max-width: 599px)\" \/><source  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.x-cart.com\/img\/16327\/Paul-Lepa-t200x200.jpg 1x, https:\/\/www.x-cart.com\/img\/16327\/Paul-Lepa-t300x300.jpg 2x\" type=\"image\/jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 600px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\"  width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.x-cart.com\/img\/16327\/Paul-Lepa-t200x200.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.x-cart.com\/img\/16327\/Paul-Lepa-t200x200.jpg 1x, https:\/\/www.x-cart.com\/img\/16327\/Paul-Lepa-t300x300.jpg 2x\" alt=\"Paul Lepa\" class=\"gb-quote__img\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/picture>                            <footer class=\"gb-quote__name\">\n                    <cite>Paul Lepa,<br>CEO at PearlsOnly<\/cite>\n                <\/footer>\n                    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"gb-quote__content\">\n                <p  class=\"gb-quote__text\">X-Cart is at the root of our growth that helps us sell online.<\/p>            <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p>In my search for a shopping cart solution for my online store \u2013 PearlsOnly.com \u2013 I found X-Cart. I loved the fact that the code was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.x-cart.com\/ecommerce-solutions\" target=\"_blank\">open source<\/a>&nbsp;so that I could easily make small tweaks and changes with my own team, BUT also found it very assuring that I had&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.x-cart.com\/ecommerce-support.html\" target=\"_blank\">support<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.x-cart.com\/ecommerce-development-services.html\" target=\"_blank\">development<\/a>&nbsp;services available as well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With X-Cart eCommerce software being located in Russia, I found that the quality of programming was very good and the price perfect for a small startup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast forward many years forward \u2013 and we now have X-Cart power 5 of our stores \u2013 pearlsonly.com, pearlsonly.ca, pearlsonly.co.uk, pearlsonly.com.au and pearlsonly.de. Because of the open back-end, we build many of our own services to seamlessly integrate with our in-house order fulfillment center, and to this day find that the ability to have access to code has been a huge competitive advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether it\u2019s the ability to develop our own unique PearlWizard technology, that uses heuristics and artificial intelligence to suggest perfect pearls to our customers, or adding a PearlMap, that shows who in the world is wearing our products, to the many behind the scenes developments that make our eCommerce business run so smoothly I consider our online store unique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have now over 250,000 happy customers around the world (and growing) and X-Cart is at the root of our growth that helps us sell online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story about Pearls Only online store, artificial intelligence and 250,000 happy customers all over the world. 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