Features

Merchant Directory

Complete merchant profile
Easily add multimedia to merchant profiles
Profiles can be self-managed by merchants
Review and accept merchant applications
Manage store hours
Self-managed merchant profiles
Follow merchants - users get e-mail updates any time a merchant they follow updates their profile
Manage merchant events
Integrated with Google Maps
Create and manage your own list of categories

Users automatically notified of new and upcoming events
Set dates and hours
Easily add images and videos
Merchants can create their own events and automatically add them to the event calendar
Optional selection of participating or sponsoring merchants
Share events across Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and more
User comments on past and upcoming events
Featured events promoted on your home page

Marketing e-mails sent on-demand as needed
Event e-mail updates and reminders automatically sent to all users
Event-related e-mails are branded with your logo and contain event photos
Merchants nudged via e-mail to remind them to update their profiles, upload photos, and post upcoming events
CAN-SPAM compliant e-mail system allows user's to opt out of any type of e-mail
Notifications automatically sent when comments or forum posts are responded to - or when a comment is made on a photo or video they've uploaded
Complete social networking e-mail notification system to maximize engagement
Merchants automatically notified via e-mail of any new Merchant Bulletins

Merchants can manage their own Special Offers.
Great way to advertise promotions.
Monitor merchant promotions as they're submitted.
E-mails to users automatically sent when merchant posts new Special Offers.
Special Offers reminder notifications e-mailed automatically - "10% Off Sale ending soon," etc

Simple photo and video management
Multimedia is uploaded to your personal library. Any user's photos and videos can be linked to any number of website objects
Effortlessly link multimedia items to Events, Special Offers, News Stories, and User/Merchant Profiles
Easily upload images and video right through the web browser
Images automatically sized to work with your website. Go from camera to website!
Videos automatically sized and compressed to work with a Flash-based video player; just like your own YouTube
Link other user's images and video to your main street content
One-click user flagging alerts moderators and administrators of inappropriate content posted

Create a merchant-only forum for Merchant discussions
Strengthen community bond with user forums
Create new topics
Users receive automatic e-mail notification when a user responds to their topic; keeping users constantly engaged via e-mail
Users can flag inappropriate forum posts for review by moderators
Easily log-in to respond to a topic without leaving the topic's page
Convenient forum and topic view pages make navigating forum fun

Easily invite friends
Users alerted of friend invites automatically via e-mail
Search users
Send and receive messages between friends
Hide profile from public view in friends-only mode
Share images and videos with friends
E-mail notification of new messages
Maintain complete profile with images, videos and more. Users can share as much or as little as they want.
Easily change password and update e-mail address
Password reminder utility

Easily incorporate your logo into site design
Customize images in your x&main-powered website's header
Option to completely override any (or all!) default HTML layouts
Have a professional design firm integrate their design from top to bottom
Option to simply use our built-in templates and brand with your logo
Customize to absolutely ANY degree; as much or as little as you want whenever you want
Customization costs are minimal

Safety First
ALL user-generated content can be flagged as inappropriate
Once a flagging threshold is reached the item is immediately removed from your website
Items with even one flag are automatically added to the moderator review panel where they can be reviewed and processed with one click
Easily invite moderators with one-click e-mails! Friends, colleagues, and associates can all help you make sure your x&main-powered website is safe
Reap the rewards of a social network without worrying about embarrassing content being posted on your website
Easily remove and block users who repeatedly post inappropriate content
CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) registration minimizes spam attempts

Update news stories or blog posts
Users receive e-mails of news updates or blog posts
Supplement posts with images or videos
Users can comment on posts
Published in XML/RSS feeds - like an electronic press release for local press
Feature news stories and blog posts on the home page of your x&main-powered website
Format news with rich text editor - like Microsoft Word right in the browser.

Once your domain is pointed to our server, your new x&main-powered website is launched - period. This can happen in a matter of hours.
We offer a set of quick and easy tutorials on how to point your domain to an x&main server - GoDaddy, Yahoo! Domains, Register.com - easy!
The only web-related service you'll need aside from x&main itself is a Domain Registrar. This is generally $8-10/year.
Use your existing domain or create a new one. Is your current domain being held hostage by your webmaster? Contact us - we can help.
High-security 24-hour full-support and back-up data center.
Flexible MVC application architecture allows unlimited customization - why pay someone else to write our software again?
Specifically geared toward a main-street environment.
Designed for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) with slugged URLs on virtually all content.

Inexpensive service will collect data off of your existing traditional website and migrate it to an x&main-based site.
Entire merchant directory can be automatically migrated for less than you think.
Enter the new merchant data yourself through our easy merchant control panel.
Have your merchants do it! Simply invite them with a one-click e-mail and let x&main handle the rest.
Who better to manage a merchant listing than the merchant themself?
Easily transfer other information like calendars, images, etc.