CS-Cart Multi-Vendor is an eCommerce marketplace software for SMBs available in cloud (No-Code) and self-hosted (On-Premises) versions. It allows users to open an online marketplace, where the user is the admin, and all the others—invited sellers. Each seller has his or her own micro-store with a customizable storefront, categories, filters, and search. Just like in Amazon. In the CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform, managing vendors is designed to be simple:…
$660
per year
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Standard
$660
per year
Plus
$1,320
per year
Ultimate
$3,300
per year
Unlimited
Contact Sales
one-time fee
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Free Trial
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Yes
Free/Freemium Version
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No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No
Entry-level Setup Fee
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Features
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Online Storefront
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7.0
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11% below category average
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8.6
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9% above category average
Product variations
7.00 Ratings
8.50 Ratings
Visual customization
7.00 Ratings
8.70 Ratings
Product catalog & listings
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8.80 Ratings
Product management
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8.90 Ratings
Bulk product upload
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8.30 Ratings
Branding
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8.70 Ratings
Mobile storefront
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8.00 Ratings
Website integration
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8.60 Ratings
CMS
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8.80 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
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6.5
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17% below category average
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
8.4
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9% above category average
Promotions & discounts
5.00 Ratings
8.80 Ratings
Personalized recommendations
8.00 Ratings
8.00 Ratings
SEO
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8.40 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
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8.0
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0% below category average
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8.0
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0% below category average
Multi-site management
8.00 Ratings
8.70 Ratings
Order processing
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8.50 Ratings
Inventory management
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6.50 Ratings
Shipping
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7.30 Ratings
Custom functionality
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8.90 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
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8.4
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9% above category average
Abandoned cart recovery
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8.20 Ratings
Checkout user experience
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8.50 Ratings
Online Payment System
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Great for a quick and easy setup of a multi-vendor solution, supporting multiple stores / languages / payment options. Will probably need some tuning if you have 1 million products or so. Great if you have a PHP dev or team, probably not the best option if you don't know the language and need to customise backend logic.
The software consists of most of all e-commerce related features. Also, there are plenty of third party addons are available in the market which can improve our business. There are a lot of powerful themes available in the cs cart market which improve the look and feel on the front store. If CS-cart adjusted the price on their software license cost, controlling the third party addon cost and provide more freelancers with cheaper hourly rate for the customization on the cs-cart multi vendor software, the cs-cart company can be a master among other e-commerce software companies in the world.
For big vision in doing something in online marketplace, I think CS-Cart can help to scale up and run business smoothly. CS-Cart started their business in 2005 and since [then has been] running successfully worldwide. It means they have a large scale of experience in implementing online marketplace based software and we can rely on them.
From an investment point of view, it is naturally much more profitable to purchase CS-Cart Multi-Vendor than to assemble a team of developers and try to create such a platform from scratch.
Creating a marketplace is a rather risky business. If you don't know a lot about marketplace building technologies, consider investing in a different business. But if you have already decided on the idea, and all you have to do is find a suitable platform, then CS-Cart Multi-Vendor will probably be a profitable investment. And if your sales go at least half a year after purchasing this platform, then you will quickly enough recoup these several thousand dollars.