CS-Cart Multi-Vendor vs. IBM Cloud Code Engine

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
Score 8.6 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
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
IBM Cloud Code Engine
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
IBM Cloud Code Engine is a fully managed, serverless platform that unifies the deployment of containers and applications including web apps, microservices, event-driven functions, or batch jobs. This serverless compute service aims to remove the burden of building, deploying, and managing workloads in Kubernetes so users can focus on writing code and not on the infrastructure that is needed to host it. With IBM Cloud Code Engine users can run any workload…N/A
Pricing
CS-Cart Multi-VendorIBM Cloud Code Engine
Editions & Modules
Standard
$660
per year
Plus
$1,320
per year
Ultimate
$3,300
per year
Unlimited
Contact Sales
one-time fee
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CS-Cart Multi-VendorIBM Cloud Code Engine
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
CS-Cart Multi-VendorIBM Cloud Code Engine
Features
CS-Cart Multi-VendorIBM Cloud Code Engine
Online Storefront
Comparison of Online Storefront features of Product A and Product B
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
8.6
Ratings
9% above category average
IBM Cloud Code Engine
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Ratings
Product catalog & listings8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Product management8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk product upload8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Branding8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile storefront8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Product variations8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Website integration8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual customization8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
CMS8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
8.4
Ratings
9% above category average
IBM Cloud Code Engine
-
Ratings
Abandoned cart recovery8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Checkout user experience8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Payment System
Comparison of Online Payment System features of Product A and Product B
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
8.9
Ratings
7% above category average
IBM Cloud Code Engine
-
Ratings
eCommerce security8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Product A and Product B
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
8.4
Ratings
9% above category average
IBM Cloud Code Engine
-
Ratings
Promotions & discounts8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Personalized recommendations8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Product A and Product B
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
8.0
Ratings
0% below category average
IBM Cloud Code Engine
-
Ratings
Multi-site management8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Order processing8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Inventory management6.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Shipping7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom functionality8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
-
Ratings
IBM Cloud Code Engine
6.4
Ratings
22% below category average
Scalability00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Services-enabled integration00 Ratings6.20 Ratings
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User Ratings
CS-Cart Multi-VendorIBM Cloud Code Engine
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(0 ratings)
6.4
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(0 ratings)
6.2
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.2
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.2
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CS-Cart Multi-VendorIBM Cloud Code Engine
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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Looking for a reasonably priced and dependable cloud solution, I suggest IBM Cloud Virtual Servers to everyone. For businesses needing excellent uptime and performance free from the trouble of running actual servers, it's fantastic. However, it may not be the best choice if you need hands on support for server configurations.
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Pros
  • Easy to use
  • No third party control
  • Great support
  • Lost of [an] add-on to make it [a] more vast platform
  • Can sale [almost] any product
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  • Server-less platform that is automatically managed
  • Pay per use - scale to zero results in an extremely cheap total cost of ownership.
  • There is no need for you to set the size, deploy, or scale container clusters yourself.
  • Auto scaling is always helpful and easy to use.
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Cons
  • update subscription
  • 3rd party theme & addons subscriptions (its not sure that you have also updates in 2 years)
  • expensive license prices (if everything is cheaper, more peoples will buy it)
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  • the pricing structure is complicated, and the servers are expensive. I really think they should offer better pricing options and support for more languages
  • sometimes the servers go down, and they take too long to respond to support tickets
  • uploading documents is slow since I have to do it one by one, making the process much longer than it should be
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Likelihood to Renew
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Since this capability supports a wide variety of use cases - all on non proprietary and open technology based frameworks
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Usability
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.
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The product Cloud features setting was not that tricky, and the functions are easy to manipulate and provide quality Cloud services. The data connectivity through IBM Cloud Code Engine is very simple and the transfer speed is very impressive. A/B Testing using IBM Cloud Code Engine is effective performed and data security is on top.
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Support Rating
I've had very good support over the years. They've helped solve some issues here and there that were difficult to track down. Thumbs up.
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Implementation Rating
Mostly extremely easy to implement, both back-end logic as well as styling. Great addon marketplace helped, particularly around payment options.
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Alternatives Considered
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.
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Having only some hands-on with the other services, The cloud engine is considerably simpler to operate, with a very clear interface and management. Each application can be easily configured and altered without needing to know anything about different subscription tiers or the system's inner workings. But in the case of Lambda, Depending on the situation, Code Engine will fetch your source code and generate the container image. Code Engine supports both Dockerfile and the Cloud-Native Build bundle, which is preferable. It is possible to create applications that send messages based on events.
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Return on Investment
  • 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.
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  • IBM maintains the same high degree of security that has been essential for its operations since the dawn of the computing market while streamlining data governance in a real cloud model as a dependable business partner for organizations all across the globe.
  • Apart from providing the instruments needed for efficient work the user friendly interface helps non-IT professionals to understand the system in a limited period of time.
  • The latest IBM Cloud Code Engine design is based on an innovative approach to buying and bundling of products.
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ScreenShots

CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Screenshots

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