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CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Overview

What is CS-Cart Multi-Vendor?

CS-Cart Multi-Vendor is a professional marketplace platform, which allows you to open an Amazon-like marketplace quickly and grow it at scale. CS-Cart comes with over 500 marketplace features, no-code design tool, open code, and over 2,000 ready add-ons and design themes. Multi-Vendor has everything you need to quickly install it and start selling: a powerful pack of marketing features, a fast and mobile-friendly storefront, excellent SEO optimization, a convenient and easy-to-use admin panel, and a mobile application for customers and sellers. It is ready for high load out of the box. Starting from 2018, user review platforms and software aggregators such as G2, Capterra, and SourceForge has rewarded the CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace builder with Category Leader, Customers' Choice, Most Popular, and other awards. For now, this marketplace platform has an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars on user review platforms and over 1,600 live cases of successful marketplaces.

CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Details
Languages Supported
Danish, German, Greek, English, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified)
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Product Description

Multi-Vendor is standalone eCommerce software designed to allow users to create an online marketplace.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

We focus CS-Cart Multi-Vendor on fast start and continuous growth. An entrepreneur can launch a marketplace MVP less than in a month and scale it without too much hassle later. Fast start and scalability is achieved thanks to rich functionality, 2,000 ready add-ons and themes, open code, and clear architecture based on PHP.


Seller Details
Seller
CS-Cart
Year Founded
2005
HQ Location
San Diego, US
Twitter
@cscart
2,076 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
35 employees on LinkedIn®

Yan A.
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Recent CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Reviews

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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"great support"
CS-Cart is a fantastic e-commerce platform, especially for B2B businesses. It's got a user-friendly setup that makes handling our marketplace a bre...
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NICKOLAS A.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Excellent value although the user manual can be struggle ( but the forum is active and friendly )."
Heaps of FREE and useful features out of the box. Two of CS-Cart’s most outstanding features ( in my view ) are the Reward Points add-on and the ...
Sajith S.
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Sajith S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"A Comprehensive Review of CSCART Multivendor"
CSCART Multivendor is an excellent product that provides a comprehensive solution for creating and managing a multivendor marketplace. It offers po...
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CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Media

CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Demo - Unitheme home page
The looks of a custom theme Unitheme
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Demo - Product page
This is a product page. You can choose between 2 different templates.
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Demo - Default storefront
This how the default storefront design looks like.
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Demo - Administration panel
The admin panel—is your control center. This is where all the knobs and switches are.
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Demo - Category page
This is how the category page in Unitheme looks like.
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What do you like best about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor?

Heaps of FREE and useful features out of the box.

Two of CS-Cart’s most outstanding features ( in my view ) are the Reward Points

add-on and the Promotions add-on. There are no other carts out there

that handle these features so well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor?

The user manual has been written with coders in mind.

I have mentioned to all and sundry that user manuals should be written in collaboration with novices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CS-Cart Multi-Vendor solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has given me an e-commerce solution that is well-priced and reasonably user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor?

I love getting lost in the corridors of cs-cart. Although it adapts to code technology and innovations, I think its back support is at a high level compared to many of its competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor?

Cs-cart does not have a widespread supporting group, which I attribute to being a paid software. I think that if it is also published in a free version like an odoo, volunteer code lovers will give more support and provide faster development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CS-Cart Multi-Vendor solving and how is that benefiting you?

It enables to keep many audiences together with its marketplace support. I was using it at the company I worked for, not now, and I loved it. I'm thinking of implementing a project with cs-cart one day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor?

It is the real only one ready to use 90% complete multi-vendor marketplace platform.

No one else can be considered even also a close to it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor?

It is really expensive and also if need customizations (it is not taking care about to show only products which can be delivered to the user location, for example) there is only one very reliable partner to talk with.

All the others are generalist Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CS-Cart Multi-Vendor solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is the only one framework not needing a complete coding review to be a multivendor marketplace.

The customer service and help desk are really quick in replying and people is very kind and customer oriented Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zsolt L.
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What do you like best about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor?

Modern look, easy to use, a lot of addons that I can use. It was a perfect choice, you don't need an IT school to have a profitable online store! I use a lot of addons that I can easily install. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor?

I can't write something that I don't like. It fully meets expectations, I got what I expected for my money. No errors, everything works effortlessly. Maybe the fee for upgrades is a bit high now in this difficult crisis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CS-Cart Multi-Vendor solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can work with several suppliers at the same time, so multiple payment solutions are solved. Only the supplier receives the orders. Flexible treatment as a supplier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor?

The most useful feature of the multi-seller is that it shares the categories and products for all the seller stores, which gives it a very important flexibility in the sales channel, of course, this is my opinion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor?

The only thing missing was that I couldn't find support for development in our country due to the complicated structure and complex coding style of cs-cart. En azından bunun ülkemizde böyle olmasını isterdim (Türkiye) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CS-Cart Multi-Vendor solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cs-cart is a very effective solution source for product and stock management and sales operation for multiple stores or vendors in a category tree.The easy management of this structure provides a very good benefit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor?

When I chose CS-Cart MVE I knew there was serious developers behind this project, and all the video-tutorials made it easy to grasp what´s possible to do with it. The price, is a little on the expensive side, but I love that, since it means they can continue working on updates and continue to serve CS-Cart MVE users. They are awesome marketers, sellers, and are running a great market-place themselves, which is good, they know how to make a successful marketplace business, which is what i´m trying to do as well.

I also love the Add-on market they have with different vendors, which makes it possible to fit desired needs as functionality on the website. They also have many developers which knows CS Cart inside and out, and can do tweeks for me easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor?

A built in image-compression tool is lacking I think. I haven´t found a good way to compress images without doing it manually, which makes it a little less user-friendly for new vendors.

I would love to see a more service-based MVE setup from the start as an option, since I won´t be selling any products other than digital products and services. But, with a few tweeks it´s possible to remove all shipping-related content and options etc.

That´s about all I can think of. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CS-Cart Multi-Vendor solving and how is that benefiting you?

CS-Cart MVE made it possible for me to offer vendors in my nieche market here in Norway to offer their music/party related services through a neat looking, efficiant way to sell their services and digital projects. It´s been many years with contacting through social media, and people scamming others. The review system and safety-controlling we will do will make the market a much safer and more professional enviroment to sell and buy services.

Thank you! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Apparel & Fashion
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What do you like best about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor?

It is a product that will meet all your needs with its customizable structure. The fact that it is unlimited open source code adds a different beauty to it. A product that uses code technology to its core Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor?

It is good that it is constantly updated, but if you have a page that uses these 3rd party plugins a lot, it can become a problem. Apart from this, it is still slow compared to competitor products that need to change the cache structure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CS-Cart Multi-Vendor solving and how is that benefiting you?

It can be a very good platform for other players in the industry or market you serve to sell their products. In this way, it offers you the opportunity to analyze your competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor?

Best Bang for Buck; Impressive list of features; Each new version presents significant improvements; High-quality professional support; Multivendor stands out as a particularly unique proposition compared to what else is available on the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor?

This webapp has a steep learning curve. The interface at the Admin backend feels often unnecessarily complicated and a bit old compared to what modern WebApps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CS-Cart Multi-Vendor solving and how is that benefiting you?

Weather to create an MVP for an ecommerce service or as a basis for fully developed ecommerce platform Cs-Cart multivendor is competent in both accounts. Out of the box the software is extremelly flexible and can be adapated to our niche market with just a few customizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor?

- a true lifetime licence with NO forced subscriptions

- fantastic support that is patient, that works WITH you and offers great solutions

- highly flexible and immensely scalable BUT you gotta put in a lot of work to get it your way

- you can get anything one with php, SQL, js, HTML and CSS...that is literally all it takes

- many addons (in varying quality) available

- steady stream of updates that offer actual improvements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor?

- does not meet EU and not at all GER legal standards; that you gotta do yourself

- some addon devs are borderline scammers

- DOM size gets huge

- bit picky with image and thumbnail handling

- total niche product, so don't expect any out-of-the-box support from any marketleading ERPs or shop-software for integration and migration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CS-Cart Multi-Vendor:

Either know how to code yourself or have someone who can.

If you are GER based there is a helpful Slack Channel: https://join.slack.com/t/cscart-deutschland/shared_invite/zt-gqxxy7gz-k7H9EtuDRt9x~1zJF2hYvA

If you are GER based thoroughly research which payment service provider you want to /can use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CS-Cart Multi-Vendor solving and how is that benefiting you?

We created a one-stop online marketplace that offers only environmentally friendly and sustainable products! We bring a lot of different companies, brands and sellers on one platform and make mindful eCommerce accessible to a mainstream audience.

Multivendor helps us realize that by beeing this totally flexible vessel which we can shape to meet our demands without having to have something made from scratch. Which would of course lead to a much more streamlined product but would have also used up a lot more money & time ressources! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor?

Powerful multivendor CMS for cheap price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor?

Updates come out very often so you have to update frequently. Always keep a clone of your site in the dev version Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CS-Cart Multi-Vendor:

Use and configure phisic or cloud server by yourself, based on requirement. Don't use hosting providers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CS-Cart Multi-Vendor solving and how is that benefiting you?

The best way to start you e-commerce business as marketplace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Yan Anderson of CS-Cart Multi-Vendor

Thank you for your super positive review! Just to clarify one thing: you are right—it's good to take care of a server yourself, but many of entrepreneurs don't really want to deal with server environment configuration. For these customers, we offer our own hosting. It's secure, 100% optimized for CS-Cart Multi-Vendor, and maintained by our in-house team.