CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Reviews

In 2020, as part of the decision-making process for an enterprise marketplace solution, we analyzed many solutions and followed up on analyzes from leading business consultants (e.g. Gartner). We then assessed the enterprise solutions based on previously defined criteria. In the end, the multi-vendor solution from Cs-Cart was the best solution for us. the large range of functions and the scalability enables the use of multi-vendor by a small company up to an enterprise multi-vendor marketplace operator.

We now have a very extensive, scalable multi-vendor solution with which we can quickly roll out a wide variety of websites for different industries - e.g. digital goods, electronics, home & garden, health, furniture...

Multi-Vendor has a wide range of backend and frontend functionality and also offers excellent admin functions, vendor functions, ... up to mobile app functions.

The use of enterprise marketplace solutions in different countries also requires country-specific adaptation options and country-specific standard features in line with legal guidelines and specifications. Some more features would be desired here, but we believe that it is only a matter of time before these are also offered as a standard feature. In principle, however, all solutions on the market have to master the same challenges here.

Overall I would definitely recommend CS Cart. I cannot wait to get my marketplace up and going and purchasing this software has made it so much easier.

We are in the process of building our site and the ease of use is the most amazing aspect. It is practically out of the box. The add ons are easy to install and the accessibility of great. I also love how easy it is for the vendors to set up their store and the reporting that they get as well as us.

So far the only thing that could be easier is more instruction on how to deal with economic nexus in the US.

So far great customer experience. Usually very fast in answering my questions. I am sure that the service support is as good as the sales support. The fact that is sold over 1500 times should make it the most stable market place out there.

I really like the prompt response the sales team had. Also in comparison to other market places, CS-cart did a great job answering most of the Q&A on their website either by videos or by writing.

I can not really say much about that as I did not install it yet and working on it.

CS Cart has developed a great product that I’m glad I purchased. It looks like they make frequent improvements (they regularly post update videos to YouTube), so I’m looking forward to what they do next and would happily recommend them to any business owner.

Great for business owners looking to get up and running without a developer. We were able to build the marketplace with no knowledge of php and just a basic understanding of websites and html.

Documentation is very helpful. The way the User Guide is arranged and searchable makes it a great resource if you just have a quick question or want to use it as a step-by-step setup guide.

Reliable support. Responses were fast, straightforward and everyone on the team is extremely knowledgeable.

Easy to edit design. Really impressed with Layouts and how you can add, remove, and drag and drop page elements. They’ve already pre-built several graphic, functional, and text elements you can use as is, or adjust to your liking.

Easy to customize, with lots of freedom on what you can customize. You can adjust typical look and feel items like font colors, but also text snippets, automated emails to customers, and on and on.

I think the one area where CS Cart could improve is in striking a balance between promoting vendor brands and allowing the marketplace owner to deliver a consistent design.

Would love to see more editability on the Vendor profile page where all vendors can input standard things like their company bio, return policy, and maybe a banner. That way the marketplace owner can keep the site look they want and the Vendor gets to better promote their business.

CS Cart has options for vendor customization, but they seem to offer either too much or too little editability. Some examples:

Vendors are allowed to modify the theme, but the trade-off is people will inevitably build pages that clash with the overall look and feel of your website.

Getting to the Vendor Product page is easy, but Vendor Profiles are hard to get to. It would be good if customers could access each Vendor profile more easily, especially when the page offers great features like vendor reviews.

Vendors are allowed to upload logos which is fantastic, but unless you tell the Vendor to choose a certain image size, the invoices Customers see may be out of alignment.

Vendors are allowed to add a Blog and Pages, but building and customizing these pages seems a bit hard to navigate for sellers without any design experience.

Pages created by Vendors are not on a subpage. So, if a vendor creates a page called "aboutme" it would appear at yoursite.com/aboutme which may be confusing to buyers. It would be better if it would appear at yoursite.com/sellername/aboutme so it's clear it's a Vendor page and not one created by you as the marketplace owner.

In the end, CS-Cart Multivendor offers everything you need to develop your marketplace. Don't hesitate to read their documentation to discover all the features of the platform.

CS-Cart Multivendor is a fast, efficient, and above all affordable solution for young start-ups and larger online stores.

The platform offers a great balance of scalability, flexibility, and security. It allows admins and sellers to effectively grow customer engagement, traffic, and revenue with a whole suite of optional addons (available on CS-Cart Marketplace).

You'll be able to have unlimited sellers who can list unlimited products. CS-Cart Multivendor allows you to create physical, downloadable, and variable products.

As an administrator, you can use CS-Cart Multivendor to control everything that happens on your marketplace. Vendor registration, product posting, subscription renewal, and all other vendor activities can be done through you.

Wish they had more updated themes available. Of course, a good web designer can easily handle this but still... wish CS-Cart could provide 2 or 3 of them.

We are happy with the CS-Cart and hope they will improve a few basic functionalities in order to outperform. We really believe in CS-Cart and want to continue working with this overall solution.

The cost-effectiveness is excellent. You don't find this anywhere else. Everything is user-friendly and highly customizable. You can import and export CSV/XML files automatically daily. You can set as many tax rules as you want, shipping methods and much more.

Also, when we need help, CS-Cart usually answers within 1-2 days.

An outstanding layout of our homepage is crucial. You have to work a lot on the design to have a good and professional one though when using CS-Cart. However, you don't need to have a lot of knowledge when designing your homepage when using CS-Cart.

There is no built-in integration for Shopify and WooCommerce synchronization. You have to buy it in addition and it doesn't work properly, unfortunately. It would be one of the biggest advantages if CS-Cart would offer an API connection with these third parties.

We would love to use different payment gateways such as Klarna and Twint. However, CS-Cart doesn't offer them.

Overall we are very happy with Cs-Cart and would recommend it to other businesses.
The platform is very high quality with quality code, massive amounts of features built in for a one off licence cost, and the updates you pay for yearly which are value for money to keep your platform up to date and secure.

It's really well optimized and can be adapted and customized in many ways, ultimately by choosing Cs-Cart we were able to save a lot of money long term compared to other solutions like Shopify, which has a monthly payment but also is very limited in features meaning you need to pay for loads of different plugins per month.

If you can find a theme that works for you, and you check the features match up with what you need, we would definitely recommend Cs-Cart Multivendor as a solution for most businesses small and large, it speaks volumes that so many massive companies with 10,000+ products choose Multivendor to run their marketplace.

Having tried WordPress and Shopify, we found that Cs-Cart was a must-have for a multivendor marketplace platform and would choose it again.

- Great tech support from the development team
- Cs-Cart Multivendor has a massive amount of features from simple to complex built in that with other services like Shopify or WordPress you would need loads of plugins for which end up costing more to use than a Cs-Cart licence.
- Large amount of plugins available from third-party developers that can add even more platform capability.
- Active forums with third-party developers and other users always at hand to help
- Great for companies of all sizes whether you have 100 products or 10,000
- The features available such as built in SEO and the mass of options available for listing products mean you can be as detailed or as simple as you like when vendors are listing products.
- Solutions for things like Taxes and Shipping worldwide are built in, making expansion easier.
- Great overview of sales details to give you more information
- Lots of great tutorial guides made by the devs which is perfect for new users, but can be a bit daunting.
- It offers a one stop solution for the majority of Marketplace businesses.
- Ever growing integration with providers for things like accepting payments and other solutions.
- A Lifetime Licence which means you pay once and own it forever, which works out much cheaper than competitors solutions long term. You just need to keep up with the yearly subscriptions to upgrade the software, which is value for money.
- the system can adapt to multiple business models allowing for flexibility.

- I wish there was a bigger variety of themes for website owners to choose from, there are many themes but because Cs-Cart is a more complex and niche service the options are less than other services like Shopify. But it makes up for that in features.
- More inbuilt integration with a bigger variety of third parties for services like Accounting would be a big plus.
- Cs-Cart is very complex, and although anyone can learn how to use it, the learning curve for this product is quite dramatic, this platform really can scale and as such can be quite daunting to learn all of it's features.
- Importing mass products from other websites can be slightly frustrating as most e-commerce sites make their XML product files in different layouts, so can be a bit fiddly to mass import we found.

Very good overall experience. Definitely the best option for marketplaces platform compared to other players in the market.

- Easy to set up with many helpful video tutorials available
- Free support during the first 3 months were very good and, most of the time, quick to respond.
- A great range of features available to enhance the customer experience

- Expensive support after the 3 months
- Not ideal for services as the platform is very much focused on selling products.
- Payment processing time is slow with no clear reason why.

CS-Cart Multivendor is a nice and full featured platform. After just few days we managed to put the market place online. The only drawback is the mobile app. It works well, but our marketing did not approve its usability and look-and-feel. Thus, we decided to make our won mobile app. We have been using CS-Cart for 3 months, and we a very satisfied.

Easy to set-up and with a lot of interesting features. The vendor panel and the upload of products via CSV files improved a lot the productivity of our marketplace. The plug-in library was also very important for us.

The mobile app could be better, and we found difficult to do small modifications, for instance, minimum price per vendor.

CS-Cart Multi-Vendor is the perfect solution for e-Commerce! I've been using it for a year now. I can safely advise!

Everything you need for a marketplace in one software! Relatively inexpensive. Convenient for sellers and buyers. Many necessary and useful models. Good support and documentation.

There are no serious comments. But it would be nice to receive a newsletter in Russian :)

I've been using CS-Cart many years. It is the best E-Commerce platform. I recommend to anyone needing a simple, but completely customizable online store. It is incredibly easy to set up, and offers so much customizability out of the box that it is easy to make it unique and professional-looking, on a non-recurring cost model. The Multi-Vendor edition of CS-Cart essentially lets other people sell on your site, while you either take a commission or monthly fee. Vendors get their own login and Admin panel. All you have to do to get started is create "Vendor Plans" you want to offer. You can also choose which category of products they have access to. When a vendor signs up, they just choose which plan they would like, and enter their info. You can approve and deny anyone. CS-Cart displays all the plans on a nice, modern-looking page for you, which you can also customize. Features: Automatically charge vendors every month or one-time. Approve products before they're added to your site. Vendors can have multiple accounts for different employees. Vendors can edit the layout of their "storefront", colors, and even add/modify CSS.

One time fee. You buy it, it's yours for life. Super easy to customize. Great Support. Advanced SEO features that you get out of the box, preconfigured - so you can get pretty good results without spending extra time and money on additional optimization for search engine rankings.

At present nothing. As everything is possible and we can do anything we see in any system on it without any issue or complications.

I am looking forward to increasing my company revenues because of this software now allowing me to attract a whole segment of the business population, the small businesses, which we could not before.

The concept of this software is fabulous for businesses like mine. As the owner of a web design and development company, I saw that we were missing out on a lot of small businesses who could not afford the one-time costs of developing an online store. CS-Cart Multi-Vendor is the perfect solution. We can now offer an alternative to small business wanting an online presence for their products. With this software, they can spread their costs out by paying on a monthly basis, thus staying within their budget.

The documentation is a little difficult to follow because there is so much of it, but their Support people were very good at helping get through it all.

Excellent software, the best of what is now on the market. Even if you write everything yourself from scratch, it is not a fact that such functionality can be made. And if you do, it will come out much more expensive.

Functional
Usability
Support
Any revision can be done
A lot of modules are ready
There is a chic support forum
No programmer needed for start and maintenance

There are several functions that I would like to see in the basic functionality, but they can be purchased with modules.

I'm a CS-cart multivendor + user. It gives me perfect solutions on dropshipping e-trade. Definitely recommended!

All in one solution for all demands on a marketplace software. Easy to use for store admins and vendors

Nothing! Everything is great about this software.

CS Cart Multi-Vendor is a good comprehensive solution for any business looking to create their own online marketplace.

Easy to setup and use.
Lots of features to customize your multi vendor marketplace.
Great community support.
One time license fee .

Support model needs improvements.
Upgrades are only free for 1 year.

Great software to use.
I found the online tutorials extremely helpful with setup and learning the ins and outs of the software.
Easy to explain to vendors who aren't tech savvy.

Easy to use.
Hosted on your preferred platform.
No limitations on industry and products.
Very stable.
Well documented and supported.
Supported by various in country payment processing providers outside the USA.

At this time I haven't yet discovered any cons to the product.

I like the features on the platform, but I hope there will be more interest, especially in payments in the Middle East and Gulf region

Good features

I hope there will be more interest, especially in payments in the Middle East and Gulf region

An excellent platform that gives vendors flexibility to control their pricing and shipping. I would highly recommend it to anyone wanting to get going fast with a solution that works.

There are many advantages to CS-Cart Multi-Vendor over other solutions:
- Flexible shipping options
- Easy to setup
- Powerful e-commerce tools
- Integrates with Stripe and other payment processors
- One time cost
- Supported by a good team
- You're not dependent on a cluster of unsupported add-ons

- The default appearance is not my favorite style but this can easily be customized.
- Support becomes a user pays service.

Amazing! The explanation on CS-Cart website is very easy to understand if you have troubles. The add-ons give you a lot of opportunities to change things.

It is very easy to use, very simple and it is totally worth to buy it! If you planned to open a multi vendor store for the first time, this is the software you need.

Custom coding is sometimes hard to do. But with a little help it becomes easy!

For those all things, I loveCS-Cart because It is quite easy to use and ready to make business right away, the limitation is your ideal and team dev.

- Open Source
- Good Support
- PHP Developer-friendly
- Ready to Use
- One time expense
- Full function ready for Ecommerce
- Fast loading
- CS-Cart team have clearly roadmap developed

- Database Technology maybe not match up with big scale eCommerce
- Mobile App consider improvements