CS-Cart — leading marketplace software.
The most popular platform for starting a marketplace fast.
The most popular platform for starting a marketplace fast.
CS-Cart — leading marketplace software.
Choose a way how you want to build your marketplace
No-Code
Hosted by the hosting provider of your choice.
Get full control over your marketplace software installation on your own server or CS-Cart's.
Fully customizable. On-Premises multi vendor platform has open code, which allows for developing custom functionality.
Easy to expand. Install third-party add-ons and design themes from the CS-Cart add-on market.
No catalog and transaction limitations. Unlike No-Code, On-Premises doesn't limit you in the number of products, vendors, and admins.
Turnkey platform. On-Premises comes with the storefront, admin panel and marketplace vendor panels out of the box.
Get full control over your marketplace software installation on your own server or CS-Cart's.
Fully customizable. On-Premises multi vendor platform has open code, which allows for developing custom functionality.
Easy to expand. Install third-party add-ons and design themes from the CS-Cart add-on market.
No catalog and transaction limitations. Unlike No-Code, On-Premises doesn't limit you in the number of products, vendors, and admins.
Turnkey platform. On-Premises comes with the storefront, admin panel and marketplace vendor panels out of the box.
On-Premises
Quick start. Fill in a short form and have your marketplace up and running in literally minutes.
Works in the cloud. Forget about third-party hosting and running your own server.
No coding skills needed. Set up and manage your marketplace platform through a user interface without the help of developers.
Easy to scale. Once you need to grow, migrate to On-Premises fast and hassle-free.
Works in the cloud. Forget about third-party hosting and running your own server.
No coding skills needed. Set up and manage your marketplace platform through a user interface without the help of developers.
Easy to scale. Once you need to grow, migrate to On-Premises fast and hassle-free.
No-Code
On-Premises
Distribution model
Cloud
Self-hosted
Hosting included
Admin panel
Vendor panel
Storefront
Open source code
Third-party add-ons and themes
Not supported
Supported
Product, revenue and admin limitations
Yes
No limit
Customer care included
Updates included
As experts in the eCommerce industry with 17 years of experience, we have compiled a comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the world's most prominent marketplaces
The World's Top-10 Marketplaces: Dynamic and Trends Report
CS-Cart has helped 50,000 companies worldwide to successfully build and grow their online business
The largest all-in-one marketplace in India with 28 million products.
• 28 million products
• 350,000 sellers
• 28 million products
• 350,000 sellers
A fashion house and retailer in London, whose garments have been worn by Beyonce, Gigi Hadid, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, and the Kardashians.
The most "delicious" marketplace in Great Britain selling artisan food.
A Wikipedia for farmers with its own marketplace, where people can search for anything related to agricultural production and buy it online.
A marketplace for sustainable and ethical fashion, beauty, and lifestyle products from independent brands around the world, committed to social and environmental responsibility.
A community with a big and important mission—to reduce plastic waste by creating an alternative global recycling system.
Launch fast, scale vast—the fundamental idea we put in CS-Cart
Start your marketplace on the CS-Cart platform within 3 months. Grow horizontally and vertically thanks to outstanding customizability.
Fast Start
500+ features are ready for any marketplace business scenario
Feature-rich
17 years of ongoing improvement and over 1,600 marketplaces worldwide
Expertise
2,000+ add-ons and themes and 250 partner developers worldwide
Ecosystem
Short time-to-market is critically important in today's eCommerce. You're faster than your competitors—you're the winner. You're slower—you're a loser.
With CS-Cart, you can start an online marketplace faster than your competitors.
With CS-Cart, you can start an online marketplace faster than your competitors.
Vast Growth
Have you heard the saying "Hell devours the indolent"? That's exactly how business works. If the business doesn't move and grow it stops existing.
The platform your marketplace is based on must support the growth. It must scale when and the way you need it. Like CS-Cart does.
The platform your marketplace is based on must support the growth. It must scale when and the way you need it. Like CS-Cart does.
courses for both developers and entrepreneurs
Education
Mobile app with open code
an app for sellers and buyers perfectly tailored to their needs
modular architecture with clear code for easier development
Clear architecture
absolute freedom in customizing the platform
Open source code
a well-known and over-the-years proven language for web applications
PHP core
What you can build with CS-Cart
Minimum viable marketplace
Quickly start an eCommerce marketplace to test your hypothesis →
Online marketplace
Open a fully-featured marketplace to grow your business →
Enterprise marketplace
Build a large secure eCommerce marketplace that can easily handle high loads →
Mobile marketplace
Offer your customers a marketplace in their phones and manage the platform in a web admin panel →
Headless eCommerce
Integrate our eCommerce platform to your existing eCommerce website →
Custom eCommerce project
Order from us a fully customized shop or marketplace according to your specs →
B2B eCommerce
Start a B2B online shop or marketplace to sell products to businesses →
B2C eCommerce
Open a classic online shop to sell products to end consumers →
What our customers say
"CS-Cart Multi-Vendor platform is an easy to use software if you wish to start a marketplace of any kind. Buying Multi-Vendor is a million times better than building one from the ground up. After a thorough research for more than 3 months we were confident that CS-Cart Multi-Vendor had the most features for the price compared to any of its competitors. The Customer service team was extremely helpful and you also get 90 days of premium support after your purchase of the Multi-Vendor Plus which is what we got."
Pritish A.
E-Commerce Specialist
E-Commerce Specialist
"We picked CS-Cart out of 8 different other software (including Magento) and I have to say it's the best decision we ever made. CS-Cart was so easy to install and configure, and great value for money without compromising on any of the key functionality, quality and reliability we needed. There are plenty of themes and add-ons to choose from as well as great built-in features out of the box - including SEO features which is critical for a high trafficked site like ours. The product is easy to customise and gave us endless possibilities with integrating with other parts of our site, such as community and CRM."
Phil K.
Founder and CEO
Founder and CEO
"I'm opening a very data-intense shopping site that provides a lot of product info. I love that I can move a lot of data around pretty fast and with ease of use. The platform takes minimal time to learn how to use. I really like that I can use this platform without much coding knowledge--I only use coding for tweeks to my individual pages."
Michael M.
Financial Services Representative
Financial Services Representative
"I really like scalability of CS-Cart. It was not overwhelming for me to use when I started few years ago, and now as we grow, we are still able to utilise its advanced features. Some solutions out there become restrictive after a few years, however, this is not the case for CS-Cart. It just helps business to grow and matures with it. Another important aspect of it is that it just works. It is very agile, robust, secure and intuitive for new members. CS-Cart team keeps on top of all the latest developments and therefore this solutions is very powerful, even just out of the box."
Masha S.
Manager
Manager
"Writing that something is the best always arouses suspicion, especially among people who have excellent knowledge and experience in this field. We have more than 13 years of experience with the CS-Cart eCommerce platform in the Serbian marketplace. The CS-Cart multi-vendor option is a powerful and user-friendly cart software solution in which all good experiences from individual CS-Cart software editions are implemented. There are detailed manuals and video instructions, not only for beginners, a large forum and active community, developers, marketplace, and a good help desk. User-friendly administrators mode allows easy and fast training of vendors for independent work."
Milan P.
CEO
CEO
"We picked CS-Cart out of 8 different other software (including Magento) and I have to say it's the best decision we ever made. CS-Cart was so easy to install and configure, and great value for money without compromising on any of the key functionality, quality and reliability we needed. There are plenty of themes and add-ons to choose from as well as great built-in features out of the box - including SEO features which is critical for a high trafficked site like ours. The product is easy to customise and gave us endless possibilities with integrating with other parts of our site, such as community and CRM."
Phil K.
Founder and CEO
Founder and CEO
“CS-Cart Multi-Vendor platform is an easy to use software if you wish to start a marketplace of any kind. Buying Multi-Vendor is a million times better than building one from the ground up. After a thorough research for more than 3 months we were confident that CS-Cart Multi-Vendor had the most features for the price compared to any of its competitors. The Customer service team was extremely helpful and you also get 90 days of premium support after your purchase of the Multi-Vendor Plus which is what we got."
Pritish A.
E-Commerce Specialist
E-Commerce Specialist
"I'm opening a very data-intense shopping site that provides a lot of product info. I love that I can move a lot of data around pretty fast and with ease of use. The platform takes minimal time to learn how to use. I really like that I can use this platform without much coding knowledge--I only use coding for tweeks to my individual pages."
Michael M.
Financial Services Representative
Financial Services Representative
"I really like scalability of CS-Cart. It was not overwhelming for me to use when I started few years ago, and now as we grow, we are still able to utilise its advanced features. Some solutions out there become restrictive after a few years, however, this is not the case for CS-Cart. It just helps business to grow and matures with it. Another important aspect of it is that it just works. It is very agile, robust, secure and intuitive for new members. CS-Cart team keeps on top of all the latest developments and therefore this solutions is very powerful, even just out of the box."
Masha S.
Manager
Manager
"Writing that something is the best always arouses suspicion, especially among people who have excellent knowledge and experience in this field. We have more than 13 years of experience with the CS-Cart eCommerce platform in the Serbian marketplace. The CS-Cart multi-vendor option is a powerful and user-friendly cart software solution in which all good experiences from individual CS-Cart software editions are implemented. There are detailed manuals and video instructions, not only for beginners, a large forum and active community, developers, marketplace, and a good help desk. User-friendly administrators mode allows easy and fast training of vendors for independent work."
Milan P.
CEO
CEO
Award-winning marketplace software
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor has been the leading marketplace software on G2 and SourceForge for the last three years. It has been included in Capterra Shortlist of eCommerce Software twice in 2021 and 2022.
Not just marketplace platform, but ecosystem
Who's behind CS-Cart
Who's behind CS-Cart
We develop our marketplace software with popular technologies such as PHP, MySQL, and React Native. So you can easily find a developer to customize your project, should you wish.
Proven technologies
To offer the best experience and lighting-fast reaction, we are located worldwide: USA, UK, Sri Lanka, Kazakhstan, Cyprus, Georgia, and other countries.
Worldwide-distributed team
Our customers' success is our success. We give businesses a ready platform to launch an eCommerce website in days and help them increase audience reach, enter new regions, grow product ranges, take over new niches, and penetrate new markets.
17 years in eCommerce software market
FAQ
Need help? Here are the top questions asked by our Subscribers
Marketplace software is a platform for starting a multi-vendor website. This software can be on-premise or cloud. On-premise marketplace platforms usually have a lifetime license with one-time payment. Cloud platforms are subscription-based.
Marketplace software has a backend, a storefront, and a vendor panel. An admin manages the marketplace in the admin panel: manages sellers, helps them upload products, set up promotions, payment options, and logistics. Customers shop on the marketplace storefront by browsing the catalog and adding products to the cart from different sellers. Once the order is placed, a marketplace seller sees it in the vendor panel and starts to process it.
The most known eCommerce marketplace is Amazon. It's a marketplace with a long history. It's the biggest marketplace in the world. eBay is another example of an all-in-one marketplace. Etsy is a marketplace for handmade products. See more examples of online marketplaces in our Customers section.
You basically have two options: develop an eCommerce marketplace platform from scratch or build a marketplace on a ready-made platform. There are pros and cons of both options. For example, the development of an eCommerce marketplace from scratch can cost you a lot of money. But in this case, you can tailor it perfectly to your business processes. Building the business on a ready platform is way more affordable and quicker but you can face some limitations, which you will have to overcome with custom development.
You only need an eCommerce marketplace platform if you plan to cooperate with third-party sellers and sell a large number of products. If you don't want to work with sellers and want to sell only your own products, it is better to start a conventional online shop.
There are two ways to sell through multiple channels. The first way is to start your own eCommerce marketplace or shop and export your products to other large marketplaces such as Amazon. This way, you will have the main sales channel (your marketplace) and auxiliary channels (Amazon, eBay, etc.). The second way is to start an online marketplace with multiple storefronts. You open many storefronts in different countries and for different products and audiences.