CS-Cart — leading software for B2B, B2C marketplaces
The most popular platform for starting a marketplace fast.
CS-Cart — leading software for B2B, B2C marketplaces
The most popular platform for starting a marketplace fast.
CS-Cart has helped 50,000 companies worldwide to successfully build and grow their online business
ShopClues.com
The largest all-in-one marketplace in India with 28 million products.
• 28 million products
• 350,000 sellers
• 28 million products
• 350,000 sellers
HouseofCB.com
A fashion house and retailer in London, whose garments have been worn by Beyonce, Gigi Hadid, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, and the Kardashians.
Yumbles.com
The most "delicious" marketplace in Great Britain selling artisan food.
Wikifarmer.com
A Wikipedia for farmers with its own marketplace, where people can search for anything related to agricultural production and buy it online.
Urbankissed.com
A marketplace for sustainable and ethical fashion, beauty, and lifestyle products from independent brands around the world, committed to social and environmental responsibility.
PreciousPlastic.com
A community with a big and important mission—to reduce plastic waste by creating an alternative global recycling system.
Discover Product Updates
We continuously enhance our eCommerce software with the sole purpose of helping your business succeed. Each update is packed with new features and improvements designed to streamline your operations and keep you ahead of the competition. Discover the latest advancements!
What you can build with CS-Cart
Open a fully-featured marketplace to grow your business →
Online marketplace
Quickly start an eCommerce marketplace to test your hypothesis →
Minimum viable marketplace
Build a large secure eCommerce marketplace that can easily handle high loads →
Enterprise marketplace
Offer your customers a marketplace in their phones and manage the platform in a web admin panel →
Mobile marketplace
Start a B2B online shop or marketplace to sell products to businesses →
B2B eCommerce
Open a classic online shop to sell products to end consumers →
B2C eCommerce
Order from us a fully customized shop or marketplace according to your specs →
Custom eCommerce project
Integrate our eCommerce platform to your existing eCommerce website →
Headless eCommerce
Launch fast, scale vast—the fundamental idea we put in CS-Cart
Launch your marketplace on the CS-Cart platform with Scalesta hosting in just 1 hour. Experience growth both horizontally and vertically within the next 3 months, thanks to exceptional customizability.
Fast Start
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 and a pre-configured server from Scalesta, you can start an online marketplace faster than your competitors.
With CS-Cart and a pre-configured server from Scalesta, you can start an online marketplace faster than your competitors.
Feature-rich
500+ features are ready for any marketplace business scenario.
Expertise
17 years of ongoing improvement and over 1,600 marketplaces.
Ecosystem
2,000+ add-ons and themes and 250 partner developers worldwide.
Bonus
Free month of Scalesta hosting and Image Optimizer included.
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.
Clear architecture
Modular architecture with clear code for easier development.
Open source code
Absolute freedom in customizing the platform.
PHP core
A well-known and proven language for web applications.
Education
Courses for both developers and entrepreneurs.
Mobile app with open code
An app for sellers and buyers perfectly tailored to their needs.
Server
Your marketplace is secure with Scalesta's 24/7 support and proactive monitoring.
Not just marketplace platform, but ecosystem
Award-winning solution for creating an online marketplace
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor has been the leading marketplace website builder on G2 and SourceForge for the last three years. It has been included in Capterra Shortlist of eCommerce Software twice in in 2021 and 2022 as the leading marketplace platform.
What our customers say
Pritish A.
E-Commerce Specialist
Milan P.
CEO
Masha S.
Manager
Phill K.
Founder and CEO
Roland R.
Manager
Kyriacos P.
Managing Director
Who's behind CS-Cart
Who's behind CS-Cart
19 years in eCommerce software market
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.
Worldwide-distributed team
To offer the best experience and lighting-fast reaction, we are located worldwide: USA, UK, Sri Lanka, Kazakhstan, Cyprus, Georgia, and other countries.
Proven technologies
We develop our marketplace software with popular technologies like PHP, MySQL, and React Native, making it easy to find a developer for customizations. For server management, the Scalesta team uses RabbitMQ, Ansible, CI/CD with GitLab, and Zabbix.
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.
Scalesta is the hosting service recommended by CS-Cart. Their specialized solutions are tailored for CS-Cart marketplaces, ensuring optimal performance and security. Plus, CS-Cart clients can enjoy a complimentary trial month with servers pre-configured by Scalesta.
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.