B2B Marketplace Platform
Boost your marketplace business and take new markets with our B2B marketplace software
What is a B2B marketplace?
The B2B abbreviation stands for Business-to-Business. It's a multi-vendor eCommerce website where companies sell products to business buyers.. Amazon Business is a great example of a B2B eCommerce site.
Business benefits of a CS-Cart Multi-Vendor B2B marketplace platform
Customizable platform tailored to building B2B marketplaces and ready to be perfectly adapted to your business model
We are on top of the ratings:
Capterra 4.7 out of 5
SourceForge 4.7 out of 5
G2 4.8 out of 5
Capterra 4.7 out of 5
SourceForge 4.7 out of 5
G2 4.8 out of 5
Won trust on the market
Our interface is user-friendly and most of the functions can be set intuitively.
Easy to launch and learn
We offer a 30-days money-back guarantee. No questions asked.
Guarantees
Every license comes with a free customer support period.
Free customer care
B2C and B2B Marketplaces are not the same
Business-to-Business (B2B) marketplace platforms differ from business-to-consumer (B2C) ones in functionality. B2B marketplaces have to have advanced features for communication, supply chain management, bulk ordering, advanced accounting, and flexible pricing formation features. And most importantly, it should have tools to boost your business growth.
Why choose CS-Cart for your B2B marketplace?
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor is a source-available B2B eCommerce platform that allows for quick start and unlimited scalability in any business niche.
Quickly validate your idea
Minimum viable product is an early B2B online platform that you can start really fast on CS-Cart and test your ideas. It's important to fail fast, iterate, and build a better version of your marketplace. That's what CS-Cart is best suited for.
Tailor your B2B marketplace to any business strategy
CS-Cart comes with over 500 eCommerce features including essential B2B functionality: multiple storefronts, powerful sellers and inventory management tools. You won't need extra development to get started.
Scale to the level you need
CS-Cart has open code, API, and optimized for high load. This gives you unlimited options for growth, customization, and integration with third-party business applications. Create a B2B ecosystem with CS-Cart in the base.
Maximize ROI with the B2B ecosystem
When you build your B2B marketplace platform on CS-Cart, you not only get a professional, award-winning eCommerce tool, but also a foundation for your B2B ecosystem. Thanks to its high integrability, you can connect CS-Cart to any third party business applications and services through API and hooks. A mobile application for sellers and buyers will be the final piece of your B2B ecosystem.
Essential features for B2B eCommerce offered by CS-Cart
The CS-Cart B2B eCommerce platform is tailored to fast start. We took care of the tools and all the essential features that simplify and speed up building a marketplace.
Bulk price discounts
Create promotions and configure wholesale prices formation to offer flexible pricing to your B2B clients.
Multiple payment systems
Our B2B marketplace platform comes with over 70 built-in gateways for payment processing. You can offer your B2B sales portal vendors and buyers the most convenient payment methods for them.
Multiple storefronts
Set multiple storefronts—each for a certain product category, region, or group of sellers. Control everything from one admin panel.
Real-time inventory updates
Your sellers can track inventory stock with or without options, plus they can benefit from the Warehouses feature. Inventory management in CS-Cart is quite simple and easy to use.
One-click re-order
With our B2B software, customers can re-order the latest cart in one click.
Vendor subscription plans
Offer your vendors plans with recurring payments to give your sellers more features and flexibility and generate more income for yourself.
Minimum Viable Product for an online marketplace
Launch a minimum viable product (MVP) to test your business idea without spending a fortune. Once you create a B2B marketplace and make sure it will become successful, you can then develop and expand it without any limitations. The CS-Cart online marketplace platform helps you not only launch an MVP, but also grow it to the limits you need.
Focused on B2B & enterprise
Best for large B2B multi vendor marketplaces.
Maximum automation
Most of the business processes from placing an order and payments are automated.
Suitable for any industry & market
Sell physical or digital products, or both.
Fast time to market
You can deploy CS-Cart in a day and expand it quickly with ready add-ons and themes.
Growth-oriented
Open code, API, and high load optimization allow for exceptional scalability and business growth.
Powerful & secure
CS-Cart works flawlessly with millions of products and hundreds of thousands of sellers. GDPR and PCI compliant.
Key benefits of a B2B Multi-Vendor marketplace in one place
B2B Marketplace Platforms: How to create a successful B2B marketplace website
CS-Cart B2B Marketplace Software Rating
Our B2B eCommerce solution is highly-rated software to build digital marketplace websites. It has an average rating of 4.75 out of 5 stars on the most popular business software review online platforms in the software industry: SourceForge, Capterra, G2, TrustPilot, and others.
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CS-Cart B2B Marketplace Software FAQ
Need help? Here are the top questions asked by our Subscribers
B2B eCommerce is a trading relationship between two companies, where all the business transactions take place online—on a B2B eCommerce platform. In other words, it is when one company buys products or services from another company online.
B2B marketplaces are focused on relationships between two businesses: a business offers products and services to another one.
The most famous examples are Alibaba, Amazon business, and Raukuten. They do not work with end customers directly but deal with other businesses.
There's no such thing as the best platform. The best is the one that meets your business needs and helps you achieve your business goals in the most effective and efficient way. That is why it is important to carefully select B2B marketplace software based on your needs, budget, strategy, and goals.
The best option is to choose a development company you trust. After coming up with the idea of a business and testing MVP, you can start a business on a reliable B2B marketplace platform. Before you launch your platform to the public, make sure to have local and nationwide partners onboard so you don't have the chicken-and-egg problem after launch.
B2B eCommerce websites make money on commissions from sales, banner ads, and vendor subscriptions.
With B2B Marketplace software, you can create your own B2B eCommerce website. This means you can reach a wider audience and expand to new locations, even globally. Plus, running an online marketplace greatly reduces your expenses because you delegate all inventory management to your sellers.
Today's buyers have high expectations for online shopping. This is especially important for business buyers because they always have limited time and budgets. A B2B eCommerce marketplace saves them time and makes shopping much more convenient because buyers don't have to make a million phone calls to suppliers and deal with tons of paperwork.
We designed CS-Cart Multi-Vendor to be a great fit for different sizes of businesses, including small businesses. It is also suitable for medium businesses, large businesses and enterprises, depending on the plan.
CS-Cart is designed to fit any niche or market. It's a very versatile B2B platform, suitable for building a global marketplace. For this purpose, the platform has multiple languages and currencies, a flexible tax system, and multiple storefronts that can be assigned to different regions enabling business to sell worldwide.
Sure, the platform ships with all the essential features for wholesale businesses. Plus, there are a number of add-ons for the wholesale marketplace model available on the CS-Cart add-on market.
Yes, CS-Cart is a source-available B2B marketplace software. You install the platform on your own server and have access to the code. You can modify the code as you wish to make customizations, develop new features and adapt the platform to your needs.