Published: Jan 25, 2016 Last updated: Aug 4, 2021 Yan Kulakov
Personal needs and secret dreams always make us work on ourselves, spend much of our precious time and even sacrifice our happiness. Businessmen and entrepreneurs know the real sense of these words more than anybody else, as they have to risk, interact with different people and even work hard from early days to late nights without weekends and holidays. Moreover, if businessmen can't determine their business goals and solve nascent problems and obstacles, they will lose all to the last cent and get into debts. Trying to avoid these terrible business practices and reach their individual goals, some vendors may start promoting and offering their products and services through various eCommerce business projects. Such business companies allow entrepreneurs to cut their costs and get impressive revenues, as eCommerce stores and marketplaces are available for visiting and shopping almost in all countries.

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Notwithstanding these facts, plenty of vendors can't boast of earning much money and getting high popularity. This is rather clear, as ecommerce merchants also have to compete against each other, spend financial resources on their startups and provide their clients with excellent customer experience. Frequently, those eCommerce businessmen, who don't possess enough skills and funds to manage their online marketplaces on their own, have to think about cooperation strategies, as such approaches can help them not only protect their business activities, but also take their web projects to a newer business level.

Dosi-in.com is one of Vietnam’s largest online marketplaces selling apparel and shoes. It is built on CS-Cart Multi-Vendor.

Currently, more and more companies and corporations prefer to resort to all possible cooperation techniques and methods to survive in competitive conditions of the business world and the same concerns to ecommerce merchants. Very often, online businessmen, who aspire to create large web business companies, organize marketplaces. An eCommerce multiple marketplace can be compared with a traditional shopping marketplace, as it also includes separate store departments and hundreds of independent merchants, who implement their business operations under a single trading roof. This ecommerce project provides his owner with new business opportunities, such as new customer segments, valuable business partners and significant profits. Furthermore, becoming a marketplace owner, you will get unique experience in PR, management and marketing fields, what will help you solve the most difficult issues and interact with very choosy customers without difficulties. Nevertheless, managing your ecommerce project, you shouldn't forget about your marketplace vendors. As independent merchants will pay fees to you and follow your marketplace rules, so you will have to do all your best to make their individual web store departments fast and constantly accessible. To reach these goals, it is not enough just to optimize your web store, you will also have to find and buy a reliable web shopping cart software. Thanks to CS-Cart marketplace software, you will be able to increase your online marketplace speed and performance dramatically.

DroneNetTR is a Turkish eCommerce marketplace selling new and used drones. The marketplace works on CS-Cart Multi-Vendor

Virtual Marketplace Software

Launching an eCommerce multiple marketplace, you will have to be ready not only to interact with independent vendors and serve online clients, but also protect their transactions and personal information. In such a situation, eCommerce businessmen must equip their ecommerce marketplaces with strong security software and carefully encrypt users' data. This is a very important aspect for online customers and vendors, as they want to be sure that nobody will steal their valuable information and commercial secrets. Choosing Multi-Vendor software, you will be able to make your customers' and merchants' dreams come true. In the other words, our ecommerce marketplace software will provide all your web marketplace vendors with separate admin panels, which will help them not to interfere with each other and totally secure their selling operations.

If you intend to occupy leading positions in the ecommerce marketplace, so you will also have to think about customer needs and preferences. You can be sure that your marketplace merchants will not be able to attract online clients and promote your business brand without using additional customer services and applications. So, after equipping your large online business project with Multi-Vendor ecommerce marketplace software, independent marketplace vendors will get an opportunity to add following ecommerce software tools: smart product filters, automatic inventory control systems and easy one-page checkout forms to their individual web store departments, what will only improve your relationships with eCommerce customers.

CS-Cart software is packed with all the functions you need to build an effective eCommerce marketplace and offer great tools to your vendors and customers:

Advanced Vendor Payout System
Common Products for Vendors
Configurable Vendor Plans
Category Commissions
Advanced Marketplace Vendor Restrictions
Flexible Product Approval System
Vendor Debt Payout


As a rule, when online businessmen organize ecommerce marketplaces, they are usually unable to control all processes within these web projects, what can spoil all their business plans with time. Thanks to an account of a root store administrator our web shopping carts provide their owners with, you will get a chance to track what marketplace merchants add to product catalogs and pre-moderate their activities if required. However, if you want to increase our marketplace speed and performance, you can hire one of these developers, who will improve the software open source code rather easily.

According to your goals, you can choose from 3 editions of CS-Cart:

  1. Multi-Vendor software: over 500 features including all the essential and advanced functions for vendors.
  2. Multi-Vendor Plus: all the features of the standard edition + 7 exclusive features such as promotions by vendors, common products for vendors, category commissions, mobile app, and others.
  3. Multi-Vendor Ultimate: all of the above + multiple storefronts, free lifetime upgrades, and VIP customer care.


Best Open Source Marketplace Software

There are dozens of open source marketplace software. Some of them are easy to use but not suitable for large projects. Some are complex and super customizable but too complicated. And some just don't fit your business. In this shortlist, we collected 5 popular marketplace open source softwares that are versatile and reliable for any kind of marketplace project.

1. CS-Cart Multi-Vendor—eCommerce marketplace software was developed with the primary focus on providing administrators full control over their vendors and giving the owner the maximum flexibility in configuring monetization options.

2. Magento Marketplace Software—>Marketplace Module is a popular extension for Magento software which turns it into a fully-functioning multi vendor eCommerce site.

3. WCFM Marketplace for Wordpress—WCFM is a multi vendor WordPress plugin by WC Lovers. The core version of WCFM is available for free on WordPress Plugins and offers quite a lot in terms of features.

4. Dokan for Wordpress—Dokan is the best front-end multi vendor solution on WordPress, powered by WooCommerce. It helps you to build your own marketplace similar to Amazon and eBay.

5. X-Cart Multi-Vendor— an open source marketplace eCommerce software. It has tons of ready features for marketing (promotions, special offers, reporting, and analytics)—expanded sales channels, handy store management, excellent customer experience, and more.

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