CS-Cart Video Tutorials
The CS-Cart shopping cart software has more than 500 eCommerce features. All the features are logically arranged and easy to use, but it still can take you time to get to know them all by yourself.
In this section, we've collected the most important video tutorials related to the CS-Cart software solution. With Alex, your personal teacher, it won't take you much time to get familiar with the CS-Cart program!
Marketplace Industry News
Marketplace Industry News (March, 2023)
In this March News Digest, we review the most important news, developments and trends in the eCommerce marketplace industry. Create your own demo marketplace with CS-Cart for free: https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html 0:00 Welcome to Marketplace News Digest 0:22 Amazon makes its sales data public 1:04 Amazon raised fulfillment fees in Europe 1:57 Amazon fires 9,000 more workers 2:28 Amazon to "revamp" free shipping as the costs soar 3:06 Magic Eden embraces ordinals and launches Bitcoin NFT marketplace 3:50 Alibaba is divided into 6 business units 4:27 Zalando is removing sellers from its marketplace 5:11 Walmart narrows Amazon's lead among wealthy online shoppers 6:05 H&M and ThredUp are partnering to introduce an online resale platform 6:46 Michael's launches a third-party online marketplace
Best business practices for starting a marketplace
What entrepreneurs fear the most: Top-5 fears of starting an online marketplace
In this video, we'll find out about the most common fears of starting an eCommerce marketplace and the ways to overcome those fears. Don't be scared, build your own marketplace today: https://www.cs-cart.com/marketplace-builder
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4 ways to monetise your #marketplace (a penguin will not give bad advice) #ecommerce #explainervideo
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3 ways to set up cash flow on an #ecommerce #marketplace (and which we recommend) #shorts #business
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Stop paying eCommerce copywriters and lawyers #marketplace #chatgpt #content #business #ecommerce
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08. Scaling your business with CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: Mobile Application for Multi-Vendor
Start your own marketplace with CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: - Standalone software with dozens of features provided by built-in add-ons - Multiple languages, currencies, taxes - On-site content editing - Over 70 integrated payment methods - Multiple storefronts - Mobile application Get your personal demo here: https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video_tutorials&utm_content=Mobile+Application ****************************************************************************** In this tutorial on how to run your own Multi-Vendor marketplace we will discuss: - how to get a mobile app for your store; - how the app synchronizes with the store; - how to create a config file; - how to set up push notifications and how to work with the mobile app translations. 00:16 — how the mobile app works. How to Get the Mobile Application? 01:12 — how to install and configure the “Mobile Application” add-on; 02:11 — the mobile app translations; 03:06 — what is a config file; 03:44 — how to offer your customers to download your app. How to Get a Key for Push Notifications 04:05 — what the push notifications are, and how to configure them. How Does the App Synchronize with My Store? 05:01 — how the application synchronizes with the store; 05:36 — what vendors can do in the app; 06:00 — changing the app appearance using layouts. CS-Cart/Multi-Vendor Documentation: https://docs.cs-cart.com/latest/ Run Your Own Multi-Vendor Marketplace: https://www.cs-cart.com/
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: How to Branch Out Your Marketplace
Start your own marketplace with CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: - Standalone software with dozens of features provided by built-in add-ons - Multiple languages, currencies, taxes - On-site content editing - Over 70 integrated payment methods - Multiple storefronts - Mobile application Get your personal demo here: https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video_tutorials&utm_content=How+To+Branch+Out+Your+Marketplace ****************************************************************************** HOW TO BRANCH OUT YOUR MARKETPLACE CS-Cart Multi-Vendor has many functionalities that allow you to scale your marketplace. One of these functionalities is Multiple Storefronts. Learn how you can make regional branches for your marketplace and many more in this video: 00:20 — manage all storefronts from one panel 00:27 — creating separate storefronts for different countries 00:40 — configure all your storefront at once 01:03 — create separate storefronts for your vendors 01:18 — hide categories from particular storefronts 01:31 — create a unique design for each of your storefronts 01:40 — single customer base CS-Cart documentation: https://docs.cs-cart.com/latest/index.html Learn more about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor on our web-site: https://www.cs-cart.com/
07. Boosting Your Sales with CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: How to Increase Profit in Marketplace
Start your own marketplace with CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: - Standalone software with dozens of features provided by built-in add-ons - Multiple languages, currencies, taxes - On-site content editing - Over 70 integrated payment methods - Multiple storefronts - Mobile application Get your personal demo here: https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video_tutorials&utm_content=How+To+Increase+Profit+In+Marketplace ****************************************************************************** HOW TO INCREASE PROFIT IN MARKETPLACE There are different ways to increase profit in marketplaces. CS-Cart Multi-Vendor has a functionality called "Abandoned/Live carts". Learn more in this video: 00:14 — what the abandoned carts are 00:32 — Abandoned/Live carts page 00:50 — orders with products from the abandoned carts 01:03 — wish lists CS-Cart documentation: https://docs.cs-cart.com/latest/index.html Learn more about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor on our web-site: https://www.cs-cart.com/
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: Promotions in Marketplaces
Start your own marketplace with CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: - Standalone software with dozens of features provided by built-in add-ons - Multiple languages, currencies, taxes - On-site content editing - Over 70 integrated payment methods - Multiple storefronts - Mobile application Get your personal demo here: https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video_tutorials&utm_content=Promotions+In+Marketplaces ****************************************************************************** PROMOTIONS IN MARKETPLACES Promotions are a tool that can help to increase sales. CS-Cart Multi-Vendor allows you to flexibly configure promotions and offer different bonuses to customers. Learn more in this video: 00:18 — catalog promotions 00:40 — cart promotions 01:06 — what bonuses you can offer 01:16 — availability period for promotions 01:28 — promotion priority 01:40 — applying more than one promotion at once 02:02 — promotions and multiple storefronts 02:11 — vendors and promotions CS-Cart documentation: https://docs.cs-cart.com/latest/index.html Learn more about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor on our web-site: https://www.cs-cart.com/
06. Working with Customers in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: Product Reviews
Start your own marketplace with CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: - Standalone software with dozens of features provided by built-in add-ons - Multiple languages, currencies, taxes - On-site content editing - Over 70 integrated payment methods - Multiple storefronts - Mobile application Get your personal demo here: https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video_tutorials&utm_content=Product+Reviews ****************************************************************************** PRODUCT REVIEWS Product reviews are an important tool that helps customers to make a decision whether to buy something or not. That is why you need to use this functionality wisely. Learn more about product reviews in this video: 00:33 — product reviews in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor 00:52 — managing reviews 01:07 — approval of product reviews 01:24 — decide who can leave reaviews, and how many reviews they can leave 01:40 — decide what products reviews will look like 01:56 — customer location in reviews 02:14 — product reviews and multiple storefronts 02:29 — product reviews and product variations CS-Cart documentation: https://docs.cs-cart.com/latest/index.html Learn more about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor on our web-site: https://www.cs-cart.com/
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: Communication in Marketplaces
https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video_tutorials&utm_content=Communication+In+Marketplaces ****************************************************************************** COMMUNICATION IN MARKETPLACES If you are a marketplace owner it is important to not only communicate with your customers, but stay in contact with your vendors as well. Learn more in this video: 00:15 — message center and its benefits 00:33 — getting connected with your customers 00:48 — find out where a message came from 01:01 — communicate with your vendors 01:14 — inform your vendors of the latest news 01:28 — configure vendor access to the messages CS-Cart documentation: https://docs.cs-cart.com/latest/index.html Learn more about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor on our web-site: https://www.cs-cart.com/
05. Working with Vendors (Sellers) in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: Vendor Plans
Start your own marketplace with CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: - Standalone software with dozens of features provided by built-in add-ons - Multiple languages, currencies, taxes - On-site content editing - Over 70 integrated payment methods - Multiple storefronts - Mobile application Get your personal demo here: https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video_tutorials&utm_content=Vendor+Plans ****************************************************************************** VENDOR PLANS Offer subscription plans for vendors: set the plan price, charge fees, limit the number of products and vendor revenue, and allow vendors to have microstores. Learn more about the Vendor plans add-on in this video. 00:35 — where to manage vendor plans 00:47 — plan price 00:57 — transaction fees and commisions by category 01:11 — restrictions 01:20 — vendor microstore 01:31 — categories and storefronts 01:37 — set vendor privileges for each plan 02:05 — how does a vendor switch to another plan CS-Cart documentation: https://docs.cs-cart.com/latest/index.html Learn more about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor on our web-site: https://www.cs-cart.com/
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: Vendor Privileges
Start your own marketplace with CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: - Standalone software with dozens of features provided by built-in add-ons - Multiple languages, currencies, taxes - On-site content editing - Over 70 integrated payment methods - Multiple storefronts - Mobile application Get your personal demo here: https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video_tutorials&utm_content=Vendor+Privileges ****************************************************************************** VENDOR PRIVILEGES CS-Cart Multi-Vendor has a functionality called Vendor Privileges that allows you to manage vendor access to different parts of your marketplace. Learn more in this video: 00:14 — vendor privileges 00:37 — types of access 00:56 — privileges list 01:08 — configuring privileges in advance 01:20 — privileges and vendor plans CS-Cart documentation: https://docs.cs-cart.com/latest/index.html Learn more about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor on our web-site: https://www.cs-cart.com/
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: Vendor Rating
Start your own marketplace with CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: - Standalone software with dozens of features provided by built-in add-ons - Multiple languages, currencies, taxes - On-site content editing - Over 70 integrated payment methods - Multiple storefronts - Mobile application Get your personal demo here: https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video_tutorials&utm_content=Vendor+Rating ****************************************************************************** VENDOR RATING When choosing products customers may sort them by different parameters, for example, by vendor rating. This rating can depend on many variables. In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor you decide what variables will define the rating of your vendors, and even can set this rating manually. Learn more in this video: 00:23 — rating of vendors 00:36 — sorting by vendor rating 00:53 — manually assigned vendor rating 01:07 — vendor rating calculation 01:27 — vendor rating levels CS-Cart documentation: https://docs.cs-cart.com/latest/index.html Learn more about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor on our web-site: https://www.cs-cart.com/
04. Vendor (Seller) onboarding in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: Vendor Panel Customization
Start your own marketplace with CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: - Standalone software with dozens of features provided by built-in add-ons - Multiple languages, currencies, taxes - On-site content editing - Over 70 integrated payment methods - Multiple storefronts - Mobile application Get your personal demo here: https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video_tutorials&utm_content=Vendor+Panel+Customization ****************************************************************************** VENDOR PANEL CUSTOMIZATION There are several ways in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor how you can make the vendor panel as convenient and user-friendly as possible. Help vendors to come to your marketplace and start selling with minimum challenges. Learn more in this video: 00:28 — what the vendor panel looks like 00:39 — ways to customize the vendor panel 00:53 — the vendor panel style 01:08 — configure product editing page for vendors 01:23 — global settings 01:46 — settings for vendors 02:03 — vendor privileges CS-Cart documentation: https://docs.cs-cart.com/latest/index.html Learn more about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor on our web-site: https://www.cs-cart.com/
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: How to Quickly Add Products to Marketplace
Start your own marketplace with CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: - Standalone software with dozens of features provided by built-in add-ons - Multiple languages, currencies, taxes - On-site content editing - Over 70 integrated payment methods - Multiple storefronts - Mobile application Get your personal demo here: https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video_tutorials&utm_content=How+To+Quickly+Add+Products+To+Marketplace ****************************************************************************** HOW TO QUICKLY ADD PRODUCTS TO MARKETPLACE When starting to work on a marketplace it may be important for vendors to quickly upload their products. The best way to do it is product import. You, as the marketplace administrator, can help your vendors to upload the products fast if you create import presets for them. Learn more about the import presets in this video: 00:25 — uploading products to a marketplace 00:42 — import presets 01:01 — creating an import preset 01:14 — modifiers 01:39 — how vendors work with import presets CS-Cart documentation: https://docs.cs-cart.com/latest/index.html Learn more about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor on our web-site: https://www.cs-cart.com/
Easy-to-use vendor panel on marketplace: how to set up vendor panel in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
The simpler the vendor panel on a marketplace, the faster your sellers can master the interface and functions and start selling. CS-Cart Multi-Vendor has three tools to make the vendor panel easy-to-use and clear for sellers, without unnecessary settings, menus, and tabs. Try CS-Cart Multi-Vendor demo, it's free and self-service: https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html 0:00 Why simplicity of the interface is so important (featuring Bruce Willis) 1:01 Why vendor panel on a marketplace should be easy-to-use 1:51 Tools to set up the vendor panel in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
03. Setting Up Shipping Process in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: How to Manage Shipping in Marketplace
Start your own marketplace with CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: - Standalone software with dozens of features provided by built-in add-ons - Multiple languages, currencies, taxes - On-site content editing - Over 70 integrated payment methods - Multiple storefronts - Mobile application Get your personal demo here: https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video_tutorials&utm_content=How+To+Manage+Shipping+In+Marketplace ****************************************************************************** HOW TO MANAGE SHIPPING IN MARKETPLACE There are two ways to ship products in CS-CArt Multi-Vendor. Find out more about each shipping model in this video: 00:23 — shipping by vendors 00:39 — create common shipping methods 00:48 — separate payments 00:57 — pros and cons of shipping by vendors 01:35 — shipping by marketplace (oreder fulfillment by marketplace) 01:52 — vendor plans and fulfillment 02:05 — single payment 02:17 — pros and cons of marketplace fulfillment 02:42 — shipping rates CS-Cart documentation: https://docs.cs-cart.com/latest/index.html Learn more about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor on our web-site: https://www.cs-cart.com/
Order fulfillment by marketplace in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
By default, Multi-Vendor is tailored for cases when vendors ship their products by themselves, separately from each other. The money for shipping goes to vendors. Vendors determine the shipping cost and the shipping methods. This approach is easier on marketplaces. Especially those marketplaces that are just starting and can’t handle shipping for all their vendors. However, some marketplaces work differently. They collect the products from all vendors first, and only then ship the whole order to customers. Some of the marketplaces even have their own vans for delivery. Naturally, the money for shipping should go to the marketplace in this case. A marketplace may even offer both types of shipping. Some vendors ship on their own, and others rely on the marketplace. To address this, Multi-Vendor has an add-on called “Order fulfillment by marketplace”. See this video to learn how Order fulfillment by marketplace works.
02. Setting Up Payment Model in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: Money Flow in Marketplaces
Start your own marketplace with CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: - Standalone software with dozens of features provided by built-in add-ons - Multiple languages, currencies, taxes - On-site content editing - Over 70 integrated payment methods - Multiple storefronts - Mobile application Get your personal demo here: https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video_tutorials&utm_content=Money+Flow+In+Marketplaces ****************************************************************************** MONEY FLOW IN MULTI-VENDOR Learn the main models of money flow in marketplace and their pros and cons: 00:20 — money goes to the marketplace 00:38 — acoounting and withdrawals 00:54 — pros and cons of the basic model 01:10 — money is split automatically 01:34 — pros and cons of using the payment systems to split the money 01:57 — money goes to vendors 02:11 — customer-to-vendor payments 02:24 — vendor-to-admin payments 02:38 — pros and cons CS-Cart documentation: https://docs.cs-cart.com/latest/index.html Learn more about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor on our web-site: https://www.cs-cart.com/
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: Splitting Money in Marketplaces
Start your own marketplace with CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: - Standalone software with dozens of features provided by built-in add-ons - Multiple languages, currencies, taxes - On-site content editing - Over 70 integrated payment methods - Multiple storefronts - Mobile application Get your personal demo here: https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video_tutorials&utm_content=Splitting+Money+In+Marketplaces ****************************************************************************** SPLITTING MONEY IN MARKETPLACES There are different ways to deal with money in marketplaces. In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor, you can use payment systems to split the income between your sellers. Learn more about splitting money by these systems in this video: 00:14 — three models of money flow in a marketplace 00:29 — splitting money between vendors 00:50 — pros and cons 01:14 — delay transfer of funds 01:27 — charge unpaid payouts 01:39 — have the vendors connect their payment system accounts 02:00 — Stripe express accounts 02:13 — pros and cons of the Stripe express accounts CS-Cart documentation: https://docs.cs-cart.com/latest/index.html Learn more about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor on our web-site: https://www.cs-cart.com/
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: Direct Customer-to-Vendor Payments
Start your own marketplace with CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: - Standalone software with dozens of features provided by built-in add-ons - Multiple languages, currencies, taxes - On-site content editing - Over 70 integrated payment methods - Multiple storefronts - Mobile application Get your personal demo here: https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video_tutorials&utm_content=Direct+Customer+To+Vendor+Payments ****************************************************************************** DIRECT CUSTOMER-TO-VENDOR PAYMENTS There are different ways to deal with money in marketplaces. In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor, customers can pay for their orders directly to vendors. Learn more about these direct payments in this video: 00:18 — how direct payments work 00:33 — payment methods 00:45 — promotions 00:59 — commissions from vendors 01:13 — pros and cons of the direct customer-to-vendor payments CS-Cart documentation: https://docs.cs-cart.com/latest/index.html Learn more about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor on our web-site: https://www.cs-cart.com/
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: How to Manage Debtors in Marketplaces
Start your own marketplace with CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: - Standalone software with dozens of features provided by built-in add-ons - Multiple languages, currencies, taxes - On-site content editing - Over 70 integrated payment methods - Multiple storefronts - Mobile application Get your personal demo here: https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video_tutorials&utm_content=How+To+Manage+Debtors+In+Marketplaces ****************************************************************************** HOW TO MANAGE DEBTORS IN MARKETPLACES A marketplace owner usually earns the money from vendors by getting commissions and periodic fees. But sometimes a vendor can become a debtor. Learn how to work with debtors in your marketplace in this video: 00:24 — benefits of the Vendor-to-admin payments functionality 00:51 — decide when vendors become debtors 01:10 — set restrictions for debtors 01:24 — disable accounts of debtors 01:36 — notifications 01:49 — get weekly reports 01:57 — refilling balance in time CS-Cart documentation: https://docs.cs-cart.com/latest/index.html Learn more about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor on our web-site: https://www.cs-cart.com/
01. Getting Started with CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: Meet the CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
Start your own marketplace with CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: - Standalone software with dozens of features provided by built-in add-ons - Multiple languages, currencies, taxes - On-site content editing - Over 70 integrated payment methods - Multiple storefronts - Mobile application Get your personal demo here: https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video_tutorials&utm_content=Meet+The+CSCart+MultiVendor ****************************************************************************** MEET THE CS-CART MULTI-VENDOR CS-Cart Multi-Vendor has separate panels for administrators and vendors. Learn more about the admin and vendor panels, and how you can quickly set up your own marketplace in this video. Administration panel 00:36 — dashboard 00:57 — store setup wizard 01:19 — quick start 01:40 — top bar 01:51 — main menu Vendor panel 02:15 — vendor panel 02:26 — vendor panel configurator CS-Cart documentation: https://docs.cs-cart.com/latest/index.html Learn more about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor on our web-site: https://www.cs-cart.com/
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: Managing Design in Marketplaces
Start your own marketplace with CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: - Standalone software with dozens of features provided by built-in add-ons - Multiple languages, currencies, taxes - On-site content editing - Over 70 integrated payment methods - Multiple storefronts - Mobile application Get your personal demo here: https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video_tutorials&utm_content=Design ****************************************************************************** MANAGING DESIGN IN MARKETPLACES Every marketplace administrator faces the problem of managing the storefront design sooner or later. CS-Cart Multi-Vendor provides some tools to make it easier for you. Learn more about these tools in this video: 00:19 — themes 00:42 — layouts 01:12 — blocks 01:29 — appearance 01:38 — on-site editing 02:16 — vendors and design CS-Cart documentation: https://docs.cs-cart.com/latest/index.html Learn more about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor on our web-site: https://www.cs-cart.com/
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: Common Products for Vendors
Start your own marketplace with CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: - Standalone software with dozens of features provided by built-in add-ons - Multiple languages, currencies, taxes - On-site content editing - Over 70 integrated payment methods - Multiple storefronts - Mobile application Get your personal demo here: https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=video_tutorials&utm_content=Common+Products+For+Vendors ****************************************************************************** COMMON PRODUCTS FOR VENDORS When launching a marketplace you can create a single product base for you vendors. Vendors will be able to sell the same products at different prices, and customers will be able to compare the prices. Learn more in this video: 00:14 — benefits of common products 00:42 — common products on the storefront 00:59 — creating the catalog 01:15 — how vendors work with the common products 01:26 — making products common 01:43 — comparing prices 02:00 — vendor data premoderation CS-Cart documentation: https://docs.cs-cart.com/latest/index.html Learn more about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor on our web-site: https://www.cs-cart.com/
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor. Marketplace platform for fast start and growth.
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor demo: https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html Free course on how to start and grow a marketplace: https://www.cs-cart.com/marketplace-academy CS-Cart Multi-Vendor is a low-code platform for building an online marketplace. We designed it for fast launch and continuous growth. On CS-Cart, you can start a marketplace MVP in days and see if your business idea works. And then grow the platform and scale the business. CS-Cart comes with ready admin panel, vendor dashboards, storefront, and 500 eCommerce features. The software's code is open, so you can modify it the way you want to build new features and grow. 0:00 Startup anthem: Start fast, grow 1:00 What's CS-Cart Multi-Vendor 2:18 Why you can start fast with CS-Cart 5:17 Why you can grow with CS-Cart 7:08 Marketplace built with CS-Cart
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
Start your booking marketplace like Airbnb on CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
Presenting Multi-Vendor Booking—a platform designed for building booking marketplaces like Booking.com and Airbnb. In this video, we're doing an overview of Multi-Vendor booking features and showing how everything works in the admin panel and the storefront. ---- Try free booking demo at https://cs-cart.com/start-your-booking-marketplace.html ---- 0:00 Multi-Vendor Booking: what problems it solves 1:09 Vendor side 1:49 Features for object listings 2:27 Variations of objects 2:59 Ratings and customer reviews 3:52 Promotions 4:08 Booking creation in the admin panel 4:30 Communication: Message center 4:58 Customer notes at checkout 5:21 Pay on arrival 5:40 Demo link
CS-Cart B2B & B2C Features
CS-Cart B2B eCommerce Software | Personal prices for purchasers
In CS-Cart B2B eCommerce platform & B2C customers can get levels depending on the amount of money spent in your store. Depending on the customer level, you can offer him or her a bonus: a discount, free shipping, free products, and other bonuses of your wholesale eCommerce platform. Other features: https://www.cs-cart.com/b2b-ecommerce-platform.html
CS-Cart Open Source B2B eCommerce Platform | Product variations
In CS-Cart B2B commerce software, product variations are a perfect tool to effectively demonstrate your product range to the purchasers and help them pick the right product from a range of similar products in your wholesale eCommerce platform. You are free to show variations as separate catalog items or group variations under the parent product. Variations are generated automatically based on product features. Let’s say you sell a smartphone in your B2B eCommerce website. It has three colors—black, blue, and white, and storage capacity of 32 and 64 GB. Color and storage capacity are smartphone features. Combine these features and generate variations in a single mouse click—no need to create separate products in B2B ordering platform from scratch. Variations are configured as separate products with individual prices, quantity, and other parameters. Purchasers can find variations though search and filtering in your B2B eCommerce platform. Other features: https://www.cs-cart.com/b2b-ecommerce-platform.html
CS-Cart B2B Commerce Software | Personal manager information block
CS Cart B2B & B2C features a flexible layout editor that allows you to add, delete, and arrange content on your store pages via drag and drop. You are free to add blocks with products, special offers, banners, and whatnot. You can also add a block with any HTML content to any page of your B2B eCommerce platform. For example, show a block with a personal manager’s name, photo, and phone number on a customer’s profile page in your B2B eCommerce website. Other features: https://www.cs-cart.com/b2b-ecommerce-platform.html
CS-Cart Wholesalers eCommerce CMS | Order status notifications
In CS-Cart, eCommerce platform for wholesalers, when the order status changes, a customer receives a notification to the mailbox. This way, the customer always knows what’s happening with the order in the B2B shopping cart. They don’t worry about the order, they don’t call you all the time and you both feel comfortable. Moreover, you can personalize the text of the notifications. Other features: https://www.cs-cart.com/b2b-ecommerce-platform.html
CS-Cart B2B Ordering Platform | Low-stock notifications for admins
To offer your customers the best service in your B2B eCommerce platform, you need to refill your warehouse before a product runs out of stock. Low-stock notifications can help you keep your stock full. Once the number decreases to a defined threshold, you and your managers will know that it’s time to refill the stock of your wholesale eCommerce platform. Other features: https://www.cs-cart.com/b2b-ecommerce-platform.html
CS-Cart B2B CMS | Administrator privileges
CS-Cart B2B eCommerce platform allows registering employees and set different levels of access to the admin panel. For instance, your web designer can work on the look-and-feel of your B2B eCommerce website design while managers communicate with purchasers and process orders. Let’s say you have two storefronts in your B2B eCommerce platform: a storefront with electric power tools and a storefront with lightning fixtures. These are specific niches in your B2B order portal—a manager needs to be familiar with these products to sell them. Just assign a power tool specialist to the first storefront and a lightning specialist to the second one. They will work in the same admin panel in B2B eCommerce website, but they will not interfere with each other. Other features: https://www.cs-cart.com/b2b-ecommerce-platform.html
CS-Cart Wholesale eCommerce Solution | Automatic invoice generation
After a customer places the order, CS-Cart B2B eCommerce platform automatically generates the invoice. A customer can always print and download the invoice from the order list in the account in B2B eCommerce website. Other features: https://www.cs-cart.com/b2b-ecommerce-platform.html
CS-Cart B2B Electronic Commerce | 45 product parameters
CS-Cart B2B eCommerce platform features a flexible product configuration page that offers over 45 product properties to configure. To create or edit a product in your wholesale eCommerce platform, go to Products - Products and click the Plus button to add a new product. Click the existing product to change its parameters. Other features: https://www.cs-cart.com/b2b-ecommerce-platform.html
CS-Cart B2B Commerce Software | Easy re-ordering
Let’s say you sell consumables to factories—cleaning agents, office supplies, or any other products that need to be refilled. On CS-Cart B2B eCommerce website, purchasers can re-order the same products with the same quantity by just clicking one button in the customer account. Other features: https://www.cs-cart.com/b2b-ecommerce-platform.html
CS-Cart B2B eCommerce Platform | Price list downloading
In CS-Cart B2B eCommerce platform, purchasers can download the price list right from their customer accounts. The price list shows actual prices for the purchaser, taking into account individual discounts. Plus, a purchaser can download the price list from the cart. This price list only contains cart products so the purchaser just forms a sales proposal from it and sends it to the ultimate buyer. With CS-Cart B2B eCommerce software it is simple as that. More about CS-Cart B2B & B2C: https://www.cs-cart.com/b2b-ecommerce-platform.html
CS-Cart B2B eCommerce Website | Organizations and representatives
In CS-Cart B2B eCommerce solutions, customers can create multi-user accounts. As a rule, the purchasing process in companies involves more than one person. For example, a manager creates an order, a supervisor checks it and pays, and an accounting guy works with the papers. The Organizations and representatives feature allows them to work in one account as different users of wholesale eCommerce platform. More about CS-Cart B2B & B2C: https://www.cs-cart.com/b2b-ecommerce-platform.html
CS-Cart Open Source B2B Website Platform | Multiple storefronts
With CS-Cart B2B eCommerce software solutions, you can create an unlimited number of storefronts and manage them via one administration panel. You are free to configure storefronts independently: the look and feel, products, prices, payment and shipping options, pages, and other parameters. You are free to create independent storefronts for B2C and B2B ordering platform and set different prices, product descriptions, close the B2B eCommerce software storefront for unauthorized users, hide prices and whatnot. More about CS-Cart B2B & B2C: https://www.cs-cart.com/b2b-ecommerce-platform.html
CS-Cart B2B Commerce Platform | In-stock notifications for purchasers
If a product is out of stock, you can allow the customers to order in advance or subscribe to the in-stock notification of your B2B commerce platform. This way, a purchaser doesn’t need to check your B2B eCommerce website daily to know if the product is in stock again. More about CS-Cart B2B & B2C: https://www.cs-cart.com/b2b-ecommerce-platform.html
CS-Cart B2B eCommerce Software | Fast order creation in the backend
Some purchasers don’t want to order on the website—they call and order via phone. In CS-Cart B2B eCommerce platform, all the orders—placed on a website and on the phone—are in one place. No mess, no confusion. Your managers will be able to quickly create orders for purchasers talking to them on the phone. More about CS-Cart B2B & B2C: https://www.cs-cart.com/b2b-ecommerce-platform.html
CS-Cart B2B Ordering Platform | Easy integration with third-party services
CS-Cart open source B2B online shop platform features a powerful API, which allows you to integrate the platform with any third-party service: accounting systems to update prices automatically, CRM to get more orders and keep in touch with your customer, ERP, analytics, and many other services. You can create a perfectly working ecosystem with CS-Cart B2B eCommerce platform in its core. For example, CS Cart B2B is integrated with QuickBooks and MYOB accounting software by default. And you can add more integrations easily via ready-made third-party add-ons or custom development. More about CS-Cart B2B & B2C: https://www.cs-cart.com/b2b-ecommerce-platform.html
CS-Cart B2B eCommerce Software | Close storefronts, hide prices
In CS-Cart B2B eCommerce solution, you can allow only authorized users to see the catalog. This feature helps you hide your products and prices from prying eyes and strengthen moderation: you will check every registered purchaser manually. Watch the video to learn how to close storefronts and hide prices on the CS-Cart B2B eCommerce platform. More about CS-Cart B2B & B2C: https://www.cs-cart.com/b2b-ecommerce-platform.html
CS-Cart B2B Shopping Cart | Add products to cart in bulk
Companies usually buy products in bulk, so it’s important to optimize the order formation process in the B2B commerce platform to make it faster. The Add products to cart in bulk feature allows purchasers to quickly add a big number of items at once to the B2B shopping cart. They can do it right on the product category page. More about CS-Cart B2B & B2C: https://www.cs-cart.com/b2b-ecommerce-platform.html
Development Reports
CS-Cart Progress: What We’ve Done in January 2019
What we've done: 01:00 – the map of stores and pickup points. 02:24 – improvements to abandoned carts. 04:27 – improved API key security. 06:21 – renamed "locations" to "rate areas". 07:36 – configurable layout for mobile devices. 08:37 – phone number input mask. 10:16 – "Free shipping" label. 11:21 – shipping information on the product page. 13:38 – common products in Multi-Vendor Plus now show the cheapest offer to customer and work with reward points. 15:05 – link to administration panel for vendors. What we're working on: 16:32 – version 4.10.1 with new checkout and variations. 17:27 – Lite Checkout. 17:55 – vendor invitations in Multi-Vendor. 19:24 – improvements to the Marketplace.
СS-Cart Progress: What We’ve Done in March 2020
What changed in Multi-Vendor and CS-Cart - 0:34 — easier configuration of shipping rates - 4:44 — communication between vendors and marketplace admins - 7:32 — returns and order creation/editing for vendors - 9:21 — search of vendor admins by vendor - 10:03 — other improvements - 13:01 — bug fixes What changed in the mobile app - 13:41 — new look for categories without images - 14:08 — product rating in categories - 14:22 — other improvements and some plans Plans for the future - 15:13 — product variations and feature creation for vendors - 16:06 — vendor debt payout overhaul - 18:37 — new vendor panel - 19:33 — where to find info about our plans --- How to contact us - About our plans and new developments: the contact form at https://www.cs-cart.com/send-message.html. It will get your message to someone best-suited to answer it. - About this video: leave your feedback in the comments on YouTube. While the video is new and relevant, we'll be checking comments from time to time.
CS Cart Multi-Vendor: What Changed in April & May 2020
General improvements 0:44 — collecting money from vendors and managing debtors 6:25 — ability for vendors to create features for product variations 8:16 — ability for vendors and customers to upload documents (the "File" type for profile fields) 9:17 — a single place for vendors to see all the comments and reviews 9:52 — different payment methods for different countries on a single storefront in Multi-Vendor Ultimate 11:31 — a few smaller improvements Simplifying the interface 14:12 — the general idea 14:33 — example 1: products and options 15:07 — example 2: products and features 15:23 — example 3: products and variations 15:56 — example 4: vendors and their plans 16:45 — other interface improvements (vendor approval and moderation; feature groups) Plans for the future 18:33 — Multi-Vendor Ultimate: different settings for different storefronts 18:44 — Mobile App: support of product variations and direct customer-to-vendor payments 19:07 — other plans: PayPal Commerce Platform for marketplaces; easier onboarding for vendors
CS Cart Multi-Vendor: What Changed in June 2020
What we've done in June 2020 0:44 — own settings for storefronts in Multi-Vendor Ultimate 2:18 — a setting for collecting taxes from vendors (due to U.S. marketplace facilitator laws) 3:08 — a way for vendors to access their admin panels easily 3:49 — notifications about debt for vendors and admins 5:21 — improvements to common product management 6:08 — simplified vendor approval flow 8:09 — storing product attachments as links 10:15 — Apple Pay and Google Pay compatibility with direct payments and common products 11:03 — other improvements 13:16 — bug fixes 13:50 — solution to problem with progress bar Google Chrome (it's older than June, but still needs to be announced) Future plans 14:40 — easier import for vendors 16:26 — other plans 17:16 — approximate release time for 4.12.1 Promised links Solution to problem with progress bar in Google Chrome 83: https://www.cs-cart.com/blog/how-to-fix-admin-panel-issues-in-google-chrome-83-on-old-cs-cart-versions/ Best places for functionality suggestions: - If you own CS-Cart or Multi-Vendor: https://helpdesk.cs-cart.com/ - If you haven't bought CS-Cart or Multi-Vendor (or don't have Help Desk account): https://www.cs-cart.com/send-message.html
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: What Changed in August 2020
What we've done in August 2020: 0:59 — different settings for add-ons depending on the storefront 4:04 — relevant notifications for different staff members 6:14 — release of version 4.11.5 with PayPal Commerce Platform and more 7:09 — improvements to the list of vendors in the admin panel 8:26 — Facebook Pixel now tracks order total and currency 8:53 — bug fixes Future plans: 11:25 — simplifying the settings (a uniform mechanism for global and individual settings) 14:15 — other plans: interface of third-party add-ons, mobile application, help section in the admin panel 16:25 — release of version 4.12.1 and its functionality
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: What Changed in July 2020
What we've done in July 2020 0:48 — easier import for vendors 4:18 — PayPal Commerce Platform 7:22 — call requests for vendors 9:23 — dashboard data that depends on the storefront 10:23 — simplified settings of the "Vendor-to-admin payments" add-on 11:29 — bug fixes Future plans 12:34 — parent and child settings to simplify the interface 15:19 — release of version 4.11.5 16:04 — other plans
CS-Cart in 2020—How We Improved Your Experience
In this video, our product manager Ivan tells you about the improvement we made to all our products in 2020. 0:21 - what it's about 0:48 - CS-CART IMPROVEMENTS 0:55 - easier to create product options and features 1:14 - easier to create product variations 1:43 - easier to work with objects in bulk 2:18 - easier to set shipping rates and set where shipping method is available 2:43 - only relevant notifications for each member of your staff 3:07 - save disk space and import attached files 3:53 - let your users upload files to their account 4:13 - SEO improvement for sites with multiple languages 4:44 - rearrange the homepage, product and category pages from the storefront 5:12 - links to relevant documentation in the admin panel 5:49 - faster and more convenient product filters 6:25 - MULTI-VENDOR IMPROVEMENTS 6:44 - easier to configure vendor debt rules 7:21 - easier to find debtors 7:41 - easier for vendors to pay debts 8:05 - easier import for vendors (common import presets) 8:39 - communication between admins and vendors 8:59 - easier for vendors to find the admin panel 9:28 - the optional ability for vendors to create and edit orders, and more 10:01 - PayPal Commerce Platform 10:29 - "Vendor Rating" add-on with custom rating rules 11:06 - improvements to storefronts in Multi-Vendor Ultimate 11:55 - MOBILE APPLICATION 12:00 - a mobile app for vendors with easy product creation 12:17 - improvements to lists of categories and products 12:38 - other improvements 13:10 - improved looks 13:29 - IMPROVEMENTS TO OUR MARKETPLACE FOR ADD-ONS AND THEMES 13:43 - better look and navigation 14:05 - direct purchase of add-ons and themes from the marketplace 15:13 - TECHNICAL SUPPORT: FOCUS ON CUSTOMER CARE 18:32 - CONCLUSION
Product Reviews in CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor
Product reviews are an important part of any store or marketplace. They: - contribute to social proof and help with the buying decision; - generate new content for search engines; - give you another way to get feedback and interact with your customers. In this video, you'll see how product reviews work in CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor 4.13.1. You'll also learn how to keep existing reviews if you upgrade from an earlier version.
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Customer Testimonials
Multi-Vendor Marketplace Software: Review by Nadia D'Orazio (benesseremarket.com)
BenessereMarket.com is the first Italian multi-vendor marketplace dedicated to products for health and well-being. The multi-seller website was built on CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html in 2016. This eCommerce project is the online business challenge of MicroComm - an Italian company operating in the areas of Health Information Technology (HIT) and Telecommunication. The solid experience in these technology areas, together with a solid team of doctors and health professionals, is the starting point for this project. The online marketplace mission is to offer a reliable portal to manufacturers and sellers of innovative products: over-the-counter drugs, herbal products, organic cosmetics, food, supplements for adults and children 0-12, medical equipment, orthopedics and much more. In this video testimonial BenessereMarket.com representative Nadia D'Orazio speaks about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform. Watch the review and find out why CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform meets all their needs.
Multi-Vendor Marketplace Software: Review by Himjal Pradipkumar (artzyme.com)
Artzyme.com is the famous Indian multi-vendor marketplace dealing with handmade, vintage, unique and natural Hasthkala and Karigari art products. The online art marketplace was built on CS-Cart Multi-Vendor platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html and was officially launched in 2016. The eCommerce website aims to take original and handmade arts, handicrafts and antique home decor to the global markets and to encourage the artisans and craftsmen in India. Himjal Pradipkumar founded Artzyme along with a team of creative connoisseurs. They’ve managed to understand the true meaning of arts and the needs of artisans. That was the key to the successful online business. Since the global market for art online is expected to grow up to $6.3 billion in 2019 they've chosen the right way. In this video review Himjal Pradipkumar tells about using CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace software. Watch it and find out the reasons why CS-Cart Multi-Vendor solution helped to build the huge Indian online marketplace.
Multi-Vendor Marketplace Software: Review by Guy Gana (ebuyisrael.com)
This is a video review of CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html from our client Guy Gana. He's been using our marketplace software for more than 2 years for his project ebuyisrael.com and he is really happy about it. Watch the video testimonial and find out the best features of CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace solution.
Multi-Vendor Marketplace Software: Review by Shweta Bhandari (istorecart.com)
Istorecart.com is the online marketplace project of Store Online Pvt Ltd., Nepal. It started as an eCommerce multi-seller website built on CS-Cart Multi-vendor marketplace solution https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html and dealt with digital products only. Now it also allows to buy and sell any kinds of electronics goods and accessories, fashion & design item, home & garden goods, tools and accessories, health & beauty products, sports & outdoor goods and accessories, books & entertainment items, automobiles & vehicles accessories and lots of services. As an online shopping eCommerce site it aims to reduce unemployment problems in Nepal and stop youth from going abroad for work. In this customer's video testimonial of CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform Shweta Bhandari, istorecart.com representative, shares their experience of building online marketplace. Watch the video review and make the right choice.
Multi-Vendor Marketplace Software: Review by Li Susanto (portalgrosir.com)
The customer's video testimonial features Li Susanto, our client who has been using CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html . He explains why CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace software is the best e-commerce marketplace solution for his online business portalgrosir.com.
Multi-Vendor Marketplace Software: Review by Mo (qoocart.com)
QooCart.com is the leading e-commerce marketplace in Thailand. It was powered by T Trade Consulting & Services Company, Ltd in 2014. The team chose CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace solution https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html as the e-commerce platform for their online business. QooCart.com provides customers with Thai fashion items & food, goods for home, beauty products, electronics & gadgets, goods for pets and lots of services. The online multi-store marketplace helps sellers to create powerful distribution channels. This is a video review of CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform from our client Mo. She reveals the reasons why CS-Cart marketplace software is the best solution for their online project. Watch the video testimonial and find out the best features of the e-commerce platform.
Multi-Vendor Marketplace Software: Review by Rajendra Jindal (www.peopleskart.com)
Peopleskart.com is an online marketplace in India built with CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace solution https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html. It’s a venture of Salasar e-commerce Total Solutions Pvt. Ltd. The online shopping website was opened by two entrepreneurs in 2014 with the aim to integrate manufacturers and consumers making a direct benefit to the both sides. The mission of the online marketplace is the providing best quality service to both the sellers and the buyers making online shopping experience much easier and comfortable. Peopleskart deals with Beauty & Cosmetics, Health & Wellness, Mobiles, Computers, Food, Industrial Products, Household & Kitchen Products, Small & Heavy Electronics, FMCG, Clothing & Accessories, Footwear, Automotives etc. The customer's video testimonial features our client Rajendra Jindal who explains why CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace software is the best e-commerce solution for their online business http://www.peopleskart.com/
Multi-Vendor Marketplace Software Review: Jay Chanowitz
In his video review Jay Chanowitz from the USA speaks about CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html and the features he appreciates the most. You don't have to do any research analysis because Jay has done it for you. Just watch and make the right choice.
Multi-Vendor Marketplace Solution: Review by Ermis Kontoudis (crosstock.com)
Crosstock.com is an online portal of Y53, a company founded in 2013 in Greece by Ermis Kontoudis as an on-demand media company and recording studio. The guys decided to build their online marketplace on CS-Cart Multi-Vendor platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html. The goal of the online multi-vendor business is to provide a wide range of stock-ready solutions for the professional or individual who, for instance, is looking for that special photo or musical theme to enhance their promotional or even personal material. The e-commerce website unites musicians, photographers, artists proficient in both hand-made, 2-D and 3-D computer art, as well as, sound, video and mechanical/electrical engineers (since a part of the Y53 Company works in the field of bringing to life and patenting new ideas and innovations). In this video review Ermis Kontoudis tells how they have found the most reliable and convenient multi-store platform for their project. Thank you, crosstock.com guys, for this professionally done video testimonial!
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace Software Features
Vendor Panel Management in Multi-Vendor Marketplace
Hi! This is a vendor panel of the Acme Corporation vendor. Our marketplace software https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html has several informational blocks in the seller's panel. There’s a statistics block, the current balance block, some info about orders and the block with vendor plan info and some numbers. In the vendor panel of multivendor marketplace, a vendor can view orders and sales reports, manage shipments and call requests. A vendor can manage the catalog by creating, deleting and modifying categories, adding new products with product features and product options, and, of course, add product filters to the micro store. There’s also a feature that is called multiple levels of administrative access. This one is useful for a vendor who has multiple managers in the account. The vendor administrator can assign privileges to managers so that the manager #1 could only process orders, and the manager #2 could only access the catalog. And the actions of these managers will not interfere. Under the marketing menu there’s another cool feature which is called Promotions. Vendors can create their own promotions. But this feature is only available in MVE Plus. There’s also the Website menu which is used to run a blog, create informational pages, forms, polls, and links. Another useful page is called Accounting and a vendor can find it under the Vendors menu. The page consists of 2 tabs. The first tab is called Transactions and it shows all the transactions in the account and the total income. The second tab is called Balance withdrawals, it is empty now because this is just a demo, but in a live marketplace this page shows withdrawals info, ok? Under the administration menu, a vendor can create shipping methods, manage locations, currencies, import products, export products, and create their own payment methods. Creating payment methods is only available in MVE Plus. Under the Design menu a vendor can modify the look and feel of the micro store by changing colors, fonts, logos, backgrounds, and so on. And on the layout editor a vendor can arrange content on the micro store pages. This is the famous CS-Cart’s layout editor—very user-friendly and easy to use. Well, that’s pretty much all about vendor panel management in a multi-vendor marketplace.
Customer-Vendor Relationship Management in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace Software
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace software https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html offers a really cool feature. Sometimes before purchasing a product, the customer wants to know more about it. And the best person to ask is the vendor. The customer to vendor communication feature allows a customer to contact a vendor directly from product pages and the vendor’s micro store. To set up this feature, go to Add-ons - Manage add-ons, and find the Customer to vendor communication feature. The settings contain 2 tabs. On the general tab there are 2 checkboxes. They define the locations a customer will be able to contact vendors from. The Notifications tab contains 3 checkboxes that define who will receive notifications about new messages. Ok let’s write a message to the Stark Industries vendor. On a product page the customer clicks the Contact vendor button and enters the message to the message field. Let’s ask if this case is big or small. Okay, the message has been sent and the notification confirms it. The message will appear in the message center in the marketplace admin panel. Here it is. It will also appear in the Message center in the Stark Industries vendor panel.
Multi-Vendor Marketplace: How to Resolve Disputes Between Sellers and Customers
Thanks to the Vendor terms and conditions feature of CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html vendors can settle disputes with customers without being involved. It allows your vendors compose and publish their terms and conditions.
Vendors Dashboard Features in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html vendors can create pages, forms, polls, and links in their microstores. This feature helps to promote products, publish special offers and other content and conduct researches. To create a page, a vendor goes to Website - Pages and clicks the Plus button. Here a vendor can select what to create. Here I’ve already create a couple of pages. Let’s make another one. Here are the page properties including the main text content. A vendor fills in all the necessary fields, sets everything up and creates a page. Easy as pie. Forms, polls, and links are created in the same way. To add a page link to the storefront, a vendor goes to the layout editor and creates the Pages block. In the settings a vendor sets up the look of the block, specifies the pages to show and saves the changes. Here we go, the pages are now accessible from the storefront of the microstore.
Access to Features for Vendors in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html , you can offer your vendors subscription plans. By applying for a plan, the vendor acquires access to a set of certain features. The set of features provided by a vendor plan includes product categories that a vendor can use. To set the categories available for vendors, go to Vendors - Vendor plans and create a plan from scratch or modify the existing plan. Let’s modify the pre-configured Gold plan. Open its settings, change the plan conditions if you need to and switch to the Categories tab. Under this tab, you can set the categories that will be available for a vendor who will apply for this plan. Okay, click Save. Now, all the vendors applying for the Gold plan will have access only to the specified categories. You can increase the plan price to get extra money for allowing vendors to use those product categories.
Online Product Approval System in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html offers the Flexible Product Approval System that defines how you will moderate new products added by vendors. So you can be sure your vendors sell only proper products in your online marketplace.
How to Set Privileges for Sellers in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html a marketplace admin can modify the vendor panel by hiding menus, settings, and functions from vendors. The admin can do this by creating user groups for vendors with different privileges. By default, there’s a user group for vendors that is called Vendor. Here, you can create more user groups for vendors with the Vendor type, set privileges and name groups as you like. The user group settings have the Privileges tab which is used to set privileges for vendors. You can enable all the privileges. In this case, the vendor panel will look like this: all the available menus, settings, and functions are shown and the vendor can use them. You are free to limit access to certain menus by unticking the necessary checkboxes on the privileges tab. For example, you can only allow vendors to access orders and the catalog. And here’s how the vendor panel looks now—only the Orders and Products menus are shown. Here’s a case. For example, vendors selling software don’t need shipping options. Hide the Shipping settings from the vendor panel to make it clearer. If you’d like to set different privileges to different vendors, then just create different user groups of the Vendor type with different privileges and assign vendors to these user groups. And on the Settings - Vendors page you can set the default user group for newly registered vendors.
How to Set Commisions on CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html , you can set up vendor commissions in a very flexible manner. You can either set percentage-based and absolute commissions or set individual commissions for product categories. Percentage-based and absolute commissions are set in Vendor plans on the Commissions tab. Here you can set a percentage-based commission, an absolute commission or a combination of these two. Category-specific commissions are set on the category settings page under the Transaction fee tab. The tab is only available if the built-in Vendor plans: Commissions by category add-on is active. Let’s set special commissions for the electronics category. Open the category settings and switch to Transaction fee. Under this tab, set the required transaction fee percentage for each vendor plan. When you’ve done that, click Save. Now, vendors selling products in the electronics category will pay commissions to you according to the values you set here. Please note, that the transaction fee values set in the category settings have priority over values set in the vendor plan settings. If you don’t set any values in the category settings, then the values specified in the vendor plan settings will be used. BUT. If you only use absolute commission set in the vendor plans, then these commissions will prevail over percentage-based commissions set in the category settings. The category commissions feature is only available in Multi-Vendor Plus.
How to Set Marketplace Payments in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html has over 70 built-in payment services including the most popular and secure gateways such as PayPal, Authorize.Net, 2Checkout, First Data, eWay, SagePay and other. To add a payment method, go to Administration - Payment methods. On this page, you can create different payment methods such as credit card, collect on delivery, personal check, internet payment and other. Here’s a credit card payment method. For this payment method you can set any available payment gateway that supports credit cards. To select a payment gateway, click the processor drop-down on the payment settings pop-up. Here are all the built in payment gateways. Let’s choose PayPal, for example. To process payments your marketplace needs to connect to the payment gateway servers. Before you can use the payment gateway, you need to create a merchant account in the payment system. Once you have the account, enter its details on the Configure tab and you’re good to go with connecting your marketplace to the payment service.
Bulk Product Editing in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html , both admins and vendors can edit product properties for multiple products at once. This feature is called bulk product editing and it greatly saves time when you or your vendors work with the catalog. To edit products in bulk, go to Products - Products. You can select all the products on the page by ticking this check box or you can select products manually by clicking them. So, select the products you need to modify. In the Category drop-down you can change categories for multiple products at once. The minus means that some of these products belong to this category. The empty box means that none of these products belong to this category. And the check mark means that all these products belong to this category, ok? So, make your edits and click Apply. And here’s the result. Under the Price drop-down you can modify price, list price, and quantity. You can change prices by a fixed amount or by percent. So, let’s decrease the prices of the selected products by 50%. Click Apply. As you can see the prices have changed. The same method works for changing product statuses, cloning, exporting, and deleting products. There’s also the Edit selected button which opens a pop-up with the list of product properties you can edit besides categories, prices, and statuses. Check the properties you want to edit and click Modify selected. Then click Apply values to all the selected products. Enter the values and click save. The selected product properties have changed.
How to Promote a Product Online in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html you can allow your vendors to create their own promotions. To do that, make sure that the Direct customer to vendor payments add-on is active. A vendor creates promotions on the Marketing - Promotions page. Let’s create a promotion to give free shipping on orders over $100. Click the Plus button to add a new promotion. On the General tab, name the promotion, enter the description, and fill in other fields. Switch to the Conditions tab and add a condition. In our case, we’re offering free shipping if the order subtotal is equal or greater than 100 dollars. Alright. Switch to the Bonuses tab and add a bonus. As you can see there are a lot of available bonuses but we need this one—free shipping. Okay, click Create. Now you have your free shipping promotion configured.
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace Data Backup and Restore
It is vital to back up your CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html database to be prepared for possible troubles. If something bad happens, you will be able to roll back and restore your database. To make a backup, go to Administration - Back up/Restore and click the plus button to perform a back up. Check out this command. You can use it to schedule regular backups via Cron, which is very handy. Tick this checkbox, if you want the backup to include the files of your marketplace. Otherwise it will only include the SQL file with the database dump. Click this checkbox to choose additional directories to be included in the backup. If this one is ticked, the backup will include the database data. We recommend to keep it enabled at all time. Here’s the list of the database tables to be included in the backup. The tables with the prefix are selected in the list by default. if this checkbox ticked, the backup includes the structure of the database tables. We recommend to keep this one ticked at all times as well. And here’s the name of the archive that contains the database dump. Once you set everything up, click Create. Wait while the progress bar is completed. When the process is complete, there will be a new backup file on the list under Administration → Backup/Restore. You can download the backup file to your local machine by clicking the backup name or pressing the gear button of the corresponding backup and choosing Download.
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace: Dashboard Language in the Panel
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html is an international shopping software so it’s available on multiple languages. You are free to choose one of 26 built-in languages for both admin panel and storefront. Here’s how to choose the language in the admin panel...ok...and here’s how to do it on the storefront. You can add more languages in Administration - Languages - Manage languages. Here’s the list of the available languages by default. To add a new language, click the Plus button and upload a Zip-archive containing language data from your local computer, server or from the internet. You are free to download languages from our language portal. Right-to-left languages are also supported.
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace: Why Use Advanced Search Like on eBay
By using the advanced search in CS-Cart Multi-vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html you can greatly save your time on routine operations in the admin panel. The advanced search offers up to 45 parameters to search for products, orders, pages, customers, and vendors. Let’s see how the advanced search works for products. Open the Products - Products page and click the Advanced search link on the right. There are a lot of search parameters. You can search for products by a product name, price range, category, and all other product properties including filters and a product type. But the coolest thing is that you can save the search template and use it to quickly search for products in the future. Here I have a saved template that is used to quickly search for the recently updated products. The advanced search parameters are different for different sections of the admin panel. For example, that’s how the advanced search form looks for the vendor list. You can see here vendor-specific search parameters.
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace: How to Edit Marketplace Layout
The layout editor in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html saves you money on developers. You can arrange content on your marketplace pages the way you want without programming. Thanks to this feature, you are free to experiment with pages structure to find the layout that suits you and your customers best. To modify layouts, go to Design - Layouts. Here at the top, you can toggle between marketplace pages. We call these—locations. Each location has general settings that include the dispatch, name, SEO data, and some other properties. So, let’s modify the layout of product pages. Here are all data blocks that are present and visible on a product page. Here are breadcrumbs, the main content of a product page, and a couple of marketing blocks showing products on sale and products at the same price. You are free to configure the top panel, header, and footer sections to make them unique for each location. Okay so here’s how a product page looks now: breadcrumbs, the main content and the two marketing blocks. So, let’s change the position of marketing blocks. To do this, just drag and drop the blocks like this. Alright, let’s check the storefront. As you can see the blocks’ positions have changed. Now, let’s add a new block that shows the best selling products. First, add a new grid to place the block into. Then add a new block. There’s already a pre-configured Bestsellers block. On the create new block tab you can create your own blocks and fill them with corresponding data. But we will use the ready Bestsellers block now. Okay, the block has been added. Now click it to set it up. Name the block and set its look. Now, switch to the content tab and see what content you can add to this block. For example, you can add products manually or add them automatically by choosing Bestsellers. Okay good, click Save. Check out how the product page looks now. The bestsellers block is now shown under the two other marketing blocks. Vendors can edit layouts of microstore pages as well, but this feature is only available in Multi-Vendor Plus.
How to Set Up Order Management System in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace software https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html , the admin and vendors manage orders in Orders - View orders. Here’s the list of all orders with statuses that can be changed. Each line has info about the customer such as name and phone number, the date of the order placement, and the amount of money paid for the order. You and your vendors can search for orders and use the advanced search with more parameters. There are also some saved searches for the convenience. You can create orders right from the admin panel. This feature is useful if orders are accepted by phone, for example. The order creation page features convenient select2 fields—they suggest you variants as you type. Once you fill in the necessary fields, choose the initial order status and click create. You can re-order statuses and create new statuses so that they suit your business workflow. To edit statuses, go to Administration - Order statuses. Here you can rearrange them... and create…. new ones. So, when a customer orders products from different vendors, the admin sees 2 separate orders and each vendor sees the order that only contains his or her products.
How to Set Up Marketplace Reports in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html offers you detailed reports and statistics about your marketplace health. It is crucial to check the metrics and analyse them. Without knowing how your ecommerce business is doing you can easily lose it. You can track order and sales statistics in Orders - Sales reports. On the right panel there are available reports that you can choose from. Metrics are visualized and animated so it will be easy for you to understand the statistics and correct the business strategy if necessary. You can create more reports. Let’s see how one of these reports is configured so that you get the idea. Okay, go to Orders - Sales reports, click the Gear button and then Manage reports. Open the top 10 products report, for example. On the Charts tab, you can see 4 pre-set charts for this report. So, click one of the charts and check out the available settings. On the General tab, you can name your chart and select the object to analyse and the values to display. These are the main chart settings. On other tabs, you can set up additional properties such as limiting statistics by a location, by category, and so on. Now, you have the idea how to use the reports functionality in Multi-Vendor.
How to Set Responsive Themes in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
Responsive design is a must. With CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html , your customers will comfortably browse your marketplace from a mobile device thanks to the responsive storefront design. The admin panel is also responsive, so you and your vendors can use phones and tablets to operate the marketplace. By default, Multi-Vendor offers two themes Responsive and Bright. Responsive has 8 pre-configured styles. When a customer opens your marketplace from a mobile phone, the content on the storefront is rearranged to fit the screen. You can install more themes from the CS-Cart marketplace or code a unique responsive design based on the standard responsive theme. Same happens when you enter your admin panel from a mobile device. Menus and informational blocks are rearranged so that you could comfortably operate them on a small screen.
Abandoned Cart Solution in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html when a customer adds products to cart and leaves, you still have a chance to bring the customer back. Just remind him or her about the products left in the cart and offer a discount. You can track abandoned carts and wishlists in Marketing - Abandoned / Live carts. Here’s a customer who has just added products to cart and left the website. When this customers returns and logs in, the products will still be the cart, ready to be purchased. In Marketing - Newsletters - Newsletters you can send a reminder to customers who added products to a wishlist or a cart and didn’t complete the order. Before sending the reminder to customers, send a test email to your mailbox and make sure the email looks okay.
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace SEO Tutorial
In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html the built-in search engine optimization functionality helps you optimize your marketplace for search engines without programmers’ help. To enable all SEO features, make sure that the built-in SEO add-on is installed and activated. In the add-on settings, you can set the patterns to form SEO URLs. So, an SEO feature I’d like to start with is the rules in Website - SEO. On this page, you can set the global rules for URL rewriting in your marketplace. This means you can make SEO-friendly URLs so that crawlers understand them better. Another must-have feature is 301 redirects. This one is used to redirect customers from old, no more actual pages to the new ones. Plus, search engines don’t like websites with 404 pages and 301 redirects save the day. You can make redirects manually here or automatically. Here’s how to do it automatically. Open any page, switch to the SEO tab and change the SEO name. By changing the name, you change the page URL. Now just tick this checkbox and click Save. The page is now in the 301 redirects list and customers will be redirected from the old URL to the new one. The SEO functionality also features the ability to edit the robots.txt file, generate canonical URLs, form Google rich snippets, and fill in meta tags for pages right in the admin panel. Meta tags play a critical part in search engine optimization and you can add them to your marketplace pages without digging into the code.
How to Set Up Mobile App for CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
eBay, Amazon, and AliExpress offer their customers mobile applications for a more convenient shopping. With CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Plus marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html you can offer an app for your customers, too. A mobile application is prepared personally for your marketplace by our developers. For an extra fee, you can get access to the source code of a mobile application and make a perfect app for your business. The app uses the same data as your marketplace. If you make changes to categories, products, users, carts, wish lists, the changes affect the application. Customers can browse categories, add products to wishlists and carts, and pay for the orders via an offline payment method or PayPal Express Checkout. Select the colors and logos you want to have in your app and we will do the rest including uploading the app to Google Play and App Store.
Mass Product Import in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html you can use a new product import. Links to all the docs describing the new product import: 1. How To: Import Products and Product Data: https://docs.cs-cart.com/4.8.x/user_guide/manage_products/import_export/advanced_product_import.html 2. Imported Fields Format: https://docs.cs-cart.com/4.8.x/user_guide/manage_products/import_export/fields_format.html 3. How To: Import Images for Products: https://docs.cs-cart.com/4.8.x/user_guide/manage_products/import_export/product_image_import.html
Vendor Financing Process in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
Your vendors have their own money balance on your CS-Cart Multi-Vendor-based marketplace https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html . And a vendor balance can go into a red when the vendor’s sales are not good and the vendor can’t keep a positive balance paying regularly for a vendor plan. Now, you have to manually root out debtors, convince them to pay the debt and find a way of getting money from them. The Vendor Debt Payout function will automatically block a vendor panel if the vendor’s debt reaches the money or the grace period limit. And the debtor will be able to easily and quickly pay the debt to you through the marketplace checkout.
Seller Location in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
Watch the video about seller location feature in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html
Setting up Shipping Methods in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html is integrated with 8 major shipping companies and more carriers can be added with 3rd party add-ons. To set up a shipping method, go to Administration - Shipping methods. In the demo, there are 4 pre-configured shipping methods but you can create one from scratch by clicking the Plus button. Let’s see how you can configure shipping methods by tweaking the Custom shipping method. On the General tab, name the method, write a description, upload an icon and complete other fields. And here’s the main switch. It defines whether the rate calculation is done manually or in real time. If you set the real time rate calculation, then you’ll need to choose the shipping service. The rates will be requested from the service depending on the order data when a customer proceeds to checkout. There are 8 available shipping services by default. Let’s choose DHL and a suitable shipping option. Okay. Switch to the Configure tab. Here you will see the carrier properties that you need to fill in. To complete the setup, you need an account in the shipping service you are setting up. Once you have the credentials, enter them here and fill other fields. Check out the shipping charges tab. The rates that you define here are used to calculate the shipping cost, regardless of whether you use real-time shipping rate calculation or not. If you receive rates from a shipping service provider in real time, the charges from this section will be simply added to the received rates. You can use this to compensate for your actual expenses if they exceed the values returned by the carrier. Once you’ve done with setting up the shipping method, click Save.
How to Set Permission for Sub-Admins in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
An online marketplace is a big deal. You probably won’t be able to manage the whole CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html alone, so you’ll need helpmates. And it is better if your employees do only things they are responsible for and don’t interfere with each other in the marketplace admin panel. That’s what multiple levels of administrative access do. To set roles for your employees, go to Customers - Administrators. Here are already 2 team members — the root admin and a manager who can only manage orders. Let’s see how the manager role is configured. The General tab contains the general info about the manager, and all the magic happens on the User Group tab. Here you can set a user group for a manager. There’s a pre-configured user group called Manager (orders) and in the user group settings you can enable and disable privileges. As you can see, this manager can only work with orders. Here’s how the manager’s dashboard looks. So, now, let’s add one more manager who will only be able to work with the catalog. Hit the Plus button. Add a new manager, create a password and complete other fields if necessary. Switch to the User groups tab. Here’s the list of available user groups for this manager. You can create more user groups with different privileges on the Customers - User groups page. So, I created a user group with privileges to only manage the catalog. Let’s activate it for this manager. Alright. As you can see, the catalog manager’s dashboard has only functions related to product management. That’s how you can share duties with your employees in Multi-Vendor.
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace Vendors Tutorials
In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html you can log in to a vendor account and teach the vendor admin how to manage the store. You can log in under the vendor account in two ways. Either on the Customers - Vendor administrators page by clicking the gear button and selecting Act on behalf of or right from the dashboard by choosing the vendor from the drop-down at the top of the page. Now, we have logged in under the Stark Industries vendor account and can show the vendor admin how to use the functionality or even help to set up shipping and payment methods.
Separate Store on CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
Just like on eBay and Amazon, in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html your vendors can have their private space on your marketplace. We call this space a micro store. A micro store has vendor-specific categories, product list, product filters, and search by vendor products. Vendors can upload their logos and change the design and layout of the microstore pages. It’s up to you whether to provide your vendors with microstores or not. You can limit or grant access to microstores when configuring vendor plans. If you tick this checkbox, then all the vendors applying for this vendor plan will have microstores. You may also want to add the list of vendor microstores to the marketplace storefront. You can do this on the Layouts page. Switch to the Create new block tab and select the Vendor block. Name it, set it up, and create. Now, you have the vendor microstore list on the marketplace home page.
Vendor Subscription Plans in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html with Vendor plans you offer a subscription payment model to your vendors. You can create plans with different conditions, limitations, and privileges. To create a vendor plan, go to Vendors - Vendor plans. Here you can see 5 demo plans available. You can use them or create your own plans. Let’s create a vendor plan from scratch. On the General tab, name your plan, enter the description if needed and set the position and the status. Okay. On the Commissions tab, set the price for the plan and the charge period. Also, set here the transaction fee that you will be getting from a vendor. On the Restrictions tab you can set the maximum number of products a vendor can sell and the maximum revenue a vendor can get per month. Tick this checkbox to give vendors access to a microstore. On the Categories tab, set the categories that can be used under this vendor plan. And here’s the page where a potential vendor selects the plan that fits him best. After choosing the plan, a future vendor is redirected to the Apply for a vendor account page where he or she can create a vendor account and become a vendor. A vendor can switch the plan in the vendor panel on the Vendors - Vendors page. He or she clicks the account name, then goes to the Plan tab and switches the plan. Another handy feature of vendor plans is the ability to export and import them. To export vendor plans, open the admin panel and go to Administration - Export data - Vendors. Add vendor plans to the Exported fields list and execute the export.
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace: Sellers Managing
Metrics are one of the keys to a healthy eCommerce business. In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html , you and your vendors can track sales reports and financial statistics. First, check out an account balance page available for vendors. On this page, a vendor can see their current balance, income, and payouts. There is a Balance withdrawals tab that shows withdrawals info. This is the vendor’s main tool to track the financial status. Your vendors can also track order and sales statistics in Orders - Sales reports. On the right panel there are available reports that a vendor can choose from. Metrics are visualized and animated so it will be easy for a vendor to understand the statistics and correct the business strategy if necessary. You can create more reports for you and your vendors. Let’s see how one of these reports is configured so that you get the idea. Okay, go to Orders - Sales reports, click the Gear button and then Manage reports. Open the top 10 products report, for example. On the Charts tab, you can see 4 pre-set charts for this report. So, click one of the charts and check out the available settings. On the General tab, you can name your chart and select the object to analyse and the values to display. These are the main chart settings. On other tabs, you can set up additional properties such as limiting statistics by a location, by category, and so on. Now, you have the idea how use and set up reports in Multi-Vendor.
Sellers Store Designing in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html your vendors’ micro-stores don’t have to look exactly the same. You can enable your vendors to modify colors, fonts, backgrounds, and the layout of their micro-stores. This feature is only available in Multi-Vendor Plus. To allow your vendors to modify the look and feel of their microstores, go to Settings - Vendors and tick these two checkboxes. Click save. Alright, let’s log in under a vendor account and see how your vendors can modify the design. Ooookay… now we’re acting on behalf of the Acme corporation vendor. There’s the Design menu with 2 submenus—Themes and Layouts. Let’s check a theme editor first. To edit the design, click Theme editor. You will be redirected to the storefront with the editor on the left side. In the editor, a vendor can change colors, fonts, backgrounds and other design elements. Everything is done in the visual mode and in real-time. Okay, let’s check the layout editor now. This is the standard CS-Cart’s layout editor which is super easy to use. Vendors can use it to rearrange content on the microstore pages and add new content blocks. The layout editing is done via a simple drag and drop. We have a separate video about the layout editor here, so check it out.
Sellers Editing Content in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html if you need to quickly change some text on the marketplace storefront, this feature will come in handy. For example, you can change contacts or some info in the footer without searching for this information to change the admin panel. To edit text on the storefront, go to Design - Themes and click Edit content on-site. You will be redirected to the storefront with editable elements highlighted. To edit the element click the edit icon. Enter the new text to the field...and... click Save. Okay, the text is updated. In the edit content on-site mode, you can navigate your marketplace just as in the regular mode.
Multiple Product Page Design in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html offers you 2 templates for product pages: the default template and the big picture template. Choose the one that fits your marketplace style best. To choose the product page template, open Settings - Appearance. Find the Product detailed page view drop-down and choose the desired template. Here’s how the default template looks. Okay, let’s choose the big picture template. Alright… check out the product page now. You can also change the template for a single product. To do this, go to Products - Products, open a product, scroll down to the Extra section and set the template in the product details view drop-down.
Multi Currency in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html is an international shopping software so it supports 26 languages including right-to-left, and multiple currencies. You can also set taxes according to the laws of a customer’s country. All the languages are available for both admin panel and storefront. You can set up languages and add more in Administration - Languages - Manage languages. Set up currencies in Administration - Currencies. Multiple currencies are used for displaying prices on the storefront. All the calculations are processed in one currency only—the primary currency. But if your payment gateway can accept payments in multiple currencies, then customers can be charged in an alternative, not primary currency. Check out the currency settings. The main property here is Rate. Enter here the exchange rate to convert store prices and costs from the primary currency to this currency. For example, in this demo the primary currency is the American dollar, and the values in the Rate field of other currencies define, how many dollars there are in one Euro and in one British pound. To set taxes for different countries, you need to create locations first. That way you will be able to specify different tax rates for customers from different countries and regions. When you’re done with locations, go to Administration - Shipping and taxes - Taxes. To add a new tax, click the Plus button. Let’s take a look at the existing tax settings so that you get the idea how to set everything up. Fill the tax properties on the General tab and switch to the Tax rates tab. The magic happens here. Choose the type of rates—an absolute value or a percentage. Then enter here the tax rate value. Once you’ve done this, click save. You can apply taxes to all the products, to specific products, and to shipping methods.
Rewards Programs for Sellers in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html repeat customers are going to generate the most of your sales so it’s important to keep the customers by your side and encourage them to come back to your marketplace. Multi-Vendor features an effective tool to gain loyal customers. It’s called Reward points. This feature allows your customers to earn reward points purchasing in your marketplace, and then spend the points on other purchases. In the Reward points add-on settings, you can set the exchange rate for points, recalculation rules and other conditions. On the Marketing - Reward Points you can set the amount type: whether to award customers with an absolute number of points or a percentage value. You can also define here how many points will get customers depending on a user group they belong to. You can award customers with a special number of points for purchasing a specific product or from a specific category. To do that, open a product or category settings, switch to the Reward points tab tick this checkbox. Now, the global reward point values will be overridden. Set the specific values here. To add points to a customer’s account manually, go to Customers - Customers and click the customer name. Now click the Gear button and select View user points. Click the Plus button to award the customer with points. Enter the amount and describe a reason if needed.
Set Up Order eMail Notifications in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html , customers, admins, and vendors can get email notifications about events such as changing orders statuses, receiving new orders, new call requests, password resets and so on. You can find all the available email notifications in Design - Email Templates. For your convenience, notifications are separated into two groups—customer and admin notifications. On the third tab, you can create snippets to insert into emails. Each notification template is editable. You can edit it in the plain text mode by inserting the necessary variables. These variables hook information from your marketplace data and substitute it to the email. With the help of email notifications, you can keep your customers, vendors, and admins informed about important events in the marketplace.
Callback Function in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
With CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html you can simplify the buying process for your customers. Allow the vendors to accept orders by phone. Make sure the Call requests add-on is installed and activated. In the add-on settings set the From number and phone mask if needed, enable or disable the Buy now with 1-click button on a product page, and choose the status to assign to orders placed with this button. A vendor can see all the call requests in Orders - Call requests. Here they can set statuses for call requests and set other details. To order a product by requesting a call, a customer clicks the Buy now with 1-click button. In the pop-up, a customer enters the phone number or email and clicks submit. The vendor gets new orders with the Awaiting call status. The vendor calls the customer, confirms the order, and starts to process it.
How to Cross Sell Listings in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html showing your customers bestsellers, new, on sale and other types of products, you can draw their attention and increase the average bill. To do this, use a set of cross-selling and up-selling tools available for both marketplace admins and vendors. So, for example, let’s show bestsellers and on-sale products on product pages. Go to Design - Layouts and switch to the Products location. Let’s add bestsellers and on sale products right under the main product page content. Add a new grid to place the product blocks into. Okay, now add new blocks. In the Use existing block tab, choose bestsellers. There’s also the On sale block available here. On the Create new block tab, you can create a product block from scratch with a different filling. So, add the bestsellers block and click the gear button on it to set it up. Select the template and the wrapper to your taste and set other properties if necessary. Now do the same with the on sale block. So, I placed two blocks under the main page content. Let’s check a product page on the storefront. Now customers can see bestsellers and on sale product offerings. You can place the cross-selling and upselling blocks on any page of your marketplace. Cross-selling and upselling blocks are available for vendors as well.
Return Requests Managing in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
The Return merchandise authorization feature in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html allows customers to register product return requests specifying the reason for the return and providing other related information. You can then handle requests through the Return requests section in the administration panel. First, make sure the RMA add-on is installed and activated. The addon settings have two checkboxes to set up the return period parameters. To set up a product return system, go to Orders - Return requests. Click the gear button and choose the section to set up. Here you can add, modify, and delete the reasons for product returns. In the RMA actions settings, set actions to perform when processing the request. And here are the request statuses. A customer can return only products marked as returnable. You can mark products on a product settings page under the Add-ons tab. Let’s make a return request on behalf of a customer so that you see how the return system works. Alright, I’m buying this tycoon backpack...filling in payment info… and placing the order. Now, I go to the admin panel and change the order status to complete. Okay. I can now request a return. In the Orders section, the customer clicks the order name and then Request a replacement or a refund. Then he or she selects the product, its quantity, the return reason, and types a comment. To make a request the customer clicks Return. That’s it, the request appears on the Orders - Return requests page and you can process it.
Product Feed Export Set Up in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html , by using the data feeds feature you can export products feeds from your marketplace in different formats and import them to shopping directories such as Shopzilla and Google Shopping. You can execute this procedure automatically via CRON. Go to Add-ons - Manage add-ons and make sure the Data Feeds add-on is installed and activated. Click it to open the add-on settings and enter your CRON password. To create a product feed go to Add-ons - Data Feeds. Click the Plus button to add a new feed. On the General tab, fill in the general fields and specify the server and ftp where you want to export product feeds. And in the CRON settings select where the data feed must be uploaded to: a directory on the current server or a third-party FTP server. You can use this command to run the export via CRON Switch to the Exported items tab and add categories and products you want to export. On the fields mapping tab, arrange a list of fields included in the data feed. Enter here the position of the field relative to the position of other fields in the data feed. Enter the Field name here and the meaning of the data in the field here. Tick this checkbox to enable and disable the field. Once you’re done with setting up the data feed, click Create.
Payment Methods for Sellers in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html you can pay out to vendors automatically or manually. Instructions on setting up payment methods: 1. PayPal Adaptive: https://docs.cs-cart.com/4.8.x/user_guide/payment_methods/paypal_adaptive_payments.html 2. Stripe Connect: https://docs.cs-cart.com/4.8.x/user_guide/payment_methods/stripe_connect.html 3. PayPal for Marketplaces: https://docs.cs-cart.com/4.8.x/user_guide/payment_methods/paypal_for_marketplaces.html Marketplace accounting is another tough thing you have to deal with. You need to take commissions from vendors and pay out vendors’ share. Multi-Vendor offers you tools to set up automatic payouts that will save 90% of your time on accounting. The Accounting page allows you and your vendors to track the balance and all the transactions. Here, a vendor requests withdrawals and the admin—issues payouts. In case of manual payouts the money transfer itself isn’t performed through the marketplace except for the Vendor debt payout feature that is demonstrated here in another video. Automatic payouts are carried out via built-in payment methods. These are PayPal Adaptive, Stripe Connect, and PayPal for Marketplaces. These payment methods distribute money between vendors and send commissions to your account automatically. Check out the video description on YouTube for the instructions on how to set up PayPal Adaptive, Stripe Connect, and PayPal for Marketplaces.
Split Checkout in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html your customers can pay for products from different vendors separately. This feature is included in the Direct customer to vendor payments built-in add-on. The add-on also adds the ability for vendors to create their own payment methods and promotions. The benefit of this add-on is that payments go straight to vendors and the marketplace admin don’t need to bother with payouts. So that customers could pay for products from different vendors separately, the vendors need to create their payment methods. So let’s start at this point. Now, I’m acting on behalf of the Acme corporation vendor. Go to Administration - Payment methods and click Create a payment method or the Plus button. Then, set up a payment method and click Create. Let’s do the same for the Stark industries vendor. Okay, now let’s switch to the customer account and put products to cart from both vendors. Now, view the cart. As you can see, a customer can pay for products from different vendors separately and all the money will go to vendor accounts. This feature is only available in Multi-Vendor Plus.
One Product for Different Vendors in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html you can forbid your vendors from creating products and allow them to use only your product listings. This way you can keep the listings clear and uniform and avoid product duplicates. Go to Add-ons - Manage add-ons and make sure the Common products for vendors add-on is installed and activated. In the add-on settings you can allow or disallow vendors to create new products. Now you can create a product base and offer these products for vendors to sell. Go to Products - Products. You have two items here: Products being sold and Products that vendors can sell. The second one is the common product base that you create for vendors. A vendor browses those products and chooses which of them to sell. If the vendor is already selling some of the products, they will have the For sale marker. After the vendor chooses a product, he or she is taken to the product editing page. The vendor can only set the price, quantity, and shipping-related properties. Once the vendor saves the product, it will also appear as product being sold for both that vendor and you. If vendors can create their own products, then you will be able to make those products common on the product editing page. So, when viewing a product on the storefront, customers will see what vendors offer that product, and on what terms.
Stock Notifications Set Up in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace
In CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html , sellers can track the exact number of items in stock and receive notifications when the stock is low so that they could re-stock in time. To allow your vendors to track the inventory, go to Settings - General and tick the Enable inventory tracking checkbox. Now vendors can track inventory, so let’s check how they do it. Now I’m acting on behalf of the Acme corporation vendor. Go to Products - Products, click a product and scroll down to the Pricing / inventory section. There is the Inventory drop-down. In this drop-down, a vendor selects the inventory tracking variants: to track with options or not to track. Now scroll down to the availability section and check out the Out-of-stock actions drop-down. A vendor selects here what a customer can do if the product is out of stock. Two options here: to allow a customer to buy the product in advance, which is a good fit for pre-ordered products, and to send a customer a notification when the product is in stock again. For example, select the second option. Now, on the product page, a customer can enter his or her email address to receive a message when the product is restocked.
How to Use Advanced Product Import in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
In this CS-Cart Multi-vendor marketplace platform https://www.cs-cart.com/multi-vendor-personal-demo.html video we speak about the Advanced Products Import add-on. It reduces time that administrators spend on importing products. You create presets (sets of rules that describe how to interpret an imported file), save them, and after that you’ll be able to import similar files using those presets.
CS-Cart Shopping Cart Customer Testimonials
CS-Cart Online Store Software Customer's Review: Maarten Rol (www.baliholidayvilla.com/en/)
BaliHolidayVilla.com is an e-commerce website built on CS-Cart Shopping Cart solution https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html. It is the online e-commerce store of the Netherlands-based company BHV BV, led by Komang Parwati and Maarten Rol. The online booking website provides customers with holiday villas in Bali giving information about a villa and property, with large pictures to make the right choice. The website enables selection, filtering and 4 languages: English, Dutch, German and Indonesian (Bahasa). This video testimonial features Maarten Rol. He explains why CS-Cart shopping cart software is the best e-commerce solution for their online business BaliHolidayVilla.com.
CS-Cart eCommerce Platform Customer's Review: Kate Seagroatt (www.katesclothing.co.uk)
Katesclothing.co.uk is an online store selling alternative and gothic clothing, footwear, accessories, hair dye, makeup and homeware from the popular alternative brands. The e-commerce website sells directly to the public and to small retailers. After 10 years of using other ecommerce software they decided to move to CS-Cart shopping cart solution https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html because of its flexibility, SEO and cost. Our client Kate Seagroatt, the founder of katesclothing.co.uk, speaks about CS-Cart eCommerce platform and the reasons to use this online store software for building their online business.
CS-Cart eCommerce Platform Review: Richard Presser (www.keshe-plasma-products.com/store/usstore)
Keshe-plasma-products.com is an online store for the Keshe Foundation, the brainchild of the extraordinary visionary, nuclear engineer and inventor, Mehran Keshe. It aims to bring the healing Keshe Foundation products to the world. The e-commerce website was built on CS-Cart Shopping Cart platform https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html in 2016. Doctor Richard Presser manages the multiple store-fronts from one location thanks to the CS-Cart Shopping Cart feature. He is going to "transform the life as we know it on this planet". Find out how CS-Cart eCommerce solution helps with it
CS-Cart Shopping Cart Software Review: George Stavrianos (cubitech.com)
My.cubitech.com is an online portal for Cubitech company founded in 2001 in Cambridge, UK, a leader in the security and surveillance market. The company aims for the best possible results offering services of the highest quality, that’s why they chose CS-Cart Shopping Cart platform https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html for launching the e-commerce website in 2015. Meet George Stavrianos, Cubitech. He tells about their successful experience of using CS-Cart eCommerce software and the features they like the most.
CS-Cart Online Store Software Review: Aurimas Levickas (madosguru.lt)
MadosGuru.lt is the first and the largest specialized in jewelry, watch and accessories online store in Lithuania. Their product range includes more than 6000 items: handbags, wallets, watches, scarves, belts, backpacks, gloves and many other accessories. They decided to launch their online e-commerce start-up in 2009 and chose CS-Cart shopping cart solution https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html for that. Aurimas Levickas, the general manager in MadosGuru.lt, recommends CS-Cart eCommerce platform. Watch his video testimonial and get to know why.
CS-Cart eCommerce Platform Review: Nguyen Thi Lan Nhi (evamall.vn)
This is a video testimonial of CS-Cart shopping cart software https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html from our Vietnamese customer Nguyen Thi Lan Nhi.
CS-Cart eCommerce Software Review: Morgan Cai (photosel.co.uk)
This is our customer's video testimonial of CS-Cart eCommerce software https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html. Morgan Cai has been using CS-Cart online store platform since 2011 and he is going to tell you why.
CS-Cart eCommerce Platform Review: Herman (dronekenner.nl)
Dronekenner.nl is a Netherlandish online webshop created for and by drone enthusiasts, specialized in DJI products. In 2015 they decided to launch an e-commerce website and chose CS-Cart Shopping Cart platform https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html. The online shop Dronekenner.nl aims to help customers with giving honest advice and also help after purchasing with any questions and problems concerning drones thanks to practical knowledge and experience. Herman from Dronekenner.nl tells about CS-Cart online store software and why flexibility of an eCommerce platform matters.
CS-Cart eCommerce Solution Review: Erol Rezic (energetix.healthix.eu)
Energetix.cz is an online portal for ENERGETIX sro, a Czech business company which is a member of the multinational corporation ENERGETIX, operating in more than 50 countries. Since 2003, they have been supplying exclusive jewelry with magnets and other health products from the German company Energetix and food additives for HEALTHIX from the Austrian company PANACEO. In 2017 the company decided to move the online store to CS-Cart Shopping Cart platform https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html because the previous ecommerce solution was too slow. The aim of the e-commerce website now is to bring beauty, health and success to the customers all over the world and the speed really matters. Watch the video testimonial from Erol Rezic, Slovakia.
CS-Cart eCommerce Software Review: Aditya Bhawnani (bonzeal.com)
BonZeal.com is a leading Indian e-commerce website of novelty items, gifts, gadgets and clothing products. It was launched in 2013 on CS-Cart Shopping Cart platform https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html as an online portal for the offline business. In 2012 the company was started in a small room with an aim to provide something unique and affordable to the customers. Today, that little company has evolved into the big enterprise in a 3000 sq ft office in the city of Delhi. Aditya Bhawnani, the co-founder of BonZeal.com, in this video testimonial shares his experience of using CS-Cart Shopping Cart software.
CS-Cart eCommerce Software Review: Andrea (dodostore.ro)
Dodostore.ro was created as an online store for DO & DO company that makes men's clothing since 1991. In 2014 the Company decided to launch the e-commerce website to sell men’s clothing online in Romania. They chose CS-Cart Shopping Cart platform https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html as the best ecommerce solution for their needs. Watch Andrea's video testimonial about CS-Cart online store software.
CS-Cart Online Store Software Review: Marius Trandafir (becomagri.ro)
Becomagri.ro is an online business project of SC Becomagri SRL, a Romanian supplier of wholesale and retail parts for tractors. Thanks to their long-term cooperation with manufacturers of parts from England, Germany, France, Holland, Italy, Austria the online e-commerce website offers quality at best price in the market. Becomagri.ro was created on CS-Cart Shopping Cart platform https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html to help end-users and resellers to identify each tractor online and buy the suitable parts. In this video testimonial our customer from Romania shares his eCommerce experience of using CS-Cart Shopping Cart Software for becomagri.ro. Marius Trandafir has been our client for more than 6 years. Watch the video and find out why customization matters.
CS-Cart Online Shop Platform Review: Nima Moradi (clickship.com.au)
In this CS-Cart Online Store Software https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html video we introduce our customer Nima Moradi. Watch the video and you'll get to know why CS-Cart rich feature set and source code easy to navigate helped to launch one more successful online store clickship.com.au.
CS-Cart Shopping Cart Software Review: Matthew Caswell (store.dryheatembroidery.com)
Store.dryheatembroidery.com is an online store for Dry Heat Embroidery. The company specializes in custom embroidery at competitive prices. Dry Heat Embroidery is based In Mesa, Arizona, thus the name "DRY HEAT". They ride so they feature embroidery for biker patches, hats, shirts, back patches etc. In 2009 Matthew Caswell, the founder of Dry Heat Embroidery, decided to launch his e-commerce website on CS-Cart Shopping Cart platform https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html. In this video testimonial Matthew tells why he likes CS-Cart software and our technical support. Watch and make the right choice for your online business.
CS-Cart Online Store Software Review: Martin Wei (ownta.cn)
This CS-Cart eCommerce Platform https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html video testimonial our customer Martin Wei explains why they chose CS-Cart for their online shop ownta.cn. He names three main CS-Cart solution qualities: it's simple, safe and customizable.
CS-Cart eCommerce Solution Review: Bob Bivins (nerdsforless.com)
Nerdsforless.com is the leading online technology distributor of software, games and gadgets in Canada. After years of establishing itself as a leading independent IT Solutions provider the company realized that they were doing more business as an independent software distributor and in Fall 2014 re-launched as a software, games and tech merchandise online retailer. The team of Nerdsforless.com chose CS-Cart Shopping Cart solution https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html to build their online webstore. In this customer testimonial video you're going to meet Bob Bivins, Nerdsforless.com. Watch the video to learn why CS-Cart easy-to-use and able-to-expand software was the best choice for their project nerdsforless.com.
CS-Cart Online Shopping Cart Software Review: Ana Castro (fiestacake.com)
Watch one more CS-Cart eCommerce Platform https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html customer video testimonial. There's one more successful CS-Cart Software case - fiestacake.com - an online store to sell cources. Meet our customer Ana Castro.
CS-Cart Shopping Cart Software Review: Ipek Abenyakar (sachane.com)
Sachane.com is an online webstore in Turkey which offers all the professional hair care products, styling tools, professional equipment, cosmetic products, maternal & baby products, men care products, food & support products. In 2011 the team launched their online business project Sachane.com on CS-Cart Shopping Cart Platform https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html. In this customer testimonial video Ipek Abenyakar, Sachane.com, explains why they've chosen CS-Cart solution. CS-Cart has an open source and it's easy to make new add-ons. What else?
CS-Cart Shopping Cart Software Review: Matt Marchetta
Spyre Digital is the culmination of over 15 years spent designing, developing, and deploying Internet marketing solutions for Australian businesses. They began as a crew of teenagers back in the late 90s, discovering the exciting new world of the Internet, as it was just emerging at the time. Since then, Spyre Digital has evolved to become a broader media production house, adapting to the high demand of multi-disciplinary, conversion rate optimised content creation. As for CS-Cart Shopping Cart software https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html Spyre Digital created 2 successful cases of e-commerce platform migration for their clients: The asurban.com.au website was originally built on the Sites n Stores platform. Considering the entire catalogue is shared with Area Safe Products, it made perfect sense to build out a multi-store solution using CS-Cart. In late 2016, areasafe.com.au commissioned Spyre Digital to migrate and upgrade their website. It was originally built on WordPress with limited ecommerce functionality. Considering they operate two other product-based businesses, each with a website using a different CMS platform, we elected to migrate all three onto CS-Cart, making it fast and easy for staff to update. Matt Marchetta from Australian Spyre Digital has been our customer for more than 7 years now. In his video review Matt speaks about CS-Cart Shopping Cart platform and the features he appreciates the most.
Getting Started
Lesson 1. How to Install CS-Cart Shopping Cart Software
A journey of a thousand li starts with a single step. The installation is the first step in handling CS-Cart ecommerce software https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html. This is a step by step instruction for the CS-Cart installation process. It takes only around 10 minutes to install the CS-Cart program on a web hosting and the process is easy and intuitive.
Lesson 2. How to Install New CS-Cart Add-ons
If you lack something with the CS-Cart ecommerce software solution https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html/?utm_source=video1, you can easily fix this by add-ons. Various features, user-friendly interfaces, and easy installation processes — this is what defines CS-Cart add-ons. Here’s a step by step guide for the CS-Cart add-on installation process. It takes only around 5 minutes to download and install an add-on from CS-Cart Marketplace and the process is easy and intuitive.
Lesson 3. Backup and Restore in the CS-Cart Web Store Solution
The first rule of any computer user is “backup your data”. From this video you will learn how to backup data in the CS-Cart ecommerce site builder software https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html, what’s the difference between files backup and database backup, and how to restore the data if anything went wrong.
Settings
Lesson 4. CS-Cart General Settings — Part 1
Before launching CS-Cart ecommerce store https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html it would be smart to tweak some of the online store settings according to your preferences. This is the first part of the CS-Cart General Settings Guide. In this video we explore some of the basic settings our webstore builder has and explain what the Default Location is used for.
Lesson 5. CS-Cart General Settings — Part 2
Before launching CS-Cart internet store https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html it would be smart to tweak some of the ecommerce store settings according to your preferences. This is the second part of the CS-Cart General Settings Guide. In this video we dive into Catalog and Promotion settings.
Lesson 6. CS-Cart General Settings — Part 3
Before launching CS-Cart web shop https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html it would be smart to tweak some of the e-commerce store settings according to your preferences. This is the third part of the CS-Cart General Settings Guide. In this video we finish our tour around general webstore creator settings and learn new things about Users/Cart settings, Proxy server setup, and Search options.
Lesson 7. CS-Cart Appearance Settings — Part 1
This is the first part of the CS-Cart https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html Appearance Settings Guide. Appearance is not just the way you web store looks like but how convenient it is. That’s why appearance settings in CS-Cart ecommerce shop software change not only the storefront but the Admin panel, too. In this video we speak about appearance settings of the admin panel.
Lesson 8. CS-Cart Appearance Settings — Part 2
This is the second part of the CS-Cart https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html Appearance Settings Guide. Appearance settings determine how user-friendly your ecommerce storefront can be. If the storefront is convenient and everything is at hand, then online customers would be more likely to buy something from your web shop. In this video we speak about appearance settings of the storefront.
Lesson 9. CS-Cart Appearance Settings — Part 3
This is the third and final part of the CS-Cart https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html Appearance Settings Guide. Appearance settings include a number of settings to organize product lists on an online storefront. Using them you can create a unique layout for products on the storefront. There is also a common settings section related to date and time format, notifications, and specifically Email templates mode that defines the look of emails and documents in the internet store.
Lesson 10. CS-Cart Settings — Checkout
In the CS-Cart web store builder https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html checkout process can be tweaked in any possible way. You can disable guest checkouts to make checkout process more rigorous and thorough, or lift all restrictions and accept orders even without shipping and payment methods to be selected. The choice is yours.
Lesson 11. CS-Cart Settings — Emails
In this video we briefly speak about methods of sending emails in the CS-Cart ecommerce tool https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html , preparations that should made before using emails in your online store, and how to setup SMTP server to send emails.
Lesson 12. CS-Cart Settings — Logging, Reports, Settings Wizard, and Licensing Mode
This video is related to several CS-Cart ecommerce platform https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html topics: Logging — what is supposed to be written in logs; Reports — date and time format of sales reports; Settings Wizard is a step by step instruction to quickly set up all essential settings in the CS-Cart shopping cart tool; Licensing mode — choose between a full license, or 30-day trial mode.
Design
Lesson 13. CS-Cart Design — Overview
This is an overview of design features of the CS-Cart shopping cart application https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html . All design features in CS-Cart software are found under the Design title of the Admin panel. Themes, Layouts, Templates, Email templates, Documents, Menus, Product tabs. All together they create a unique storefront, where Themes determine the outer look, Layouts — the inner structure, Templates — for precise look tweaking, Menus — to organize information into short consistent lists, Product tabs — to organize the information about a product on a product detailed page.
Lesson 14. CS-Cart Design — Themes & Styles
Themes in the CS-Cart online shop systemhttps://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html determine the general look of the storefront. It controls both layouts and styles. By changing theme you drastically change the whole look of your web store including its structure. Styles are less invasive, they only change the color, fonts, and other minor look features. Besides that the default Bright theme can adjust to any type of the screen, so customers can easily buy from your internet store on phones, and tablet PCs.
Lesson 15. CS-Cart Design — Layouts. Part 1
In the CS-Cart shopping cart system https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html layouts serve as a structure for online store pages. Using this tool you control what information and in what way will be presented on the storefront. This video is dedicated to main concepts of layouts: blocks and containers (also called grids). Blocks contain pieces of information like logos, product details, breadcrumbs, etc. While containers are used for a better page zoning. By juggling blocks and containers you can create design that would be the best for you.
Lesson 16. CS-Cart Design — Layouts. Part 2
In the CS-Cart web store system https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html layouts serve as a structure for ecommerce store pages. Using this tool you control what information and in what way will be presented on the storefront. This time we speak about another main concept of layouts — layout pages. A layout page represents either a certain type of storefront pages, or a specific storefront page like checkout or cart pages. They are completely customizable to create a truly unique look of your web shop.
Lesson 17. CS-Cart Design — Menus. Part 1
Menus is a part of the Design section in the CS-Cart shopping cart application https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html. They help to organize different types of content displayed on pages into short consistent lists. By using menus you can provide lots of useful information without occupying too much space on the storefront. This part of the two-part video is about general menu features and menu creation process.
Lesson 18. CS-Cart Design — Menus. Part 2
Menus is a part of the Design section in the CS-Cart electronic commerce solution https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html. They help to organize different types of content displayed on pages into short consistent lists. By using menus you can provide lots of useful information without occupying too much space on the storefront. In this part of the two-part video we show how to add a new menu to the storefront through blocks.
Products
Lesson 19. Products — Categories. Part 1
This is the first part of a two-part video about categories in the CS-Cart ecommerce shop software https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html. Categories come in handy when you lots of products of different types in your web store. In this video we are going to discuss what categories are used for, what is their structure, and how to manage them.
Lesson 20. Products — Categories. Part 2
This is the second part of a two-part video about categories in the CS-Cart shopping cart platform https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html. Categories come in handy when you lots of products of different types in your online store. In this video we are going to speak about category properties. For convenience, properties are grouped under several tabs.
Lesson 21. Products — Product List
Product List is a general name for all products presented on the Product page in the Admin panel of CS-Cart open source shopping cart software https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html . Though it might seem that this page is just a list there are plenty of things you can do right on it without diving into product details. Learn about them by watching this video.
Lesson 22. Products — General. Part 1
In this two-part video we are going to overview the general product settings in the CS-Cart ecommerce store system https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html. Filling the general settings is required to start selling the product online. This time we are looking at Information, Options, and Pricing sections of the General tab.
Lesson 23. Products — General. Part 2
In this two-part video we are going to overview the general product settings in the CS-Cart ecommerce shopping cart system https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html . Filling the general settings is required to start selling the product online. In the second part we discuss Availability and Extra sections of the General tab.
Lesson 24. Products — Options. Part 1
This is another two-part video this time dedicated to options in CS-Cart ecommerce software https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html. Product options appear on the product details page on the storefront as selectable or input parameters to the product. In the first part we will take a look at the global product options. Global product options are found at Products → Options. These options are usually can be applied to lots of products in the web shop.
Lesson 25. Products — Options. Part 2
This is another two-part video this time dedicated to CS-Cart ecommerce solution options https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html. Product options appear on the product details page on the storefront as selectable or input parameters to the product. In the second part we will discuss local product options and option combinations. Local product options and combinations are managed on the Options tab of the detailed product page in the Admin Panel.
Lesson 26. Products — Shipping Properties
This video is about the Shipping properties tab of the detailed product page in CS-Cart ecommerce platform https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html. This tab contains a number of product properties that are important for automatic shipping cost calculation in a web shop. We are going to show the correlation between these properties, shipping methods settings, and the final shipping cost.
Lesson 27. Products — Features. Part 1
This two-part video is dedicated to features, unique attributes of products in the CS-Cart business e-commerce solution https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html. In the first part of the video we are going to learn how to create a new feature and how to work with features from the Admin Panel.
Lesson 28. Products — Features. Part 2
This two-part video is dedicated to features, unique attributes of products in the CS-Cart complete shopping cart tool https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html. In the second part of the video we are going to explain where and how features can be applied on a storefront.
Lesson 29. Products — Filters
Today we speak about filters functionality in one of the best web store software — CS-Cart https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html. Filters are a part and parcel of any modern store. Using them online customers quickly find the products that meet specific parameters. The parameters for filters can be either the standard product fields or the extra fields defined in Products → Features.
Lesson 30. Products — Product Tabs
There is the Product tabs tab in the product settings, it determines what tabs would be used for the selected products in CS-Cart online shop https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html. Also on this tab you can change the content of tabs created manually on the main Products tabs page located at Design → Product tabs.
Lesson 31. Products — Layouts
In this video we are going to speak about local layouts for separate product pages in CS-Cart ecommerce platform https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html. As you might remember layouts determine the structure of pages in the web store. Using them you can add a unique touch to certain product pages, and make them stand out among others.
Lesson 32. Products — CSV Export & Import. Part 1
Using CSV files is the fastest way of adding and editing new products in CS-Cart web shop https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html. You can not just add and edit thousands of products at once but you can also select what product fields must be edited. In the first part we export already existing products and edit them.
Lesson 33. Products — CSV Export & Import. Part 2
Using CSV files is the fastest way of adding and editing new products in CS-Cart ecommerce shop https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html. You can not just add and edit thousands of products at once but you can also select what product fields must be edited. In the second part we import edited products back, and also add new products to the list.
Customers
Lesson 34. Customers — Administrators & Privileges
By default the CS-Cart shopping cart software https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html has the following types of user accounts: Administrators and Customers. This video is about administrators and their privileges. You will learn how to create administrator accounts of different types, distribute privileges among them, and what the Admin Panel looks like for administrators with different sets of privileges.
Lesson 35. Customers — Customers & User Groups
By default the CS-Cart ecommerce platform https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html has the following types of user accounts: Administrators and Customers. This video is about customers and user groups. Customers and user groups are closely related to each other. With user groups you can distribute sale offers, discounts and gifts among online store customers depending on their activity. This way you can award them for being loyal customers and encourage them to buy even more from you.
Lesson 36. Customers — Profile Fields
The CS-Cart shopping cart tool https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html has a very flexible profile fields system which is nice for precise tuning of personal data that your online customers enter during registration or checkout. For example, you can leave contact information fields be available but not required but at the checkout on shipping and billing address step the customer will have to enter full personal data including country, region, city, etc. It is also worth mentioning that without some information post services do not accept orders, for example, zip or postal code.
Lesson 37. Customers — Redirecting Customers from Specific Regions to the Right Stores
In the CS-Cart ecommerce platform https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html there is a feature that allows us to redirect online customers from specific regions to a separate web store created for a particular region. For example, there might a separate online shop for visitors from the UK and Canada, and another one for Australia and New Zealand.
Shippings & Payments
Lesson 38. Shippings & Payments — Shipping Methods
Shipping methods in the CS-Cart shopping cart tool https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html are divided by rate calculation into two groups — manual and realtime. Manual calculation rates are set up by administrator and depend on the location, realtime rates are calculated automatically by the post service but require a license from the post service. There are also lots of settings for precise tuning of shipping methods. You can set up additional charges related to the cost of products, their weight and number of items. By the way, in case you work with manual shipping methods, cost dependencies for different regions become the general shipping cost.
Lesson 39. Shippings & Payments — Payment Methods
Payment methods in the CS-Cart ecommerce application https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html are divided into two groups by processor — offline and online. Offline processors are used to process phone orders, checks and receipts. If you create offline payment method you can choose a template for it. Online processors are used for internet payments and bank transactions. In order to use online processors you will need an account of an online payment service, for example, PayPal or Amazon accounts. Instructions for setting up an online payment method are presented on the configure tab of the selected gateway. There are also lots of settings for precise tuning of payment methods that can be useful in different situations.
Lesson 40. Shippings & Payments — Setting up PayPal in CS-Cart
PayPal is the most popular online payments system in the world. As a decent eCommerce software CS-Cart https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html supports PayPal and all its payments. This video shows how to set up PayPal in your CS-Cart store.
Orders
Lesson 41. Orders — Email Templates Editor
Starting with version 4.4.1, CS-Cart software https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html comes with a built-in editor for the templates of email notifications. You can customize these templates according to your needs, or import the templates that were created and exported by someone else. The key features of the new editor are as follows — all notifications are now gathered in one place, easy notification editing, coding skills are not required, preview and test emails features, the Import/Export feature, and much more.
Lesson 42. Orders — Documents Editor
Starting with version 4.4.1, the CS-Cart shopping cart platform https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html comes with a built-in editor for documents, such as invoices, packing slips, and gift certificates. You can customize the documents according to your needs, or import the documents that were created and exported by someone else. The key features of the new editor are as follows — both default and added documents can be edited via the WYSIWYG editor, all documents use one editing system, the content of documents can be managed by including conditions into code snippets, the Import/Export feature, and much more.
Lesson 43. Orders — How to Create an Order from the Storefront
This video demonstrates the most important process in CS-Cart https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html ecommerce store — the process of buying a product and submitting an order. The steps reviewed in this video are as follows — selecting a product, visiting cart page, checkout process, post-order actions and email notifications for online customers and administrators.
Lesson 44. Orders — How to Process an Order from the Admin Panel
This video shows the steps that are made to process the order in CS-Cart https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html eComerce solution. From order department notifications about new order to several ways of sending shipments — everything you need to know about handling orders in your web store.
Lesson 45. Orders — Statuses
Order statuses may be the most important feature of the order processing in your CS-Cart online store https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html and is the easiest way of communication between an administrator and a web shop customer. That's why this video dedicated solely to the statuses, when they used and how to manage them.
Lesson 46. Orders — Shipments
After the order is processed in your CS-Cart online shop https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html it is time to ship the products. The CS-Cart software solution has a flexible shipment system that allows you to ship all products with one shipment or divide an order into multiple shipments that can drastically differ from each other, and send products one by one.
Content
Lesson 47. Content — Pages. Introduction
In CS-Cart eCommerce solution https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html pages contain general information about your online shop, staff, special promotions, gift certificates, etc. So, it is important to know how to create, group, and manage content in your ecommerce store. This video shows how to create a new page and add it to a storefront.
Lesson 48. Content — Pages. Part 1
The next step in managing pages in your CS-Cart online shopping platform https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html is to organize them into consistent structure called page tree. The structure is based on root pages and subpages. Root pages contain other related links under one title, subpages are assigned to root pages to create a structure. Subpages usually serve as content pages while root pages are just a part of table of contents. To place a page tree on a storefront we use layouts and blocks.
Lesson 49. Content — Pages. Part 2
After placing a page tree on a storefront there is still few things that you can use to manage CS-Cart web store https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html pages. Add dynamic trees to root pages, or turn them into links to avoid empty pages. Add only the part of a tree that suits the desired page, and don’t display others. Also, you can just disable a block with a page tree on pages where this block is not required.
Lesson 50. Content — Languages & Translations
There are lots of ways to manage languages and translations in the CS-Cart platform https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html. Even in the Admin Panel you can work with two languages at once — one is the interface language, another is the language of content. You can add new translations to your CS-Cart ecommerce tool via multiple sources including Crowdin platform, on-site content editing, and variables translated manually from the Admin Panel.
Marketing & SEO
Lesson 51. Marketing — Comments & Reviews
The CS-Cart https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html comments and reviews add-on once installed can be found in many places of the online store. Store testimonials on the homepage, product ratings and reviews, category reviews if enabled, the feature to start conversations with administrators to discuss order details, and general comments for content pages — all these provided by the Comments and Reviews add-on. Watch this video to learn more about comments and reviews in the CS-Cart ecommerce application.
Lesson 52. Marketing — Promotions. Part 1
CS-Cart Online Store Platform https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html Promotions allow you to offer various bonuses to your online customers such as free products or discounts, if certain conditions are met. This video shows how customers can receive and apply promotions, what are the basic tools to manage promotions, and how to get to the promotions page on a web storefront.
Lesson 53. Marketing — Promotions. Part 2
In CS-Cart eCommerce solution https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html promotions are divided into two types — catalog promotions, and cart promotions. This video is dedicated to catalog promotions. Catalog promotions provide only discounts to certain products or categories. For example, all DVDs in the online shop have a 5% discount.
Lesson 54. Marketing — Promotions. Part 3
In CS-Cart online store solution https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html promotions are divided into two types — catalog promotions, and cart promotions. This video is dedicated to cart promotions and condition groups that help to organize conditions if there is too many of them. Cart promotions allow you to set discounts and offer various bonuses: coupons, free shipping, free products, reward points, membership in a specific user group, etc. The list of possible conditions for those bonuses is bigger. The bonuses aren’t displayed in the catalog, but only on cart and checkout pages of your web shopping platform.
Lesson 55. Marketing — Abandoned/Live Carts
The Abandoned/Live carts section in CS-Cart shopping cart software https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html contains the lists of products that your web store visitors added to their carts and wishlists but didn’t purchase for some reason. Carts are saved for both registered and unregistered customers, but for registered customers, the products from the abandoned carts are automatically added to their carts when they visit your ecommerce shop again.
Lesson 56. Marketing — Newsletters
Newsletters is a powerful tool for organizing marketing campaigns in CS-Cart online shopping cart solution https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html. Create mailing lists and autoresponders, gather subscribers, prepare templates, and start sending newsletters to reach potential customers and raise sales. All the mentioned features are included into the Newsletters add-on.
Lesson 57. Marketing — Gift Certificates
When people don’t know what to buy to their family and friends, they usually buy gift certificates. We will show you how to buy a gift certificate from CS-Cart ecommerce platform https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html online storefront, manage them in the Admin Panel, and activate them to receive gifts.
Lesson 58. Marketing — Banners
In CS-Cart ecommerce solution https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html banners attract customers’ attention, notify them about offers and discounts. All in all it is a good addition to marketing features. Banners are provided by the Banners management add-on. From this video you will learn how to create banners, place them on an online storefront, and customize banners for separate pages.
Lesson 59. Marketing — Customers Also Bought
Everything you would like to know about CS-Cart online store software https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html Customers Also Bought add-on but were too afraid to ask. The add-on makes it possible to create a special block in your internet shop for the products often purchased along with the current one.
Lesson 60. Marketing — Creating Automatic Discount Coupons for Customers
With CS-Cart https://www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html automatic discount coupons you don’t need to create coupon codes by yourself each time the previous one has been used. It takes two steps to create an automatic discount coupon. First, we create a promotion with discount coupon. Second, we create a promotion that provides coupon codes.