Marketplace Administrator Features in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor

Mobile App

Offer a more convenient way to buy from your online marketplace. With a multivendor app for iOS and Android, your customers can browse your marketplace, add products to wish lists and carts, and pay via offline payment method or PayPal Express Checkout.

All the data is synced with your virtual mall: if you change categories, products, users, carts, wish lists, orders, and other data, the changes will affect the app. You are free to customize the look and feel of your application by changing a logo and colors. When the app is ready, we will upload it to Google Play and App Store and keep it up to date.

Advanced Vendor Payout System

Automate payouts to vendors to save 90% of your time. Payments management is the most significant part of every online marketplace. You will have to deal with commissions and distribution of payments between vendors every day.

In Multi-Vendor, you can use automatic or manual vendor payouts.

Automatic payouts are carried out via a built-in "PayPal for Marketplaces" payment method. It distributes the payment between vendors and sends commissions to your account.

With PayPal for Marketplaces customers can pay for their orders in bulk—payments are not split into multiple steps when a customer buys products from more than 5 vendors. Plus you can get refunds via PayPal for Marketplaces. Handy!

And if you need to make a manual payment, you can use the vendor accounting feature to record each payout.

Common Products for Vendors

Make your marketplace catalog look nice, clean, and uniform. With the Common Products for Vendors feature, you can forbid your vendors from creating new products. Enable them to only use listings created and designed by you. In such listings, vendors can only set their prices and quantity. Of course, you are free to allow your vendors to add their products as well.

The Common Products for Vendors function adds a comparison table to a product page. If a product is sold by several vendors, a customer can compare prices and choose the best listing.

Configurable Vendor Plans

Earn extra with vendor monthly payments. In the CS-Cart platform for a marketplace, you can create subscription plans for vendors with different conditions and limitations.

Vendor plans is a flexible tool that helps you increase your revenue.

First of all, apart from commissions, it allows you to take a monthly fee from vendors for selling in your marketplace.

Secondly, with vendor plans, commissions are pre-set for each plan, and a new vendor just picks the most suitable option. The vendor plans functionality will save you from troubles with setting commissions for vendors manually.

Category Commissions

Attract more vendors by offering affordable commissions on low-margin products. Popular products such as toys, home care, and non-food goods are sold with a low margin. To attract vendors selling these kinds of products, set a lower commission for low-margin product categories.

On the other hand, you can set a higher commission for high-margin products such as Apple devices and get more income from your vendors.

Multiple Levels of Administrative Access

Let your employees take up the duties while you are engaged in fundamental things.

Running a large-scale marketplace is much easier when delegating certain duties to your staff members. The Multi-Vendor 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 the marketplace while sales guys add products and process orders.

Advanced Vendor Restrictions

Take full control over a vendor’s admin panel—enable and disable menus and set privileges. This way you can hide unnecessary menus and interface elements in the vendor panel and leave only those that are frequently used by a vendor.

For example, a vendor selling downloadable products doesn’t need the shipping methods menu. Hide it from the vendor panel to make the interface lighter and clearer.

Flexible Product Approval System

Make product management simple and efficient. In Multi-Vendor, product approval is flexible and handy at the same time. You will have 3 options:

• You can let your vendors showcase products without moderation.
• Check every product added by vendors.
• Allow certain vendors to add products without moderation.

Besides, you can choose either to approve product updates or let vendors update product details without moderation.

Vendor Debt Payout

Motivate your vendors to pay you in time. The Vendor Debt Payout function pairs with Vendor plans and allows you to block the admin panels of those vendors whose debt has reached the limit or who didn’t pay for their plan in time.

You don’t have to deal with your debtors manually sending dozens of messages and making hundreds of calls to recover the debt. They will come to you first. And you will offer them a convenient way to pay their debts.

Advanced Order Management System

Offer your customers the most convenient checkout process. Your eCommerce marketplace will contain thousands or millions of products. What if a customer orders 2 products from different vendors?

In Multi-Vendor, customers don’t need to place multiple orders to buy goods from several vendors. They place only one order and make a single payment in this case.

From the admin panel side, 2 separate orders are created, and each vendor can see an order that contains only his or her products.

Detailed Statistics and Reports

Feel the pulse of your marketplace. It is impossible to run a successful marketplace without deep analysis based on statistics and reports.

What does Multi-Vendor offer you in terms of statistics? Multi-Vendor is integrated with Google Analytics. This service generates detailed statistics about your website visitors. It gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness.

Google analytics is the most powerful tool for analysis nowadays. And it’s absolutely free!

Another built-in analysis tool is called "Sales reports". It gives you detailed statistics on the sales in your marketplace. Statistics may be represented in a form of graphical or tabular charts. For convenience, charts are grouped into separate reports.

Customizable One-Page Checkout

27% of customers drop their carts because of the complicated checkout process.

But thanks to a fast and simple checkout in CS-Cart Multi-Vendor, more customers will complete their orders on your marketplace.

Moreover, you can flexibly customize the look and the content of your checkout page without coding.

Multiple Storefronts

Open a global marketplace with storefronts for different countries, vendors, and product categories. With the Multiple storefronts feature, you don’t need to launch several marketplaces from scratch—just open a new storefront with a desired language, currency, vendors, and products, and manage all the storefronts via a single admin panel.