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Multi-Vendor Marketplace
Platform for SMEs
CS-Cart multivendor marketplace platform is standalone e-commerce software that allows you to build multi vendor marketplaces.
On the marketplace, multiple vendors market and sell their products through a single storefront. CS-Cart multi vendor software supports an unlimited number of sellers on one marketplace. It's a perfect solution for online retail sales.
On the marketplace, multiple vendors market and sell their products through a single storefront. CS-Cart multi vendor software supports an unlimited number of sellers on one marketplace. It's a perfect solution for online retail sales.
What is a Multi-Vendor Marketplace Platform?
Multi-Vendor is marketplace software tailor made for multiple sellers, each with their own eCommerce store and a vendor dashboard.
The platform includes eCommerce business features and allows businesses to grow their customer base and expand geographically..
Our eCommerce marketplace software offers payment plans, automated commission calculation, and complete source code ownership, so that it can be customized by developers to meet specific business needs.
The platform includes eCommerce business features and allows businesses to grow their customer base and expand geographically..
Our eCommerce marketplace software offers payment plans, automated commission calculation, and complete source code ownership, so that it can be customized by developers to meet specific business needs.
Our Clients' Success Business Stories
CS-Cart has more live marketplaces than other eCommerce multi vendor platforms. Anyone with even minimal technical skills can create a multivendor marketplace with CS-Cart. Check out the best marketplace in its category below for new ideas.
ShopClues is one of the largest multi vendor marketplace platforms in the world and the largest multi vendor marketplace in India. It has millions of products, hundreds of thousands of sellers, multiple mentions in mass media, and a bunch of awards. And this business is built on our eCommerce platform.
28 000 000
350 000
1 000
3 000
Products
Vendors
Employees
Locations

Yumbles food marketplace is a perfect place for food lovers! This is one of the most beautiful multi vendor online marketplaces in Great Britain. This eCommerce marketplace business offers yummy hand-made food directly from top independent UK producers. Each merchant here is an indie food maker with their own online store
7 000
1 200
13 000
10 000 000
Products
Vendors
Fans
Calories/Week

Mode is a marketplace platform for fashion goods from New Zealand. This e-commerce platform enables businesses from New Zealand to sell their products locally, so you will only find here items that are all from NZ-based fashion boutiques.
10 000
24 000
298
23
Products
Fans
Brands
Boutiques

Key Features
Advanced Seller Payout System
Multiple payment gateways for multi vendor marketplace platforms, and a flexible accounting system, allow you to easily distribute the money between multiple sellers and get your share. These split payment systems include Stripe Connect and PayPal Commerce Platform.
Configurable Vendor Plans
A marketplace owner can set conditions and limitations for each seller plan and define the monthly fee on the online marketplace. Great for effective vendor management.
Flexible Product Approval System
Sellers add their own products to your multivendor marketplace. After adding products you approve product data to be sure that only approved items or services appear on the marketplace storefront. Completely delegate inventory management to your sellers.
Different Levels of Admin Access
Assign privileges to your managers so that they could only have access to the platform key features and valuable data they work with. As a marketplace owner, you control their access rights. Also works for a seller profile.
Detailed Statistics and Reports
View sales reports with diagrams and detailed information about transactions on your multi vendor platform and the business in general. These are key features to monitor your marketplace's health.
Separate Control Panel
Sellers have their own user-friendly dedicated vendor dashboard with all key features and advanced analytics to come to your multivendor marketplace and start selling. The marketplace vendor signup process is fairly straightforward, too.
Multiple Translations
Your multi vendor marketplace can be translated to any language. If you work globally, different languages are a must for your marketplace business.
eCommerce Store for Each Seller
Since there's multiple vendor support, every marketplace seller can get a fully-featured personal storefront with their own catalog, filters, and advanced inventory management. These are basically separate eCommerce stores.
Bulk Product Upload
To speed up the start of your vendors we developed the advanced import feature for our multi vendor platform. Multiple vendors come to your marketplace, upload their items in bulk and start selling fast with effective inventory management.
Product Reviews
Customers can always share detailed reviews with product advantages and disadvantages, and attach images to them.
Wishlist
Allow your customers to create their own collections of products they want to buy and save them in their accounts on your multivendor marketplace
Flexible Promotion System
CS-Cart allows you to offer your customers various discounts to encourage your loyal buyers, and attract new clients to multi vendor marketplaces.
Native Mobile Apps
Offer a new way to buy from your marketplace via an app for Android and iOS devices. The app's key features include full catalog that is synchronized with the web version of the marketplace platform, checkout, and payment options.
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
Marketplace platform for fast start and growth.
Award-winning multi-vendor marketplace solution
CS-Cart has been the leading marketplace multi vendor software on G2 and SourceForge for the last three years. It has been included in Capterra Shortlist of eCommerce Software twice in 2021 and 2022 as one of the best marketplace softwares.
5 Reasons to Choose CS-Cart for Your Marketplace
The most popular
CS-Cart is one of the most popular marketplace platforms in the world according to review platforms. It perfectly suits any kind of a e-commerce marketplace—an online marketplace like Amazon or a small niche marketplace platform. Supports various business models.
The most feature-rich
The CS-Cart multivendor marketplace platform is based on a feature-rich shopping cart platform CS-Cart. Your multivendor marketplace will have all the CS-Cart key features including payment processing with integrated payment services. It also supports third party add-ons and integrations.
Free customer care
When buying the Multi-Vendor marketplace software subscription, you get free support for the entire subscription period. The level of support depends on the Multi-Vendor plan you have subscribed to: Standard, Plus, or Ultimate. There are plans to cover all your needs.
Easy to learn
The CS-Cart marketplace platform has the richest documentation, video tutorials, and an intuitive interface. You'll easily learn how to build, manage, support, and configure your internet marketplace and impart your knowledge to your marketplace vendors. For vendors, your marketplace platform offers fast, step-by-step onboarding and simple vendor registration process.
No risk
We offer a 100% money-back guarantee during 30 days after the purchase. If you are not satisfied with our multivendor marketplace software, we'll refund your money with no questions asked. You don't risk anything when you build your own online marketplace with the Multi-Vendor software.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Need help? Here are the top questions asked by our Subscribers
You can build a multivendor marketplace on the CS-Cart flexible eCommerce platform for e-commerce sales in almost any country. CS-Cart supports multi-currency and it is multilingual, which is great for global multi vendor marketplaces. There are flexible tax and region settings and over 70 payment and shipping options, so you will definitely find the right feature and settings combination for your regional multi-vendor marketplace. Also, CS-Cart is the best multi vendor marketplace software in terms of feature richness.
Also, there are hundreds of ready-to-use business integration modules for local payment and shipping services in our app market.
Check out examples of multi vendor platforms built on the CS-Cart multi vendor marketplace platform—there are hundreds of them worldwide. You can filter a marketplace by topic, country, and business model.
Additionally, the multi-store functionality allows you create marketplaces for different countries, audiences, and product categories, and manage them all from a single admin back end.
Also, there are hundreds of ready-to-use business integration modules for local payment and shipping services in our app market.
Check out examples of multi vendor platforms built on the CS-Cart multi vendor marketplace platform—there are hundreds of them worldwide. You can filter a marketplace by topic, country, and business model.
Additionally, the multi-store functionality allows you create marketplaces for different countries, audiences, and product categories, and manage them all from a single admin back end.
There are a lot of different platforms out there, but here's one thing that sets CS-Cart apart from most of them. CS-Cart Multi-Vendor provides full access to its source code, allowing you to freely modify it, which makes it the best multivendor marketplace platform for custom projects with tight budgets.
However, it's important to differentiate between open source software and paid software, as 'open source' is frequently conflated with 'free'. While CS-Cart Multi-Vendor isn't free, it does give you access to the code.
However, it's important to differentiate between open source software and paid software, as 'open source' is frequently conflated with 'free'. While CS-Cart Multi-Vendor isn't free, it does give you access to the code.
We basically provide two versions of Multi-Vendor:
But you're free to use the server of any hosting provider of your choice to build your marketplace on. Just make sure your hosting plans are compatible with CS-Cart marketplace platform system requirements.
- On-Premises: a hosted solution, an eCommerce marketplace platform which is installed on your own server. You need hosting for this.
- No-Code: a cloud-based marketplace solution hosted on our servers. You don't have to bother about your own hosting. You just sign up and get a marketplace solution deployed in the cloud.
But you're free to use the server of any hosting provider of your choice to build your marketplace on. Just make sure your hosting plans are compatible with CS-Cart marketplace platform system requirements.
To build a custom marketplace, contact our partners. Take a look at the list of developers in our Marketplace. Please contact them to get a quote for a multivendor marketplace platform modification service.
If you have an in-house custom development team, you can build custom eCommerce business functionality yourselves—the CS-Cart is a source-available software. You can integrate third-party services including multiple payment gateways for secure payment processing.
CS-Cart is made in the way that allows for a streamlined development without compromising performance of your business.
If you have an in-house custom development team, you can build custom eCommerce business functionality yourselves—the CS-Cart is a source-available software. You can integrate third-party services including multiple payment gateways for secure payment processing.
CS-Cart is made in the way that allows for a streamlined development without compromising performance of your business.
CS-Cart is a subscription-based software—the license is renewable. There's also an option to get a lifetime license for a one-time payment.
No more obligatory or transaction fees are included. You don't need to pay extra for customer care and upgrades—all these are included in the product subscription.
Regarding the hosting for On-Premises: it's up to you to choose the service provider, just make sure the hosting meets the multivendor marketplace platform requirements so that you could build a multivendor marketplace with fast loading times.
No more obligatory or transaction fees are included. You don't need to pay extra for customer care and upgrades—all these are included in the product subscription.
Regarding the hosting for On-Premises: it's up to you to choose the service provider, just make sure the hosting meets the multivendor marketplace platform requirements so that you could build a multivendor marketplace with fast loading times.
While your product subscription is active, you have free technical support. The level of support depends on your subscription—the more advanced the plan, the more support marketplace features you get. Take a look at the support levels below.
Customer Care Standard:
Customer Care Standard:
- Limited number of support requests. Basic Customer Care plan with a limited number of requests. Up to 15 requests per month.
- Website update. We take care of the whole update routine when new CS-Cart versions come out
- Unlimited number of support requests. Ask as many questions as you need.
- 4 free modifications per month. We make up to 4 minor modifications of the CS-Cart code for your multi vendor website. These are modifications in CSS or in Smarty templates as well as minor changes in PHP code that do not affect the core multi vendor functionality. The complexity of the modification is determined by the support engineer.
- Proactive assistance. We will periodically check your customers and vendors experience and suggest ways to fix or improve it.
- Website update. We take care of the whole update routine when new CS-Cart versions come out
- 7 free modifications per month. We make up to 7 minor modifications of the CS-Cart code for your website. These are modifications in CSS or in Smarty templates as well as minor changes in PHP code that do not affect the core functionality. The complexity of the modification is determined by the support engineer.
- Support via an online chat. You save time by contacting us through the chat—no need to send emails and wait for a response.
- Dedicated customer care service. For 2 hours a week our support engineer personally fixes issues, tweaks settings, and sets up the default CS-Cart functionality in your CS-Cart installation.
- Web server configuration. We set up your server environment for optimal CS-Cart performance within our dedicated customer care service Support via online chat.
- Mobile app building and maintenance. We build and update the app for you and answer questions about the app usage.
- Create a ticket in our Help Desk system. If you have a question or run into trouble, just write to us in the Help Desk and we'll assist you. It's super easy to send a ticket since our Help Desk has user friendly interface and a straightforward ticket creation process.
- Use online chat to contact us. This feature is available with higher plans.
We offer a 30-day money-back guarantee, so there are no risks for you. If within 30 days from the moment of purchase you realize that the CS-Cart eCommerce marketplace platform is not what you are looking for and you don't want to build a marketplace on it, you can get a full refund. So, you have pretty much time to text CS-Cart's extensive library of marketplace features and add-ons.
We designed CS-Cart to be a standalone marketplace platform in the first place. It guarantees stability, hassle-free configuration, and the uniformity of the marketplace you build.
But it is still possible to integrate the CS-Cart backend with your existing front end since it's an open source platform. CS-Cart also has advanced options like a powerful API support for easy integration. In this case, you'll need to hire developers to build this kind of an integration to meet your business needs. You can not only integrate the CS-Cart marketplace solution backend with the existing front end but also connect any third-party service.
There's also a headless option for large enterprises. Of you're interested, contact us for more details on the custom headless solution
But it is still possible to integrate the CS-Cart backend with your existing front end since it's an open source platform. CS-Cart also has advanced options like a powerful API support for easy integration. In this case, you'll need to hire developers to build this kind of an integration to meet your business needs. You can not only integrate the CS-Cart marketplace solution backend with the existing front end but also connect any third-party service.
There's also a headless option for large enterprises. Of you're interested, contact us for more details on the custom headless solution
Online demo is a temporary installation that is deployed on our servers. It's for demonstration only, consider it a 15-day free trial.
You can't enter the license number into the demo, but it is possible to transfer data from your online demo to a live marketplace.
A personal marketplace demo works for 15 days for demonstration purposes only. If necessary, you can export products, categories, key features, and other data from the demo to your live marketplace.
You can't enter the license number into the demo, but it is possible to transfer data from your online demo to a live marketplace.
A personal marketplace demo works for 15 days for demonstration purposes only. If necessary, you can export products, categories, key features, and other data from the demo to your live marketplace.
Sure, you can do it on special terms. Moving to a more advanced edition of our multi vendor software is a pretty streamlined process but there could be important nuances in some cases. Please contact us for details.
There are several ways to draw income on your marketplace with the CS-Cart platform once you build it.
Choose any business model that suits you or combine them:
What's cool about CS-Cart is that you can attract sellers from all over the world, because the platform supports multiple currencies, languages, taxes, and rate areas. Plus, payment integrations that are available in most countries. It's a platform that can help you set global course.
In order to make your further steps easier and start getting profit from your marketplace, we provide you with a range of practical advice given by real owners of lucrative virtual shopping malls. Please refer to the link to see our Marketplace Academy. In the Academy, you'll find guides on how to build an online mall and benefit from your marketplace, how to attract sellers, how to promote your marketplace, and much more.
Choose any business model that suits you or combine them:
- Get commissions for every transaction on your digital marketplace: a vendor sells a product → you get a commission for this sale.
- Set a fixed monthly fee for selling products on your marketplace: you can do it via built-in vendor plans.
- You can advertise your digital marketplace vendors and increase their sales, which leads to more income.
- Set a fee for additional marketplace functionality. For example, setting up an exclusive multi vendor store design or an additional dedicated storefront for a vendor (in Ultimate only).
What's cool about CS-Cart is that you can attract sellers from all over the world, because the platform supports multiple currencies, languages, taxes, and rate areas. Plus, payment integrations that are available in most countries. It's a platform that can help you set global course.
In order to make your further steps easier and start getting profit from your marketplace, we provide you with a range of practical advice given by real owners of lucrative virtual shopping malls. Please refer to the link to see our Marketplace Academy. In the Academy, you'll find guides on how to build an online mall and benefit from your marketplace, how to attract sellers, how to promote your marketplace, and much more.
You're welcome to ask any questions about our software and how to start a marketplace by contacting us via this form.
Video Testimonials about CS-Cart
BenessereMarket is a marketplace that offers products for health and well-being. This business was built on the CS-Cart in 2016. This is a business project created with the support of MicroComm—a Health Information Technology service.
iStore is an eCommerce marketplace launched with the support of Store Online Pvt Ltd., Nepal. On this digital platform, you can buy and sell any kind of electronic goods and accessories, fashion and design items, home and garden goods, tools and accessories, and more. The goal of this marketplace business is to reduce unemployment problems in Nepal.
QooCart marketplace was developed with the support of T Trade Consulting & Services Company, Ltd in 2014. On this marketplace, merchants sell Thai fashion items and food, goods for home, beauty products, electronics and gadgets, and other goods.
Create a powerful Multi-Vendor marketplace now!

Whether you're about to build an eCommerce marketplace to expand your business online, to become a leader in your niche, or just to help local entrepreneurs go online, CS-Cart is the multi-vendor platform for you. Start free online demo to try it out.