Multi-Vendor—eCommerce Marketplace Platform
Multi-Vendor digital marketplace platform is standalone eCommerce software that allows you to build a digital marketplace business.
On the marketplace, independent eСommerce vendors market and sell their products through a single storefront. CS-Cart multi-vendor software supports an unlimited number of sellers on a single digital marketplace.
On the marketplace, independent eСommerce vendors market and sell their products through a single storefront. CS-Cart multi-vendor software supports an unlimited number of sellers on a single digital marketplace.
Choose a way how you want to build your marketplace
No-Code
Hosted by the hosting provider of your choice.
Get full control over your marketplace software installation on your own server or CS-Cart's.
Fully customizable. On-Premises multi vendor platform has open code, which allows for developing custom functionality.
Easy to expand. Install third-party add-ons and design themes from the CS-Cart add-on market.
No catalog and transaction limitations. Unlike No-Code, On-Premises doesn't limit you in the number of products, vendors, and admins.
Turnkey platform. On-Premises comes with the storefront, admin panel and marketplace vendor panels out of the box.
Get full control over your marketplace software installation on your own server or CS-Cart's.
Fully customizable. On-Premises multi vendor platform has open code, which allows for developing custom functionality.
Easy to expand. Install third-party add-ons and design themes from the CS-Cart add-on market.
No catalog and transaction limitations. Unlike No-Code, On-Premises doesn't limit you in the number of products, vendors, and admins.
Turnkey platform. On-Premises comes with the storefront, admin panel and marketplace vendor panels out of the box.
On-Premises
Quick start. Fill in a short form and have your marketplace up and running in literally minutes.
Works in the cloud. Forget about third-party hosting and running your own server.
No coding skills needed. Set up and manage your marketplace platform through a user interface without the help of developers.
Easy to scale. Once you need to grow, migrate to On-Premises fast and hassle-free.
Works in the cloud. Forget about third-party hosting and running your own server.
No coding skills needed. Set up and manage your marketplace platform through a user interface without the help of developers.
Easy to scale. Once you need to grow, migrate to On-Premises fast and hassle-free.
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No-Code
On-Premises
Distribution model
Cloud
Self-hosted
Hosting included
Admin panel
Vendor panel
Storefront
Open source code
Third-party add-ons and themes
Not supported
Supported
Product, revenue and admin limitations
Yes
No limit
Customer care included
Updates included
Multi-Vendor is an e-commerce marketplace for multiple sellers, each with their own storefront and backend panel.
The platform includes eCommerce business features and enables global sales.
The php software offers payment plans and automated commission calculation, and the open source code can be customized by hiring developers to meet specific business needs.
The platform includes eCommerce business features and enables global sales.
The php software offers payment plans and automated commission calculation, and the open source code can be customized by hiring developers to meet specific business needs.
What is a Multi-Vendor Marketplace Platform?
Our Clients' Success Business Stories
Locations
Employees
Vendors
Products
3 000
1 000
350 000
28 000 000
ShopClues is one of the largest multi-vendor websites in the world and the largest digital 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 software platform.
Products
Yumbles food marketplace is a perfect place for food lovers! This eCommerce marketplace business offers yummy hand-made food directly from top independent UK producers. Each merchant here is an indie food maker.
7 000
Vendors
1 200
Fans
13 000
Calories/Week
10 000 000
Products
Mode is a digital marketplace of fashion goods from New Zealand. This platform actively supports genuine New Zealand businesses, so you will only find here products that are all from NZ-based fashion boutiques.
10 000
Fans
24 000
Brands
298
Boutiques
23
Locations
Employees
Vendors
Products
3 000
1 000
350 000
28 000 000
ShopClues is one of the largest multi-vendor websites in the world and the largest digital 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 software platform.
Yumbles food marketplace is a perfect place for food lovers! This eCommerce marketplace business offers yummy hand-made food directly from top independent UK producers. Each merchant here is an indie food maker.
7 000
1 200
13 000
10 000 000
Products
Vendors
Fans
Calories/Week
Mode is a digital marketplace of fashion goods from New Zealand. This platform actively supports genuine New Zealand businesses, so you will only find here products that are all from NZ-based fashion boutiques.
10 000
24 000
298
23
Products
Fans
Brands
Boutiques
CS-Cart Marketplace Platform Rating
Our eCommerce marketplace platform is highly-rated software to build digital marketplace websites. It has an average rating of 4.75 out of 5 stars on the most popular business software review platforms in the software industry: SourceForge, Capterra, G2, TrustPilot, and others.
Award-winning marketplace software
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor has been the leading marketplace 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.
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 marketplace platform 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.
Key Features
View sales statistics and reports with diagrams and detailed information about transactions and the business in general.
Detailed Statistics and Reports
Assign privileges to your managers so that they could only have access to the platform features and data they work with.
Multiple Levels of Admin Access
Set conditions and limitations for each seller plan and define the monthly fee.
Configurable Vendor Plans
Sellers add products to your online marketplace themselves. After adding products you approve them to be sure that only approved products or services appear on the marketplace storefront.
Flexible Product Approval System
Popular payment gateway for marketplaces integrated to our multi vendor eCommerce platform, and flexible accounting system, allow you to easily distribute the money between sellers and get your share.
Advanced Seller Payout System
To speed up the start of your vendors we developed the advanced import feature for our platform. Vendors come to your marketplace, upload their products in bulk and start selling immediately.
Bulk Product Upload
Your multi-vendor website can be translated to any language. If you work globally, multiple languages are a must for your digital marketplace.
Multiple Translations
Every digital marketplace seller can get a fully-featured personal storefront with their own products, filters, category tree, and other must-have elements.
Micro-Store for Every Vendor
Sellers have their own user-friendly panel with all essential features and tools to come to your marketplace and start selling
Separate Control Panel
Offer a new way to buy from your multi-vendor marketplace via an app for Android and iOS devices.
Mobile Application
Allow your customers to create their own collections of products they want to buy and save them in their accounts.
Wishlist
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor allows you to offer your customers various discounts to encourage your loyal buyers, and attract new clients to your digital platform.
Flexible Promotion System
Customers can always share detailed reviews with product advantages and disadvantages, and even attach images to them.
Product Reviews
FAQ
Need help? Here are the top questions asked by our Subscribers
You can build a marketplace on the CS-Cart software in almost any country. CS-Cart Multi-Vendor supports multi-currency and it is multilingual. 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 marketplace.
Also, there are hundreds of ready-to-use business integration modules for local payment and shipping services in our app marketplace.
Check out examples of digital marketplaces built on the CS-Cart Multi-Vendor platform—there are hundreds of them worldwide. You can filter a marketplace by topic, country, and business model.
Also, there are hundreds of ready-to-use business integration modules for local payment and shipping services in our app marketplace.
Check out examples of digital marketplaces built on the CS-Cart Multi-Vendor platform—there are hundreds of them worldwide. You can filter a marketplace by topic, country, and business model.
We provide the Amazon Cloud Hosting service with 24/7 monitoring. We will install the CS-Cart marketplace platform for you, make all configurations of the server, and support the server with no extra cost. The pricing for this service starts from $69 per month.
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.
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 digital marketplace, contact our partners. Take a look at the list of developers in our Marketplace. Please contact them to get a quote for a platform modification service.
If you have an in-house development team, you can build custom eCommerce business functionality yourselves—the CS-Cart code is open.
If you have an in-house development team, you can build custom eCommerce business functionality yourselves—the CS-Cart code is open.
The cost for a digital marketplace build consists of a one-time payment for a license + a monthly fee for hosting. We have only one obligatory fee, it is for the license, and it is a one-time fee, not regular. Regarding the hosting: it's up to you to choose the service provider, just make sure the hosting meets the eCommerce marketplace platform requirements so that you could build a marketplace with fast loading times.
It is optional to purchase the upgrade subscription for your digital marketplace platform. We normally release from 4 to 6 updates during a year. Every software update brings new features, enhances marketplace usability and business security, and updates built-in integrations with 3rd-party business services.
When the upgrade subscription expires and you want to upgrade your digital marketplace platform to the latest version, you will have to buy a 1-year upgrade subscription service.
Of course, you will be able to continue using the existing version of the marketplace software without purchasing the upgrade subscription service. It is up to you whether to update your marketplace or not.
When an upgrade subscription is about to expire, you'll get a notification right to your marketplace admin panel so as not to miss the discounted price for the subscription. The thing is that the upgrade subscription service will cost you less if you prolong it before it expires.
For more detailed information on the upgrade subscription service conditions please refer to our upgrade policy.
We have zero hidden payments.
It is optional to purchase the upgrade subscription for your digital marketplace platform. We normally release from 4 to 6 updates during a year. Every software update brings new features, enhances marketplace usability and business security, and updates built-in integrations with 3rd-party business services.
When the upgrade subscription expires and you want to upgrade your digital marketplace platform to the latest version, you will have to buy a 1-year upgrade subscription service.
Of course, you will be able to continue using the existing version of the marketplace software without purchasing the upgrade subscription service. It is up to you whether to update your marketplace or not.
When an upgrade subscription is about to expire, you'll get a notification right to your marketplace admin panel so as not to miss the discounted price for the subscription. The thing is that the upgrade subscription service will cost you less if you prolong it before it expires.
For more detailed information on the upgrade subscription service conditions please refer to our upgrade policy.
We have zero hidden payments.
Normally, our technical support service is paid. Two options here:
VIP customer care means advanced support with extra services (such as online chat) and without the need for support credits. It is currently available only for a marketplace, which you build on CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Ultimate.
After the free support period is over, and you still need to use our technical support service, you can purchase the monthly subscription or credits. To build and maintain a marketplace, we recommend the subscription.
The pricing for the subscription is as follows:
- You can purchase support credits and use them as the currency to pay for every technical support ticket.
- You can subscribe to our customer care service (advanced technical support) and get advanced support features with no extra cost and no need for credits. This is a recommended technical support service option when you build a digital marketplace.
VIP customer care means advanced support with extra services (such as online chat) and without the need for support credits. It is currently available only for a marketplace, which you build on CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Ultimate.
After the free support period is over, and you still need to use our technical support service, you can purchase the monthly subscription or credits. To build and maintain a marketplace, we recommend the subscription.
The pricing for the subscription is as follows:
- $169 USD for 1 month of customer care service
- $300 USD for 1 month of VIP customer care (VIP customer care means advanced technical support with extra services, such as online chat and without the need for credits)
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 digital 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.
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 Multi-Vendor backend with your existing frontend thanks to open code. CS-Cart also has a powerful API support for this purpose. In this case, you'll need to hire developers to build this kind of a marketplace platform integration. You can not only integrate the Multi-Vendor backend with the existing frontend but also connect any third-party service.
But it is still possible to integrate the CS-Cart Multi-Vendor backend with your existing frontend thanks to open code. CS-Cart also has a powerful API support for this purpose. In this case, you'll need to hire developers to build this kind of a marketplace platform integration. You can not only integrate the Multi-Vendor backend with the existing frontend but also connect any third-party service.
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, features, and other data from the demo to your live marketplace.
A personal marketplace demo works for 15 days for demonstration purposes only. If necessary, you can export products, categories, features, and other data from the demo to your live marketplace.
Sure, you can do it on special terms. Usually, it is quite simple to move to a more advanced edition of our digital marketplace platform 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.
Here are some of the most obvious:
In order to make your further steps easier and start getting profit from your digital 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.
Here are some of the most obvious:
- 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 platform functionality. For example, setting up an exclusive vendor store design or an additional dedicated storefront for a vendor (in Ultimate only).
In order to make your further steps easier and start getting profit from your digital 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.
Get a free marketplace platform consultation
Schedule a one-on-one discussion with one of your marketplace experts to bring your marketplace innovation to life. We can consult you on what you'll need to build a profitable marketplace.
Our platform is one of the most popular marketplace systems in the world. It perfectly suits any kind of an online marketplace—whether you want to build a big all-in-one shopping mall or a mix of a marketplace and a social network.
5 Reasons to Choose CS-Cart
The most popular
The most feature-rich
Under the bonnet, the Multi-Vendor marketplace script has the most feature-rich shopping cart platform—CS-Cart. It means that your e-commerce marketplace will have all the CS-Cart features.
Free customer care for 3 months
When buying the Multi-Vendor marketplace software, you get 3 months of free premium technical support. No other ecommerce marketplace solution can offer this.
Easy to learn
The Multi-Vendor marketplace platform has the richest documentation and video tutorials. You will easily learn how to build, manage, support, and configure your internet marketplace and impart your knowledge to your online marketplace vendors.
No risks at all
We offer a 100% money-back guarantee during 30 days after the purchase. If you are not satisfied with our digital marketplace script, we'll refund your money with no hassle. You don't risk anything when you build an online marketplace with the Multi-Vendor ecommerce software.
Multi-Vendor Marketplace Video Tutorials
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Multi-Vendor is a perfect marketplace software solution to build a digital shopping mall. In this video, we speak about general features of our marketplace system and things Multi-Vendor software does best.
Every online marketplace has 3 pillars: the owner, the vendors, and the customers. So that you prosper in your business, you need to attract more vendors on the digital marketplace and give them convenient tools to attract customers. Watch this video to learn how to do it.
The CS-Cart marketplace platform offers you 3 tools to build good cooperation and relationships with your online vendors: proper payments management, access privileges, and feedback and statistics. Watch how to use these tools right.
Fresh mobile commerce statistics says that almost 50% of transactions on marketplaces come from mobile devices. Having a multi vendor app is a must for your e-commerce platform to offer a flawless shopping experience for customers who prefer to shop on the go.
Mobile App for Multi-Vendor Marketplace
100% risk-free purchase
If you're not satisfied with our product, we'll refund your money. No questions asked.
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 Multi-Vendor is the marketplace platform for you. Request a free personal demo to try it out.