CS-Cart Multi-Vendor: Editions, Features and License Prices
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor is a self-hosted platform for marketplaces: many vendors sell through one storefront, each with their own panel, products and orders, while you moderate them, set the commission and pay them out.
Four editions, from $725 a year to a $19,990 lifetime license. We sell licenses at CS-Cart’s prices, install them and build what the box does not cover.
Which marketplaces you can build on it
One core covers different models. What changes is the setup, the add-ons and how much custom work the model needs.
Vendors sell to consumers through one catalog and one cart. Vendor storefronts, order splitting and commissions work out of the box.
Private sellers list their own items. Simple sign-up for sellers and pre-moderation of listings come with the platform.
Manufacturers and wholesalers sell to companies. Prices by customer group and ERP integration are standard tasks; quotes and deferred payment are built on top.
People rent out equipment, cars or spaces. Availability calendars, deposits and cancellation rules are custom work; ComfortCar is our example.
One category with precise filters and product features, and moderation rules and vendor requirements tuned to the niche.
Providers sell their time. A request, a booking and a confirmation replace the cart, so the order flow is custom-built.
What works out of the box
More than 500 features come with every edition: vendor panels, moderation, commissions, order splitting, vendor payouts accounting, SEO tools and a REST API. Here is what each role gets.
For the marketplace owner
- Vendors: sign-up applications, vendor plans, statuses and permissions
- Pre-moderation of new vendors and products
- Commissions by vendor plan, and by category from the Plus edition
- Vendor balances, payouts and statements
- Sales reports by vendor, category and product
- Staff roles, and multi-level admin access from the Plus edition
- Promotions, newsletters, SEO tools and a REST API
For vendors
- Their own panel: products, stock, orders and shipping terms
- A vendor page on the storefront with ratings and reviews
- Messages with customers and the marketplace inside the system
- Their own sales reports and balance
- A mobile app for vendors, and the Vendor Panel API, from the Plus edition
For customers
- Search, filters, comparison and favorites across all vendors
- One cart and one payment for items from several vendors
- Vendor pages, and ratings and reviews of products and vendors
- Questions to the vendor before the purchase
- An account with orders, returns and addresses
- A mobile app from the Plus edition
Four editions: which one fits your marketplace
Prices are CS-Cart’s own: all four editions are in our store at the same price. Standard is a yearly subscription only, Plus and Ultimate also come as lifetime licenses, Unlim is lifetime only.
Multi-Vendor Standard
To launch and test the model
- 500+ features and full source code
- Vendor panels, moderation, vendor plans and commissions
- No-code theme editor and App Market access
- Customer Care Standard with installation and updates
- A “Powered by CS-Cart” link on the storefront
Multi-Vendor Plus
A full marketplace with a mobile app
Everything in Standard, and:
- A mobile app for customers and vendors, push notifications
- A separate vendor checkout
- Commissions by category, vendor groups, category access
- A unified product catalog for vendors
- Multi-level admin access, Vendor Panel API
- Lifetime option: 1 year of updates included
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Multi-Vendor Ultimate
Several storefronts, warehouses and your own app
Everything in Plus, and:
- Unlimited storefronts
- Warehouses and pickup points
- Orders placed on behalf of vendors
- Mobile app source code
- UniTheme premium theme and a setup package
- Customer Care Plus: 4 modifications a month
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Multi-Vendor Unlim
A lifetime license for a long-term marketplace
Everything in Ultimate, and:
- Lifetime license
- 5 years of free updates
- 5 years of access to the mobile app source code
- 12 months of Customer Care Ultimate: 7 modifications a month and live chat
What needs custom development
The box covers a standard marketplace. Custom work starts where your model differs from it, and these are the requests we get most often.
Turnkey plans, timelines and prices are on the marketplace development page.
Split payments, holding funds until delivery, payouts through your payment provider and vendor statements for accounting.
ERP, CRM and accounting systems, carriers, product feeds: an exchange of products, stock, orders and documents.
Availability calendars, time slots, deposits and cancellation rules instead of a regular cart.
Agreements, document checks, plan periods and limits. Several of these are ready-made add-ons from $60.
Quotes, minimum order amounts per vendor, deferred payment and company accounts.
Your own design of the storefront and vendor panel, and a branded mobile app on Plus and higher.
Marketplaces we built on Multi-Vendor
Go-Wholesale
A high-load marketplace with a wide range of products available for resellers.
Doctomarket
French marketplace of medical equipment with BNPL payment service.
ComfortCar
Rental service in Poland where tenants can pick up the car from one city and return in another.
Client reviews
A self-hosted e-commerce platform from CS-Cart for building marketplaces. Many vendors sell through one storefront, each with their own panel, products and orders; the platform owner moderates vendors, sets commissions and pays vendors out. Every edition comes with full source code and more than 500 features.
CS-Cart Store Builder is for a single seller. Multi-Vendor is built on the same core and adds vendors: their panels and storefront pages, moderation, vendor plans, commissions, order splitting and payouts accounting.
Standard is enough to launch and test a niche. Plus is for a full marketplace: a mobile app, a separate vendor checkout, commissions by category. Ultimate adds several storefronts, warehouses and the app source code. Unlim is Ultimate with a lifetime license, five years of updates and a year of the top support tier.
Standard is sold only as a yearly subscription: $725. Plus costs $1,449 a year or $3,590 once, Ultimate $3,599 a year or $7,990 once, Unlim $19,990 once. A lifetime license costs about two to two and a half years of subscription. Note that a lifetime Plus includes one year of updates, and Unlim includes five.
Yes. All editions are in our store at CS-Cart’s prices. We can install the license on your server, set up the platform and build what your model needs.
The on-premises editions run on your own server: a Linux host with PHP and MySQL. For a marketplace, plan for about $60 a month of hosting.
On Standard, yes: the license agreement requires a “Powered by CS-Cart” link on every storefront page.
