Turnkey CS-Cart Online Store: License, Server and Support Included
We fix the price and the timeline in the contract before work starts. The store stays yours: open source code, a license you buy once and no revenue share. We set up the server, move the store to production and support it after launch.
from $2,960 turnkey · launch in 3 weeks · 100-day warranty
in e-commerce
projects worldwide
warranty
developer since 2013
Four plans for the size of your business
The price covers everything you need to launch: a CS-Cart license, the premium UniTheme2 theme, add-ons, server setup and the move to production. The exact price follows the brief, and once it is in the contract it does not change.
Quick start
Store Builder Plus + UniTheme2
Start
A first store or a move from a website builder. Catalog up to 300 items, your content.
from $2,960
license and theme included · launch in 3 weeks
- CS-Cart Store Builder Plus license: yours forever, no revenue share
- Premium UniTheme2 theme and the storefront built on it
- Server: installation, SSL, email, backups, monitoring
- Catalog of up to 300 products from your file
- One online payment method and two shipping carriers
- Legal pages, privacy policy and cookie consent
- Google Analytics with goals, go-live and admin training
Most popular
Turnkey store
Store Builder Plus + UniTheme2 + 16 add-ons
Turnkey
An existing retail business that needs a store built around its processes and marketing.
from $5,210
brand design and two add-on packs · 6–8 weeks
- Everything in Start, plus:
- Brand design: home page, category page, product page
- Must-have pack: live search, blog, reviews, labels, emails, GTM
- SEO pack: 10 add-ons and metadata templates
- Catalog of up to 5,000 products with features and filters
- Two payment methods and four carriers with pickup points on a map
- Analytics: goals, session recordings, e-commerce tracking
Several storefronts
Store Builder Ultimate + UniTheme2 + 3 packs
Multi-storefront
Brands, regions or B2B and B2C in one admin panel. Several warehouses and ERP integration.
from $11,430
Ultimate license included · 10–14 weeks
- Everything in Turnkey, plus:
- CS-Cart Store Builder Ultimate license: unlimited storefronts, warehouses, REST API
- Second and third storefronts: design and display rules
- Multiple warehouses: stock and shipping rules
- B2B: price groups, company accounts, invoices, deferred payment
- Integration with your ERP or accounting system: products, prices, stock, orders
- Performance tuning for load and the Speed-up pack
Your own logic
Built from scratch
Custom
Non-standard scenarios, high load, a design of your own, complex integrations.
from $13,200
estimate after the brief · from 4 months
- Business analysis, UX design and your own architecture
- A unique brand design instead of an adapted theme
- Any logic: calculators, configurators, custom customer accounts
- Integrations with ERP, WMS, marketplaces and POS systems
- Load testing and a fault-tolerant setup
- A dedicated team and a development roadmap
Case studies
500+ projects worldwide
Experience across niches and countries, from local shops to international platforms.
Flowers and sweet gifts (Bogotá)
Textiles (Uzbekistan)
Car parts (Canada)
Everyday goods (Greece)
Flower delivery (Yekaterinburg)
Home appliances (Nigeria)
E-cigarettes (South Africa)
Amber jewelry and goods (Russia)
What each plan includes
A comparison by the parameters that make the plans differ in price.
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| Parameter | Start quick launch | Turnkey most popular | Multi-storefront several storefronts | Custom built from scratch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launch time | 3 weeks | 6–8 weeks | 10–14 weeks | from 4 months |
| Turnkey price | from $2,960 | from $5,210 | from $11,430 | from $13,200 |
| CS-Cart license | Store Builder Plus, $1,490 | Store Builder Plus, $1,490 | Store Builder Ultimate, $3,590 | chosen for the task |
| Storefronts | one | one | as many as you need | as many as you need |
| Catalog | up to 300 products | up to 5,000 products | unlimited | unlimited |
| Design | UniTheme2 theme in your brand style | custom design of the key pages | design of every storefront | unique design from scratch |
| Cart-Power add-ons | — | 16 add-ons, two packs | 22 add-ons, three packs | as the project needs |
| Payments and shipping | 1 payment method, 2 carriers | 2 payment methods, 4 carriers with pickup points | any | any |
| ERP or accounting integration | option, quoted after the brief | option, quoted after the brief | included | included |
| Warehouses and B2B | — | — | included | included |
| Server setup | included | included | included, tuned for load | fault-tolerant setup |
| Warranty after launch | 100 days | 100 days | 100 days | 100 days |
| Maintenance | from $80/mo | from $80/mo | from $160/mo | by agreement |
Hosting is paid directly to the hosting provider: around $40 a month for a server that handles a store with up to 10,000 products.
What the price is made of
Software at our store prices, work at $30 per hour. You see what you pay for before you sign the contract.
Start
- CS-Cart Store Builder Plus license: $1,490
- UniTheme2 theme: $249
- Work, 36 hours: $1,080
- Reserve for small changes: $141
Turnkey
- CS-Cart Store Builder Plus license: $1,490
- UniTheme2 theme: $249
- Must-have pack: $342
- SEO pack: $330
- Work, 85 hours: $2,550
- Reserve for small changes: $249
Multi-storefront
- CS-Cart Store Builder Ultimate license: $3,590
- UniTheme2 theme: $249
- Three add-on packs for the Ultimate edition: $1,704
- Work, 178 hours: $5,340
- Reserve for small changes: $547
Custom
- License edition: chosen for the task
- Add-ons: as the project needs
- Work, from 400 hours: from $12,000
- Risk reserve: 10%
The store works out of the box, before a single add-on
A CS-Cart license is more than a bare engine. Everything below works right after installation and setup, with nothing extra to buy.
Unlimited categories, product variations and options, bundles, features and filters, scheduled CSV import and export, unit pricing, gift certificates.
Guest checkout and step-by-step ordering, order statuses and customer notifications, RMA returns, invoices and packing slips, order change log, supplier management.
Dozens of built-in payment gateways, including PayPal, Stripe and Authorize.Net, and real-time rates from UPS, FedEx, DHL and USPS, plus local pickup. Shipping zones and rates, taxes by location.
Promotions, coupons and conditional discounts, reward points, upsell and cross-sell, emails and newsletters, product reviews and questions, wish lists and comparison, a blog.
SEO-friendly URLs and meta tags, sitemap, redirects, structured data, product feeds for Google, Google Analytics.
Open source code, staff roles and permissions, REST API, full-page cache, a mobile app for managing orders from your phone.
Multiple storefronts, multiple warehouses and supplier features come with the Ultimate edition. What the box lacks, such as typo-tolerant search, SEO pages for filters, WebP images and a loyalty program, we cover with our own add-ons.
Tell us about your store and we will email you what the platform covers, what to set up before launch and what stores usually add. No calls, just an email.
140+ ready-made add-ons for any task
We speed up the launch and extend functionality without building from scratch: we install proven solutions from our add-on store and adapt them to you.
Instant suggestions for products and categories as the customer types, for a higher conversion to purchase.
A section for articles and how-tos that reduces support load and helps SEO.
Question blocks on product and content pages that answer objections before customers contact you.
ERP and accounting systems, CRM, payment and shipping services, marketplaces, messengers.
Collecting and moderating reviews, customer photos and ratings that build trust and sales.
Promo blocks, upsell and cross-sell, banners, pop-ups and tools that raise the average order value.
CS-Cart license prices
You buy the license once and keep it forever, with no revenue share. The edition changes only the license line of a plan: the UniTheme2 theme costs $249 for any of them.
Store Builder Plus
$1,490
one-time
Small and mid-size stores, MVPs. Every feature you need to start, open source code.
What is included
- Catalog: product variations and options, features, filters, CSV import
- Orders: guest checkout, statuses, returns, invoices and packing slips
- Built-in payment gateways and real-time shipping rates
- Promotions, coupons, reward points, emails and newsletters, reviews
- SEO tools, product feeds and Google Analytics
- REST API and open source code
- Staff roles and access rights to admin sections
Store Builder Ultimate: the best choice
$3,590
one-time
Mid-size and large stores. Adds multiple storefronts, multiple warehouses and REST API.
Everything in Plus, and
- Unlimited storefronts from one admin panel
- Each storefront has its own domain, design, currency and prices
- Multiple warehouses: stock and shipping rules per warehouse
- Suppliers with their own prices and notifications
- A shared catalog and shared orders across storefronts
Store Builder Unlim
$7,990
one-time
Large projects. Adds 5 years of updates and 6 months of Customer Care Ultimate.
Everything in Ultimate, and
- Five years of platform updates included in the price
- Six months of the vendor’s Customer Care Ultimate
- Fits a network of storefronts for different niches, brands and regions
We will help you choose the edition for your task. For a marketplace there is Multi-Vendor (subscription or perpetual license), priced separately.
What a store costs per year
An example for the Turnkey plan: a 100-day warranty, then the Standard maintenance plan. The license is bought once, with no revenue share.
First year
Launch and nine months of work after the warranty
- Turnkey plan: $5,210
- Hosting, 12 months: $480
- Standard maintenance, 9 months: $1,440
- Total: $7,130
Year two and after
You pay only for updates, the server and development
- CS-Cart update subscription: $429
- Hosting, 12 months: $480
- Standard maintenance, 12 months: $1,920
- Total: $2,829
What stores add to a plan
Prices of our ready-made solutions: you can add them after launch too. Prices are for Store Builder Plus; for Ultimate and Unlim, add-ons and packs cost twice as much because they are licensed for a larger setup.
Sales and marketing
- PowerApp mobile app: from $790
- Publishing the app to a store: $180
- Smart search on Elasticsearch: from $35/mo
- Loyalty program: $60
Orders
- One-step checkout: $119
- Phone sign-in with a one-time code: $60
- Pay by link: $60
Speed and security
- Speed-up pack: $180
- WebP and AVIF images: $60
- CS-Cart update subscription: $429/year
- Anti-spam and CAPTCHA: $60
Store maintenance
The first 100 days are a warranty included in every plan. After that the store needs updates, server monitoring and development.
Basic
$80 per month
2 hours of work per month
- Uptime and disk space monitoring
- Daily backups with restore checks
- Platform security updates
- Reply within two business days
Most popular
Standard
$160 per month
5 hours of work per month
- Everything in Basic
- Add-on and theme updates for new versions
- Small storefront and content changes
- Reply within one business day
Premium
$320 per month
10 hours of work per month
- Everything in Standard
- Four-hour response to an outage
- 50% off all add-ons in our store
- A technical audit and development plan every quarter
Why us
Not a template but a store built for your sales model, with responsibility for the result.
Catalog, payments and logistics set up for your real sales model, not a generic template.
ERP and accounting systems, CRM, payments, shipping, marketplaces: out of the box and custom-built.
A proposal and specification with timelines and cost before work starts; a demo of the result at every stage.
A 100-day warranty after launch and maintenance for the further development of the store.
Moving from another platform? We will move the catalog, orders and customers to CS-Cart.
Stores in many niches and countries since 2013.
How we work
Five transparent stages, with the timeline and cost fixed before development starts.
Tell us about your store and we will prepare a proposal for your business
What you sell, how many products you have, which payments and shipping you need, what to integrate with your accounting. Answer only what is clear; we will clarify the rest on a call. In return you get a proposal with the scope of work, price and timeline.
We reply within one business day.
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The price covers everything the store needs to start working: a CS-Cart license, the premium UniTheme2 theme, the add-ons in the plan, server setup, the move to production and admin training. You pay separately only for hosting, billed by the hosting provider, around $40 a month. Everything else is optional: ERP integration, a mobile app, more add-ons.
Four parts: the CS-Cart license, the UniTheme2 theme, add-ons and work at $30 per hour. For example, Start is the $1,490 license, the $249 theme and 36 hours of work. We show the full calculation for every plan on this page, in the “What the price is made of” block, and repeat it in the proposal.
Store Builder Plus at $1,490 fits if you have one store and one warehouse: the storefront features are complete there. Store Builder Ultimate at $3,590 is needed when you run several storefronts, for different brands, regions or B2B and B2C at once, and when you need several warehouses and the REST API for data exchange. The edition affects nothing else; the UniTheme2 theme costs $249 for either.
Tell us your budget and we will build the scope around it. Usually the first stage gets shorter: we launch on Start with the basic design and add the brand design, marketing add-ons and integrations after the first sales. The store does not become temporary: the platform and license stay the same, the improvements simply come in stages.
From year two, about $2,800: the CS-Cart update subscription at $429 a year, hosting at about $480 a year and maintenance from $80 a month. There is no revenue share: however much the store sells, the payment does not grow. The first year costs more because of the launch itself; the calculation is in the “Cost of ownership” block.
You need it if you keep products, prices and stock in an ERP or accounting system and want orders to appear there too. CS-Cart has a REST API, so a typical exchange of products, prices, stock and orders is configured rather than developed from scratch. We quote it after the brief, because the effort depends on your system. The Multi-storefront plan already includes it; for Start and Turnkey it is an option. Non-standard scenarios, such as your own documents or settlements, are estimated separately.
You do. The CS-Cart license is issued in your name and bought once, forever. The code is open: you can develop it yourself or with another contractor. The site runs on your server or hosting, and we hand over all access with the project. We do not keep the store on our side and take no share of sales.
We move the catalog, orders, customers and page URLs so you keep your search positions: old URLs get permanent redirects. The effort depends on the platform and the catalog size; we estimate it after the brief, usually as a separate line in the estimate on top of the plan.
Start takes three weeks, Turnkey six to eight, Multi-storefront ten to fourteen. The timeline depends on two things: how ready your content is (photos, descriptions, catalog export) and how fast approvals go. Everything that depends on us is fixed in the contract by stage.
A 100-day warranty: we fix anything related to our work free of charge. Then maintenance: monitoring, backups, platform and add-on updates, small changes. Three plans at $80, $160 and $320 a month; Premium also gives 50% off all add-ons in our store.
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