CS-Cart Community and CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
The CS-Cart family has started to grow lately. Today we announce two big releases: CS-Cart Community Edition and CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Edition.
These two new editions continue the development of the single project and will be part of CS-Cart branch 2.1 alongside the standard edition that now acquires the name of CS-Cart Professional. This means that new releases of each CS-Cart edition will be available simultaneously.
CS-Cart Community Edition
CS-Cart Community is absolutely free shopping cart software that retains the full power of the CS-Cart ecommerce engine and includes all the basic features and functionalities to cover the needs of a small ecommerce website.
With CS-Cart Community Edition you still get the ready storefront and built-in content management, virtually unlimited number of products and categories, ability to sell downloadable products and products with options and variants, automatic inventory control, full support for popular shipping services and online payment systems, one-page checkout and many other ecommerce essentials.
You’re welcome to download CS-Cart Community Edition now from https://www.cs-cart.com/download-cs-cart.html. You’ll be asked to create an account in our Customer Help Desk or simply log in if you already have one. No credit card info is required.
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Edition
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor is an extended edition of CS-Cart that enables you to create an online marketplace with independent sellers or a virtual mall with many separate departments where multiple product vendors can manage sales of their own products through one common web store.
The image below illustrates how it works.
Product vendors (Vendor A, Vendor B and Vendor C in the image) access their personal administration areas and never interfere one with each other. There they can add and edit own products, configure own shipping methods, and manage orders that contain their products. The number of vendor accounts is virtually unlimited.
The root store administrator has a separate panel to control and manage every aspect of the website, including the store settings and configuration, payments, and vendor products. The root administrator can also enable obligatory approval of vendor products before they are added to the catalog to avoid unwilling or offensive goods in the storefront.
Finally, products from multiple independent vendors appear on the common storefront. And website visitors do the shopping at one web store even if products are supplied by hundreds of different vendors from all over the world. Moreover, your customers’ shopping cart can contain products from several vendors, but they will still place one order and pay only once.
All the money for customer orders go to the merchant account of the root store administrator. The software tracks payable amounts separately for each of the store vendors and provides a tool to record vendor payouts, but it is the root store administrator who distributes funds among the vendors in a most suitable and convenient way.
Pricing
The full retail price of CS-Cart Multi-Vendor is $985. The license is bundled with your choice of either 1 month of free technical support or 100 support credits. To purchase the software, go to the CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Edition page at www.cs-cart.com/multivendor.html.
The license upgrade from CS-Cart Professional to CS-Cart Multi-Vendor costs $700. In addition, 60 support credits will be charged to your account. In order to upgrade your license, log in to your personal Help Desk account, open the CS-Cart Domain Licenses page and purchase the upgrade pack.
Multi-Vendor Demo
Feel free to test and drive your personal online demo of CS-Cart Multi-Vendor at www.cs-cart.com/personal-demo.html.
You’ll be asked to complete a short form and click the activation link that you’ll receive at your email. In 10 minutes or so you’ll receive another email with the access details to the installed CS-Cart Multi-Vendor.
This personal demo will be valid for the next 15 days.