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    CircleCI

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/ACircleCI is a software delivery engine from the company of the same name in San Francisco, that helps teams ship software faster, offering their platform for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). Ultimately, the solution helps to map every source of change for software teams, so they can accelerate innovation and growth.

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    CS-Cart Multi-Vendor

    Score8.6 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    CS-Cart Multi-Vendor is an eCommerce marketplace software for SMBs available in cloud (No-Code) and self-hosted (On-Premises) versions. It allows users to open an online marketplace, where the user is the admin, and all the others—invited sellers. Each seller has his or her own micro-store with a customizable storefront, categories, filters, and search. Just like in Amazon. In the CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform, managing vendors is designed to be simple:…

    $660

    per year

    Pricing
    CircleCICS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    Editions & Modules
    Server
    Contact Sales
    Performance
    starting at $15
    per month
    Scale
    starting at $2000
    per month
    Standard
    $660
    per year
    Plus
    $1,320
    per year
    Ultimate
    $3,300
    per year
    Unlimited
    Contact Sales
    one-time fee
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CircleCICS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    CircleCICS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    Considered Both Products
    CircleCI
    No answer on this topic
    CS-Cart
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    10 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    78%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    Features
    CircleCICS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of CircleCI and CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    Feature
    CircleCI
    -
    Ratings
    CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    8.6
    10 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Product catalog & listings00 Ratings8.810 Ratings
    Product management00 Ratings8.910 Ratings
    Bulk product upload00 Ratings8.39 Ratings
    Branding00 Ratings8.710 Ratings
    Mobile storefront00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    Product variations00 Ratings8.59 Ratings
    Website integration00 Ratings8.69 Ratings
    Visual customization00 Ratings8.710 Ratings
    CMS00 Ratings8.810 Ratings
    Online Shopping Cart
    Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of CircleCI and CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    Feature
    CircleCI
    -
    Ratings
    CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    8.4
    10 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Abandoned cart recovery00 Ratings8.29 Ratings
    Checkout user experience00 Ratings8.510 Ratings
    Online Payment System
    Comparison of Online Payment System features of CircleCI and CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    Feature
    CircleCI
    -
    Ratings
    CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    8.9
    9 Ratings
    6% above category average
    eCommerce security00 Ratings8.99 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of CircleCI and CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    Feature
    CircleCI
    -
    Ratings
    CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    8.4
    9 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Promotions & discounts00 Ratings8.89 Ratings
    Personalized recommendations00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    SEO00 Ratings8.49 Ratings
    eCommerce Business Management
    Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of CircleCI and CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    Feature
    CircleCI
    -
    Ratings
    CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    8.0
    10 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Multi-site management00 Ratings8.78 Ratings
    Order processing00 Ratings8.510 Ratings
    Inventory management00 Ratings6.510 Ratings
    Shipping00 Ratings7.39 Ratings
    Custom functionality00 Ratings8.99 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    CircleCICS-Cart Multi-Vendor
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    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    AWS CodePipeline
    Score6.6 out of 10
    Shopify
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS CodePipeline
    Score6.6 out of 10
    IBM Digital Commerce
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CircleCICS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (27 ratings)
    8.6
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.3
    (7 ratings)
    Performance
    7.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.9
    (6 ratings)
    8.2
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CircleCICS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CircleCI
    Based on our experience, CircleCI is well-suited for automating mobile app release cycles. For example, to release an iOS app, you would need to build, sign, and upload it to TestFlight, which requires a dedicated Mac in the office. But with CircleCI, you can have macOS executors, so you don't have to manage a physical build machine. Another benefit is that CircleCI's certified AWS Orbs abstract away complex authentication and deployment logic, allowing us to build, push, and deploy Docker containers to Amazon ECS with minimal configuration and high reliability. CircleCI is less suited for smaller projects where the development and deployment are not that extensive, for example, a static site. Once you have built a static site, you probably won't make any further changes, so there's no point in paying for it.
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    CS-Cart
    For quickly setting up a most intuitive online marketplace, CS-Cart Multi-Vendor is the best one. The software is very well suited for those who have some basic knowledge about backend customization, installation, server setup, proper server configuration etc. Though I'm sure the support team will get you up and running. Only few third-party service providers are very professional, provide honest service and will help you to run your business smoothly. I would highly recommend to use CS-Cart Multi-Vendor.
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    Pros
    CircleCI
    • Automated builds! This is really why you get CircleCI, to automate the build process. This makes building your application far more reliable and repeatable. It can also run tests and verify your application is working as expected.
    • Simple. Unlike Jenkins, Teamcity, or other platforms, CircleCI doesn't need a lot of setup. It's completely hosted, so there's no infrastructure to set up. The config file does take a bit to understand, but if you follow their example and start with something small and add to it, you can get it up and going quicker than it first looks.
    • Scales easily. Again, since it's all cloud-based, you don't have to manage or scale infrastructure. Simply subscribe to the number of containers you want, and scaling up just means buying more containers.
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    CS-Cart
    • Quick and easy set up of a multi-vendor marketplace
    • Very easy-to-use page designer
    • Huge marketplace of add-ons to cover pretty much anything you need
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    Cons
    CircleCI
    • While configuration is easy, the config files can get very very long.
    • Price compared to some alternatives that are cheaper / free. Especially so if you are running multiple containers in parallel.
    • Have experienced numerous outages (3-5) in the last few months where CircleCI has been down.
    • Web documentation and tutorials haven't been as good as some of the competitors.
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    CS-Cart
    • The high cost of the platform itself and plugins.
    • Unavailability of the mobile application in the basic version of the platform.
    • Relatively difficult process of installing updates if you are new to IT.
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    Usability
    CircleCI
    The reliability & speed, it just works. The ability to spin up macOS runners and Docker containers on demand without managing hardware is a huge win. The Orbs system makes integrating with AWS and Slack incredibly easy, saving us weeks of custom scripting and providing real-time updates in our Slack channel. This makes it easy for us to track and ensures that everyone involved knows the status. Of course, it has drawbacks related to configuration complexity and, in some cases, cost transparency, but overall, it is an industry-standard, robust tool that solves our core infrastructure problems well.
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    CS-Cart
    The software consists of most of all e-commerce related features. Also, there are plenty of third party addons are available in the market which can improve our business. There are a lot of powerful themes available in the cs cart market which improve the look and feel on the front store. If CS-cart adjusted the price on their software license cost, controlling the third party addon cost and provide more freelancers with cheaper hourly rate for the customization on the cs-cart multi vendor software, the cs-cart company can be a master among other e-commerce software companies in the world.
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    Performance
    CircleCI
    It's pretty snappy, even with using workflows with multiple steps and different docker images. I've seen builds take a long time if it's really involved, but from what I can tell, it's still at least on par if not faster than other build tools.
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    CS-Cart
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    CircleCI
    Unless you have a reasonably large account, you're going to be mainly stuck reading their documentation. Which has improved somewhat over the years but is still extremely limited compared to a platform like Digital Ocean who invested in the documentation and a community to ensure it's kept up to date. If you can't find your answer there, you can be stuck.
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    CS-Cart
    inside of the support subscription, they give me all the time a fast answer and you can ask in a community forum also other users. But i miss a free support/chat like other solutions.
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    Implementation Rating
    CircleCI
    No answers on this topic
    CS-Cart
    Mostly extremely easy to implement, both back-end logic as well as styling. Great addon marketplace helped, particularly around payment options.
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    Alternatives Considered
    CircleCI
    Jenkins is usually self-hosted, Travis CI's infrastructure is largely unreliable (lots of tests time out for no discernable reason), and Semaphore encourages you to configure your CI/CD from a web UI. We like CircleCI because its hosted, our tests run largely as expected on their infrastructure, and we can configure it from a config file that we track in GitHub.
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    CS-Cart
    It's a one-time payment and the entire CMS is in your control, can list unlimited products and vendors. no need to depend on an e-commerce platform to pay huge commissions. promote your own brand globally. change the looks of your listing with multiple themes, there are vast add on and page themes to enhance look and controls.
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    Return on Investment
    CircleCI
    • We pay over $5K/ month and we have high expectations for service. Sometimes I feel that we don't get the value, but only sometimes.
    • We have had to build our own application to keep state and broker releases and deployments. We call our app deployer. I feel that CircleCI could do more to understand our needs and possibly build additional features that would enable us to invest less in build and deployment infrastructure and justify paying more for Circle.
    Incentivized
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    CS-Cart
    • Positive impact in learning to set up a shopping cart
    • ROI is questionable, as we are still building our business model
    • Positive impact on our business model and direction
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    ScreenShots

    CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Screenshots

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