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    CloudFoundry

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ACloudFoundry is a free, open source cloud computing platform supported by the non-profit CloudFoundry. It is not tied to any particular cloud service, but can be self-hosted or run on any cloud service preferred.N/A

    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
    CloudFoundryCS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Standard
    $660
    per year
    Plus
    $1,320
    per year
    Ultimate
    $3,300
    per year
    Unlimited
    Contact Sales
    one-time fee
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CloudFoundryCS-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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    CloudFoundryCS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    Considered Both Products
    CloudFoundry
    No answer on this topic
    CS-Cart
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    10 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    78%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    Features
    CloudFoundryCS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of CloudFoundry and CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    Feature
    CloudFoundry
    9.8
    1 Ratings
    24% above category average
    CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    -
    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of CloudFoundry and CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    Feature
    CloudFoundry
    -
    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 CloudFoundry and CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    Feature
    CloudFoundry
    -
    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 CloudFoundry and CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    Feature
    CloudFoundry
    -
    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 CloudFoundry and CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    Feature
    CloudFoundry
    -
    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 CloudFoundry and CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    Feature
    CloudFoundry
    -
    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
    CloudFoundryCS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Shopify
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
    IBM Digital Commerce
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CloudFoundryCS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CloudFoundryCS-Cart Multi-Vendor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CloudFoundry
    It's well suited if:
    • The organization has large number of applications that needs to be deployed frequently.
    • The organization is tied to the DevOps mindset.
    • The organization has programs in different languages.
    • The applications does not need EJB's support that servers like web logic provide.
    It's less suited if:
    • The applications needs security configuration within the same CloudFoundry instance.
    • The organization, for whatever reason does not want developers to manage the instances.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    CloudFoundry
    • Support for Orgs and Spaces that allow for managing users and deployables within a large organization.
    • Easy deployment, deploying code is as simple as executing single line from CLI, thanks to build-packs.
    • Solid and rich CLI, that allows for various operations on the instance.
    • Isolated Virtual Machines called Droplets, that provide clean run time environment for the code. This used to be a problem with Weblogic and other application servers, where multiple applications are run on the same cluster and they share resources.
    • SSH capability for the droplet (isolated VM's are called droplets), that allows for real time viewing of the App code while the application is running.
    • Support for multiple languages, thanks to build-packs.
    • Support for horizontal scaling, scaling an instance horizontally is a breeze.
    • Support for configuring environment variable using the service bindings.
    • Supports memory and disk space limit allocation for individual applications.
    • Supports API's as well as workers (processes without endpoints)
    • Supports blue-green deployment with minimal down time
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    CloudFoundry
    • Does not support stateful containers and that would be a nice to have.
    • Supports showing logs, but does not persist the logs anywhere. This makes relying on Cloud Foundry's logs very unreliable. The logs have to be persisted using other third party tools like Elk and Kibana.
    Incentivized
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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
    CloudFoundry
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Support Rating
    CloudFoundry
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    CloudFoundry
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    CloudFoundry
    While Docker shines in providing support for volumes and stateful instances, Cloud foundry shines in providing support for deploying stateless services. Heroku shines in integrating with Git and using commits to git as hooks to trigger deployments right from the command line. But it does not provide on-premise solution that Cloud foundry provides.
    Incentivized
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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
    CloudFoundry
    • Positive impact, since it simplifies the deployment time by a huge margin. Without cloud foundry, deploying a code needs coordination with infrastructure teams, while with cloud foundry, its a simple one line command. This reduces the deployment time from at least few hours to few minutes. Faster deployments promote faster dev cycle iterations.
    • Code maintenance such as upgrading a Node or Java version is as simple as updating the build-pack. Without cloud foundry, using web logic, the specific version only supports a specific version of Java. So updating the version involves upgrading the version of web logic that needs to involve few teams. So without cloud foundry, it takes at least few days, with cloud foundry, its a matter of few mins.
    • Overall, happier Developers and thats harder to quantify.
    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
    Incentivized
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    CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Screenshots

    Screenshot of Multi-Vendor marketplace storefrontScreenshot of Multi-Vendor marketplace product pageProduct screenshot