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
Podia
Score 7.4 out of 10
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Podia in New York offers their ecommerce platform for managing memberships and selling courses online.
$39
per month
Pricing
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
Podia
Editions & Modules
Standard
$660
per year
Plus
$1,320
per year
Ultimate
$3,300
per year
Unlimited
Contact Sales
one-time fee
Mover
$39.00
per month
Shaker
$79.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
Podia
Free Trial
Yes
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
Optional
No setup fee
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Features
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
Podia
Online Storefront
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CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
8.6
10 Ratings
10% above category average
Podia
8.1
2 Ratings
4% above category average
Product catalog & listings
8.810 Ratings
8.02 Ratings
Product management
8.910 Ratings
9.02 Ratings
Bulk product upload
8.39 Ratings
8.01 Ratings
Branding
8.710 Ratings
8.02 Ratings
Mobile storefront
8.08 Ratings
8.02 Ratings
Product variations
8.59 Ratings
8.02 Ratings
Website integration
8.69 Ratings
8.02 Ratings
Visual customization
8.710 Ratings
8.02 Ratings
CMS
8.810 Ratings
8.02 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
8.4
10 Ratings
10% above category average
Podia
8.0
2 Ratings
5% above category average
Abandoned cart recovery
8.29 Ratings
8.01 Ratings
Checkout user experience
8.510 Ratings
8.02 Ratings
Online Payment System
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CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
8.9
9 Ratings
7% above category average
Podia
8.0
2 Ratings
4% below category average
eCommerce security
8.99 Ratings
8.02 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
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CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
8.4
9 Ratings
9% above category average
Podia
7.0
2 Ratings
9% below category average
Promotions & discounts
8.89 Ratings
9.02 Ratings
Personalized recommendations
8.09 Ratings
00 Ratings
SEO
8.49 Ratings
5.02 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
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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.
In my experience, Podia has been well suited in every way! I am a small company with a couple of independent contractors, and I don't know how to build my own website. I am not very techy. I get lots of compliments on how my website looks! I have had some people support me with setting up my group emails for my email list and setting up automations, and these techy people complained that they needed to do more customization in the email formatting and programming, so I switched to Mailchimp for those needs. Otherwise, I have been very happy with Podia and I am grateful to have a platform that offers so many services/features. It's affordable and user friendly. My clients and students are happy using it, too
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.
It has a great user interface, it's fast to edit and create courses, to edit and create emails, to find chats, to develop the website. Support has been friendly and I haven't found anything that hasn't worked. It also has basically all the tools you need outside if a complete blog platform
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.
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.
Kajabi had lots of features all in one place. I liked their digital course creator program. I liked the ease of their their membership site program/host, too. It had an app for my clients to use. There were some problems with not being able to customize the look of pages, but they allowed coding/programming if you had training, so I sometimes hired someone to do that for me. I couldn't figure out how to use their website builder, so I didn't do much there. When it came down to it, I could use Podia and it was cheaper and easier to use. GoDaddy was my website host for a few years. I did a lot on there. It was my website builder and host and I liked it. It was easy to use. My website looked great. It had more features than Podia with blogging and connecting to social media. I had a storefront but it wasn't great for selling digital products. Back then, it wanted to show my inventory and shipping options, which don't apply for services and digital products. I did a little with my digital courses on there, but in the end, I liked other sites better for this. It didn't work out. Weebly was just a starting point for me when I create my first digital course. I liked how it looked and it was easy to build, but there are better options for this sort of thing now.