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CS CART- WHY/WHY NOT?

A marketplace is where many individual sellers sell their offering through a common storefront. What took off a customer’s attention towards a multi-vendor marketplace from traditional e-store is a large variety of similar products available at varied prices by different vendors.

With CS cart you can open your online store without to much hassle. With CS cart you can create your own multivendor or a single seller eCommerce marketplace. There are around 35000 live stores that are built using CS cart worldwide. CS cart is a paid piece of software but running an eCommerce platform built using CS cart is cheaper than running software that requires custom developments from the third party development company.

CS cart posses 500 features which are commonly provided by every eCommerce application builder. This means you can launch your fully functional eCommerce application right away.

In case of a paid solution where the development of code is done by third party developers, a store owner may require to get a modification or buy add-ons so as to get the ultimate platform they need. This means extra spendings and increased bugs. With increased bugs and vulnerabilities there is more probability of downtime. Hence the number of visitors withdrawing back from the website increases by many folds and therefore lesser conversion rate.

To overcome such hurdles, Sellacious and Cs Cart as well, provide solutions to ensure that a platform owner reaches their sales target, generate more money, and ensure marketplace presence and abundant footfall at their e-store. Using the number of built-in add-ons a store owner will eliminate the trouble in dealing with the third party developer and upgrade problem caused by system incompatibility and new versions of the feature.

Let’s get on to some commonly available features of CS CART

Reward Point

It is very much important to retain the pre-existing customers for any eCommerce application. They are the most loyal customers and bring most of the income. Thus to maintain retainment of them, reward point is a CS cart feature way to appreciate customer’s loyalty every time they buy from their store. A customer can get point on each purchase and redeem them later on other purchases may be full points or only a part of it.

Layout Editor

You can arrange your data blocks the way you want. You don’t even need to code even a single line for that. It’s just a drag and drop of the front end components. You can design every single page and make different header and footer for different pages. Experiment with layouts and save money of coders.

Promotions

A store owner can greatly boost their sales by offering bonuses to their customers. Coupons and discounts can be created by choosing the conditions that a customer must meet to be eligible for the bonus. Multiple forms of bonuses can be generated like discounts, free shipping, gift vouchers, an invitation to a special user group. It is a mighty tool to enhance your store sales, attract more customers, and preload your warehouse with stocks.

Cross-Sell and Upsell

It is essential to offer customers a wide variety of product on your platform. You may have thousands of customers but still, if there ain’t many products to offer the income may not grow that fast. To boost the income you need to increase the average bill amount of each cart. CS cart provides a bunch of cross-selling and upsell tools for that.

The store owner can enable the feature to display similar products, the product most bought and the same product with prices offered by multiple sellers, the best seller and on sale products, different products with same prices etc.

With ‘Buy Together’ feature, a seller can create product combinations and set discounts on them. Another cross-selling feature is ‘Customers Also Bought’ helps to sell additional products to the customers. This box gives highlights of the products that other customers buy while purchasing the current one.

Call Request

Many a time, customer don’t want to register themselves on web stores and go through the whole buying process. They might prefer to order the product on call. With ‘Call Request’ system in CS-Cart you would not lose that audience. The customer clicks ‘Buy with 1 click button’ and enter the contact details. A sales manager calls back from your store and can confirm the order manually.

Multiple Storefront

When a business grows, you might need to advent with a new store. With CS-Cart multistore feature you can open more online storefronts without many efforts. No service, no installations. You just excess storefronts and manage them from a single admin dashboard.

Mobile Responsive Templates

Half of the online shoppers buy products from their smartphones. So an eStore must be properly functional and eye-catching on any device. CS cart template is responsive which means all the elements are arranged to fit the screen. With responsive designs, potential buyer feels comfortable browsing your store and Google also rank it higher in search results.

70 Payment Options

An eCommerce application must ensure that the money dispensed by the customer reaches to the vendor and the product to the customer in return. CS cart offers multiple popular payment and shipping service. Payment gateways like Paypal, 2Checkout, Authorize Net, SagePay, First Data, eWay, and many others are available to activate on the payment page. Besides DHL, FedEx, USPS Media Mail, UPS 3 Day Select with dozen of shipping operators are present in CS-Cart. 

Allow your customer to choose the most convenient method of payment and shipment carriers without any additional development and integrations. 

Built-In CMS

It becomes a day-to-day task to create the product, upload images for products, add the description, manage layout, and deal with other content. CS Cart offers a well thought and easy to use content management system. A store owner can edit 45 product parameters. Upload images at a blazing speed and quickly search for the necessary user interface elements. Create additional pages and optimize them for search engines without writing any single line of code. 

Product Variants

In the admin dashboard, various products with variants, features, prices, SKUs, images, and filters. Features are product properties that can be common for a group of items on sale but have different values. 

Admin Privileges

Though lots of features are great but being face-to-face with these functionalities is quite a challenge. As a store owner once established in the market your major focus should business strategy rather than your workflow, customer care, and the store look and feel. CS cart help delegate access to staff at multiple levels like who all can handle the look of the storefront, who can support customer queries, and who all salespeople can manage orders. Each of them does their job and their activities don’t intercross.

Powerful SEO

Your potential customers would be reaching your storefront easily if it is well search engine optimized. You get more sales, more traffic, and better reach to the targeted audience. By default, CS Cart supports all the SEO techniques that Google encourage. Such tools help   SEO friendly URLs, Canonical URLs, 301 redirect which is a permanent redirect from one URL to another, and google snippets like Google Maps.

A store admin can also set the metatext for their store because of which the search engine understands your store better and rank it high in search results.

Fully Customizable

Change the CS multivendor eCommerce the way you want. A developer has complete access to the source code which empowers them to create a feature they want. The source code matches the internal coding standard and thus is easy to understand and yes all this is just free of cost.

In fact, looking at the case where all the business has to add their own features besides the one provided by this eCommerce application builder CD Cart has its own community of 350 developers all over the world. 

Beside all these CS cart multivendor provides Vendor Payout system to describe and execute the vendor money payout schedule, vendor plans for subscription and commissions, product approval, bulk import and export of the products details, orders, and user details to the store, an individual storefront for all, vendor geolocation and much more.

IS ALL THIS ENOUGH TO BE MARKETPLACE LEADER?

With such features, CS Cart might be a great eCommerce application builder with low investment as you pay only once for the quickstart package but there are some add-ons, upgrade versions, custom development, and the support fees that you may end up paying for till the time your eStore is based on CS-Cart. 

Acting like a double-edged sword, CS Cart doesn’t charge on a monthly basis but it touts a store owner to buy the upgrade versions and plugin and at a high rate. You typically don’t have any other option but to buy it. Moreover, this one time fees doesn’t include hosting and web space charges, SSL certificate, and any assistance for designing in case required. 

It might be different from Shopify and BigCommerece who are charging immensely on a monthly basis from their customers but it makes no difference working with Wordpress. Additionally, yearly payment required for upgrading your online store system on a consistent basis condemns you to pay mandatorily for the most serious businesses. 

Confusing Subscription Plan

The upgrade pricing model is a bit complicated and requires immediate action once an end of the subscription arises. CS-Cart provides the upgrade features for free for the first year. However, in order to keep the renewal of subscription charges lesser, you need to extend the upgrade plan before the first year ends.

CS-Cart Basic

$110 per year if the store owner subscribes before the year ends and $160 after the year ends. Huge difference though!

CS-Cart Ultimate

$110 per year if the store owner subscribes before the year ends and $160 after the year ends.

CS-Cart Multivendor

$245 per year if the store owner subscribes before the year ends and $385 after the year ends. A difference of $140.

E-BAY Add-On

$45 per year if the store owner subscribes before the year ends and $65 after the year ends.

You have to pay additional fees monthly for a cloud-based solution if took a enterprise version.

Software Pricing Model

That was just an upgrade fee. The actual cost of the software is yet to be revealed. Startups believe it, CS Cart may not be the right option for you after seeing this! Okay, the equation is pretty straightforward.

CS CART: $385

CS CART ULTIMATE: $865

CS CART MULTIVENDOR: $1450

DOWNSIDE OF CS CART

It is generally noticed that when a store owner pays an online eCommerce application builder or any other service they get free customer support. That absolutely not the case here.

Amazingly it is based on a bluff where every paying customer gets the credit of just 50 points which they redeem every time they use customer care service or request to get a featured custom made. Moreover, there is no fixed number of points charged for a particular process. The prices can vary on the basis of time and workload included in the project. Not only that, there would be times when you just contact customer support and a major chunk of your credit balance flew. 

Hence you will have no idea where your just 50 points of credits went away.

It is not over here! You have to buy the credit to use the facilities further. Let’s see the pricing model.

25 CREDITS: $45

50 CREDITS: $85

100 CREDITS: $165

200 CREDITS: $295

CS CART Vs SELLACIOUS

Almost every eCommerce store builder claims to ensure more sales, more money and more than expected customers. But, does anyone of them even bother to provide features with proven results for precise money and customers.

In the search of most renowned brands offering service no matter a vague one, we sometimes lose searching for the most appropriate service provider. Similar is the case with CS Cart. It is charging high for the services which are offered by almost every second eCommerce application builder. It is always possible the feature a customer is giving for development to the CS Cart could be offered freely by another eStore builder. Sellacious not only provide the features possed by CS cart for free but also provide there own without charging any cost.

Sellacious offers more than 5000 eCommerce marketplace features for both multivendor and single store. Sellacious stand out from the crowd. Sellacious has been developed with over a decade of market experience and industry knowledge that has resulted in successfully identifying and include all the most-desired features for a persuasive website. 

Built-In Advanced Reporting

Be the information you want is readily available to you at your fingertips. Robust statistics and reporting on sales, transactions, cash flow with sellers, sales, products, and customers etc.

Prime Built-In Seo In The Industry

Search engine optimization is the prime requirement of any store owner so as to expand its customer base and internet visibility. Cutting edge SEO technology has been built so you can optimize every page with few clicks.

Robust Web Hosting with no limit on data storage

Sellacious hosts its customers' store on powerful, robust, and fast servers. We guarantee 99.98% uptime. We assure no limit to the web space required. You can create as many images and create as many pages as you want for the product.

Create Your Own Marketplace and Embrace Your Brand On Social Media

Add sellers to your market place, create seller groups, enable product comparison, enable sellers to sell the same products at their price. Moreover, set shipping, tax, discount, return policies, many more. We provide more than 5000 features for a multivendor environment marketplace. Get social media icons on your estore software and let user share your brand with the world.

Unlimited Bandwidth

Overage charges and traffic limit are the things of the past. We offer the capability to handle any number of visitors at any moment.

Full Ecommerce Package Of Effective Marketing Tools

Send confirmation and abandoned cart emails, package delivery status, newsletters, coupons and more right from Sellacious. Manage your store, create tax and shipping rules, daily deals, wish lists, gift registries, and more.

Real-Time Tax Calculation and Shipping Charges

Activate shipping all of the major shipping brands including FedEx and DHL etc. Automatically calculate shipping charges based on the rules set by the admin so that your customer is never surprised at checkout. We help store owner create tax rules according to the country their store is located. It can be done really quick and is a customizable setup.

Over Hundred Of Payment Gateways

Provide your buyers in the right to choose. Let them select their payment gateway according to their preference and location. Sellacious takes care of all the issues and things related to payment. There are available plugins that you can use to accept payments.

PCI DSS Compliant

Your store can accept Visa, Mastercard, Amex, and other major credit/debit cards with complete security. All because of Sellacious’s certified Level 1 PCI DSS compliance. We always maintain our security standards so that they match the highest requirement mandate for an eCommerce application. In order to keep your customer’s information and business data secure, we issue an SSL certificate. Your store will include 256-bit SSL certificate.

24x7/365 Days of In-house Support

Expectations of what constitutes good customer service are always influenced to a degree by cultural values. At Sellacious, we always welcome customers for support round-the-clock. We always target to uplift our service and maintain high standards. Listen from our customer TopDogTest, about our customer service and support(Link to the case study). 

Visit Sellacious ‘Ask Us’ to find comprehensive, step-by-step, easy to understand answers, powered by our support executives.

And Much, Much More…

Explore all the features Sellacious, an ultimate eCommerce development solution, has to offer from its comprehensive yet user-friendly documentation(Link to documentation). You can also try our free version with no credit card required to start configuring your own e-commerce application.  

It is always advisable to go for the quality and not the popularity. Sellacious provide their services to more than 8000 estore wordwide. It fits your budget and would definitely solve all your eCommerce worries. Sellacious’s team of experts always welcome leads for custom development in the case where there are still some use cases left to cover on our part at a nominal charge.

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