Top Multi-Vendor Store Builders: Shipturtle vs CS Cart

All-in-One Vendor Management

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• Comprehensive Vendor management dashboard comprising Vendor onboarding, detailed analytics, custom vendor permissions, customer chat, reviews, and mobile access.

• VENDOR CONNECT feature gives Marketplaces a two-way ability to sync with the vendor's feeds on Shopify, Amazon, etc. Inventory is kept in sync, orders are pushed to their OMS, and listings are updated automatically.

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Feature-rich Product Management for Vendors

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• Vendors can tailor product fields, create single or bulk listings, and utilize templates for consistency.

• Automatic inventory updates and quick edit options enhance efficiency.

• Approval flows maintain quality control.

• Support for product variants, mandatory fields, and private label products.

• Subscription and booking product options.

Restrictive Vendor Management

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• CS-Cart offers vendor profiles and dashboards. Allows you to collect subscription fees from vendors to allow access to your marketplace.

• Limited inventory sync options with vendor websites.

• Require customization for granular control of features and modules available to different vendors.

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Slow Uploads, Manual Work

• CS-Cart has all the basics in place, but can become restrictive as your marketplace grows.

• Listing products can be slower for vendors, especially when dealing with bulk uploads or multiple variants.

• Offers limited options for customizing product fields and data feeds. This can make it difficult to cater to specific industry needs.

Flexible Payouts & Commissions

• Any payment gateway can be used on the website giving the ability to choose and negotiate costs.

• Payouts via Stripe and Paypal.

• Robust rules-based engine where commission can be set based on product, vendor, category, or globally. Flexibility to treat product price, taxes, shipping, and discounts separately.

• Payout can be controlled to factor in delivery, returns, and refunds.

Spend More for the Same Functionality

• Features like commission rates based on categories are only available in higher tiers. This means limited options for customization and potential roadblocks to future growth.

• CS-Cart might require additional tools or manual effort for efficient reconciliation.

Take Advantage of Shopify Ecosystem

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• Shopify powers 4.5+ million live stores and Woocommerce even more.

• Even the lowest plans are fully customizable from a design standpoint. Dev support from thousands of agencies and freelancers.

• 13000+ app ecosystems include critical integrations with CRMs, Loyalty apps, Social platforms, POS systems, accounting software, and shippers.

• Best-in-class conversions, one-click checkouts.

• Shipturtle has seamless integration with platforms like Shopify providing a 1-minute install, instant sync, and full compatibility. Its open APIs can also integrate with a headless architecture or custom-built websites.

‍Limited Options, Limited Growth?

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• 11,000+ historical websites built (source: builtwith). Clean UI to manage your marketplace.

• Customization is available only on the top plan via a closed developer community.

• Pricing plans are restrictive on several parameters like revenue, products, vendors.

• Mobile app source code is available only on top-tier plans.

Most Affordable Multi-Vendor Marketplace on Shopify

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• Shipturtle charges $149 per month. Add $79 for Shopify charges to make the comparison like to like. (estimated for a marketplace receiving 5000 orders).

• Both Shopify and CS-Cart charge payment processing charges via Stripe that is ~$0.30 + 2.5% per order.

• Detailed and extensive published feature set with minimal needs for any customization.

• Guaranteed to go live within 2 days using out-of-the-box configs.

• Shopify and Woocommerce have the world's easiest drag-and-drop interfaces with a developer community of millions.

High Development Cost, Limiting Growth?

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• CS-Cart's pricing structure includes both the website and the marketplace. It is recommended to write requirements to them since unlike Shopify+Shipturtle, there is no way to set it up quickly and try it for a few weeks and confirm a fit.

• Their subscription costs $295 per month + customizations + PG charges. Alternatively, you can buy their code for $6600 that comes with 1 year of free updates.