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CS-Cart Multi-Vendor vs PayPal Commerce Platform: Which is a better fit?

Updated on January 19th, 2025
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Summary
Features in Marketplace
38
Best performer
41
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Catalog Management
  • Categorization/Grouping
1
41
User satisfaction
4.7
User reviews134
Ease of use
4.4
Functionality
4.7
Value for money
4.6
Customer support
4.4
4.6
User reviews488
Ease of use
4.6
Functionality
4.6
Value for money
4.5
Customer support
4.2
Price starts from
Yearly subscription
Free version
Free trial
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Free version
Free trial
Best for

Entrepreneur who's opening an e-commerce marketplace from scratch or expanding his (her) business.

Whether you're a small business, ecommerce platform, marketplace, enterprise, or developer, PayPal Commerce Platform offers what you need to run your business and help it grow.

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pros & cons
1 / 4
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Brandy M
Ceo
4.0

Speaker 3: Hi, I'm Brandy, CFO of retail. My company has reviewed CS-Carts. I give them a four-star review. Click below for more of the review. I use CS-Carts for online store to manage it and get insights in web traffic and sales statistics, set up commission rates, customized subscriptions, and then create promotions for vendors and also get feedback. I like that it's the one time fee for CS-Carts, unlike a lot of the others. They also have a lot of options and some themes. Also, you can add themes. They will translate, import, export. They have a manual that goes over just about anything that could possibly ever go wrong. And also, it's on your server, so that's good. And I like their layouts a little bit. The only things I really dislike is it can be hard to upload videos and it also has let vendors do blog posts on your main websites. And you can spend a lot with your add-ons.

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Carl R
Astronomy
5.0

Carl R.: Hi. My name is Carl. I'm an Astronomer, and I would rate PayPal Checkout five out of five easily. The software I used before, if you want to call it that, was the card slider that you plugged into a phone, very archaic. Then before that, I had to take checks or something like that. With PayPal Checkout, I don't have to worry about that any longer. It's streamlined very efficiently to get the customer in and out as quick as possible and move on to the next job. Well, the reason I have PayPal Checkout is very simple. I've been using them since 2007, actually. I've been very comfortable with them since they came from the parent company, eBay. I use it mainly for the efficiency, the quickness. It's a lot quicker than using the debit card slider or the archaic check from the customer. This way the customer is in and out, is very satisfied. It was very easy to integrate PayPal Checkout into my astronomy business, because now, instead of having to stop and have a customer, again, write checks and use these debit card sliders and things, now I just simply type in their information or they type in mine, however this works to get paid or to receive payment, and we're done. It could be a phone number. It can be your email address. It's extremely efficient. It's very fast, a lot faster. It makes my business go a lot faster, sure, especially when I have multiple customers. I would highly recommend those considering using PayPal Checkout, as I trusted PayPal for many years. But their parent company, eBay, I have no qualms in using their system whatsoever. It has made my business more efficient and faster in the way of payment methods. I would give it a look. I would try it out. I think you'll enjoy it. I think you'll enjoy the experience, and I think you'll enjoy the efficiency mainly.

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CS-Cart Multi-Vendor

Top Features
38/41
  • Activity Tracking
  • Multi-Channel Marketing
  • Purchase Order Management
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Catalog Management
  • Categorization/Grouping
  • Commission Management
  • Content Management
  • Customizable Branding
  • Discount Management
  • eCommerce Management
  • Electronic Payments
  • Email Marketing
  • Inventory Management
  • Invoice Management
  • Loyalty Program
  • Multi-Channel Management
  • Multi-Currency
  • Multi-Language
  • Multi-Store
  • Multi-Vendor
  • Online Catalog
  • Order Management
  • Order Tracking
  • Payment Processing
  • Promotions Management
  • Real-Time Notifications
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Returns Management
  • Reviews Management
  • Sales Reports
  • Search/Filter
  • Self Service Portal
  • SEO Management
  • Shipping Management
  • Shopping Cart
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • User Management
  • Vendor Management
  • Website Management
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PayPal Commerce Platform

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CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
PayPal Commerce Platform
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
  • By Bolide Network
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2005
PayPal Commerce Platform
  • By PayPal
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 1998
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