# CS-Cart Store Builder Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is CS-Cart Store Builder the right eCommerce solution for you? Explore 68 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/212372/CS-Cart-B2B-B2C/reviews --- CS-Cart Store Builder 4.6 (68) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/212372/CS-Cart-B2B-B2C/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of CS-Cart Store Builder Ease of use 4.6 Customer Service 4.5 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews OL Olivier L OwnerApparel & Fashion, Self-employedUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “I've been using lifetime Ultimate licences since 2008, which makes CS-Cart VERY cost-effective in the long term, and much cheaper than its competitors, whether in SaaS mode or on its own.“ May 28, 2023 OL Olivier L OwnerApparel & Fashion, Self-employedUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “I've tried this local competing solution on several occasions, but I've never been won over by it, either in terms of efficiency or cost.“ May 28, 2023 OL Olivier L OwnerApparel & Fashion, Self-employedUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “On my dedicated server, my category pages with 48 products are displayed in less than 1 second.“ May 28, 2023 OL Olivier L OwnerApparel & Fashion, Self-employedUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Smarty, the CS-Cart template engine, is also simple and fast.“ May 28, 2023 OL Olivier L OwnerApparel & Fashion, Self-employedUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “CS-Cart is very intuitive to use, very robust and very fast, both on the administrator side and on the client side.“ May 28, 2023 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 68 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Frank T. Business Owner Consumer Goods Used the software for: 2+ years ### "CS-Cart " January 31, 2019 5.0 Great visibility on Google because the rich content provided in this software. Pros Once you learn all that this software can do you will be very pleased. CS-Cart has provided so many how-to vids to help you along. Cons Very little to say negative because they've been so much better in the communication with me. This software was created in Russia and the time difference can be a little difficult at times. I will say in the past year I never wait for more than 24 hrs for a response. Review Source OL Olivier L. Owner Apparel & Fashion Used the software for: 2+ years ### "CS-Cart user since 2008" May 28, 2023 5.0 I've been using CS-Cart since 2008 on 5 sites: \[sensitive content hidden\].I live in a country that is not CS-Cart's core target, where there is a competing "free" solution. I've tried this local competing solution on several occasions, but I've never been won over by it, either in terms of efficiency or cost. CS-Cart met my quality/price/performance criteria.After 17 years of experience in eCommerce, using and testing 4 different solutions, and after 14 years of daily use of CS-Cart, I can honestly say that CS-Cart is the ideal solution for my needs. Pros I've been using lifetime Ultimate licences since 2008, which makes CS-Cart VERY cost-effective in the long term, and much cheaper than its competitors, whether in SaaS mode or on its own.In fact, CS-Cart comes as standard with a large number of functions that competing solutions have to pay for, even "free" competing solutions that require you to buy a lot of add-ons and plug-ins to compete with CS-Cart's basic functions.Some add-ons and plug-ins in alternative solutions often have subscriptions, which you have to pay for again on a time or update basis, whereas these same add-ons and plug-ins are included free of charge as standard in CS-Cart, and you NEVER have to pay for them again.CS-Cart is very intuitive to use, very robust and very fast, both on the administrator side and on the client side.CS-Cart is designed to run on a simple shared server, with a basic technical configuration. However, CS-Cart will be more at home on a dedicated server.On my dedicated server, my category pages with 48 products are displayed in less than 1 second.Smarty, the CS-Cart template engine, is also simple and fast. The source code for Smarty templates is very clean, and they contain no PHP code, which makes modifying, creating and updating them simple and efficient.Customer support is very efficient, and the number of experts outside the publisher is substantial, leaving plenty of room for price competition. Cons I'm missing a few add-ons that would be useful, such as a bank connection module for payments from my local bank. I use a free add-on from an intermediary service provider that invoices me monthly and takes a small percentage from each transaction.Other very specific add-ons are also missing from CS-Cart, such as (to mention only those from the WordPress world) Yoast, Elementor, Broken Link Checker, PDF Embedder, Sucuri, etc... Alternatives considered [WooCommerce](https://www.capterra.com/p/225601/WooCommerce/) Reason for choosing CS-Cart Store Builder If I had to leave CS-Cart, I'd choose WooCommerce, but my past experiences in terms of deployment speed, costs and, above all, maintenance time, advise me to stay with CS-Cart. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Co-Founder / CTO Retail Used the software for: 2+ years ### "I wish we would've gone magento!" December 17, 2018 2.0 Most of our problems with CS-Cart revolve around their failed update system, or system breaking updates, bad internal policies, and poor customer support. When it comes to using the software, it serves its purpose mostly, for transactional use, but at least on the version we got stuck at, forget about REPORTS! The reports system is so unwieldy you can't get any useful data from it at all. We've had to develop custom addons to generate good reports as our customers truly despise cs-carts built-in reports system. In fact, we've had to develop a lot of different plugins just to compensate for the lack in natural functionality of cs-cart (again, at least for the version we got stuck at due to their failing update routines). We are already redeveloping our 8 years of add-ons (as needed) in magento as our customers have had it with cs-cart (and frankly, our developers as well). So we've lost our butts here, I wish Magento was in a better position 9 years ago when we had to make a decision on modern ecommerce software package as our base. Save yourself the headache, choose another software, gotta be plenty of better options! Pros The software has pretty good hooks, and is written in a standard enough way that any developer can modify it with addons to your needs. But thats about the only praise I can muster. Cons \* Their update routine is downright awful. We have 4 different shops using this software, all of which got stuck on old versions due to their update routine failing without error message. Their support refuses to assist without ACCESS to the server, which by contract we cannot give. We're professionals, they can easily give us troubleshooting tips to help guide us toward fixing their mess, but nope, nothing. Bare in mind, 4 different servers, with different configurations. \* Their support is slow to response, and often responds with very unuseful comments, so each time back and forth takes way too long when your shop is in peril. \* Their refund policies (which is to say, there are no refunds) are nothing short of thievery. While we paid to upgrade licenses, we never got the upgrades due to the failure of the software to complete the update. They refuse to refund when they also refused to offer support beyond "give us your server logins". Very unethical companyn! \* The software is prone to hackers with not very proactive effort on cs-cart's part. They react to the problem, and to their credit, at least they offer a way to PATCH with instructions as opposed to ONLY their update routine. We would've been forced out of their software long ago if they didn't do this, so we are grateful for the patch and disclosure on the security problems they do discover (but again, its after their customers were hacked, they should be doing proactive S&D) Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Gerente General Retail Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The Best Option" January 28, 2019 5.0 I have worked with your products for ten years. I have two websites, one with CS-CART standard and another with MULTI-VENDOR PLUS. I own the two sites and I think that without their software and facilities that allow them to position themselves well within SEO, I would have had to pay a lot of money in ads. I'm not a developer, but I can do the simple modifications myself. Furthermore, the ease of making modifications according to my requirements has allowed me to have a completely personalized site without losing my wallet in the attempt, because I get good developers willing to work, with very affordable prices. I am in South America so I do not speak English or Russian well, but that has not been an impediment to achieve excellent results. Pros The cost-benefit ratio. Maybe you can find other better alternatives, but you will have to leave all your profits in maintaining the site. And if you have a small business, with less than 20 employees, you can not afford those luxuries. Cons That in the updates normally the developers change the software core forcing to pay more money when they have to be done. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Co-Owner Retail Used the software for: 2+ years ### "CS-Cart Excellent website software" February 19, 2019 5.0 Overall I would completely recommend CS cart to anyone trying to start a web business. I highly recommend simtech to handle all your server requirements. Pros CS-Cart is extremely easy to use. It is a fully-featured web shopping cart with tons of add-ons and potential. I've been using cs-cart for more than 12 years and would not switch to anything. The product is very reasonably priced for the future set. Cons I really haven't had any problems with the software.the few problems that I have had over the years were actually configuration errors on my part. Review Source Craig T. Business Owner Retail Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great product backed by fast and accurate support" December 3, 2018 4.0 Brilliant. Stable powerful platform with great addons! Pros The support guys are fast and efficient. I am not a coder and needed a huge learning curve to get my head around this. These guys helped out in more ways than they can know. Well done Cons Need to know extensively about coding. Not able to upgrade due to too many modified codes, so new features etc. do not apply to me. That is really sad... Review Source David C. Engineering Manager Retail Used the software for: 2+ years ### "E-commerce solution" December 14, 2018 4.0 Good Pros Once you understand how to create a database and php it is a breeze to use I have designed two e-commerce sites with this software and after trying out others I found this the most complete solution Cons Not enough templates to use but that lets you be creative and design your own. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Freelancer in B2B Growth & Operations Consumer Goods Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Solid concept, okayish product. Will get the job done." June 30, 2020 4.0 Once you have set it up, it is a trusty software which gets the job done. The hassle is just in getting there. You might want to see externals to get the platform up & running. Pros CS-Cart offers you a tremendous amount of functionalities (and high degree of personalization) and will do a good job in handling multiple vendor accounts and loads of visitors. Yes, it does what it is supposed to do. Cons Thousands and thousands of functionalities are great but... you need a lot of manual work to enable them. Apart from that, the overall user experience is a bit rusty at times, in worst cases, confusing (mainly on the Admin-side, not the Vendor-side). Alternatives considered [Shoopy](https://www.capterra.com/p/202598/Shoopy/)[Shopify](https://www.capterra.com/p/83891/Shopify/) Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Director Design Used the software for: 2+ years ### "CS-Cart personal review." December 10, 2018 5.0 In each new upgrade version I see the progress made by CS-Cart team, CS-Cart is a strong and flexible shopping cart, it is really simple to setup and control the look of the storefront. Experienced users and programmers can do anything with it but for average it is user friendly. Pros The ability to sell digital goods without having to pay royalties to other service providers and to have total control over the site storefront and admin areas. Cons Some features like user statics have been taken out, really miss it. Review Source GM Gabriel M. Propietario Environmental Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "perfect cms and shopping cart" January 29, 2019 5.0 Without cs-cart, I have to manually modify every page, one by one....tested lot of cms system....no one is like cs-cart....the same with shopping carts i have tested....no one have options you will find in cs-cart. Pros I really like this software to manage web pages in an easy way, very easy to updates pages, enable and disable blocks....in a few clicks can change pages...all pages in creating with cs-cart are responsive....we are starting to insert products to be selling in our site...very flexible with lot of options for our products..... Cons At the moment...not have any complaints Review Source MJ Matías J. Manager Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A great program to work with" January 23, 2019 5.0 Pros Our company has in recent years used CS-Cart Web Shop to sell and inform about the software that we develop. The result is very good, especially how simple it is to change and add something to our web page, and you have the opportunity to design the page just as you want it. When we sell our products all over the world, I have to add that the possibilities of adding different languages in a simple way for our different customers is just as good as possible. We are very satisfaced with CS Cart Software. Cons I can't think of anything negative. The program works as it should and we do not lack any function in it. Review Source TL Talmacel L. CEO Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best e-commerce solution on the market" January 21, 2019 5.0 We are using cs-cart for more than 5 years, for our company store cs-cart has made a big difference, much better SEO, user-friendly storefront, the clean look and the speed of the website has had a very good impact on our end user. Our website grew with the help of cs-cart, and we consider that cs-cart is the best e-commerce solution on the market Pros Quick and easy setup, Fully customizable, Quick and good user support, Supports unlimited products, Thousands of extensions, Cons In our 5 years off using cs-cart, we did not have any major issues or problems that could not be solved very quickly and professionally by the cs-cart support team. Review Source AD Adam D. Director Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great self hosted cart that is fairly user friendly with great 3rd parts addons." January 21, 2019 5.0 Overall very happy with CS Cart, has aided my business growth. Pros Seems to be a great value self hosted solution with decent enough support and a pretty full feature set. Cons A Paypal glitch could have been resolved sooner apparently. The recent product variants functionality could do with further improvements to make managing them easier Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Owner Retail Used the software for: 2+ years ### "CS cart over the years." December 11, 2018 3.0 CS cart overall gets the job done. 10 years ago until recently, they had many bugs and poor service. Recently the service has become polite, good and fast. Pros CS cart has most of the features that I need such asa nwsletter/blog. Cons Upgrading is very difficult and hooks are hard to understand. Review Source FA Fabrizio A. Mr. Used the software for: 2+ years ### "good software that arises between prestashop and magento, better than x-cart" January 22, 2019 3.0 immediate assistance via skype / messenger for small jobs to do on the fly Pros ease of use and immediate learning, there are not enough modules as with other programs, but surely enough to make everything unmistakable; if the form does not exist, it is easy to create Cons assistance that is too expensive and the lack of professional assistance, almost always responds to people who do more damage than to solve problems Review Source FW Faisal W. CEO Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Most feature packed CMS out there!" January 21, 2019 5.0 Overall for the price they charge for a lifetime license is truly value for money as this CMS is a complete solution out of box Pros Ease of Use Tons of features Amazing flexibility Excellent choice for small to medium sized shops No developer required even layouts etc can be edited by customer Cons Only CON is that they charge for support. Having said that the support they provide is usually sufficient Review Source LG Lefteris G. CEO Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Excellent ecommerce software that you can sell anything on the web" January 22, 2019 5.0 Keep up the good work guys Pros Ease of use software with categories management, gift management and reward points management. Also eligible of mass sending notifications and newsletter management. Cons I would like to have more plugins available and capability of a multistore. Also integration with other 3rd party software will be fine. Review Source MW Matt W. Assistant Manager Used the software for: 2+ years ### "User friendly E-Commerce Application!" January 23, 2019 5.0 Pros We have found CS-Cart to be very easy to use, it has some great functions and it also looks great. Adding products to our website has never been easier. Cons It does take a while to work out if you have no experience of an E-Commerce application, and a few functions could be simplified i.e. 'Related Products'. Review Source EH Eli H. President Retail Used the software for: 2+ years ### "CS-Cart user for 10 years" January 17, 2019 5.0 Excellent Pros bang for your buck - low price for such a product flexible for different needs robust features but still easy to use Cons customer service is not up to par could use better integrations with other platforms such as Ebay and Amazon Review Source VB Velisa B. IT Manager Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Very the best cart option for car parts internet shop" January 24, 2019 5.0 Large, fine and honest community of users is advance when you have to find solution for unusually problems. Pros Easy to use, to translate and make new features. Extra practical admin interface. Very good and quick support. Cons I would like to be able to use our very old carts (ap-sport.rs with old PhP 5.2.9 and old mysql) with new versions of php and mysql. Review Source MR Maurice R. CEO, President Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "I tried many other shopping carts before trying the trial of CS-Cart... I have not looked back!" January 22, 2019 4.0 Cs-Cart may not have all the the things that I would like... But they are listening to suggestions and making improvements! As with any software there are bugs or code that cause glitches... it is part of software development. CS-Cart is really trying to improve the software, I started with version 4.7.3 and they have made some great improvements in the last year Pros Easy to use, I was making categories and importing products by CSV files, within 2 hours of downloading the software and installing on the server. unlimited categories and sub-categories. You can't go wrong with Cs-Cart! Cons Does not yet have a place for cost of product, or place for the Brand or Manufacturer. Needs more Payments options like Stripe! Review Source CB Catalin B. Manager | Web Designer Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Best Ecommerce Solution" January 28, 2019 5.0 Pros Easy to install and manage, fast loading, perfect for mobile, product filters are working very fast and accurate. Cons More options in pages builder would be a plus. Options for CSS, or layouts, configuring them directly and not from custom css. Review Source KK Kare K. Used the software for: ### "CS-Cart Rocks" April 30, 2016 5.0 That's really great information for us to compare different shopping cart system :-) I am using CS-Cart from: http://www.nettxpress.no for my web store and it really is user friendly. Most of the store information can be manage from the admin, and now I can focus on selling instead of programming and technical things. Review Source IA Isa A. Owner Used the software for: 2+ years ### "After using many carts CS Cart became the final destination, 10 years and running!" January 26, 2019 5.0 CS Cart rocks! You don't need anything else Pros Firstly, value for money. As a small business owner we needed functionality within a reasonable price point. CS Cart was the most viable option with the right mixture of features and purchase price. Also not a subscription based cart which gives us ownership and the much needed flexibility. Then the functionality.... where to start! The layout, both back and front end, are so smooth and very user friendly. Built-in themes are suitable for most users I'm sure, but there are also developers who make exceptional themes. The site is also mobile friendly and adapts well to mobile screens. Then the back-end options are really flexible, we could customise our country options, which is great not being in a majour country. Drag and drop customising of pages makes it so easy to setup pages with no experience. The script is responsive and not as many bugs as I've seen in other cart software. Easy integration with Paypal (which is what we use) or so many others I see available for processing in the built-in list. And the customer support !!!!!!!!!!!!! THE ABSOLUTE BEST!!!! Super fast and responsive. I try to model our support after seeing theirs. That makes owning this software feel even more secure, that rock solid support that there when you need it. Even for their support alone, cs cart is worth it. They customised the script to meet our needs. 11 stars for support. Added on to support is their extensive knowledge base documentation...which is all I need to refer to for most issues. Detailed and relevant, like an encyclopedia All in all I'd definitely recommend the company and the product! Cons Not many or majour at all. Mostly they focus on developing the core product, but not on the little things that sometimes make a big difference, then the developers make an add-on for it and you got to buy it. For eg. a button to scroll to the top of the page, or make the checkout page a single screen. It would be great to dedicate some time to these smaller elements as well. And then we sell alot of services (document print & copy centre), and the software isn't as friendly to setup for selling services as it is to selling physical products. So we had to get creative in making the product page layout more to what we'd prefer. Review Source IP Ioannis P. Web Developer Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The best eshop platform with ease of use!" January 22, 2019 5.0 This is a great and secure platform with great support in an affordable price. Pros CsCart is very easy to install and easy to use. We have been using the product for more than 10 years now and we have no problems with it. Our customers also like the admin section which is actually way more easy to use than other open source platforms. We have ask them how they feel about the latest version of cscart and they just love how friendly it really is. It has a lot of options to customise it any way you want. You can also customize the look of it by altering the theme/skin of the platform very easily. It has a lot of good addons and it provides language addition with the click of a button. It is definitely the best multilingual option out there. Support is also exceptional. Any issue we ever had it was solved within 24 hours and all help was very detailed and prompt. Most importantly the software is very secure. We had issues with open source platforms before which require a lot of upgrades almost every month. CsCart is very serious about security upgrades and we get notified every time there is and issue given all appropriate directions on how to patch and just secure the platform. If you need a security patch the cscart team is sending out an email notice with a patch addon which you can install with just one click without having to alter code. This is very convenient if a user/developer or owner has many platforms installed. Overall this is an exceptional product which we would recommend to anyone is looking for an affordable eshop platform with lots of options, addons and great support. Cons There is room for improvement in the layout configuration section but so far we have no complain about configuring cscart. 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