--- title: "CS-Cart Store Builder Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra" description: "Is CS-Cart Store Builder the right eCommerce solution for you? Explore 69 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice." source_url: "https://www.capterra.com/p/212372/CS-Cart-B2B-B2C/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- CS-Cart Store Builder 4.6 (69) [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 July 23rd, 2026 # Reviews of CS-Cart Store Builder Ease of use 4.6 Customer Service 4.5 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews AB Alan B CFORetail, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “I like all the features and ability to create just about any Add-on we need as it was developed with PHP.“ July 8, 2026 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 AB Alan B CFORetail, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “There are also plenty of Add-ons and Developers available to support your projects.“ July 8, 2026 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. “On my dedicated server, my category pages with 48 products are displayed in less than 1 second.“ May 28, 2023 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 69 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 AB Alan B. CFO Retail Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great Shopping Cart!!" July 8, 2026 5.0 It's been a great shopping cart and we're really glad we chose it many, many years ago! I would highly recommend the cart. Pros Excellent Shopping Cart! I like all the features and ability to create just about any Add-on we need as it was developed with PHP. There are also plenty of Add-ons and Developers available to support your projects. You can do a demo first and seeing if like it, then you will have nothing to lose. ;) Cons Sometimes the free community forum is a little slow in helping out (sometimes super quick though), but that is the nature of free help. Great Developers are always available. 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 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 CL Caesar L. owner Used the software for: 2+ years ### "I'm a happy user" January 24, 2019 5.0 Pros I'm not a developer but a user. The CMS interface is pretty straight forward even for an everyday user. If you grab the logic once how the system is set up... then easy to add Menu points or products with all of theirs features, like dimensions weight and so on. I use this in US thus live shipping cost calculation at the time of check out is necessary. Cons Cs.cart is not an opened source platform, not so easy to find reliable and knowledge-able developer to get new things done. Thus you are in trouble with lets say just to update the platform as you can not fix the trouble on your own. Plug ins and themes are quite limited. Review Source MC Matthew C. Owner Used the software for: 2+ years ### "CS-Cart is the complete package!" January 21, 2019 5.0 If I didn't think CS-Cart was the product for me i would be using something else. Pros CS-Cart has all the features that I need at a very reasonable price. I've looked at Woo Commerce and by the time I add plugins to get the built in capabilities that are part of CS-Cart, I''m pay more and still getting less. The customer support responds very quickly and is always helpful. CS-Cart is consistently being updated to add new features or enhance existing features. Cons If there are any cons, they are so small that I can't think of them right now. CS-Cart has all the features I need and more. Review Source FA Francesco A. project manager Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Highly customizable and intuitive ecommerce cart" January 24, 2019 5.0 Pros At this moment i think cs cart represent the best choice for an alli-n-one software ecommerce platform, for middle or little online business, it doesn't need big code knowledge, installing and configuring it are very intuitive and simple, and the best think in my opinion, it's that you don't need any additional module or extension, you can easily setup a fully functional ecommerce with a lot of options, about managing the products, marketing and website, products variants, SEO and marketing, exporting/importing all type of data, blog feature, GDPR module, and may other, it's all inclusive, and the price is very good too. If you are lloking for a complete ecommerce solution i recommend CS-Cart as one of the best one. Another important thing is that the development team is constantly working on updates, to fix problems, and to add new features and better functionality. Cons After one year from purchasing, you need to pay for an upgrade subscription plan, to continue receiving upgrades, however it's not so expensive. Review Source GK Grzegorz K. CEO Music Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Help Desk and SEO" February 26, 2019 5.0 I stay with CS-Cart for 8 years without significant problems. Pros What I do appreciate the best in CS-Cart is Help Desk. I used to use it quite often and every time problems were solved fast and communication was run without any delay. I have found it more reliable and faster than my local distributor (and local language) help. SEO is what is most important for me and CS-Cart make available the perfect tools for that. Cons Sorry to say too many addons are payable. Review Source AM Andrii M. Shop owner Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great product" January 21, 2019 5.0 I use for several online shops for many years. In my opinion, one of the best applications for business. Pros Simplicity, convenience, excellent support, continuous product development, affordable price. Ability to connect various modules, customization from both the developer and third-party developers. Cons Requires a good hosting, in the case of a large number of goods. However, ongoing work is underway to improve the speed of the stores. Review Source NM Nima M. owner Used the software for: 2+ years ### "everything you need " January 21, 2019 5.0 Pros high customisable, easy to configure and understand without programming knowledge. you can be setup in under an hour and it can scale with your business. Cons nothing, i’ve loved it for years. when every other option is trying to force you into a subscription, cs cart gives you the freedom to have a perpetual license and upgrading is very easy via the upgrade centre. Review Source UG Usman G. Software Developer Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best Ecommerce platform" January 21, 2019 5.0 Its better if Cs-cart staff provide free support for their clients forever rather charging credits for each request. Pros Add-Ons Bulk Editing Hooks & Integration Marketplace with thousand of add-ons Plug And Play features Good Community Cons Heavy processing using VPS Server for single website hosting with only 50 users servers loads go to average of 10 nothing else :) Review Source VW Vic W. Company Owner Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Used CSCart for 15 years and very happy with the product. Great flexibility and easy for non programmer to use." January 21, 2019 4.0 Happy to recommend to anyone setting up online store Pros Easy to setup and maintain No special Programming skills required. Support is very good. Upgrades are supplied. Yearly charge is very reasonable Cons none so far Cs cart is supplied by Russian company and this sometimes puts people off, but this has never been an issue. Review Source LN Long N. CEO Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great experiences!" January 22, 2019 5.0 I like fully function add-on News. Pros Easy to use, fully function of e-commerce, speed good, fully seo for Google. Easy to customizable for developer. Cons Blog of cs-cart is least for use, I like fully function add-on News to seo google. I want cs-cart support Vietnamese. Review Source VS Veli-Matti S. General Manager Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Flexible and easy to use" January 21, 2019 4.0 Pros Quick public and admin interface, very reliable. You can give it anyone to use. The look and feel can be modified easily. Cons Not for all languages but can self-translate. Not a lot of users in my country so some modules are missing Review Source SM Steve M. Owner Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great experience and helpful tool " January 21, 2019 5.0 You wasn’t go wrong and I highly recommend it. Pros User friendly and easy to use. This is exactly what I needed. It helped me get things right and pointed me in a good direction. Cons Currently no issues. Maybe the ticket time can get better but they always reply with the exact help I need. Review Source NP NIKOLAOS P. CEO Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Fantastic E-shop that Works Smoothly!" January 21, 2019 5.0 Pros Easy of Use, very robust. It is a Value for Money Software, that we recommend to every that wants to build or buy an E-shop. Even as a Comapny Webpage, we would recommend this software, because the cost compared with the benefits is excellent prposition Cons The cons of the Product is that there are many Upgrades and you need to invest some serious money in order to stat with the latest version. Review Source jL jack L. manager Used the software for: 2+ years ### "good software" January 23, 2019 4.0 Pros it is very sample for sell, install is sample,i like it ,it can help you do many things. Cons so many people can use this software do business,it can help sell goods,and get money,you will be like it 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. Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.