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Yo!Kart or CS-Cart. What is the best solution for marketplace website?

January 20th, 2021

It's a common thing to look for the best solution for your online business. Especially when you want to build the strong and long-lasting project. Today we want to examine too famous shopping cart platforms that are used to build the marketplaces: Yo!Kart and CS-Cart MultiVendor. 

 

Latest releases:

CS-Cart MultiVendor version 4.12. was released on December, 2020.
Yo!Kart version 9.3. was released on January, 2021.

Our aim is to show the differences, advantages or disadvantages of both platforms. If you choose between CS-Cart MultiVendor and Yo!Kart, hope our review will give light to some important aspects.

 

It is more preferable to begin with the review of key aspects. They are shown in the following table:

 
  CS-Cart MultiVendor v.4.12 Yo!Kart
Price
  • MultiVendor — $ 1450
  • MultiVendor Plus — $3 500
  • MultiVendor Ultimate — $ 7 500
  • GoQuick — $ 1299
  • GoCustomLite — $ 3 999
  • GoCustom — $6 999
Hosting Self Hosted Self Hosted
Code customizable?

Yes.

CS-Cart team won't do custom design or functionality for you. But there is a net of thrid-party developers who are certificed by CS-Cart. At the moment you can choose the developer due to your budget from 360 CS-Cart partners. 

Yes.

But Yo!Kart team make the customization on the paid basis. Usually the price is from $18 per hour. There are not many third-party developers who are 

Demo Free demo by request Free demo by request
Trial period

15 days of trial period.

Moreover, you can make a refund in 30 days, if you are not satisfired with the product.

It has a trial period.

There is no information about the refund period. 

Traning Webinars, Documentation, Video Lessons, In person Documenation, Live online, In person
Support

Online Support. FAQs. Video Tutorials

Free technical support period starts from 45 to 365 days. It depends on the edition you buy. MultiVendor Ultimate edition has a 1-year of free technical support, even if you customize the Cs-Cart script. 

Phone Support, Online Support, FAQs, Video Tutorials

They have 1-year of free technical support. 

12 months Free technical support is invalid for those who have done customization in Yo!Kart script on their own or through any 3rd party.

Free upgrades

1 year

But MultiVendor Ultimate edition has free lifetime upgrades.  

No

You have to buy the regular updates or improvements. any time you need it. 

Free Installation

No.

There is a detailed manual how to install it on your server. It's quit easy to make it. 

Yes.

The Yo!Kart developers can install the shopping cart on your server at no extra fee.

Seller App

Yes.

The mobile app for CS-Cart Multi-Vendor costs $495 (one-time fee) + $90 per month. The price includes the configuration of the mobile app and making it live on Android Play Market and Apple App Store.

Yes. 

Web+ Android or iOS costs $ 2 049
Web + both Android and iOS costs $ 2 799
Security level very high very high

 

We have compared the terms of the purchase of these two CMS: CS-Cart MultiVendor and Yo!Kart.

Further we are planning to revise the key features and default functionality for the store admin, for the vendors, for the web store visitors. 

 

General functionality of the Yo!Kart and CS-Cart MultiVendor. 

 

The product page and unlimited number of products in the marketplace. 

As for CS-Cart MultiVendor, as for yo!Kart you can sell an infinite number of the goods in the online store. You can build huge online market on both CMS.

Look at how the product page looks like on CS-Cart MultiVendor platform

CS-Cart MultiVendor страница товара

 

Product Page on the Yo!Kart platform

Страница товара Yo!Kart

 

We see the common features in product page building. 

On the product page both CMS have:

  • The product title;
  • One big product photo and several small photos;
  • Brand;
  • Reviews;
  • Price;
  • The Vendor Name (Seller's name);
  • The ability to send questions to the vendor with the help of one button;
  • The buttons for social net sharing;
  • The option choice field (colours, size, material);
  • The choice of amount of products;
  • The button "Add to cart"
  • The terms of order delivery and payment;
  • Product features;
  • Product description.

 

But there are some differences

 Key features CS-Cart MultiVendor v.4.12 Yo!Kart GoQuick v.9.3
Store Telephone Number There is a telephone number on the home page of the marketplace   There is no telephone number on the home page of the marketplace 
The ability to earn points for the orders and spend it in the online store  Yes  No
Product Code  Yes No 
Product Availability  Yes  No
The wholesale price  No Yes 
Online chat  No  Yes

 

You can add the telephone number on the Yo!Kart store home page by creating the individual webdesign. This will add the cost for the basic price of Yo!kart licence, but Yo!Kart official developers can create the personal design theme according to your demands.

You can also make settings for getting points for shopping. The points system depends on the money amount of all orders in the online marketplace. It can be set up by the store admin, not by vendor (seller).

Yo!Kart бонусная система

Yo!Kart has not only the bonus-point system, but also other promotional opportunities. Everything is configured by the store admin. 

 

Промоакции в Yo!Kart

  • Special Price — Here you can define the period when the special product price is available.  
  • Volume Discount — you define the product discount according to the number of the buyed products.  
  • Buy Together Products — you can create the set of goods to sell them together. 
  • Related Products — you define the products that are compliment each other.
  • Discount Coupons — you may create the discount coupon.
  • PPC Promotions Management — give discounts to specific buyers.
  • Rеwards On Every Purchase — bonus-point system in the online store. 
  • Manage Weightages — calculate the product popularity.
  • Recommended Tag Products Weightages — here you can set up the block Recommended Products. 

 

CS-Cart MultiVendor also has the functionality of getting points for shopping. This bonus system is better designed that in Yo!Kart, but the same thing, only the marketplace administrator can make configuaration settings for the bonus points programme. 

CS-Cart MultiVendor бонусные баллы

 

MultiLanguage Feature

 

CS-Cart MultiVendor offers translations to 27 workd languages. 

языки в CS-Cart MultiVendor

 

Yo!Kart platform appears on the market in 2015 and it is significantly yonger that Cs-Cart MultiVendor, thus it's loosing at the number of available translations. It's only 7 different languages are available in the admin panel. 

Yo!Kart языки

 

Payment System Integrations

 

В базе CS-Cart есть больше 50 интеграций с международными платежными системами. В лицензии для русского рынка есть платежные системы, которые широко используются на территории Российской Федерации:

  • Яндекс.Деньги,
  • WebMoney,
  • ROBOKASSA,
  • RBK Money,
  • Qiwi,
  • PayPal и другие.

В Yo!Kart всего лишь 15 интеграцией с международными платежными системами: Authorize.Net, PayPal, PayUMoney, CCAvenue, Omise, Citrus, khipu, paytm, Razorpay, Amazon, Stripe, 2CheckOut (2CC), payFort, PayUbiz, BrainTree by PayPal.  Но в Yo!Kart нет интеграций с российскими популярными платежными сервисами. 

 

Возможности продавцов (вендоров).

 

Возможности продавцов в обеих системах электронной коммерции практически одинаковы:

  • Продавец может заполнить страницу своего магазина на площадке.
  • Добавить страницу товара, который продает вендор. В карточке товара будут прописаны характеристики товара, опции, количество. Можно настроить мета данные для каждой страницы продукта.
  • Вендор может настроить варианты доставки товара.
  • Продавец может посмотреть отчеты о продаже своих товаров.
  • Вендор может принимать сообщения от клиентов, отвечать на сообщения.
  • Вендору доступны подписки на тарифные планы маркетплейса. История подписок. 
  • Настройка личных данных продавца.
  • Импор/экспорт товарных карточек в CSV формате.
  • Настройка языка и валюты мини-магазина на маркетплейсе.

 

Различия есть, но заключаются они в деталях.

 

Вот так выглядит панель вендора в Yo!Kart. 

 

А вот так панель вендора в CS-Cart

 

Административные панели обеих платформ интуитивно-понятные для обычных людей, которые до этого ни разу не сталкивались с созданием интернет-магазинов. 

Мы добавили в статью некоторые скриншоты из административных панелей обеих CMS для создания маркетплейсов, чтобы вы имели представление о функционале, возможностях и внешнем виде платформ. Естественно, что больше информации и общее впечатление о работе с "движками" можно получить, запросив демо. 

 


Персональное демо для CS-Cart MultiVendor

Персональное демо для Yo!Kart


 

Вывод

Сравнивая платформы CS-Cart MultiVendor и Yo!Kart, мы приходим к выводу, что их функционал во многом схож, но цена CS-Cart MultiVendor значительно выше цены на лицензии Yo!Kart. Но, CS-Cart MultiVendor намного лучше подготовлена для российского рынка. Вполне возможно, что адаптация Yo!Kart платформы для российского рынка будет стоить дороже лицензий ЦС-Карт Мультивендора. Это выгодно отличает её от Yo!Kart при использовании в России.

 

Если вы решили открывать маркетплейс в России, то мы рекомендуем использовать платформу CS-Cart MultiVendor.

 


Купить лицензию на ЦС-Карт Мультивендор 

 

 Key features CS-Cart MultiVendor v.4.12 Yo!Kart GoQuick v.9.3

   

 

 


Admin key features comparison

 

 Key features CS-Cart MultiVendor v.4.12 Yo!Kart GoQuick v.9.3
Website speed CS-Cart MultiVendor demo is in the green zone (on mobiles and desktops) due to Google PageSpeed Insights service. The website is slow on mobiles. The website performance on desktops is in yellow zone on Google PageSpeed Insights service.
Themes, design templates

Available languages 27 built-in languages 15 built-in languages
Payment provides

 Promotion tools

 Currency

 Vendor Payout System Cs-Cart has both automatic and manual vendor payouts. 
 Product Approval  Store admin approves new vendor products Products are approved automatically as vendor saves it.
 Ability to change the storefront look

 

 

 Key features CS-Cart MultiVendor v.4.12 Yo!Kart GoQuick v.9.3
Unlimited number of products and categories + +
SEO tools + +
Product search and filters + +
Google Analytics integrated + +
Customizable customer area + +
Available languages 26 built-in translations 13 in-built languages 
Default template modern and nice good enough
Responsive design - one available responsive skin + responsive e-mail notifications
Ability to change the storefront look Built-in Theme editor Built-in ready-made templates
Product comparisons + +
Commenting and rating + +
One screen checkout system + +
Zoomable product images + +
Previous/Next product navigation + +
Promotions (wishlist, gift certificate, special offers etc.) + +
Marketing tools (coupon codes, discounts, cross-sells, up-sells) + +
Payment providers more than 70 15
Widget mode + -
Social media promotion tools + +
Amazon and eBay system integration

eBay integration module ($125 for a lifetime license)

Amazon (-)

eBay (3 subscription plans, starting from $19.95 per month)

Amazon (-)

Newsletters management built-in News & Newsletters add-on MailChimp integration
Authorizations via social profiles + +
Multicurrency + +
Multi-Store capable +

-

Mobile version + (free up to 1000 products) one-time fee $299
Site speed

high

high

Marketplace with third-party modules/templates

marketplace.cs-cart.com

(will be officially launched soon)

marketplace.x-cart.com

(exists for a pretty long time)

 

From the table above we can see that CS-Cart and Yo!Kart have a large number of similar features, which may successfully serve to creating a perspective ecommerce shopping cart. But there are also some key differences.

 

Features that are included into CS-Cart but not in X-Cart and vice versa

1. Languages

CS-Cart:

There are 7 languages that are already built in CS-Cart by default (English, Italian, Germany, Norway, Hungary, Japanese, Russian). In previous CS-Cart versions there were even more languages available such as Spanish, French, Dutch, Greek, etc. We hope they will be also included in CS-Cart 4 soon. Anyway, you can always translate all language variables by using the on-site translating mode or via Languages in the admin panel. 

X-Cart:

In X-Cart we can find only four built-in languages - English, French, German and Russian. But in case you want to have a different language on your site you can translate the site content using .csv file with language variables. One more variant is to purchase fee-based language packs via the X-Cart marketplace.

 

2. Default templates

CS-Cart:

The default CS-Cart template is modern and very nice. Also, it is possible to create your own website look using the Built-in Theme editor - change storefront colors, fonts, logos, backgrounds in real time and without a single line of HTML or CSS code written. Also, you can choose available storefront style from the list. But the CS-Cart skin is not responsive. 

X-Cart:

The default X-Cart template is rather good. There are several available templates to choose from for X-Cart and one of them is responsive. Responsive design means that your website will look good on different screen sizes including mobile screens. It is a really great X-Cart advantage.

 

3. eBay/Amazon integration

CS-Cart:

Official eBay integration module is available for CS-Cart 4 for $125. It's a one-time purchase, that means a good money-saver. Talks about Amazon integration were around before, but no exact plans are known. 

X-Cart:

X-Cart offers eBay integration module for X-Cart 4.3 - 4.6 according to a subscription plan (from $19.95 to $149.95 per month depending on the number of products you have). Amazon integration is not available yet but promised to be in the future. 

 

4. Widget mode

CS-Cart

CS-Cart offers a great feature - the Widget mode. Widget mode means that a CS-Cart based online store can be easily embedded into any web page (for example, you have a Wordpress website and want to put your CS-Cart store in there). Just copy a few lines of the JavaScript widget code from a CS-Cart admin panel and paste it directly into your web page’s HTML source code. And... enjoy the store! Here is the video explanation how to use this mode.

X-Cart

X-Cart doesn't have such a feature.

 

5. Multi-store capability

CS-Cart:

One of the key CS-Cart benefits is its Multi-Store capability. It is really convenient for those who plan to have several different stores and administrate them easily via one admin panel. Even a free CS-Cart version is multi-store capable.

X-Cart:

In X-Cart there isn’t such a solution yet. But X-Cart team can develop a custom modification which will allow you to have multiple storefronts and manage them via one admin panel. The cost of such modification will depend on its complexity and customer needs, the initial price starts from $900 (quoted by X-cart in November 2013).

 

6. Mobile version

CS-Cart:

There is a built-in Twigmo add-on that makes CS-Cart store mobile-friendly for both a customer and a store administrator. It's free if you have up to 1000 products. $9/month for 1001-10000 products and $19/month for 10000-50000 products.

X-Cart:

As for X-Cart there is a ready-to-use X-Cart Mobile edition which allows your site to look and function great on all mobile devices. The one-time fee is $299.

 

7. Also, there are some minor differences between CS-Cart and X-cart.

For example, CS-Cart has a possibility to display the promotion text and the Brand name on the product details page and allows to watermark images. X-Cart doesn't do it by default. But X-Cart, unlike CS-Cart, has a built-in Greet Visitor module that greets a customer by the name when he/she returns to the site, Bill me later feature and Add to cart pop-up that shows related/also bought/random products. And some other minor differences.

 

Summary

In general, we have good impressions about both platforms. Each one of the presented e-commerce platforms can become a right solution for your business. You just need to choose what suits you better.

If you would like to have and easily manage several online stores, you'd better choose CS-Cart. If you don't need a multi-store feature or widget mode, but responsive template is the highest priority, go for X-Cart.

In general, CS-Cart (both the storefront and admin back-end) looks more up-to-date than X-Cart, and CS-Cart translated to more languages. But it's always up to you to make a choice. 

When choosing an e-commerce platform we always recommend everyone to try demo to be sure in your choice.

Explore both platforms now:

Thank you for reading Alt-team blog!

 

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