--- title: "CS-Cart Store Builder Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of CS-Cart Store Builder. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if CS-Cart Store Builder is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/b2b-ecommerce-platform/cs-cart-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Headless eCommerce Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/ecommerce/headless-comparison/) / [CS-Cart Store Builder](https://www.softwareadvice.com/b2b-ecommerce-platform/cs-cart-profile/) / CS-Cart Store Builder Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/b2b-ecommerce-platform/cs-cart-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/b2b-ecommerce-platform/cs-cart-profile/alternatives/) # CS-Cart Store Builder User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.6/5 - Total reviews: 69 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.6/5 - Customer support: 4.5/5 - Value for money: 4.7/5 - Functionality: 4.6/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 53 reviews (77%) - 4 stars: 10 reviews (14%) - 3 stars: 3 reviews (4%) - 2 stars: 3 reviews (4%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - I would highly recommend the cart. - Customer support is very efficient, and the number of experts outside the publisher is substantial, leaving plenty of room for price competition. - Highly customizeable. ## CS-Cart Store Builder customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 69 (page 1). ### CS-Cart Review - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Alexis D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Wholesale - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Simple storefront setup of the store as an administrator. User's friendly storefront for our clients. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It is a very easy to learn software concerned its functionality and use. #### Cons I haven't any cons to mention so far from my experience. --- ### After using many carts CS Cart became the final destination, 10 years and running! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Isa A. - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered CS Cart rocks! You don't need anything else #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Slow, lack of support and not buyers friendly! - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Konstantin A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Arts and Crafts - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Using CS-Care for years and overall it is fine. But if to make a choice now, I would never choose CS-Cart again. Support is really slow and inefficient. But the main problem, that CS-Cart developers are great programmers, but bad sales persons. They never had own webshops or even sell something to customers. The great example - that in CS-Cart architecture E-mail is mandatory field. The first rule of sales - the process must be as easy as it can be. But nobody from CS-Cart understand that! So I live for years with many abandoned carts because many people does not want to enter e-mails but nothing possible without it. There are 3 addons which allow to avoid this, but all of them works with own bugs... So, after a years of experience I would not recommend. Although the design is great and really simple to use! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Easy of use: install, setup and modify. #### Cons Was build not by salesmen but programmers. --- ### The best eshop platform with ease of use! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ioannis P. - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered This is a great and secure platform with great support in an affordable price. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Easy to use eCommerce software, value for money and good technical support. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Patrick B. - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I have tried other eCommerce programs, but none compare to CS Cart for ease of use, value for money and support. Excellent. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros CS Cart is very straight forward to use, and offers a plethora of features to sell products on the web. We were able to integrate it into our bespoke stock control system so that stock levels online were synced. The product entry scheme is very detailed . You can tailor the features to suit the requirements of the items that are listed. You can combine products, or list matching products. Products are organised into categories on the website, and this process also offers many possiblities to make things easier for site visitors. The administration panels has a promotions section to tailor offers on specific products at specific times, so you can plan your marketing ahead of time. You can also do promotions to your existing customers, or types of customers. The administration panel allows you to design you pages. The format is based on blocks and banners, and is really easy to configure. CS Cart also allows you to offer more than one payment provider so your customers have a choice. There is a SEO section to help you get to the top of the rankings. There is a comprehensive set of reports for dealing with orders when they come flooding in. Each report can be configured with you company logo, and you can keep your customers updated with emailed reports Simple! If all these details are not enough, then you can access the thriving community of add on developers who have added even more functionality to the core program. What is not to like. Finally, if you are like me and not too confident on the technical side, then CS Cart has a great customer support section. Polite, prompt and very very helpful if you are in trouble. They don't make you feel stupid, they explain and fix the problem quickly. #### Cons I would like to see more features on the mobile site. The numbers accessing my site by phone is increasing quickly, and I would like to offer more options for these customers, --- ### I've been using CS-Cart for 9 years and with 3 stores, I'm perfectly happy with it - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Nikolai T. - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I've been using CS-Cart since 2010,starting with a small local website. It's still live (version 3.х) and kicking. Then I've started my first international website,worked well until we closed the business. My current top store is probably the top in the country, and it's also doing well in the region and even, occasionally, finding a place across Europe (with the UK online stores domination, it's not easy, considering main language differences). Apart from the occasional lack of some specific functionality of some third-party add-on, I've been perfectly happy with CS-Cart. I only wish they could add some functions in the base software or as in-house add-ons (preorder functionality,for example, can be improved a bit). #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Great for SEO, I've been ranking any of my websites higher than competitors Really easy to build the base layout of the store with categories, subcategories, using product filters, etc. Great out of the box functionality Plenty of add-ons (paid and free) Flexible front end design Semi-lightweight (could be better, not a wordpress level of light yet) #### Cons Lack of some local integrations (like couriers or payment systems), you have to pay someone to do these Some third party add-ons are not great, and their support can be less than stellar Upgrades are resource intensive and you might need to contact your server support, sometimes to no avail --- ### The Best Option - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Cs Cart Multivendor: Best ecommerce tool ever - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Yinka A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros My company has been using Cs cart Multivendor for over 4 year now and the experience we had with it has been an awesome one. very friendly and easy to use platform. One of the important thing that I cannot missed to say is that user can use this platform without any guide as they have made everything easy for all their users. To upload, update, activate and disable is very easy to on cs cart. Also to register vendor, set up vendor plan, approve vendor, deactivate vendor and the management of vendor is very easy. The most advantage of using cs cart is that there is development (test unit) to test any of the changes you intend to make on the life unit. This will enable you to get your website up running at all time as without any error. Their support is vert efficient as they are ready at anytime to work on any request submitted by their user. #### Cons Cs cart should provide user guide for our vendor to upload their product. --- ### Review of CS-Cart Ecommerce Software - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Philip R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I have been using CS-Cart software for 8 years or so. It has come a long way. I am overall pleased with my decision to select this software. They have worked hard to fix bugs that accompanied updates early on and improve the updating process. They really seem dedicated to putting out a top-notch e-commerce product. The block architecture allows even novices to customize their own site and I do most of the website work myself with little computer experience. When I need extra help the customer help desk is very attentive and solves any issues quickly. There are now numerous add-ons to address most needs of a website owner and when custom work is needed there are capable developers to handle this work for you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Ease of Use Very Customizable Affordability Active helpful community Very attentive Help Desk Constantly improving software Lots of features Lots of add-ons to select from #### Cons Checkout process could be better and in my case required an add-on Updating process is nerve-racking although much improved over the past --- ### The best platform for a multifunctional webshop - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Vlatka M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered In one purchase you get a nicely designed web shop, with many options and features, easy to use- a webshop's owner dream. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It's amazing how many features are included in CS-Cart, and I think that's the best 'pro'. Various possibilities of customer rewarding options, product options, easily translatable for multi-language sites...are just a few of features. Admin panel in very intuitive and easy to use. Documentation covers every possible issue, and customer support is fast.Several skins (themes) and you can always get some new ones. Maybe the best of all: it is so well SEO optimized that my web shop got to the first Google page in a matter of months. #### Cons None that I can think of...I've been working with several webshop platforms, and CS-Cart is the only one I would recommend to others. --- ### A great program to work with - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Matías J. - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Best e-commerce solution on the market - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Talmacel l. - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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 #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Great self hosted cart that is fairly user friendly with great 3rd parts addons. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Adam D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall very happy with CS Cart, has aided my business growth. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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 --- ### CS cart over the years. - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### good software that arises between prestashop and magento, better than x-cart - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Fabrizio A. - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered immediate assistance via skype / messenger for small jobs to do on the fly #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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 --- ### Most feature packed CMS out there! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Faisal W. - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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 #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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 --- ### Excellent ecommerce software that you can sell anything on the web - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Lefteris G. - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Keep up the good work guys #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### User friendly E-Commerce Application! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Matt W. - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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'. --- ### CS-Cart user for 10 years - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Eli H. - Industry: Retail - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Excellent #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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 --- ### Very the best cart option for car parts internet shop - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Velisa B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used other for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Large, fine and honest community of users is advance when you have to find solution for unusually problems. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### I tried many other shopping carts before trying the trial of CS-Cart... I have not looked back! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Maurice R. - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used other for less than 12 months - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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 #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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! --- ### Best Ecommerce Solution - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Catalin B. - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### CS-Cart Rocks - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Kare K. - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: April 2016 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 --- ### Great Shopping Cart!! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Alan B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2026 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### CS-Cart user since 2008 - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Olivier L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Apparel & Fashion - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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... #### Reasons 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. #### Reasons for switching to CS-Cart Store Builder My first eCommerce site project (launched in 2006) was based on VirtueMart. VirtueMart, like WooCommerce, is a simple plug-in for a general-purpose engine, unlike CS-Cart, which is a real eCommerce solution.I quickly realised that customising and, above all, maintaining too many plug-ins was hell. I spent hours, days and even months trying to get this task right.CS-Cart solves these problems at the click of a mouse, because it's a truly stable eCommerce solution. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/b2b-ecommerce-platform/cs-cart-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- CS-Cart Store Builder Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice