CS-Cart Multi-Vendor vs. Duda

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
Score 8.6 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor is an eCommerce marketplace software for SMBs available in cloud (No-Code) and self-hosted (On-Premises) versions. It allows users to open an online marketplace, where the user is the admin, and all the others—invited sellers. Each seller has his or her own micro-store with a customizable storefront, categories, filters, and search. Just like in Amazon. In the CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace platform, managing vendors is designed to be simple:…
$660
per year
Duda
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Duda, the eponymous platform from the company in Palo Alto, is a web design platform for companies that offer web design services to small businesses. The company serves customers from freelance web professionals to digital agencies, all the way up to the large hosting companies, SaaS platforms and online publishers.
$25
per month
Pricing
CS-Cart Multi-VendorDuda
Editions & Modules
Standard
$660
per year
Plus
$1,320
per year
Ultimate
$3,300
per year
Unlimited
Contact Sales
one-time fee
Basic
$25
per month
Team
$39
per month
Agency
$69
per month
White Label
$199
per month
Custom
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CS-Cart Multi-VendorDuda
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details25% discount available for annual pricing.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
CS-Cart Multi-VendorDuda
Considered Both Products
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
Chose CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
It's a one-time payment and the entire CMS is in your control, can list unlimited products and vendors. no need to depend on an e-commerce platform to pay huge commissions. promote your own brand globally. change the looks of your listing with multiple themes, there are vast …
Chose CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
For big vision in doing something in online marketplace, I think CS-Cart can help to scale up and run business smoothly. CS-Cart started their business in 2005 and since [then has been] running successfully worldwide. It means they have a large scale of experience in …
Chose CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
Some are expensive, the others are not user-friendly. In the end, CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace Platform is best in terms of these two very important factors.
Chose CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
We selected CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Marketplace Platform because we actually control the shopping cart. I would hate to get into a subscription model where a third party can take over your hard work because you didn't pay a monthly fee (or missed it). I also dislike the idea of …
Chose CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
With a most of our previous experience in .NET we have also used nopCommerce and Sitecore Commerce, however neither of these really have the multi-vendor marketplace functionality that we needed out-of-the-box. Though we needed to enhance our PHP capabilities, CS-Cart was the …
Chose CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
I have enquired with several multi vendor providing software companies in India, Singapore. Most of them are providing monthly rental basis only which am not all interested. My focused is that I wanted to purchase a multi vendor software and for that, I should be an owner. So, …
Chose CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
Shopify is less expensive than Mirakl and probably more feature-rich. Shopify is probably the cheapest upfront to get started and the best user experience (at least the easiest to get to a point where customers like it). MultiVendor is still an excellent product but it's tricky …
Chose CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
I selected CS-Cart Multi-Vendor because this meant that we did not need to hire developers to build a marketplace software. Using CS-Cart Multi-Vendor will keep us from hiring developers and will save a significant amount of time. I did not find a better multi-vendor …
Chose CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
The software has been on the market for years and is therefore mature.
Duda
Chose Duda
WordPress, Wix, Square Online and Odoo
Chose Duda
When comparing WIX to Duda, Duda is a breeze. Duda is better in every aspect I can think of from customizing, designing, to hosting. I am proud to use Duda as our website builder, we have built well over 200 different sites on Duda.
Chose Duda
Really good visual editor. Easy to use, predesigned templates and sections that are easy to add and update. White labeling for previewing sites with clients.
Chose Duda
Duda lets me customize the entire page. With Squarespace, many of the templates were limiting on editing the header and footer. Also in the past, I couldn't change the page title and page header to be different in Squarespace. This was not good for SEO. Wix is good but also a …
Chose Duda
I can't speak to why my agency selected Duda, but I can say from personal experience that building a website in Duda is much easier, and backed by better support than any other website builder I've used.

Duda allows me, as a web designer, to still create great looking and unique …
Chose Duda
Much easier for non-tech team members to work on building and maintaining websites. Previous Adobe-based websites clients have been very happy with Duda. Overall, clients can do a lot more on their own, if they choose, than with other website platforms we have used, or that …
Features
CS-Cart Multi-VendorDuda
Online Storefront
Comparison of Online Storefront features of Product A and Product B
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
8.6
Ratings
9% above category average
Duda
-
Ratings
Product catalog & listings8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Product management8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk product upload8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Branding8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile storefront8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Product variations8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Website integration8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual customization8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
CMS8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
8.4
Ratings
9% above category average
Duda
-
Ratings
Abandoned cart recovery8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Checkout user experience8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Payment System
Comparison of Online Payment System features of Product A and Product B
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
8.9
Ratings
7% above category average
Duda
-
Ratings
eCommerce security8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Product A and Product B
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
8.4
Ratings
9% above category average
Duda
-
Ratings
Promotions & discounts8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Personalized recommendations8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Product A and Product B
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
8.0
Ratings
0% below category average
Duda
-
Ratings
Multi-site management8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Order processing8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Inventory management6.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Shipping7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom functionality8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
-
Ratings
Duda
8.9
Ratings
10% above category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
-
Ratings
Duda
8.6
Ratings
13% above category average
API00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
-
Ratings
Duda
8.8
Ratings
13% above category average
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Page templates00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Library of website themes00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor
-
Ratings
Duda
8.6
Ratings
16% above category average
Content taxonomy00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
SEO support00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
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User Ratings
CS-Cart Multi-VendorDuda
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(0 ratings)
9.3
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.2
(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.2
(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CS-Cart Multi-VendorDuda
Likelihood to Recommend
Great for a quick and easy setup of a multi-vendor solution, supporting multiple stores / languages / payment options. Will probably need some tuning if you have 1 million products or so. Great if you have a PHP dev or team, probably not the best option if you don't know the language and need to customise backend logic.
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Duda is great for small to medium sized websites building, where some level of animation is ok and mostly for presenting online information, and its SEO performance is very good then. But for very large or heavily interactive websites it may not be the best choice.
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Pros
  • Easy to use
  • No third party control
  • Great support
  • Lost of [an] add-on to make it [a] more vast platform
  • Can sale [almost] any product
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  • Ongoing Education for agencies and users. Anton has done what he does best and turned Duda into a go-to-source for information, ideas, and practical implementation.
  • UX - The ability to create simple yet highly customizable sites.
  • Speed - Sites take much less time to build and maintain, allowing agencies to scale and business owners to spend more time on growing their core revenue channels.
  • Reliability - From technical reliability, reduced down-time to support, Duda is a reliability option.
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Cons
  • update subscription
  • 3rd party theme & addons subscriptions (its not sure that you have also updates in 2 years)
  • expensive license prices (if everything is cheaper, more peoples will buy it)
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  • Ecommerce can use some improvement--but this should be taken care of in 2023
  • A more robust app marketplace
  • More custom widgets
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Usability
The software consists of most of all e-commerce related features. Also, there are plenty of third party addons are available in the market which can improve our business. There are a lot of powerful themes available in the cs cart market which improve the look and feel on the front store. If CS-cart adjusted the price on their software license cost, controlling the third party addon cost and provide more freelancers with cheaper hourly rate for the customization on the cs-cart multi vendor software, the cs-cart company can be a master among other e-commerce software companies in the world.
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Upon using the builder for the first time, I found Duda to be extremely intuitive and easy to figure out, but also has a high skill-ceiling. After 5 years of building in the drag-and-drop builder, I continue to teach myself new tricks and methods to continually improve my process and design capabilities within the platform. I've built dozens of Duda sites and each one is better than the last.
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Support Rating
I've had very good support over the years. They've helped solve some issues here and there that were difficult to track down. Thumbs up.
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Implementation Rating
Mostly extremely easy to implement, both back-end logic as well as styling. Great addon marketplace helped, particularly around payment options.
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Alternatives Considered
For big vision in doing something in online marketplace, I think CS-Cart can help to scale up and run business smoothly. CS-Cart started their business in 2005 and since [then has been] running successfully worldwide. It means they have a large scale of experience in implementing online marketplace based software and we can rely on them.
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Duda lets me customize the entire page. With Squarespace, many of the templates were limiting on editing the header and footer. Also in the past, I couldn't change the page title and page header to be different in Squarespace. This was not good for SEO. Wix is good but also a little bulky and glitchy.
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Return on Investment
  • From an investment point of view, it is naturally much more profitable to purchase CS-Cart Multi-Vendor than to assemble a team of developers and try to create such a platform from scratch.
  • Creating a marketplace is a rather risky business. If you don't know a lot about marketplace building technologies, consider investing in a different business. But if you have already decided on the idea, and all you have to do is find a suitable platform, then CS-Cart Multi-Vendor will probably be a profitable investment. And if your sales go at least half a year after purchasing this platform, then you will quickly enough recoup these several thousand dollars.
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  • Duda has allowed our team to function quicker
  • Duda has allowed us to have more clients
  • Our clients are happier with their sites now
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ScreenShots

CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Screenshots

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