What is CS-Cart?
CS-Cart is a flexible, scalable ecommerce platform for building online stores. Originally launched in 2005, CS-Cart has grown to become a popular open-source choice for small and enterprise-level online merchants.
Some key benefits and capabilities of CS-Cart include:
- Flexible catalog management with support for thousands of products, categories, attributes, etc.
- Multi-store functionality to manage multiple online stores from a single admin panel
- Hundreds of free and paid third-party addons to extend functionality
- Powerful promotions engine for configuring sales, coupons, discounts, etc.
- Responsive templates and themes for optimal viewing on any device
- Advanced shipping management with support for popular carriers
- Internationalization features for selling globally
- Built-in marketing tools like an email newsletter builder
- Scalable architecture suitable for small to very large catalogs
CS-Cart continues to be developed and improved by a community of developers and users. It strikes a nice balance between flexibility and ease-of-use. The open-source codebase and availability of addons allows merchants to adapt CS-Cart to their unique ecommerce needs.