--- description: Learn more about CS-Cart Store Builder price, benefits, and disadvantages for businesses in Australia. Read reviews from verified users and discover similar tools that fit your business needs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: CS-Cart Store Builder Cost & Reviews - Capterra Australia 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [eCommerce Tools for Small Businesses](/directory/31259/small-business-ecommerce/software) > [CS-Cart Store Builder](/software/62229/cs-cart-b2b-b2c) # CS-Cart Store Builder Canonical: https://www.capterra.com.au/software/62229/cs-cart-b2b-b2c Page: 1 / 4\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/62229/cs-cart-b2b-b2c?page=2) > A turnkey solution that includes all of the necessary features and functions to build a successful eCommerce business. > > Verdict: Rated **4.6/5** by 68 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses CS-Cart Store Builder? CS-Cart is a perfect solution for those who open any online business, from a small startup to a large B2B web shop and want to find a great combination of rich functionality and affordable price. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 68 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Bolide Network - **Founded**: 2005 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: USD 1,350.00 - **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free version available) - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise), Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile) - **Supported Languages**: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian - **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize and 198 more ## Features - CRM - Catalog Management - Communication Management - Data Security - Email Marketing - For Small Businesses - Inventory Control - Inventory Management - Mobile Access - Multi-Channel Marketing - Order Management - Payment Options - Promotions Management - Reordering - Reporting & Statistics - Reporting/Analytics - Returns Management - Reviews Management - SEO Management - Shipping Management - Shopping Cart - Template Management - Third-Party Integrations - Website Management ## Integrations (3 total) - MYOB Acumatica - PayPal - QuickBooks Online Advanced ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Chat ## Category - [eCommerce Tools for Small Businesses](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/31259/small-business-ecommerce/software) ## Related Categories - [eCommerce Tools for Small Businesses](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/31259/small-business-ecommerce/software) - [B2B eCommerce Platform Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/31821/b2b-ecommerce-platform/software) - [eCommerce Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/3/ecommerce/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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I will say in the past year I never wait for more than 24 hrs for a response. > > Great visibility on Google because the rich content provided in this software. ----- ### "CS-Cart user since 2008" — 5.0/5 > **Olivier** | *28 May 2023* | Apparel & Fashion | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **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... > > 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. ----- ### "I wish we would've gone magento\!" — 2.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *17 December 2018* | Retail | Recommendation rating: 0.0/10 > > **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) > > 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\! ----- ### "The Best Option" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *28 January 2019* | Retail | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **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. > > 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. ----- ### "CS-Cart Excellent website software" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *19 February 2019* | Retail | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **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. > > Overall I would completely recommend CS cart to anyone trying to start a web business. 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