CS-Cart Shopping Cart Review

This is an honest review for CS-Cart shopping cart software. I’m not an affiliate or get anything from them for reviewing it.

We sell commercial carpet cleaning equipment and supplies www.scrubmeister.com. I looked for a long time to find something that would offer all the features I wanted. Thought our list of needs was pretty basic but I guess not? Most don’t offer what I was looking for.

Tried to set up a cart using some popular shareware. After spending a week programming the thing I still didn’t have the features I wanted nor was it set up with products and ready to sell. Gave up on that and started looking for something commercial. Wanted something I could host on my own server so it had to be stand alone software.

After looking for about a week I came across CS-Cart. It had everything I wanted out of the box. Check out their site www.cs-cart.com. It is quite extensive and also has a demo store you can try. They have a small support forum, ticket system, etc. We have been running the software for about a year now. It has gotten better and several versions later it runs great and has fewer bugs. We paid $250 at the time for this software. I think it is up to $275 now but I would still spend the money for it. It comes with some support credits but if you need additional support you either have to pay for it or use their forums. There is a manual you can download and a knowledge base. I was pretty much able to do all of it using the manual, knowledge base and forum. Only had to ask a couple of questions from support. I do have some experience with php programs since we’ve been running forums for a few years. While I wouldn’t call myself a wizard I can usually figure out some of the basics. Most of what I learned from the forums software translated to the CS-Cart software.

If you want to customize the software there are commercial mod programmers and skin (theme) designers who specialize in CS-Cart. I’m running a stock skin at the moment but I may do something custom down the road?

Not sure if it bothers anyone but these guys are out of Russia. They do have some people and servers here in the US. I gave it a lot of thought before I bought but it was hard to overlook what the cart did for the money so I gave it a shot. Glad I did.

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