What it really costs

CS-Cart Multi-Vendor pricing: what a year really costs.

CS-Cart Multi-Vendor is PHP software for a multi-vendor shop: you buy a licence, run it on a server, and add what it lacks from its add-on marketplace. Its hosted Cloud plans are listed as temporarily unavailable. Yclas is a hosted marketplace platform: we run the servers, updates and backups. This page puts its prices in one place: the plans, what a working site costs in its first year, and what you pay extra for.

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Last checked: 22 October 2026. Facts about other products come from their own websites; the sources are listed at the end of this page.

Cost

The prices, line by line.

Multi-Vendor Plus licence, one year with updates [1]	$1,449
Managed VPS from CS-Cart's official host, 11 months (the first is included) [2]	$1,199
Add-ons to match Yclas, bought one by one (see below) [3]	from $412.70
Mobile app after the first year [4]	$1,199 a year
Year one	About $3,060

The Standard edition costs $725 a year, without vendor coupons, vendor ratings, vendors managing returns or the app. Lifetime licences cost $3,590 (Plus) to $19,990, with one to five years of updates. Customer Care with modifications costs $2,419 or $4,359 a year.

What costs extra

AI search: NLP Smart Search AI add-on, $29.50 [5]
Automatic listing translation: AI Translator (GPT) add-on, $52.50 [6]
Offers and quotes: Buyers can ask a vendor a question; Make an Offer add-on $69, request a quote $99 [7]
Auctions: Auction add-ons from $29.70 [8]
Bookings and rentals: Booking add-ons from $99 [9]
Seller verification: Vendor KYC add-on, $49 [10]
Questions on listings: Product Q&A add-ons, $39 to $60 [11]
Disputes: Only a third-party Disputes add-on [12]
Referral rewards: Referral Marketing add-on, $45; Affiliate Extension, $89 [13]
Automatic social posting: Auto social posting add-ons; price not clear [14]

Not offered, or only with a developer

AI page builder: No AI page builder in the core or the add-on marketplace [15]
AI listing from a photo: AI add-ons make model photos and videos from product images; none writes the listing [14]
AI suggested replies: Not in the add-on marketplace [14]
Saved cards: Not listed [16]
Saved searches with alerts: No saved searches; a Price Drop Alert add-on [17]
Seller tax reporting (DAC7): No DAC7 report listed [18]

Yclas, for comparison

Marketplace, up to 300,000 listings: $149 a month, so $1,788 in year one, hosting and support included.

Questions

Questions people ask

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How much does CS-Cart Multi-Vendor cost?

In our count, a working site costs About $3,060 in year one. The Standard edition costs $725 a year, without vendor coupons, vendor ratings, vendors managing returns or the app. Lifetime licences cost $3,590 (Plus) to $19,990, with one to five years of updates. Customer Care with modifications costs $2,419 or $4,359 a year.

Is CS-Cart Multi-Vendor cheaper than Yclas?

Not once it is online. The Plus licence costs $1,449 a year and CS-Cart's official hosting starts at $109 a month, about $2,650 in the first year before add-ons. Standard is $725 a year without vendor coupons or the app. Yclas Marketplace costs $149 a month with hosting included.

What does CS-Cart Multi-Vendor charge extra for?

Among the features Yclas includes, 10 are paid add-ons or a higher plan on CS-Cart Multi-Vendor; the list on this page names each one with its source.

Sources

Checked on 22 October 2026. Prices change: the vendor's own page is always the latest word. If something here is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.

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