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So you purchased the multi-vendor shopping cart, iScripts MultiCart, and you’re ready to go. Great!
So where do you start?
Before listing products, you will need to create your product categories. Categories allow your users to locate products easier. Create your own unlimited amount of categories.
Watch our video and follow the steps to set up categories on your website!
One of the first steps to creating your site using the multi-vendor shopping cart, iScripts MultiCart, is to configure your site settings.
Generate revenue by taking advantage of the iScripts MultiCart product listing fees feature. Need help navigating the software?
Watch our video and follow the steps to set up your product listing fees!
We are proud to introduce the latest iScripts software release: iScripts MultiCart Enterprise.
Over the past year, many of our customers have been interested in a software that would allow the creation of multiple storefronts connected to a single ecommerce platform and database.
The new iScripts MultiCart Enterprise is similar to the original iScripts MultiCart, but expands on features and functionality, making ecommerce application similar to Shopster.com, and includes unlimited products, sites and vendors. This software clone incorporates the business model initiated by marketplaces like Shopster.
Our iScripts MultiCart Enterprise solution includes the tools needed for you to support an unlimited amount of storefronts, sellers, vendors and products while incorporating all the vital aspects of an online business into one easy-to-use ecommerce engine.
The software is a complete ecommerce and logistics engine that allows site administrators to service a market with independent storefronts, vendors, fulfillment agencies, warehouses, resellers all working together to promote products from a single database.
Customers that install iScripts MultiCart Enterprise on a server can customize the site according to their brand in order to create an instant distributed supply chain and ecommerce platform.
The software supports vendor, store, affiliate and reseller panels that allow third parties to sell and work independently to sell their own products, the site administrator’s products and or each other’s products. This is ideal for multi-level marketing companies, medium to large businesses distributing products via representatives and consultants or ecommerce site owners looking for a more scalable solution.
• Launch Multiple Storefronts – Market the same product independently on various sites and have all the orders sent to one place for simple management.
• Offer Multiple Vendors and Fulfillment – Items in the store fronts can be be fulfilled by different vendors.
• Independent Store Design – Change the look and feel of the created stores to market to a variety of niches and dominate the market.
• Automated Store Creation – Create a new site or store in a single click and forget about complex programming.
• Systematically Fulfill Orders – While the software organizes orders and sends them to the correct supplier or warehouse, you can focus your valuable time where it is needed most.
• Offer Deals and Specials – Couponcode functionality can be based site-wide or per store. This allows you to optimize marketing efforts for the biggest effect.
• Implement Recurring Payments – Customers can sign up once and receive a shipment every month for service without a any hassles.
• Grow Your Site with an Affiliate Program – The platform contains an integrated affiliate functionality that will allow you to receive more traffic by offering a commission on new sales to approved affiliates.
At iScripts, our specialty lies in custom tailoring our software to meet customer requirements. Let us know if you require any custom changes to meet your specific business needs and we will send you a fixed price quote as soon as possible.
Many of your competitors are already doing business through the Internet. The yearly growth rate of e-commerce is over 25 percent. E-commerce segments for businesses that sell to other businesses or B2B, as it is called, is escalating at an even faster pace. Naturally, at some point, you too decide that you need to have a piece of this action!
The seven deadly sins of a bad e-commerce site are:
iScripts Multi Vendor Shopping Cart is a unique shopping cart software program that can help you create an e-commerce marketplace with multiple sellers in the backend.
iScripts MultiCart encompasses all the components required for a good e-commerce site. This unique concept allows you to create very unique e-commerce sites similar to Amazon marketplace or Etsy.com. Customize your site using a template system that allows for complete customization into your existing site.
Click on the following link to see a free online demo of iScripts MultiCart: http://www.iscripts.com/multicart/beforedemo.php.
To purchase iScripts MultiCart click on the following link: Buy iScripts MultiCart.
We get a number of enquiries from potential customers asking us to compare the inherent business model of iScripts MultiCart to that of existing marketplaces. Customers used to ask how its similar to Amazon market place model. Recently we are getting questions on how it’s comparable to Dawdle.com and Etsy.com.
Our Chicago neighbors Dawdle.com is a new online marketplace specifically for gamers. Main point of the site is to make it “moronically easy” for gamers to list, buy or sell games. The site caters to both individual sellers and professional sellers. The site does not charge any listing fees. Dawdle charges a commission (12% for public) when a transaction is completed. Dawdle charges buyers and sends the money less commission to the sellers by direct deposit. This is similar to the business model of iScripts MultiCart. Additionally, Dawdle has a Priceline like name your price method. This is not part of iScripts MultiCart, as the idea behind iScripts MultiCart is to create storefronts and not auction sites.
Etsy is a peer to peer marketplace for handmade items. Brooklyn based Etsy describes their site as a crafty cross between Amazon and Ebay and Your Grandmas basement. Here users list the items for sale. There is a $0.20 listing fee per item. Once its sold, similar to eBay buyers pay directly to seller through paypal. Seller ships the item to buyer. When the transaction is successful Etsy charges a small commission (3.5%) to the seller’s credit card on file. There are few differences from this model and iScripts Multicart model. First of all in MultiCart buyer pays to the main store not the seller. This is to provide the security of paying to a well known merchant instead of some stranger somewhere. I would be very skeptical to pay to stranger compared to an established business. Another reason for not having a peer to peer payment is that, it limits you to buy from one seller during a transaction. With iScripts MultiCart model a single transaction can include items from multiple sellers. However if you choose to follow Etsy model, it can be achieved by MultiCart with some simple customizations. Also Etsy has a listing fee and iScripts MultiCart does not.
Another business with a similar business model to that of iScripts MultiCart is Amazon marketplace. There seller lists an item at Amazon.com. Buyer buys it. Buyer pays Amazon.com. Seller recieves the order and ships the item to buyer. Seller gets a check from Amazon, after deducting the commission. Some of the advantages with Amazon Model is that I, as buyer am paying to a Amazon. Not to some schmuck in a basement somewhere. That’s huge confidence booster. For the seller Amazon does the marketing, payment processing etc.. for a small fees. This allows the seller to focus on what they do best making widgets as fast as they can and make them well. For Amazon they transfer the product manufacturing, fulfillment etc.. to the seller. They utilize their brand name and powerful online store technology to earn revenue. This is a win-win-win situation. This is the same model iScripts MultiCart follows. As I mentioned earlier in another post, we created this model before Amazon adopted it. No, I am not going to ask for royalty from Amazon.
DaWanda.com is the European version of etsy.com. This marketplace sells unique handmade items and tailor-made items. DaWanda charge a commission of 5% when an item is sold. They payment is going from buyer to seller just like eBay.com or Etsy.com. There is no listing fees for sellers. iScripts Multicart software would require only some minor changes to clone the DaWanda business model.
If you want to create an online marketplace with multiple vendors support take a look at iScripts MultiCart script. If we are close to what you are looking for, we can customize the software to cater your specific needs.
Just to let you know we have just released iScripts Multicart 2.1. It has added few features requested by new and existing customers. Thank you for all suggesting new features. These are the main changes: In shipping we have added real time pricing for UPS, US Postal Service, Fedex, Canada post, Australian Post. The shipping module also supports simple and complex shipping charge calculations. In the tax module we have added some flexible tax mechanisms. It can now support US sales tax, GST in Canada/Australia, VAT in Europe, PST in Canada. You can also assign a flat tax structure for all your products. On Payment Gateways module we have added support for Google Checkout, YourPay and Worldpay. This is in addition to existing support for Paypal and Authorize.net Then there are number minor improvements in terms of usability and functionality. Also there are a bunch of bug fixes. We are sure these improvements will keep iscripts Multicart the best solution for your multiple vendor marketplace Let me know what you think about the new iScripts Multicart 2.1
After months of hard work, new version of iScripts MultiCart is finally released. Many of you have been inquiring about the new version for some time. We wanted to make sure the quality of the web application does match your expectations.
This new version is adding to the feature rich iScripts MutiCart 1.1 . In addition to make many of the existing features more user friendly for administrator, sellers and consumers, we have added new functionalities to make this product a unique shopping cart software to power online businesses.
iScripts MultiCart now supports digital good delivery in addition to existing physical product. Adding digital goods will enable entrepreneurs to start aggregate businesses to sell ebooks, templates, logos, software, scripts, music , other audio files etc.. This would work very similar to current model of iScripts Multicart. There would be a single storefront where consumers can view items from multiple vendors in the backend. Each of the vendors will have their own management panel to manage their digital products, prices, delivery etc.. You as the administrator will be able to control all aspects of the site through a powerful admin panel. It can also continue to power drop shipping and virtual mall type commerce sites.
Here is a comprehensive list of new features added in version 2.0.
With all these new features price of the iScripts Multicart 2.0 remains unchanged at $99.95 for owned license. You will receive 100% of the source code in a non encrypted format. Yes, its is a PHP web script with Ajax and mySQL as database. So you can make any changes you require as you please. As always we are here to customize the product to meet your specific requirements. If you feel iScripts MultiCart is close to what you are searching, let us know. We can modify it to meet your specific business model. We at iScripts is psyched about the new release.
Let me know if you have any comments for questions.
Aji Abraham
We created iScripts MultiCart almost 18 months back after 6 months in development. Initially the idea started out as a website for handcraft products. There are a lot of people who makes these cute little things with clay, clothes and anything you can imagine. Most of them do this as a hobby or side business. They are good in crafts. Well… most are. They never strike me as good marketing folks. So the idea of them managing their own ecommerce store selling these crafts did not make much sense. As a one man/woman show they can either spend time on creating new beautiful crafts items or doing web marketing. It is a crime to ask them to do the marketing by themselves. if they hire they need fork over most of the money from the sales to the so called experts (including us) for any meaningful results. It did not make much sense. So we thought wouldn’t it be wonderful if we create a co-op web store for handcrafters? All they need to do is list the products and ship out to the buyers. We would in turn take care of the marketing, technical aspects, payment processing, tech support for the handcrafters. in turn we would charge them a small fee based on the cost. as its a narrow vertical, we can market things well.
After talking to bunch of handcrafters in the summer fairs we created handcraftweb.com. Initially it was working out very well. but it turned out, we are very good in creating web software. Not very good promoting a website. It meant going to all those craft fairs and selling this idea to hard crafters. Then visiting bunch of forums and magazines for crafters and advertising. It sounded too much work, in an area where we have not much interest or experience. So the site kind of slowed down.
then we got a call from somebody looking for a multi-vendor site for baseball cards. He asked if we willing to sell the software and customize it for his site. sure, why not? We did it and their business was doing pretty good. Then we realized this is a good software for small industry niches, where it does not make sense for individual players to create their own stores. So this offers entrepreneurs an opportunity for creating a one stop shop for that niche. The niche could be handcrafts or baseball cards. Finally we decided to make the software more customizable and make it an official iScripts product. so we created iScripts Multicart as a multi-vendor shopping cart.
I looked around and did not see many products competing with it directly. So I was happy we came up with something very unique and new. Explaining this to customers who calls to find out exactly what this software can do for them. Most of them had some business model in mind and wanted to find out if this can meet their need off the shelf or can we customize to make it to meet their model. I used to explain it as a multi vendor system with a single store front. Then folks where confused about who handles fulfillment , who takes care of payment etc.. So to make things clearer we used to explain it as a virtual mall software. So as a mall, you would have a number of vendors selling their own things. But it would be under the umbrella of single entity(mall). Most of the potential customers called during the time was looking for a business model where individual shops need to manage their payment processing as well as fulfillment. So I was looking for better ways to explain what exactly iScripts MultiCart do?
Last week when I was explaining the software to a potential customer for this script, she asked if it works like the new Amazon.com. Well it is.. It was an interesting realization that Jeff Bezos settled on the same business model for Amazon, as we did for handcrafters. The only business model which made any money for Amazon after all these years. If you notice lately(2006-07) Amazon is not just selling products under their brand. They push customers to other vendors, even competitors, who does the fulfillment. Only difference is Amazon used their super weight brand to attract customers and then push to other vendors for almost everything under the sun. In the case of handcrafters, we were focusing on a very small niche.
There are few hundreds of shopping cart software out there. So why one more? Good question.
This is not a shopping cart. This is a business model in a package. A business model internet was supposed to be delivering – the aggregator business model.
There are a number of niche markets out there which cannot be supported by local shops. The reason is demand from the local region is not able to sustain the business. We have seen these types of businesses migrating to the web very successfully. There are some other businesses where the suppliers are scattered and low yielding. One of the prime example is handcrafts market. There are a number of hand crafters out there. most do it as a hobby or part time business. for them marketing directly to consumers is an expensive proposition.
That’s where the iScripts.com Multicart comes. Multicart enables you to act as the aggregator, while giving full control to the suppliers. Take a look at HandCraftsWeb for an example of implementation of multicart in the handcrafts market. Suppliers can add products, enter the prices, descriptions, select shipping methods, provide their profile etc.. When user comes in, they view the see the store as a regular store with product from multiple suppliers just like regular retail storefront. Consumers purchase items from the store and they get, the products in the mail. For the consumer there is difference in the shopping experience. You the aggregator collects money from the consumer based on the price set by the seller. You keep a percentage for your efforts and service (say 10-25%). Credits rest of the amount to the seller. Seller can request money from you based on thresholds you set.
For you the aggregator, your responsibility is to run the site, do marketing, get sellers sign up. Sellers responsibility is to make products, list them for sale and ship the item when they receive an order from you.Naturally the script accepts payment, it has categories. It has interfaces for consumers, sellers, and administrator.
Take look at iScripts Multicart for details about this unique web software. It is done using php/mySQL.
As always, we can customize it to meet your specific requirements. Drop us a line.
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