Every business is unique. It is simply impossible to design a system that meets everyone's needs. Even if you manage to take into account all existing options, soon someone will come up with something new: a product, a service, a form of interaction with customers. And basic functionality will again not be enough.
The basic version includes a visual editor that allows you to change the design of website pages at your discretion, even without programming knowledge. It allows you to quickly load products, automatically create product cards and, if necessary, edit them in bulk.
However, there is a whole range of functions that are not implemented in the basic package.
The main beauty of CS-Cart is that it is open source. That is, changes can be easily made to it. Of course, not everyone can do this. You need to be an experienced programmer who understands the features of a specific CMS.
But a good specialist can always customize the system for a specific business: write code that implements the missing functionality, and integrate it into the CMS. Now there are a huge number of ready-made modules written by third-party programmers. The main thing is that the module is perfectly compatible with the basic package. Therefore, you should purchase them only from trusted partners.
Most online stores update information about balances once a day, and this is really enough for adequate work. Especially when it comes to large and expensive purchases. By definition, the demand for them is small, they are bought infrequently.
It’s another matter if it is a large marketplace that operates throughout Russia and sells small and inexpensive goods in large quantities. Firstly, actual availability changes very often, and at any moment an item that is listed as in stock may run out. Secondly, our country is large and stretches across many time zones. When Moscow goes to bed, the Far East is already waking up and starting to shop. And when to update the remaining balances?
The standard set of functions, naturally, does not contain suitable solutions. Therefore, you need to look for a ready-made module or write a new one. It can block the “add to cart” button during the update or display a warning that an update will occur soon and the quantity of this product may change.
There are many interesting solutions in the field of site moderation, especially if this is not just an online store, but a marketplace, where sellers fill out information about products themselves. And there can be a great many sellers, and explaining to each and correcting errors manually is time-consuming, troublesome and expensive.
For example, we have developed a module that monitors and removes all links from product descriptions and changes the name in accordance with a template. This is necessary so that the site meets the requirements of search engines.
