Vendio Emerald, $ 149.95/mo. on Linux Shared

Emerald has been added on Sep 24, 2024, Aggregate Rating (2.7 out of 10 from 6 reviews)

🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
🔨 Control Panel :	[In-house]
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeLive Chat
🌏 Server Locations :	United States
⚑ Targeting :	US

See also initial Emerald plan location on their website!

📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

Vendio is a long-established US e-commerce software and hosted-services company founded in 1999. The business was originally known as AuctionWatch.com and became one of the early companies building tools around eBay's marketplace ecosystem. Co-founder Rodrigo Sales played an important role in Vendio's early development and served as CEO while the company expanded from auction-management software into a broader multi-channel commerce platform.

Vendio went through several important ownership changes. In June 2010, Alibaba (alibaba.com) agreed to acquire Vendio Services, Inc., making Vendio Alibaba.com's first US acquisition. Vendio continued operating under its own brand after the transaction. Another ownership change took effect on March 1, 2025, when vendio.com became part of Vendio Online Services LLC, which now operates the service.

Vendio today is primarily a cloud-based multi-channel e-commerce platform rather than a conventional web hosting company. Its main service brings inventory, marketplace listings, orders, customer communication, marketing tools and reporting into a single browser-based environment. Sellers can work with Amazon (amazon.com), eBay (ebay.com) and Etsy (etsy.com), including multiple eBay accounts, Amazon Seller Central and FBA functions, and Etsy inventory synchronization.

Inventory management is one of the stronger parts of the platform. Product quantities can be synchronized across multiple sales channels in real time, reducing the risk of selling the same low-stock item more than once. Vendio also supports variations, bulk editing, CSV imports, reusable product profiles, low-stock notifications and imports from Amazon or eBay.

Order management is integrated into the same environment. Orders from different marketplaces can be handled centrally, inventory levels are adjusted automatically, and tracking details can be synchronized back to supported marketplaces. This makes Vendio particularly useful for merchants who operate several marketplace accounts but want one operational dashboard.

Vendio also includes a collection of complementary tools such as Vendio Gallery, Traffic Booster, Counters Pro, Vendio Reports, Reviser, Buyer Appreciation, shipping-insurance tools, Store Widget, watermarking and Image Hosting. The image service supports bulk uploads, automatic resizing, image organization, auto-renew or auto-delete rules and optional ZoomStream high-resolution images. Vendio Reports handles sales, cost, profit and tax information, while Reviser is designed for individual or bulk changes to live eBay listings.

Vendio still maintains a Web Hosting service with domain registration, domain transfers and support for domains pointed to a Vendio hosting account. The hosting environment uses cPanel (cpanel.net) and includes File Manager, FTP accounts, redirects, subdomains, parked domains, addon domains, email accounts, webmail, spam filtering, backups, access logs and custom error pages.

This hosting service now sits separately from Vendio's main e-commerce business. Traditional hosting package specifications such as disk space, bandwidth, CPU limits and database allowances are no longer part of the main pricing structure, and Vendio does not operate a public VPS, dedicated-server or colocation product range. For most customers, the important Vendio services are therefore the hosted e-commerce platform, marketplace management tools and image hosting rather than traditional server hosting.

Vendio serves an international customer base, while the commercial interface is primarily in English and pricing is shown in US dollars. The main e-commerce environment is a modern hosted application, although parts of the older Web Hosting documentation belong to an earlier generation of hosting services and include references to older software and administration workflows.