Shopify vs Volusion Comparison

It seems like they've thought of everything. As a developer, I've set up eCommerce sites using Wordpress/WooCommerce, Wix, Volusion, and Shopify. Shopify has them all beat hands down ... price is great, setup is easy, plenty of styles to choose from, cazillions of apps, reasonable monthly price. Some other ecommerce sites are a bit cheaper but the functionality or ease of use just isn't there.

I have worked with Shopify sites for several years and I feel like the Shopify Basic plan is getting more basic. It seems like many new features that get developed require one of the higher plans ... which is understandable but also unfortunate; considering the start-up nature of many Shopify businesses. I think it'd be cool if the more expensive plans where cheaper for a 6 month period while the store (hopefully) gets up and running.

How quick you can set this up! This is what is best about Shopify. The themes are great too and for a managed platform they actually provide a lot of flexibility to handle things design and functionality wise. Help is fast and great and actually care.

Nothing much but it can get expensive really quickly. Need to keep an eye out.

You can continue to add features that make the site work the way you want it to. It's very aesthetically pleasing and super user friendly. Easy to learn and customers and staff can navigate through the site with ease.

Every feature you want, you have to add on and pay for it. For a company with very few orders, it doesn't matter. But for a company on a Pro plan or with a large amount of orders, it gets very expensive very quickly. We are paying over twice what we paid with Volusion to get the same amount of features.

Shopify is the best shopping cart/e-commerce platform out there. I have used all kinds of cart platforms from opensource platforms that plugin to WordPress to other major e-commerce platforms like Volusion. Shopify is hands how the best. It's easy to use, very flexible, and well supported by the developer community. If you need something customized it's easy to do and you can easily find developers to do it. Everyone from large enterprise companies like Nike to individual sellers use Shopify and it scales across all of these entities.

I love it so I don't have anything bad to say about it. I guess they could improve their publishing system to give users a QA environment to check their changes before those changes are published live.

-Attractive interface -Attractive buy buttons

-Terrible programmers -Huge wait times for service -Customer service reps are poorly trained and fail to assist with almost all issues -Extremely buggy software

Shopify is SaaS (Software as a service), which means no need for hosting, software updates, security seal and so on It include Integrated payment and reasonable fees Best of class customer service and support. Really the best. (Not mention that many other platform don't even have a customer support) Wonderful and easy to set up and use admin and back office. Great SEO Many add-ons and apps available. You can get started with practically no upfront cost. Shopify allows you to sell offline and online store

If you require many apps the cost per month could be somewhat expensive. Shopify created it's own script, called liquid, which may make it harder, in comparison with other platform, to find an experienced programmer.

Initially when we got started 10 years ago, Volusion was the only platform that could handle the volume of products and the massive amount of product options we offered.

They have not kept up with the likes of 'Magento' or 'Shopify'. While easier to set up and use than Magento, they don't have the massive amount of available 3rd party custom apps available like Shopify.

- Its easy to use and customization is also very easy. - Its user friendly in building website. - Its less costly than other paid website builders for beginners.

- While using card payments you have to pay for SSL. - Its not open source that's why customization is limited.

The best thing about Volusion is that many of the features are automatically included in their packages. Unlike Shopify where you have to add other apps to do things you want it to do. We were on Volusion about three years before switching to Shopify and it wasn't our choice to switch.

It wasn't easy for my staff to learn and the dashboard isn't very user-friendly or aesthetically pleasing like it's competitors. There aren't many free themes that make your site look amazing so you really need to pay for customization unless you know how to do it yourself. Also, downtime. It didn't happen often but when it did, you just have to wait until it comes back up.

Volusion is a great solution for those who want to sell online and use something else other than Shopify. It offers a lot of great functionality and has an easy to use interface.

More customization and more developer capabilities.

At first i was excited to hear about volusion, there were compared to shopify..... who ever made that comparison i wonder if they ever even used either system ???? I did not use volusion for very long because with in the first 20 min of singing up i realized they had nothing i needed, there interrogations were like 4 apps, their customer service was great they did try to help me and followed up with me about what i needed from the site. but they just didnt have what i need. (i sell on multiple platforms) if you are usinsing this for a non ECommerce site,i think this may work for you. I do not recommend this for stores with goods/ selling ect.

I did not like that customer serivice wanted me to tell they what they need to add to their site.. they also said they did have other apps, but they were not online and we could "talk about them" not a fan of that.