Comments on: Volusion Review And Suggestions

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By: Sohoce

Sohoce — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:33:24 +0000

I am currently using Prostores. They have a pretty good platform although some features are missing (Reviews, multiple tabs for product detail, multiple pictures).
They do have several positive points such as 200GB BW, 10GB storage, 100 email boxes and 50000 items for $74.95 per month plus 0.5% per transaction. It offers full integration with Ebay, being an Ebay company plus several extra add-on application for additional cost.
I was about to sign up with Volusion, but the BW is definitely a huge deal breaker, as we offer an inventory of 20,000 items.
I guess i will just keep looking for the “perle rare”!
Thank you for avoiding me a costly mistake. Keep up the good work!

By: HandyJaxson

HandyJaxson — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:20:14 +0000

you should do a review of corecommerce.com. I like them over Volusion and they are a monthly fee service also. Can you post a review of them if you have not done one already?

By: jaytee

jaytee — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:46:26 +0000

Man, this was a good review. Thanks for outlining their bandwidth issues. The prices they are charging border on scandalous. Signing up would have been a costly mistake.

By: Trezora - Glass Art Jewelry

Trezora - Glass Art Jewelry — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:16:50 +0000

Thank you!

Your comprehensive review saved me yet another costly mistake. I’m wanting to update my site and would have definitely gone over my BW limit. This process is at best overwhelming and your review has helped highlight the type of issues I need to consider. Did I already say Thank You?

Mendy

By: H. Andy Jaxson

H. Andy Jaxson — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:23:13 +0000

I agree with the above poster. I checked out Core Commerce along with Volusion and Core Commerce is a newer service, and they seem to offer a lot more from a bandwidth and hard drive point of view. I also talked to a sales guy who told me that with Volusion, they count product options as product also, so like if you were on the small plan for 20 products, you can run out of products really quickly if you have options like sizes and colors. With Core Commerce, the product options do not count, so on their small plan (which is 50 products), you can have 50 products with as many option as you need to have. So if you havent checked out Core Commerce I would. It seems finally there is someone to compete with Volusion that has the same if not better features and competitive pricing. And right now the first month is free with no setup fee…..so I am seriously considering giving it a shot.

By: CoreCommerce

CoreCommerce — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:50:10 +0000

Noticed your blog and just want to clear something up. Actually there’s is $2GB you can pre-purchase on the small business platinum plan (or corporate). So if you don’t need a dedicated server, which some don’t you can prepay $2/GB for extra bandwidth at the platinum level. So if you wanted 250 GB that would be $400 + platinum plan. Compare this to volusion as in this blog and at volusion that would have been $2350/month + the platinum level (they charge $10/GB). That is quite a difference.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:52:28 +0000

Cheryl sorry to disappoint you, but to just host this blog on those servers along with e-commerce I would have to go for the $1000 a month corporate package.

That just isn’t acceptable as this site is actually quite low traffic.

I don’t host any audio or video, or sell digital products here yet.

250GB a month transfer for $1000 isn’t good value, it is still $4/GB

By: Cheryl Williams

Cheryl Williams — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:52:35 +0000

You may want to look at CoreCommerce. You get a lot more bandwidth, they also use Rackspace.

By: Bev

Bev — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:40:36 +0000

I’m curious as to whether or not this “support Poop” continues or has been improved. I desperately need an e-commerce solution that “does it all” – but this sounds scary to a novice like me!