BigCommerce is a SaaS platform that allows SMBs to develop eCommerce sites. Features include the capabilities to design the storefront, configure products, manage payments, generate traffic, and optimize conversion.
$29.95
per month
Volusion
Score 4.8 out of 10
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Volusion is a cloud-based ecommerce solution from the company of the same name in Austin, TX. It features an intuitive dashboard, built-in marketing and promos, SEO, templates, and tools to customize look and appearance.
BigCommerce is much better than Volusion, although we are also paying a lot more for it so it may not be a fair fight. BigCommerce offers much better product catalog management and marketing options.
BigCommerce is better than both in almost every way. Big Cartel is a great platform for small art based businesses but doesn't have the functionality required for a more complex business. We moved our business from Volusion to BigCommerce years ago, as the platform was …
I spent 4 years on the Volusion platform. While being a website geek and loving all the options I had to make it very unique and specific, and the bulk edit for products was amazing, Volusion charging for bandwidth usage as well as the whole back end would be much more …
Shopfiy did not provide migration services from our previous platform. The help we received with migration saved our team hours of work and allowed us to be productive with other important parts of the business. Additionally, BigCommerce offered advanced features suitable for a …
We dropped Volusion and moved to BigCommerce due to technical issues that Volusion would not fix involving variations and images. We are happy with the move to BigCommerce and have no plans on changing.
Started our business as a Drupal site because of the flexibility, but required too much programming and cost to maintain. Tried Volusion, but dashboard too complicated. Shopify was best alternative but too time consuming for us to migrate. Bigcommerce is something we know and …
I came from a custom website to Volusion. I used Volusion for 6 months before I realized their astronomical fee structure. BigCommerce has a standard price each month, which is important for me as an artist.
Volusion didn’t have some product presentation features we wanted, Shopify felt small for designs, Shopify Plus was closest but inventory handled differently. In the end it was about recommendations from other 3rd party users that helped make the decision.
Volusion didn’t seem to take itself seriously enough to continue developing its platform as e-commerce took hold with more and more small businesses. In particular, our needs included more SEO and CSV capability that BigCommerce had and Volusion didn’t.
We deal in firearms. I tried Shopify first back in 2016 and that was a miserable mistake, very firearm NOT friendly there. Then we went to Volusion the next month and we were quite happy there for 7-1/2 years and several million $ in sales. The issue is Volusion was losing …
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BigCommerce offers a better value and is easier to use.
BigCommerce met more of the needs of our company than any other SaaS eCommerce option when I compared them on paper. Then I did a test of BigCommerce and 2 or 3 others, and there was no competition -- the customer service before the sale was exceptional with BigCommerce and …
We evaluated and used numerous platforms before finally landing with BigCommerce. Some of the platforms were cookie-cutter and didn't offer enough freedom to customize certain things. Other platforms required each individual piece of the platform to be manually added.... adding …
Other products I looked into either required too much expert coding to set up a website, or they were too simple and did not allow bulk product imports via flat file. BigCommerce fills the space between enterprise level and very small business well. It's a great platform for …
BigCommerce is by far the easiest, most secure, and most worry-free of the competition. It falls a little short to Magento in the coupon code area, and Shopify has more out of the box gimmicks, but, in the end, they all fall short compared to BigCommerce.
While I'm a firm believer that no e-commerce platform is perfect, you are always trading one positive for a negative, BC seems to have the best combination of price and built-in feature set. I don't like stripped down platforms that just tell you, "oh, there's an app for that", …
BigCommerce knows how to creat a win/win relationship with their customers. They beat the competition on price, focus on customer service, features, and functionality that blows their competition away. They don't play games; they don't waste my time. They have, and continue to …
My personal business needs are small - I only sell 3 products (currently) online. Of the three solutions mentioned above that I interviewed, only BigCommerce provided me with a low cost, no fee shopping cart alternative that also gave me unlimited bandwidth, great support and …
We selected Volusion originally because of the price point, but we had NO IDEA how much we would be spending in excess to actually get the functionality that was sold to us by their salesmen and women. We are switching to BigCommerce this spring.
Volusion provided the best overall list of features, performance history, and bang for the buck. By not being the new kid on the block, they have worked out a lot the bugs and kinks that plague many ecommerce platforms. They've also refined a system that is very user-friendly …
I would say overall Volusion offers very similar solutions to these other platforms. One of the main reasons I went with it over others was my experience working on Volusion stores for years before we opened our own stores and took on new clients. I'm comfortable with the …