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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bloomreach

    Score9.2 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Bloomreach personalizes the customer experience for brands around the world. Loomi AI, its agentic platform, understands customers in context — then tailors their experience in real time. Connected to applications at every touchpoint, Loomi AI brings personalization to life across email, web,…N/A

    Volusion

    Score4.8 out of 10
    N/AVolusion 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.

    $29

    per month

    Pricing
    BloomreachVolusion
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Personal
    $29
    per month
    Pro
    $79
    per month
    Startup
    $179
    per month
    Business
    $299
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BloomreachVolusion
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsBloomreach pricing is quote-based. Bloomreach pricing is customized to the number of customers served, product catalog size, and the number of events executed – such as how many emails or SMS messages are sent.
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    Community Pulse
    BloomreachVolusion
    Considered Both Products
    Bloomreach
    No answer on this topic
    Volusion LLC
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    169 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    131 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    169 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    104 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    115 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    BloomreachVolusion
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Bloomreach and Volusion
    Feature
    Bloomreach
    8.3
    102 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Volusion
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor8.589 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic content8.798 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content8.297 Ratings00 Ratings
    Landing pages6.855 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing8.998 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization9.189 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting9.199 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management8.084 Ratings00 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences7.974 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Bloomreach and Volusion
    Feature
    Bloomreach
    7.6
    82 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Volusion
    -
    Ratings
    Lead nurturing automation7.870 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading8.065 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data quality management8.477 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks6.846 Ratings00 Ratings
    Lead segmentation and distribution7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Bloomreach and Volusion
    Feature
    Bloomreach
    7.2
    76 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Volusion
    -
    Ratings
    Calendaring6.870 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing7.553 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Bloomreach and Volusion
    Feature
    Bloomreach
    7.5
    54 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Volusion
    -
    Ratings
    Social sharing and campaigns7.146 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social profile integration7.937 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Bloomreach and Volusion
    Feature
    Bloomreach
    8.2
    101 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Volusion
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards7.9101 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports8.497 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports8.497 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Bloomreach and Volusion
    Feature
    Bloomreach
    8.3
    127 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Volusion
    -
    Ratings
    API8.7121 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals8.680 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizability8.890 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com7.612 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM7.812 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with SugarCRM7.89 Ratings00 Ratings
    Third-party software integrations7.664 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of Bloomreach and Volusion
    Feature
    Bloomreach
    -
    Ratings
    Volusion
    3.6
    9 Ratings
    74% below category average
    Product catalog & listings00 Ratings4.39 Ratings
    Product management00 Ratings4.39 Ratings
    Bulk product upload00 Ratings4.28 Ratings
    Branding00 Ratings3.69 Ratings
    Mobile storefront00 Ratings1.28 Ratings
    Product variations00 Ratings4.78 Ratings
    Website integration00 Ratings3.38 Ratings
    Visual customization00 Ratings5.19 Ratings
    CMS00 Ratings2.27 Ratings
    Online Shopping Cart
    Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Bloomreach and Volusion
    Feature
    Bloomreach
    -
    Ratings
    Volusion
    3.6
    9 Ratings
    72% below category average
    Abandoned cart recovery00 Ratings3.67 Ratings
    Checkout user experience00 Ratings3.79 Ratings
    Online Payment System
    Comparison of Online Payment System features of Bloomreach and Volusion
    Feature
    Bloomreach
    -
    Ratings
    Volusion
    4.1
    8 Ratings
    68% below category average
    eCommerce security00 Ratings4.18 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Bloomreach and Volusion
    Feature
    Bloomreach
    -
    Ratings
    Volusion
    2.6
    9 Ratings
    99% below category average
    Promotions & discounts00 Ratings4.89 Ratings
    Personalized recommendations00 Ratings1.88 Ratings
    SEO00 Ratings1.28 Ratings
    eCommerce Business Management
    Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Bloomreach and Volusion
    Feature
    Bloomreach
    -
    Ratings
    Volusion
    2.9
    9 Ratings
    94% below category average
    Multi-site management00 Ratings3.02 Ratings
    Order processing00 Ratings3.69 Ratings
    Inventory management00 Ratings2.28 Ratings
    Shipping00 Ratings3.08 Ratings
    Custom functionality00 Ratings2.67 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    BloomreachVolusion
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (190 ratings)
    1.5
    (20 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (12 ratings)
    1.0
    (12 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (54 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    7.6
    (22 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.8
    (21 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Bloomreach Customer Support
    8.0
    (17 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (153 ratings)
    1.0
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.4
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (22 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BloomreachVolusion
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bloomreach
    They've just been a great partner to work with. They put forth 100% when bringing platforms to the merchant and were highly prepared and knowledgeable during the sales cycle and implementation, and remained very connected post-implementation to ensure client success with the platform. Their CEO is always eager to sit down, talk shop, and listen to clients' needs, and you can tell from his enthusiasm that he cares about making this company the best in class.
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    Volusion LLC
    Volusion is a good company if you're starting out. The problem is that, if you want more complexity out of the program, you're kind of stuck. Also the regular time out errors and slow downs can be very frustrating. Packages that miss overnight deadlines because your system stops working can cost you customers. In today's highly competitive market, that's just something that's hard to put up with. If you have a lower volume of business you might be able to work around these issues.
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    Pros
    Bloomreach
    • The product recommendations engine allows for us to create a personalised experience for every customer across the 3m emails we send each month. This ensure that our customers remain connected to our brand.
    • The customer data platform attached to Bloomreach Composable Personalization Cloud provides an all-in-one solution for our business intelligence needs. Allowing up-to-date purchasing, behaviour, and engagement reporting from our email to website activity.
    • The ability to integrate with Meta and other paid ad formats allows for us to create a connected omnichannel experience for users, ensuring we are providing the right message, to the right person, at the right time, in the right place.
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    Volusion LLC
    • Templates are pre-built for a good end user experience. I've gone through the process of building custom sites as well as tweaking both free and paid templates that Volusion's design team provides.
    • Their support team didn't use to be as helpful, but in recent years have answered nearly all questions I've had. Their support section within the database provides detailed walkthrus as well.
    • Order processing is easy once you've been trained on the system. We got to a point where nearly the entire process was automated from initial purchase through shipping.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Bloomreach
    • Improve introduction to Bloomreach-specific terminology such as running aggregates. These are really powerful but can be difficult to understand
    • Introduce more options for report exporting - it would be good to be able to schedule reports to send to different email addresses
    Incentivized
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    Volusion LLC
    • API calls use the previous call as a reference, even if you weren't the one we made the previous call. Can lead to data gaps, so you often have to set a manual date range to look back to make sure you aren't missing any data.
    • Not as customizable as most ecommerce platforms
    • Not as many integration options as most platforms
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Bloomreach
    We are extremely satisfied with Bloomreach. It is a central and indispensable pillar of our personalization and data-driven marketing strategy. The platform provides us with unparalleled scalability across 27 countries and guarantees high availability and stable performance, even when working with an enormous volume of data.The fact that the platform is intuitive and allows a wide range of our teams (from CRM to UX) to work effectively with personalization significantly reduces our dependence on IT support and accelerates campaign deployment.Given the robustness of the architecture and the positive results we are generating across channels, renewing the contract is a logical step to ensure our future organic growth.
    Incentivized
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    Volusion LLC
    When you spend so much time with a product like this and not only have you witnessed its growth, but you almost feel like you are next those that make the decisions of building features a certain way, you can't help but want to stay and be a part of their continued growth. It's simply a great product. Can it improve? By all means! But it will only improve because of users and avid resellers like me.
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    Usability
    Bloomreach
    In my time working with Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud, I always liked to work with it. It is crucial that you get support from experts from the beginning to show you how to work with the vast amount of options and activities to choose from. The learning curve is also well-rounded because of its user-friendly interface and highly skilled customer support.
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    Volusion LLC
    I know what to do to add a new product, promotion or do an analysis of sales.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Bloomreach
    The platform is generally reliable - major outages are rare and most day-to-day campaign operations run without interruption. Where it dips: occasional slowdowns in the analytics dashboard during peak loads, and sometimes scenario executions get delayed without clear explanation. The real-time event processing is mostly solids. Overall uptime is strong - it is not something that keeps me up at night, but it is not flawless either.
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    Volusion LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Bloomreach
    Performance in Bloomreach Content is quite good but you need to be ready. Your implementation should follow all the good practices (avoid crazy patterns) and the environment setup should be the right one. With all that, Bloomreach's performance is quite solid. Our usage makes use of complex queries and most of them are really quick. Only when you need something really complex and you aggregate queries that should be separated you would get slower results (but then again, that is not a good practice for any platform).
    Incentivized
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    Volusion LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Bloomreach
    The project team consistently delivers excellent collaboration and is always available whenever assistance is needed. Their responsiveness and commitment make working together smooth and efficient. Bloomreach support, which is included for free in the platform, can also be quite useful, especially for quick clarifications. However, the quality and speed of their responses can sometimes vary, depending on the issue.
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    Volusion LLC
    You have to wait on hold for at least 45 minutes every call—the tech support person never knows the answer right away so they put you on 10 minute holds only to come back and say they're still looking for answers. The chat function could take days to get a response. Our "Dedicated Account Manager" never checks in or answers, nor are they ever in the office when we call. It's like they try to be as unavailable as possible until you forget why you even called in the first place. Insane.
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    In-Person Training
    Bloomreach
    The Training was awesome
    Incentivized
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    Volusion LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Bloomreach
    very informative and patient
    Incentivized
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    Volusion LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Bloomreach
    All the deployments were done on time
    Incentivized
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    Volusion LLC
    It is best to use the built-in features and recommended services for the most turn-key experience (ie. Skipjack for payment processing so that it can all be done from the Volusion backend).
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    Alternatives Considered
    Bloomreach
    Bloomreach is far superior than SFMC as that platform requires too much technical knowledge. Ometria is very good and I would say is quite similar to Bloomreach although I would say Ometria is a smaller company. Dotdigital is also very powerful but not more so than Bloomreach. This being said, Dotdigital and HubSpot does have telephone support which is amazing and something I would like to see from Bloomreach in future or at least shorter wait times for customer support live chat.
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    Volusion LLC
    While k-eCommerce was very glamorous to us because it integrates with our main workflow, it just didn't have some of the marketing features that are so integral to the way we do business online. The set-up costs were also way too high. Volusion is so affordable and feature heavy, it makes it very difficult for any shopping cart provider to compete. You can find others who are competitively priced and have similar features, but they simply aren't as robust (at least for the way we use it)
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    Scalability
    Bloomreach
    there is an option of multiple projects per organisation, customers and assets can be copied across. Multiple sites can be managed in one project, different activities organized under initiatives. Splitting work into sensible units is therefore well possible. The billing is based on number of tracked and number of stored events, no package-based deals. It should therefore be well scalable from a small e-store to a large corporation.
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    Volusion LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Bloomreach
    • Emails, banners, and weblayers brought us an increase in conversion and additional profit.
    • From a marketers perspective, it allows us to reach far and wide and see how well a campaign is doing in real-time.
    • Knowing the customer allows improved communication and personalize our recommendations.
    • Bloomreach Engagement has created revenue uplift with acquisition and conversion.
    • The most effective tool out there when ROI is in question.
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    Volusion LLC
    • Honestly, when you're in the dashboard, the UX is simply horrendous. I mean, everything that should be 1-2 clicks away is 4-6 clicks away, and each pages takes at least four seconds to load. You just find yourself wasting a lot of time waiting for things to load. This should be more simple.
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    ScreenShots

    Bloomreach Screenshots

    Screenshot of Funnels that simplify targeting.Screenshot of Retention-based insights about impact of changes in a product and the impact of major marketing campaigns.Screenshot of Web layers with A/B testing.Screenshot of The drag and drop campaign editor.Screenshot of The WYSIWYG Email editor & Fully customisable Email templates.Screenshot of The CRM with 360° customer behaviour history.

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