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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    PaperWeight

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/APaperWeight is an advanced clone script tool for building an online essay or academic writing job platform. It was developed by one of India’s leading web solution providers, FATbit Technologies. PaperWeight is comprised of all the features of top essay writing job portals like EssayShark, PaperDueNow, and EssayOnTime. All the typical marketplace features such as placing an order, bid management, writer selection, account management, and payment transaction are included. According…N/A

    Spryker Cloud Commerce OS

    Score6.4 out of 10
    N/ASpryker Cloud Commerce OS is a modular Commerce System that enables B2B, B2C, and Marketplace business models through any customer interface, touchpoint, and device. Boasting extensibility, best-in-class performance, and fast time-to-market, the vendor states Spryker is trusted by brands such as TOYOTA, HILTI, and TomTailor. The Spryker Cloud Commerce OS NOW version has been specifically developed for manufacturers and brands who want to reach customers directly online.

    $900,000

    12 month contract

    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
    PaperWeightSpryker Cloud Commerce OSVolusion
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Variable licensing fees, please contact aws-marketplace@spryker.com
    $900,000.00
    12-month contract
    Personal
    $29
    per month
    Pro
    $79
    per month
    Startup
    $179
    per month
    Business
    $299
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    PaperWeightSpryker Cloud Commerce OSVolusion
    Free Trial
    NoNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYesYes
    Entry-level Setup Fee$2,500RequiredNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPricing is based on the duration and terms of your contract with the vendor. This entitles you to a specified quantity of use for the contract duration. If you choose not to renew or replace your contract before it ends, access to these entitlements will expire.
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    PaperWeightSpryker Cloud Commerce OSVolusion
    Considered Multiple Products
    FATbit Technologies
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    Spryker Systems, GmbH
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    Volusion LLC
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    99%
    Would buy again
    68 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    65 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
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    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    66 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    45 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
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    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    61 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    PaperWeightSpryker Cloud Commerce OSVolusion
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of PaperWeight and Spryker Cloud Commerce OS and Volusion
    Feature
    PaperWeight
    8.9
    2 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Spryker Cloud Commerce OS
    7.9
    64 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Volusion
    3.6
    9 Ratings
    74% below category average
    Product catalog & listings9.52 Ratings8.360 Ratings4.39 Ratings
    Product management9.52 Ratings7.560 Ratings4.39 Ratings
    Bulk product upload9.02 Ratings8.152 Ratings4.28 Ratings
    Branding8.12 Ratings8.253 Ratings3.69 Ratings
    Mobile storefront8.12 Ratings8.451 Ratings1.28 Ratings
    Product variations8.01 Ratings7.863 Ratings4.78 Ratings
    Website integration10.02 Ratings00 Ratings3.38 Ratings
    Visual customization9.52 Ratings7.456 Ratings5.19 Ratings
    CMS8.52 Ratings7.258 Ratings2.27 Ratings
    Online Payment System
    Comparison of Online Payment System features of PaperWeight and Spryker Cloud Commerce OS and Volusion
    Feature
    PaperWeight
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Spryker Cloud Commerce OS
    8.4
    55 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Volusion
    4.1
    8 Ratings
    68% below category average
    eCommerce security9.02 Ratings8.455 Ratings4.18 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of PaperWeight and Spryker Cloud Commerce OS and Volusion
    Feature
    PaperWeight
    9.7
    2 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Spryker Cloud Commerce OS
    7.6
    59 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Volusion
    2.6
    9 Ratings
    99% below category average
    Promotions & discounts10.01 Ratings7.957 Ratings4.89 Ratings
    Personalized recommendations10.01 Ratings6.842 Ratings1.88 Ratings
    SEO9.02 Ratings8.151 Ratings1.28 Ratings
    eCommerce Business Management
    Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of PaperWeight and Spryker Cloud Commerce OS and Volusion
    Feature
    PaperWeight
    8.8
    2 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Spryker Cloud Commerce OS
    8.4
    63 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Volusion
    2.9
    9 Ratings
    94% below category average
    Multi-site management8.52 Ratings8.255 Ratings3.02 Ratings
    Order processing9.02 Ratings8.859 Ratings3.69 Ratings
    Inventory management8.01 Ratings8.552 Ratings2.28 Ratings
    Custom functionality9.52 Ratings8.660 Ratings2.67 Ratings
    Shipping00 Ratings8.045 Ratings3.08 Ratings
    Online Shopping Cart
    Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of PaperWeight and Spryker Cloud Commerce OS and Volusion
    Feature
    PaperWeight
    -
    Ratings
    Spryker Cloud Commerce OS
    8.6
    58 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Volusion
    3.6
    9 Ratings
    72% below category average
    Abandoned cart recovery00 Ratings8.842 Ratings3.67 Ratings
    Checkout user experience00 Ratings8.358 Ratings3.79 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    User Ratings
    PaperWeightSpryker Cloud Commerce OSVolusion
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    8.2
    (69 ratings)
    1.5
    (20 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    1.0
    (12 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    6.0
    (68 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.9
    (68 ratings)
    1.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    PaperWeightSpryker Cloud Commerce OSVolusion
    Likelihood to Recommend
    FATbit Technologies
    Very easy to use and customize homepage, dashboard, and multiple landing pages of courses. Easy for setting up intuitive dashboards, rating users, and receiving ratings. Create and edit content or upload documents and make edits. Easy to segregate functions based on user roles. Multi-device support is not so seamless though overall it is responsive and scalable on the web.
    Incentivized
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    Spryker Systems, GmbH
    Spryker is very well suited (B2C and/or B2B) for big companies with complex and individual business models or also if your company needs a certain level of customization. Very good fit, if you need a scalable system. It is rather not the perfect fit for small companies or companies with very basic E-Commerce needs.
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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
    FATbit Technologies
    • PaperWeight has amazing features for freelance reviewers who can provide insights on how a course can be structured using interactive content.
    • PaperWeight is scalable, responsive, secure.
    • Freelance reviewers find easy to use PaperWeight.
    • We could also rate and provide feedback on the work delivered by freelancers which is visible to a group of users who can allocate future work based on the profile feedback.
    Incentivized
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    Spryker Systems, GmbH
    • Data Importers - Spryker is able to cope with large chunks of data ingest e.g. from PIM or ERP. Its integrated Middleware of handling this data.
    • Scaling - Modern architecture makes it possible to scale flexible.
    • Internationalization - Role our your shop with different assortments, pricing and products with out of the box features.
    • Pricing - Spryker supports custom pricing out of the box (volume prices, gross/net prices, customer specific pricing).
    • Order Management.
    Incentivized
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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
    FATbit Technologies
    • PaperWeight could improve its usability experience across all devices. Sometimes there are some glitches when viewing on another device.
    Incentivized
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    Spryker Systems, GmbH
    • Content - content administration is not a strong part of Spryker, although it improved over the years. I still see room for improvement in the world of bigger CMS systems being able to also do "commerce".
    • Backoffice-usability - for non-technical users the first few days, weeks and month[s] can be full of surprises. An extended documentation, or more intuitive handling on the backoffice could serve every party on Spryker.
    • Off-the-shelf internationalization - Spryker right now comes with an initial data set in English and German, which is for a German based company already a pretty stable starting point. Extension on the base data for Europe-wide used countries would be very helpful - French, Italian, Polish, Russian, etc.
    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
    FATbit Technologies
    No answers on this topic
    Spryker Systems, GmbH
    No answers on this topic
    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
    FATbit Technologies
    No answers on this topic
    Spryker Systems, GmbH
    Spryker's usability depends a lot on custom development. Therefore, I would like not to consider usability as something that comes with Spryker Cloud Commerce OS. Spryker Cloud Commerce OS; however, brings all the tools needed to design a solution with great usability.
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    Volusion LLC
    I know what to do to add a new product, promotion or do an analysis of sales.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    FATbit Technologies
    No answers on this topic
    Spryker Systems, GmbH
    Support suffered from Spryker Cloud Commerce OS's rapid growth. Contacts, department heads, and support systems changed frequently. Support processes as well as documentation are rather poor. One notices that they are putting more effort into the customers recently, but in the course of growth, there is still a lack of focus here. As a customer, I would like to see growth at a slower pace and a phase of stabilization.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    FATbit Technologies
    No answers on this topic
    Spryker Systems, GmbH
    No answers on this topic
    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
    FATbit Technologies
    We like the light-weightedness of PaperWeight, scalability, and its ability to meet our needs at a reasonable cost. Pre-existing relationships and business process outcomes helped in making the decision to go with PaperWeight. The product roadmap being aligned with our own roadmap also was a huge factor in the decision-making in favor of PaperWeight.
    Incentivized
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    Spryker Systems, GmbH
    If you compare Spryker with commerce solutions on the market, you will notice that the focus is not on the front end. Spryker assumes that the store is only one of many possible channels through which customers order today and in the future. To understand the differences, one must therefore take a look at Spryker's architecture. This is divided into the Spryker [Cloud] Commerce OS (the backend with all process-related components), the front-end modules for B2C and B2B, as well as the integration modules (middleware) and interfaces (Glue API).
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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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    Return on Investment
    FATbit Technologies
    • It has [made it easy to] find freelancers for our course reviews.
    • We can trust the reviewers who are onboarded on our portal and we feel safe to share business content with them on PaperWeight.
    • We are able to prevent [unauthorised] downloads of our content.
    Incentivized
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    Spryker Systems, GmbH
    • Extending the reach and visibility of the brand through content and commerce.
    • Increased customer satisfaction through better accessibility (self-service) and easy access to important product information (CAD data, technical documentation, etc.).
    • Rapid deployment thanks to packaged business capabilities and clear development leads to fast ROI and low TCO.
    Incentivized
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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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