Dabbling with a business idea you are not sure is worth investing substantial time and money on, Volusion or Shopify? I’d go with Shopify.
Running a large business with multiple divisions and/or serving markets in several countries? Shopify is ideal in this context too.
Volusion only starts to emerge somewhat as a viable option when your business lies somewhere in the middle of these two extremes.
Even then, Volusion mostly falls short of Shopify’s affordability, scalability, expansive capabilities, greater flexibility and more granular features. Volusion is especially weighed down by limits on the number of products and on gross merchant value (GMV) imposed on each plan.
I explain these and the other reasons for choosing Shopify further down but here’s a brief snapshot of the main things I liked or didn’t like about either platform.
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