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Our Competition:

SearchFit vs. Volusion Shopping Cart*

What does Volusion have to offer?

Volusion offers a sound ecommerce platform that has been backed by an enormous support team since 1999. The software comes with hosting and set up included in its monthly fee and does not charge any fees based on transactions. It offers a well-structured, fundamental suite of features and includes a large library of free and paid responsive website templates that are versatile and easy to apply. Its offering of basic shopping features such as site search, compare products, product filters and reviews, is easy to use and implement for most store owners. It also offers a unique SEO feature for page naming and meta content rules that can be applied to every page. Unlike many other sites, it does offer some B2B abilities such as member/dealer only website publishing and freight calculations.

How Does Volusion compare to SearchFit’s features?

General
SearchFit
Volusion

Fee charged based as a percentage of your revenue
Yes
No

Bandwidth included in Premium Shared Hosting Package
Yes
Yes

Reliable Customer Support & Help Documentation
Yes
Yes

Hosting & Setup Included
Yes
Yes

Administration
SearchFit
Volusion

Reporting
Yes
Yes

Built-In Analytics
Yes
No

User Cart Administration Permissions by User Role
Yes
No

User Cart Administration Permissions Per User
Third Party
No

Customer Friendly Shopping
SearchFit
Volusion

Advanced Learning Search including Facets & Auto-Complete
Yes
No

Advanced Search
Yes
Yes

Compare Products
Yes
Yes

Dynamic, Filterable Menu
Yes
Yes

Product Reviews
Yes
Yes

Upsell Page & Promotion Popup during Checkout
Yes
No

View & Repeat Past Orders
Yes
No

Sell in Any Language and Currency
Yes
Yes

Automatic Shop By Brand Categories
Yes
No

Marketing – Integrations
SearchFit
Volusion

Automated Export to Google Base
Yes
No

Google Adwords Integration
Yes
Yes

Bing Shopping Feed
Yes
No

PriceGrabber Feed
Yes
No

Shopzilla Feed
Yes
No

Marketing Reports
SearchFit
Volusion

Affiliate & Seller Commissions Reporting
Yes
Yes

Marketing
SearchFit
Volusion

Rebates
Yes
No

WordPress – Integrations
SearchFit
Volusion

WordPress Plugin
Yes
No

Mobile
SearchFit
Volusion

Dedicated Mobile with same URL’s
Yes
No

Resposive design coming soon
Yes
Yes

Social – Integrations
SearchFit
Volusion

Open Graph Protocol
Yes
No

SEO
SearchFit
Volusion

Full Control Over All Page Names, Titles, and Metatags
Yes
Yes

Adjustable Naming Rules for All Page Names, Titles, and Metatags
Yes
Yes

Automated XML Sitemap
Yes
Yes

Order Management
SearchFit
Volusion

Drop Shipping System
Yes
Yes

Single User Order Management
Yes
No

Multi User Order Management
Yes
No

Automatic Order Exports
Yes
No

Automatic Order Status Update Imports
Yes
No

Order Management Integrations
SearchFit
Volusion

FullCircle
Yes
No

Shipworks
Yes
Third Party

ShipWire
Yes
Third Party

StoneEdge
Yes
Yes

SalesForce
Yes
No

QuickBooks
Yes
Yes

MaxMind
Yes
No

Axsess
Yes
No

Epicor Eagle
Yes
No

API Integrations
SearchFit
Volusion

Web Services including Order Data Retrieval, Product Data Update & Retrieval, & More
Yes
Yes

Products
SearchFit
Volusion

Downloadable eProducts with unique registration numbers
Yes
Yes

Dynamic, Filterable Menu  
Yes
Yes

Combined Sku’s
Yes
No

Wish List
Yes
Yes

Gift Cards
Yes
Yes

Automated Product Exports
Yes
No

Automated Product Imports
Yes
No

Google Analytics
SearchFit
Volusion

Google Analytics Integration
Yes
Yes

Google Analytics Advanced Ecommerce
Yes
No

Google Analytics Remarketing
Yes
No

Sub Stores
SearchFit
Volusion

Publish Multiple Stores from the Same Database/Control Panel
Yes
No

Sub Stores May Use Different Templates, Category Names, Product Names
Yes
No

Offer Separate Products on sub Stores
Yes
No

B2B
SearchFit
Volusion

Freight
Yes
Yes

Publish Access Restricted Website
Yes
Yes

Tiered Pricing
Yes
Yes

Member Group Pricing
Yes
No

Settings – Shipping
SearchFit
Volusion

Create Custom Flat Rate Shipping Tables
Yes
Yes

Create Custom Shipping Scripts
Yes
No

Freight
Yes
Yes

Shipping Zones
Yes
Yes

Settings – Tax
SearchFit
Volusion

Tax Zones
Yes
Yes

Final Analysis

Volusion’s feature set is a solid, fundamental offering, however, it lacks when compared to other shopping carts including SearchFit. Starting with Customer Friendly Shopping features such as site search, Volusion offers an advanced search, but does not include advanced learning, intelligent results or auto-complete in the search field. SearchFit’s Power Search offers all of this and more. Product filters and options can be used as search filters allowing your customers to further refine search results.

Why Choose Searchfit?

Power Search

Power Search search offers reporting features that show store owner what people are searching for and how many results were returned for each search including empty results. Store owners can use this information to tailor their product offering based on what customers are searching for. The site search is extremely efficient; it can search over 200k products and return results in milliseconds. Search results criteria can be weighted and adjusted by store owners to refine search results for their customers.

Upsell Products

Volusion does not offer Upsell products which can be a crucial feature to increase order values. SearchFit offer two types of upselling features: Upsells and Promotions. Upsell products are products assigned to a specific product and are shown to customers upon checkout. Promotional products are shown one time to every customer who enters the checkout.

Order History & Repeat

Volusion does not offer the ability for customers to view or repeat previous orders. This is a very helpful tool that SearchFit offers to every client, but it is especially important to clients who thrive on repeat business.

Automation

Managing cart operations is another area where Volusion lacks. For store owners who need to run scheduled tasks such as automatic order exports, imports or scheduled product imports or inventory updates, SearchFit offers a variety of methods to run these tasks with some configuration right out of the box. SearchFit’s automation and scheduling features also include multiple automated price comparison site feeds such as Google Shopping, Bing Shopping and Shopzilla and many more. While Volusion does have custom product export templates that can be configured to meet these price comparison sites’ criteria, Volusion does not offer scheduled exports for them.

Multi-Store Publishing

Another advantage for SearchFit is that it offers multi-store publishing for store owners who need to publish multiple websites and want to manage all of them from a single shopping cart admin panel. Store owners can publish to multiple domain names, sell different products, and use different website templates on each site. Each store can also sell in different currencies or show different prices and product descriptions to target different audiences.

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