| Volusion Features |
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Platinum |
| Purchase Direct From Volusion |
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| Shopping Cart Price |
$24.99/mo |
$39.99/mo |
$59.99/mo |
$99.99/mo |
$159.99/mo |
| One-time Setup Fee |
$49 |
$49 |
$49 |
$49 |
$49 |
| Google Adwords Credit |
$50 |
$50 |
$75 |
$100 |
$125 |
| Number of Products |
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250 |
1,000 |
5,000 |
Unlimited |
| Bandwidth |
1GB |
3GB |
5GB |
15GB |
25GB |
| 128-bit SSL |
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| Store & Product Setup |
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| vZoom! product image zoom |
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| Social Store Builder — sell on MySpace and Facebook |
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| Bulk data import and export |
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| Live stock status and SmartMatch™ technology |
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| Real-time inventory management |
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| Multiple product options |
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| Unlimited photos per product and thumbnail generator |
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| Color swatch functionality |
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| Vendor management |
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| Multiple pricing levels |
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| Built-in sale pricing |
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| Ability to hide products |
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| New products feature |
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| Assign products to multiple categories and subcategories |
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| End date product specification |
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| Enable customers to edit pricing |
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| Specify additional product keywords |
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| Customizable product description fields |
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| Quickly edit orders from "view all" screen |
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| Ability to track order type |
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| Batch order processing |
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| Easy "drag and drop" category management |
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| Advanced related product functionality |
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| Google Base integration with tracking links included |
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| Storefront Design & Customization |
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| Free customizable, ready-to-use templates |
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| Ability to create unlimited content pages |
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| "Design gallery" access — change the look of your site in just a few clicks |
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| Full HTML and CSS access for fully customized web design |
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| Ability to use category and subcategory graphics on category pages |
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| Display products in rows, grids or lists |
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| Ability to embed the store right into your existing web pages |
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| Link your "add to cart" buttons from your current website to Volusion’s shopping cart software |
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| Use any web page editor software to create custom designs for your store |
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| Advanced color selection with website colors and color map |
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| Preview design templates before they are published |
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| Easy to change image gallery |
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| Simplified graphics upload process |
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| Admin Tool |
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| Ability to add RSS feeds to dashboard |
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| Web-based administration area |
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| Full-featured Customer Relationship Manager (CRM) |
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| Full-featured reporting section to generate custom reports and graphs — includes SQL editor |
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| ROI trackingt |
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| View and process orders online |
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| Ability to print packing slips, receipts and invoices |
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| Automatic shipping confirmation emails with ability to send e-fax confirmations |
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| Gift note printing |
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| Integrated Point of Sale (POS) system |
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| Customizable real-time executive dashboard |
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| Inventory management |
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| Low quantity alarm |
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| Full vendor support and management |
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| Returned Merchandise Authorization (RMA) system |
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| Integrate Easy Editor to create content pages |
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| Administration "to do" list |
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| QuickEdit toolbar |
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| Point system for staff performance tracking |
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| Syntax highlighting for HTML |
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| Google "map it" link on order page |
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| Specify maximum text length on options |
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| Real-time Order Tracking |
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| Marketing & SEO |
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Soft add to cart
Merchants love having this as part of their Volusion features because customers can now add products to their cart without leaving the product details page |
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Gift Registry
Of all the Volusion features, having a Gift Registry is one that merchants love. This free registry program lets customers add products to their personal registries |
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Loyalty program
Offer customers points for their purchase |
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Product sharing capability
This Volusion feature lets you share products across 55+ social media networks and news sources |
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| Full subdomain 301 redirects for better SEO results |
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| Export feeds to third-party shopping marketplaces |
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| Completely search engine optimized |
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| Coupon and discount generation system |
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| Advanced newsletter marketing system |
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| Gift certificates |
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| 5-tier affiliate system |
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| Quantity discounting |
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Abandoned/live cart section
One of the top Volusion features, with this section you can view cart contacts in real time |
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Dynamically generate HTML
Dynamically generated static HTML page creation and product and category index |
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| Google sitemap generator |
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| Built-in email marketing system |
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| Phone order system with sales rep tracking |
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| Free shipping option |
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| Gift wrapping and gift notes |
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| Customizable checkout fields |
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| Store search term review |
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| Shipping & Payment |
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Pick Ticket
For merchants who use drop shipping, this Volusion feature lets you specify the location of a product within a warehouse (aisle, bin, etc.) |
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| Integrated with all major shipping companies |
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| Automated feeds for live shipping rates |
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| Downloadable product sales (software, mp3s, pdfs, etc.) capability |
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| Batch order printing capabilities |
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| Live package tracking |
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| Unlimited shipping calculation types |
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| Additional shipping weight calculation |
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| Shipping confirmation via automated email |
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| Support for shipping from multiple warehouses |
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| Quick "estimated shipping" calculation |
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| Print USPS, DHL WorldWide and FedEx labels directly from your own admin |
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| Live rates with Canada Post |
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| Dimensional shipping support for UPS |
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| Accept debit and credit cards, gift cards, checks, PayPal and Google Checkout with ease |
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| Tax calculation based on customer's location |
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| Integrated currency conversion |
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| Payment processing at time of sale or during order fulfillment |
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| Supports recurring payments |
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| Supports automated promotional pricing |
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| Ability to specify tax-exempt customers or products |
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| CVV2 (Security Code) support |
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| Configurable currency symbol |
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| Support for additional international PayPal currencies |
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| Supports Google Checkout UK |
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| Customer Tools |
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Refined search
with auto-correction and term suggestion, this is a top choice umong merchants when reviewing Volusion features |
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| One-page checkout with guest registration |
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| Post and view customer reviews |
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| Email / Tell a Friend |
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| Wish list feature |
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| Recent browse history |
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| Lists available accessories for products |
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| Customer shopping cart summary |
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| Gift wrapping option |
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| Customer can receive "back in stock" emails |
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| Variety of customizable navigation styles |
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| Browse products by category |
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| Built-in search capability |
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| View related products |
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| Unique checkout progress bar |
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| Six ways to sort search results |
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| Live search hints |
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| Customer account login |
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| Update customer account information |
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| View and modify orders |
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| Track packages live |
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| Manage additional features |
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| Security & Support |
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| PCI/CISP certified |
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| Premium hosting |
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| Integrated IP blocking security feature |
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| Multiple administrator login |
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| Determine which administrative sections are accessible |
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| "Members only" website capabilities |
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| Administration area access history |
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| Shopping cart features automatic "crash protection" |
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| Displays last four digits of credit card numbers only |
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| CAPTCHA-type image validation |
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| Free 24x7 live telephone technical support |
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| Available via phone, email or Volusion Live Chat |
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| All support based in-house and in the USA |
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| Complete documentation within the administration area |
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| Online manual, training videos, helpful tutorials and support knowledge base |
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| Premium Support |
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| API Access |
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| Integrations |
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| Stone Edge Order Manager Integration |
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| Endicia/Dazzle Integration |
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| Pitney Bowes Integration |
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| Direct QuickBooks Integration |
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| Receive XML Datasets |
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| Hosting |
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| 100% redundancy of all hardware, systems, applications and data |
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| Dedicated network operations center for 24-hour network and systems monitoring |
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| Included hosted email with multiple email accounts |
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| 128-bit SSL security with full HTTPS support |
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| VMware high-availability 64-bit clusters |
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Powerful HP Blade Servers
with 3.0GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon 64-Bit Processers and 32GB RAM |
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| Guaranteed 99.99% uptime SLA |
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| Complete technology installation and management |
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| Three levels of continuous daily data backups including offsite storage |
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| Complete disaster and business continuity planning |
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| Webmail, POP and IMAP email access |
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| Proactive hacker security |
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| Multiple industry leading SANs (Storage Area Networks) by Compellent |
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| Stringent information security, privacy and change management procedures |
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| Live Updates |
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| Free software upgrades for enhanced functionality and new features |
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| Easy one-click software upgrades without data loss |
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| All existing data kept intact when upgrading |
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Volusion
All in One Ecommerce Solution Features |
Steel |
Bronze |
Silver |
Gold |
Platinum |
| Purchase Direct From Volusion |
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| Shopping Cart Price |
$24.99/mo |
$39.99/mo |
$59.99/mo |
$99.99/mo |
$159.99/mo |
| One-time Setup Fee |
$49 |
$49 |
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| Google Adwords Credit |
$50 |
$50 |
$75 |
$100 |
$125 |
| Number of Products |
25 |
250 |
1,000 |
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Unlimited |
| Bandwidth |
1GB |
3GB |
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15GB |
25GB |