Shopify, Volusion, Big Commerce Comparison

	Shopify	Volusion	Big Commerce
Monthly cost at Premium Level	$299	$269	$299.95 up to $400K in sales, beyond that, additional cost
Includes ecommerce website and blog	✅	❌	✅
Ease of Design	Easy	Difficult	Easy
Unlimited products	✅	✅	✅
Design themes	Best, 220, themes	Worst	Middle, 126 themes
Staff accounts	15	unlimiited	unlimiited
Designated account manager	❌ but offer personal help 24/7	❌	✅
24/7 support	✅	✅	✅
Manual order creation	✅	✅	✅
Discount codes	✅	✅	✅
SSL certificate	Free	$89 a year	$79 a year
Abandoned cart recovery	✅	✅	✅
Gift certificates	✅	✅	✅
Professional reporting	✅	✅	✅
Third-party calculated shipping rates	✅	✅	✅
Mobile optimization	✅	✅	✅
Wordpress Integration	✅ but requires two domains, easy integration	✅ but requires two domains, complex integration	✅
SEO customizable	✅ easy to manage	✅ hard to manage	✅
ERP Integration	✅	✅ with 3rd party	✅
CRM Integration	✅ with 3rd party app	❌ a CRM connected to the site is available	✅
API Syncing	✅	✅ with 3rd party	✅
Analytics dashboard	✅	✅ with 3rd party	✅
Google analytics integration	✅	✅	✅
Facebook Integration (Shop)	✅	List products on FB but click through to store	List products on FB but click through to store
Twittter Integration (Shop)	✅	❌	✅
Pinterest Integration (Shop)	✅	❌	✅
Amazon Integration (Shop)	Coming soon	✅	Coming soon
Ebay Integration (Shop)	Integration requires 3rd party app	✅	✅
Email Integration	✅ via app	✅ free Mailchimp	✅

Shipping discount	up to 74%, Competitive shipping rates from USPS, UPS, or DHL Express.	Easy Shipping App. Best USPS shipping rates, including exclusive Flat Rate Green cubic pricing on qualifying packages, plus access your negotiated FedEx and UPS rates	USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL, Canada Post and more, and save over 50% on USPS Post Office and online rates.
Print shipping labels	✅	✅	✅
USPS Priority Mail Cubic® pricing	✅	✅	✅

Fraud analysis	✅	✅	✅ with an app
Online credit card rates	2.4% + 30¢	2.15% + extra fees charged for reward and international cards	2.2% + 30¢
In-person credit card rates	2.4% + 0¢	❌No direct option offered, requires gateway	2.75%, Square
Transaction Fees	0.005	0.0215	None

Apps	2000	73	600
Register shifts of transaction periods	✅	❌	❌
Hardware peripheral support	✅	❌	❌
Staff POS PINs	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Customer refunds	✅	✅	✅
Security	PCI Level One Compliant	Unknown	ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified and PCI DSS 3.1, Level 1 certified as both a Merchant and Service Provider.
Back up and restore	✅	1st time free, additional times $199	✅ three redundancies
Digital wallet payment	✅	✅	✅
Server uptime	0.9998	0.999	0.9999
Abandoned Cart Email Reports	✅	✅	✅
Ease of accepting online payment	✅	✅	✅
Available Payment Gateways	70	34	40

Shopify integrates with QuickBooks, Sufio, Xero, TaxJar, Less Accounting, Taxify, Billy, AngelBooks, Freshbooks, and more.

Volusion integrates with Small Business Accounting, QuickBooks, Xero, and Peachtree, via third-party apps.

BigCommerce integrates with Xero, Sufio, QuickBooks, TaxJar, Avalara, Sage, and more.

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Industrial Marketing Company - Gotham | NC, SC, GA, TN, VA

905 Hwy 321 NW Ste. 218 | Hickory, NC 28601
828-327-8099

Located in Hickory, North Carolina, Gotham is an industrial marketing firm providing advertising and marketing for manufacturers nationwide.

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