Volusion

 vs. Nexternal
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Criteria Nexternal Volusion
Bandwidth Unlimited. No additional charge for high bandwidth consumption. Limited depending upon plan. Merchants charged extra when limit is exceeded.
Site Sync

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Site Sync performed by Nexternal Design Engineer During Setup. Merchant can choose template, or pay extra for custom design.
Always Onscreen Shopping Cart

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Yes. No.
Uses Rich Snippets on Product Pages for SEO

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Yes. Conforms with Schema.org Product format. No.
Create Shipping Labels?

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Yes. Create UPS, FedEx, USPS, or DHL Labels from Order Management System. Can Create USPS, FedEx, and DHL Labels. UPS integration via WorldShip.
Facebook Like & Save

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Yes. No.
Turnkey Salesforce.com Integration

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Yes. No.
Dedicated Account Manager

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Dedicated Ecommerce Consultant with an average of 6 years of ecommerce experience. Free unlimited support. Dedicated Ecommerce Consultant. Free unlimited support.
Social Commerce
(Tipping Point Sales)

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Yes. No.
MailChimp Integration

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Yes. No.
Direct Checkout Yes. No.
Multiple Ship To Customers can place one order and ship items to multiple locations. Volusion does not support multiple ship to locations.
Single Click Reorder Yes. No.
Currency Converter Currency rates are updated automatically every night. Currency rates must be updated by merchant manually.
Sales Tax Nexternal tax tables are updated automatically monthly. Tax rates must be entered by Merchant.
Dynamic Cart Messaging Yes. Message in shopping cart can change based on price or number of items to encourage upsell. No.
Query Customers Based On Order History Yes, you may create customer lists based on order history and export or email those lists. No.
Support for FedEx® SmartPost Yes, Rates and Labels. No.
Google +1 Yes, easily enabled for all products. Merchant must manually add code to every product page.
Google Merchant Center Feed Yes, Nexternal automatically FTPs a Google Merchant Center file daily. The Google Merchant Center File can be created, but must manually be sumitted by merchant.
Suggestive Search Yes. Nexternal's software can display product names as consumer enters search terms. No.
USPS Labels with Postage Yes, Nexternal has integrated with Endicia's web services. Merchants must export and import data to Endicia.
Coupon Codes Passed in URL Yes, Nexternal makes it easy for consumers to activate coupons via special links. Consumers must enter coupon codes.
Product Names wrapped in H1 tags Yes, this is great for SEO. No.
Customer Types Unlimited. Price products, control visibility, allocate products and specify billing options by type. Limited to 5. Price Product by Customer Type.
Security Certificate Included. Separate Charge.


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The Volusion comparison information on this page was believed to be correct as of 1/25/2012. Information was collected from Volusion's website (www.volusion.com) in order to compare it to Nexternal's shopping cart application. To report an error or discrepancy, please email