# Volusion > Hosted ecommerce platform for small and mid-sized online stores Volusion is a hosted ecommerce platform from Austin, Texas, for small and mid-sized businesses that sell online. Stores get themes and a site designer, inventory with warehouses and purchase orders, a checkout that takes cards, PayPal and Amazon Pay, and SEO and reporting tools. Plans are capped by yearly sales, and stores that use Volusion Payments, powered by Stripe, pay no transaction fee. - **Category:** Online Store Builders - **Made by:** Volusion, LLC (since 1999) - **Website:** https://www.volusion.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026 ## Pricing Volusion is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $35 per month (Personal). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Personal | $35 per month for up to $50K sales a year | Up to 100 products, 1 staff account, and live chat and email support. A 2% fee per sale applies with a gateway other than Volusion Payments. | | Professional | $79 per month for up to $100K sales a year | Up to 5,000 products and 5 staff accounts, adding CRM, reviews, phone orders, import and export and abandoned-cart reports. 1.25% fee with other gateways. | | Business | $299 per month for up to $400K sales a year, billed annually ($399 monthly) | Unlimited products, 15 staff accounts, phone support, API access, batch order processing and a customer loyalty plan. 0.8% fee with other gateways. | | Prime | Custom | Priced by yearly sales with no cap, unlimited staff, VIP support and a client success manager; discounted with a 12-month or longer commitment. | Read from https://www.volusion.com/pricing on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Volusion before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Business plan for $299 a month when paid annually** (Annual discount): The Business plan costs $299 a month with annual payment against $399 paid monthly, a saving of about 25%. Source: https://www.volusion.com/pricing ## Key features - **Themes and site design:** Free and premium responsive themes, a Site Designer with content blocks, and an HTML and CSS editor for those who code. - **Inventory, warehouses and purchase orders:** Track stock and reorder levels, assign products to warehouse locations, and create purchase orders automatically when items sell. - **Checkout and payments:** Premium Checkout takes cards, PayPal, Amazon Pay, electronic checks and more. Volusion Payments, powered by Stripe, carries no transaction fee from Volusion. - **Subscriptions, gift cards and currencies:** Charge for products on a recurring schedule, sell and accept gift cards, and show prices in a shopper's own currency. - **SEO, marketing and reports:** Manage metadata, sitemaps and robots.txt, create coupons, send abandoned-cart reminders, track ROI from ads and affiliates, and run reports. - **Hosting on Google Cloud:** Stores are hosted on Google Cloud Platform with a 99.9% uptime guarantee, free SSL certificates, unlimited bandwidth and a custom domain. ## Good for - Small and mid-sized stores that want hosting, checkout and stock in one plan - Sellers who manage stock across warehouses and reorder with purchase orders - Stores willing to use Volusion Payments to avoid extra fees ## Worth knowing - With a gateway other than Volusion Payments, a fee applies to each sale: 2% on Personal, 1.25% on Professional and 0.8% on Business. - Each plan caps yearly sales over a trailing 12 months, and a store that passes its cap is moved up to the next plan automatically. - Personal allows only 100 products and lacks CRM, reviews and abandoned-cart reports; API access starts on Business. - Volusion says all sales are final and it gives no refunds; a cancellation takes effect at the end of the current term. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Volusion has been around since 1999 and is strongest on stock: warehouses, reorder levels and purchase orders raised as things sell. Personal is $35 a month with your own domain. But it's a web store and not much else, and Volusion says all sales are final, so there's no refund if it doesn't work out. - **Value for money: C.** Personal is $35 a month for up to $50K of sales a year, with your own domain and 100 products, and no yearly rate on record. That's a bit above this category's middle. Volusion adds 2% to each sale unless you use Volusion Payments. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, but a 14-day trial with no card needed. Worth using properly, because Volusion gives no refunds once you're paying. - **Features: C.** Good on stock: warehouses, reorder levels and automatic purchase orders, plus subscriptions, gift cards and local currencies. But nothing on record sells beyond the web store, no POS or marketplaces, and Personal lacks CRM, reviews and abandoned-cart reports. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Themes and the Site Designer get a store going, with an HTML and CSS editor if you code, but it's still a store to build and stock to set up. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, and the named connections are mostly ways to pay: Stripe, PayPal and Amazon Pay, plus Avalara for tax, Facebook and Twitter. API access starts on Business at $299 a month. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Volusion's own pages on 18 October 2026. Its pricing page would not load when we went back to check it. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among online store builders - Volusion's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 1 of the 9 other online store builders we grade. - Its paid plans start at $35 a month, against a middle price of $29 for the category: 5 of the 7 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 5 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/online-stores ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Volusion you would be making checkout, card payments and sales tax handled for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 8 of the 9 other online store builders grade higher. It costs $420 a year. - You could make: Inventory and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Checkout, card payments and sales tax handled for you. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Stripe, PayPal and Amazon Pay among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Stripe, PayPal, Amazon Pay, Avalara, Facebook, Twitter **Tags:** Online store, Inventory, Reports, Public API ## Alternatives - [BigCommerce](https://toolgpa.com/tools/bigcommerce): Hosted ecommerce platform with plans set by yearly sales. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-volusion) - [Shopify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/shopify): Hosted commerce platform for online, in-person and social selling. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/shopify-vs-volusion) - [Ecwid](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ecwid): Online store you can add to any website or run as its own site. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ecwid-vs-volusion) - [WooCommerce](https://toolgpa.com/tools/woocommerce): Free, open-source store plugin for WordPress that you host yourself. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/volusion-vs-woocommerce) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026: - https://www.volusion.com/pricing - https://www.volusion.com/ - https://www.volusion.com/features - https://www.volusion.com/about Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/volusion Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).