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Volusion, inc is a shopping cart solution for small, medium, and large businesses. Based in Austin, TX and Simi Valley, CA they are quickly expanding with over 150 employees and with clients processing over $2 billion in sales in 2009. Volusion is one of the largest ecommerce solutions having helped 100,000 entrepreneurs set up their own online store.

A problem that many small businesses face is that they want to expand their business to have a strong online presence, but without a website that is functional, looks good, and has the ability to securely accept credit cards they would not make any new sales. Volusion is a complete ecommerce solution meaning that it not only provides shopping cart functionality but it also handles the web hosting, credit card processing, web content management, inventory management, and email marketing.

Volusion is designed to take care of all the small details of an online store that you might otherwise have to do without if you go with an in-house design. If you have ever tried setting up an online store yourself without going through a large provider you would know that every time you want to add a little feature it can consume a large amount of time. For example many online stores don’t come with an integrated affiliate program, coupon code functionality, search engine optimization, email marketing system, or social media integration. Each of these can have a significant impact on your marketing, and unless people are visiting the store you won’t be making any sales. Continue review... Volusion Review

BigCommerce is one of the biggest hosted eCommerce solutions on the market, and much of this stems of ease of use. BigCommerce was created by co-founders Mitchell Harper and Eddie Machaalani so that anyone could simply drag and drop items on their website to have the look and feel that they desire their motto is: “If your 80 year old grandma can’t use it then it’s too hard!”

Headquartered in Austin, TX with offices in London and Sydney they are expanding quickly with 300% yearly growth and they expect to have 13,000 active customers by the end of 2010. Parent company Interspire has helped 40,000 businesses ranging from Dell, Virgin, and Kraft to small businesses and individuals. Continue review... BigCommerce Review