Volusion vs AspDotNetStoreFront

[slam_it]

I currently host a few stores through Volusion and have been pleased overall with their success. I am now ready to purchase a few more stores, but am running into a few limitations with Volusion. One is the inability to restrict individual SKU's from certain shipping methods. In example, I'd like to restrict customers from choosing UPS shipping for very large items, etc.

I realize that AspDotNetStoreFront is likely a more technical and difficult process to set up and configure, but if it can handle these sort of sku-level shipping I'd be willing to hire someone to mess around with it. If anyone here has experience with both carts, or has directly compared the two when making decisions of their own, I'd be grateful for any feedback on the benefits of one cart vs. the other. Thanks.

[eCommerceDude]

I believe asp, tends to be less seo friendly since pages are generated on the fly, not a 100% sure.

Volusion is ok, its a bit pricey, charging per inventory a bit silly in my opion.

I teach my clients to use prestashop and they love, i have had lots of success with it and so do my clients. Its SEO friendly, has lots of modules to add on, and uses PHP and CSS w/ lil ajax.

Check it out.

Hope that helped

[DevelopIt]

I have done a few sites with Volusion for some of my customers and have been really happy with it. The nice thing is that I don't have to hold their hand once I pass it off to them since they can figure it out pretty easily once I make it look good and get things set up for them.

One of my clients decided they wanted to try AspDotNet and it wasn't very fun for me. It took me awhile to figure out how to use it and then my clients called me at all hours of the night asking how to do this and how to do that. Nightmare! I also saw a significant lack of SEO results as compared to my other clients' sites.

Best of luck!

[johnnyapollo]

I worked on the integration of ASPdotNet Stores to Marketworks (now ChannelAdvisor) and even though the pages are generated, they follow SEO best practices (Meta, Title, H1 and URL match). If you go into a store and click on an item you'll find that search engines will produce good product placement results. Of course, much still depends on the actual content of the page and the relevancy of data as presented - the more content that actually describes the item, the higher the placement (as long as there isn't any black-SEO practices going on).