After my last project using Volusion as an online storefront, I left with some bitter-sweet taste in my mouth. Volusion was excellent in a few things but wasn’t so great with others. This year, I got another chance to work with them again. And I noticed the following:<\/p>\n
\n1. Extremely fast and responsive email tech support. When I say fast, it’s Apple-esque fast, not DELL. This is consistent with the last time I used them over a year ago.
\n2. Constant improvements on user UI and “some” ease of use. They’ve consolidated some features while making others a lot more usable.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\nHowever, there are still other problems they haven’t fixed, the most obvious is the lack of support for CSV files exported using a Macintosh<\/a>. I’d forgotten that CSV files exported using Mac version of Microsoft Office didn’t play well with Volusion’s import tool. So I ran into the same problems I did last time. Good thing I blogged and documented about it though. Too bad Volusion didn’t bother with fixing that minor issue for Mac users (nor have they improved the documentation for it either).<\/p>\n
For Apple’s Numbers users, they are out of luck. Numbers does not have the option to save a Volusion-compatible version of the CSV file. It was rather disappointing to see Apple leaving out a potentially show-stopping feature for a lame import tool such as Volusions.<\/p>\n
Okay, enough bashing on Volusion. Obviously I liked them enough to send them another client for me to work on the storefront. The last time I was using them, they’d just upgraded their administration console to 4.0. This time around, it’s 5.0. Though I didn’t see too many obvious changes, I can certainly appreciate them constantly improving on their system. And a lot of the stuff I wrote about<\/a> have become irrelevant after the v.4 and v.5 releases. For the price and performance, Volusion is a decent vendor to go with for an ecommerce storefront.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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