The best Volusion alternative for stores that would like a blog and no revenue ceiling
Volusion caps each plan by products, staff and annual sales, starts at $35 a month, and has no blog to speak of. Grigora is a website with a CMS, a newsletter and a store that has no caps, from $12/mo.
Last updated September 2026
Volusion is one of the oldest hosted commerce platforms still trading, and its plan structure shows its era: caps on products, on staff accounts and on how much you may sell in a year, with the next tier waiting when you cross any of them. Personal is $35 a month for a hundred products and $50,000 of annual sales. There is no native blog and no email marketing. Grigora costs a third as much, caps nothing, and brings a CMS and a newsletter Volusion never had.
- No product, staff or revenue caps
- A blog with directories and moderated comments
- A newsletter in the same plan as the store
- An AI-designed site rather than a storefront template
- A price that starts at $12, not $35
- •Run an established Volusion store and it works
- •Use its ratings, reviews and CRM tooling
- •Want phone support on the Business plan
Volusion alternatives at a glance
How the hosted stores and all-in-one builders compare on caps and scope.
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| Platform | Best for | Free plan | Starting price | Sales commission | Export your site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grigora | A site with an uncapped store and a CMS | Yes | From $12/mo | 0% (processing only) | |
| Volusion | Established small stores | No (trial) | From $35/mo | Fees off preferred gateways | Partial |
| BigCommerce | Mid-market and B2B retail | No (trial) | From $29/mo | 0% embedded; 2% to 0.6% third-party | Partial |
| Shopify | Serious online stores | No (trial) | From $29/mo | 0% w/ Shopify Payments | Partial |
| Ecwid | A store on any existing site | No | From $5/mo | 0% (processing only) | Partial |
| WooCommerce | WordPress stores | Plugin is free | Hosting + extensions | 0% (processing only) |
Pricing as of September 2026; Volusion figures are monthly as printed. Payment-processor fees apply to all. Verify current pricing on each provider's site.
Why people switch from Volusion to Grigora
The friction points Volusion users hit most often, and how Grigora handles them.
The caps
Products, staff and annual sales each have a ceiling. Crossing any one is the next plan.
No blog
Content marketing has nowhere to live on Volusion.
The $35 floor
Personal costs three times Grigora Starter and includes less.
Email is elsewhere
Campaigns are integrations. The newsletter is another bill.
What Volusion does well
- Mature store tooling: reviews, CRM, phone orders, loyalty
- Live chat on every plan and phone on Business
- Free mobile-first themes
- A long track record
Where Volusion falls short
- Caps on products, staff and annual GMV on every plan below Prime
- No native blog
- No email marketing
- A $35 floor and fees off preferred gateways
Grigora vs Volusion at a glance
Three caps on one side, none on the other.
Hosted store platform
All-in-one platform
Grigora vs Volusion: feature by feature
A category-by-category breakdown, pricing, AI, design, e-commerce, email, SEO, performance, and support.
Three caps
Grigora winsVolusion's Personal plan allows 100 products, one staff account and $50,000 in sales a year. Professional allows 5,000 products, five staff and $100,000. Business allows unlimited products, fifteen staff and $400,000. Cross any line and the next plan applies. Grigora caps none of these.
| Feature | Grigora | Volusion |
|---|---|---|
| Products on entry plan | Unlimited | 100 |
| Annual sales on entry plan | Unlimited | $50,000 |
| Staff on entry plan | Roles, no cap | 1 |
| First uncapped-product plan | $12/mo | $299/mo |
Takeaway: A good year on Volusion is a bigger bill. A good year on Grigora is a good year.
Blog & content
Grigora winsVolusion has no native blog engine; content marketing means a separate site or a workaround. Grigora's CMS has directories, author profiles, moderated comments and an AI writer.
| Feature | Grigora | Volusion |
|---|---|---|
| Blog | Full CMS | |
| Directories and collections | Built in | |
| Comments and moderation | Included, with admin replies | Product reviews |
| AI blog writing |
Takeaway: A store without a blog is a store that only ranks for its products.
Newsletter & email
Grigora winsVolusion sends order mail and abandoned-cart reports on higher plans; campaigns are integrations. Grigora includes the list, the campaigns and the automations.
| Feature | Grigora | Volusion |
|---|---|---|
| Email marketing included | 2,500 to 25,000 subscribers | |
| Campaign builder | Included | Integration |
| Automation and segmentation | Included | Integration |
| Abandoned-cart tooling | Included | Professional and above |
Takeaway: Volusion reports the abandoned cart. Grigora emails the customer.
Store features
Volusion winsCredit where it is due: Volusion's store tooling is mature. Ratings and reviews, a CRM, phone orders, batch processing and a loyalty plan on higher tiers are things Grigora's store does not attempt.
| Feature | Grigora | Volusion |
|---|---|---|
| Catalog, variants and stock | ||
| Ratings and reviews | Comments | |
| CRM and phone orders | Higher plans | |
| Loyalty programme | Business | |
| Platform commission | 0% | Fees off preferred gateways |
Takeaway: For retail operations tooling, Volusion is ahead. For everything around the store, it is not.
Design & setup
Grigora winsVolusion offers free mobile-first themes and a site editor built for storefronts. Grigora generates a design direction from a description and gives you a block editor for a full site.
| Feature | Grigora | Volusion |
|---|---|---|
| AI first-draft site | ||
| Templates | 131 | Free store themes |
| Non-store pages | Unlimited, block editor | Basic pages |
| Time to a first live draft | Minutes | Hours to days |
Takeaway: Volusion dresses a store. Grigora builds a site.
SEO
Grigora winsVolusion covers product-page metadata and sitemaps. Without a blog there is little else to rank. Grigora adds schema controls, IndexNow and 210 free tools.
| Feature | Grigora | Volusion |
|---|---|---|
| Meta and sitemap controls | ||
| Content pages that can rank | Unlimited | Product and basic pages |
| IndexNow submission | ||
| Free SEO tools suite | 210 tools |
Takeaway: Grigora gives search something beyond the catalogue to find.
Support
Volusion winsVolusion offers live chat and email on every plan, phone on Business and above, and a client success manager on Prime. Grigora's support is email-based.
| Feature | Grigora | Volusion |
|---|---|---|
| Live chat | ||
| Phone support | Business and above | |
| Email support | ||
| Dedicated manager | Prime |
Takeaway: Volusion wins on support channels.
Ownership & export
Even matchBoth export products, customers and orders. Neither exports a design.
| Feature | Grigora | Volusion |
|---|---|---|
| Export products, customers and orders | ||
| Export content | Not applicable | |
| Move the design elsewhere | Rebuild | Rebuild |
| White label for agencies | $199/mo plan |
Takeaway: Comparable. Neither locks the catalogue in.
Grigora vs Volusion pricing
Volusion's plans are defined by their caps.
Website, newsletter & store in one plan
Annual rates shown. No product, staff or revenue caps; 0% platform commission on any gateway.
Store plans capped by products, staff and GMV
Volusion pricing as listed 2026-09-02 on volusion.com/pricing, monthly as printed. Volusion notes additional fees may apply off its preferred payment gateways. No native blog or campaign email.
Grigora Starter at $12/mo has no caps and includes a CMS and a newsletter. Volusion Personal at $35/mo caps products at 100 and sales at $50,000 a year, and has neither.
The real cost: Grigora vs Volusion
A store with 150 products that sells $60,000 a year and wants to publish.
| What you pay for | Volusion | Grigora |
|---|---|---|
| Plan for 150 products and $60K | Professional, $79/mo | Starter, $12/mo |
| Annual plan cost | $948 | $144 |
| Blog | Another platform | Included |
| Email marketing | Integration | Included (2,500 to 25,000 subs) |
| Ratings, reviews, CRM | Included on Professional | Comments only |
| SEO tooling | Basic | 210 free tools |
Grigora vs Volusion, side by side
Volusion sells a capped store. Grigora sells a site with an uncapped one.
Is Grigora the right Volusion alternative for you?
Where each platform is the right one.
Best Volusion alternative for growing stores
No product cap, no revenue cap, no staff cap. Growth is not an upgrade.
… for stores that want to publish
Volusion has no blog. Grigora's CMS has directories, comments and an AI writer.
… for anyone crossing a cap
The 101st product or the $50,001st dollar is the moment to compare.
Volusion is the right call if…
Your store is established, you use its reviews and CRM, and phone support on Business matters.
Which one is right for you?
Choose Grigora if…
- You want no caps on products, staff or sales
- You want a blog and a newsletter in the plan
- You want an AI-designed site
- You want to start at $12
- You are an agency that resells
Choose Volusion if…
- •Your store already works on it
- •You use its ratings, reviews and CRM
- •You want phone support
How to switch from Volusion to Grigora
Volusion exports products, customers and orders; the storefront is rebuilt, which the AI draft makes quick.
- 1
Export the catalogue
Export products, customers and orders from Volusion.
- 2
Start your Grigora site
Describe the business in a sentence and the AI generates a site with its own design.
- 3
Import products
Bring the catalogue into Grigora Commerce, with no cap, and connect Stripe or Razorpay.
- 4
Add the blog and the list
Start publishing in the CMS and import customers into the newsletter.
- 5
Point your domain and redirect
Connect your domain and redirect old product URLs so rankings carry over.
Why people look for a Volusion alternative in 2026
Volusion has been hosting stores for a long time, and its plan structure is a snapshot of how hosted commerce used to be priced: by how much you were allowed to do. Stores that grew found the walls.
Capped three ways
Personal allows 100 products, one staff login and $50,000 of sales a year for $35 a month. Professional raises those to 5,000, five and $100,000 for $79. Business removes the product cap and allows $400,000 for $299. The next tier is always waiting behind one of three numbers.
No blog
Volusion has no native blog engine. A store that wants to rank for anything beyond its product names, or tell its customers anything beyond a product description, is doing it somewhere else.
Email and fees
Campaign email is an integration. Volusion's own page notes that additional fees may apply off its preferred payment gateways. The plan price is the beginning.
How Grigora compares
Grigora has no caps and a wider brief: the store is part of a site with a CMS and a newsletter.
Uncapped, with a CMS
Starter at $12 a month billed annually includes an AI-designed site, the CMS with directories and moderated comments, a newsletter with 2,500 subscribers, and a store with no product, staff or revenue cap and no platform commission on your own gateway.
Where Volusion still wins
Retail operations tooling and support. Ratings and reviews, CRM, phone orders, a loyalty programme and phone support are things Grigora does not offer. An established store that uses them has a reason to stay.
Frequently asked questions
For stores that want no caps on products or sales, a blog and a newsletter, Grigora is the strongest all-in-one Volusion alternative from $12/mo. For established stores using Volusion's reviews, CRM and phone support, staying is reasonable.
As listed in September 2026, Volusion Personal is $35/mo with 100 products, $50,000 annual GMV and 1 staff account; Professional $79/mo with 5,000 products, $100,000 GMV and 5 staff; Business $299/mo with unlimited products, $400,000 GMV and 15 staff; Prime is custom.
Yes. Each plan has a maximum annual GMV: $50,000 on Personal, $100,000 on Professional and $400,000 on Business. Grigora has no revenue cap.
No native blog engine. Grigora includes a full CMS with directories and moderated comments.
Volusion's pricing page says additional fees may apply if you are not on a preferred payment gateway. Grigora charges 0% platform commission on any gateway.
Yes. Volusion exports products, customers and orders, which import into Grigora Commerce with no cap. The storefront is rebuilt, which the AI draft makes quick, and old URLs should be redirected.
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