Volusion is another well-know hosted shopping cart software. It comes with a large number of features and about 50 precreated templates (only 7 are free). It is based on Microsoft ASP technology and thus is to be used only on Windows servers. Moreover, design modification becomes not an easy task because of ASP rules and restrictions.

Volusion provides packages for web stores of different sizes, and if you need more features, hosting space or bandwitdth, you need to move to a more expensive package. Unlike X-Cart, Volusion license presumes per-month charges. Such charges differs from $30 to $200 per month.

Moreover, the largest Volusion hosting package includes only 5GB of bandwidth. All traffic above this limit cost 1 cent per MB (megabyte). X-Cart customers are free to choose any hosting provider they want.

While setting up order customer can include several design services for customization. So Logo and banner creation services costs $495 for each and Flash banner price is $675. In comparison, Logo from Qualiteam costs twice less, new Banner will cost about $100 and Flash object price is about $200.

Features	Volusion Gold	X-Cart
Support for downloadable egoods
Affiliate system	5-tier affiliate system, newsletters	X-Affiliate add-on
Real time shipping rates calculation	DHL, FedEx, UPS, USPS	UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL/Airborne, Intershipper, Canada Post (see X-Cart Feature Tour: Real-time USPS, FedEx and UPS shipping calculation)
Product export/import feature	Export to CSV file	Product export/import via database or CSV/Excel file format
Moderated product reviews and ratings	Post and View Customer Reviews	Yes, (see X-Cart Feature Tour: Moderated product reviews and ratings)
Statistics tools	Ability to generate simple reports for information on Customers, Products, Affiliates and Sales	General statistics and shop summary, Shop statistics, Top Paths Through Site, Top Pages Views, Shopping Cart Conversion Funnel, Log in history, Visitors environment statistics, Search statistics. Also, dozens of standard and customized reports available with Sales-n-Stats software
Taxes	Tax Calculation Based on Customer's Location	US states with counties support, EU VAT, UK VAT, Canadian PST/GST, Australian PST (see X-Cart Feature tour: Customizable tax calculation
Orders management	Generic order management system	Order status system, automated order notifications, automated and manual credit card processing, order search, X-AOM add-on for complete management of all order details and order history
Inventory tracking	Real Time Inventory Management	Reports for number of orders, number of products, product/category views sorted by date period, bestsellers, Out of stock messages, number of products in stock for every item (see X-Cart Feature Tour: Sales Analysis & Tracking)
Security	Secured hosting, SSL encryption, Integrated IP Blocking Feature	Full HTTPS/SSL support Encrypted customer data (Blowfish encryption) PGP-encrypted e-mail notifications Customer/admin access restriction by IP Anti-Fraud module (see X-Cart Feature Tour: Security)