Commerce does not replace conventional underwriting. It gives lenders another view of the business. Shopify offers one of the ...

Sig Ueland is a longtime contributor to Practical Ecommerce, having written weekly ecommerce resource lists since 2011 — addressing tools, products, and services to help merchants. He is also a ...

Where does merchandising end and retail media begin?

Ann Smarty is the founder of Smarty Marketing, a boutique SEO agency based in New York, focusing on viral and Reddit marketing as well as cross-channel organic visibility. Ann's search engine ...

This week’s rundown of new services for merchants includes updates on AI-powered advertising, video ad generators, shoppable videos, B2B commerce, fraud prevention, box-free returns, loyalty programs, ...

U.S. ecommerce sales enjoyed a second consecutive quarter of double-digit growth in 2026, resembling pre-pandemic patterns. The U.S. Census Bureau reported last week that seasonally adjusted Q2 retail ...

This week’s rundown of new products and services for merchants includes updates on ChatGPT ads, digital payments, visual search ads, authenticated deliveries, agentic commerce, CRM models, logistics, ...

Every week we publish a rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants. This installment includes updates on autonomous deliveries, reviews, generative AI optimization, performance marketing, ...

Amazon aggregators acquire and try to grow the businesses of marketplace sellers. During Covid, aggregators thrived amid brick-and-mortar shutdowns, attracting huge amounts of capital. But last year ...

Without detailed prompts or follow-ups, responses from ChatGPT are often generic. But there are tactics for customizing those responses. I’ll address two of them in this post. Custom instructions help ...

Sellers on E.U. marketplaces face heightened identity checks, contract disclosures, and suspension risk. The changes stem from the Digital Services Act, enacted by the European Commission in 2022 and ...

This week’s rundown of new services for online merchants includes updates on livestreaming, product images, logistics, agentic commerce, one-click checkout, customer experience tools, analytics, and ...