Square, known for providing online payment solutions to local businesses and retailers, now offers marketing tools for customers who use Square Register. The suite of “powerful Customer Engagement tools” link your online marketing efforts to sales in the real world, Read more
The US Justice Department’s Antitrust division lauded the result of its ecommerce investigation into price fixing on Amazon Marketplace. The agency alleges that online seller David Topkins and other co-conspirators fixed pricing on certain posters sold through the Marketplace over Read more
Geeks around the Web are freaking out because they can’t see who is visiting their websites. “Google Analytics is down! It will never work again! Whywhywhywhywhy!?!?!” tweeted one webmaster. Another tweeted, “Google Analytics, you’ve been working hard and you deserve Read more
The useful ShipRush platform for online sellers recently released their v11 version with several new features, including support for FedEx One Rate, a simple flat rate shipping program offered by that carrier. Even better for ShipRush customers, the company plans to make a web-based version Read more
In the middle of a major technical problem that disrupted about 5% of its merchants for 5 days, BigCommerce’s Head of Operations and Site Reliability Scott Baker had harsh words for IBM. Bigcommerce is a store-hosting platform. In a status Read more
While product returns are a problem for online sellers, one business’s headache is another’s opportunity. The USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG) pegged the U.S. returns business for shipping carriers at $3 billion annually and said it’s expected to approach Read more
eBay sellers have been moving more of their business to Amazon for a long time, as EcommerceBytes reader surveys bear out, so it was with interest we read Bloomberg’s report that seemed to state it was a recent trend. “Amazon’s Read more
Etsy is continuing to grow its wholesale business and has extended its partnership with Nordstrom to Canada. Nordstrom Ottawa will feature four Canadian Etsy sellers in its At Home department. Nordstrom opened its first Canadian store in Calgary in September. Read more
eBay is running some promotions for sellers that differ from the typical free-listing sales – it’s providing discounts on commission fees as an incentive. One promotion (“Sell High, Save Big”) provides eBay Store owners with 20% off Final Value Fees Read more
The popular BigCrumbs cashback site is closing, but its founder is not calling it quits. Vince Martin is turning cashback on its head with the launch of MainStreetSHARES. BigCrumbs was a popular service that allowed people to earn cashback on Read more
