EcommerceBytes has received several reports from longtime sellers that PayPal is placing holds on transactions – the first time in their selling history – and tell us the targeted transactions do not appear to be any more risky than the Read more
Over 17,000 online merchants around the world use 3dcart to power their web stores, and this week, the company announced a major update to its shopping cart platform. Among the new features are new payment platforms through Vantiv and Amazon Read more
A new report answers the questions, how many products does Amazon actually carry, and in which categories. And it shows the incredible impact third-party merchants have on Amazon’s selection. The report from 360pi shows that Amazon alone carried 12,231,203 total Read more
The House of Representatives Oversight committee introduced a bipartisan discussion draft of postal reform legislation. A move to five-day delivery is off the table, it calls for the development of innovative postal and nonpostal products and services, and it address Read more
PayPal is looking at ways to help merchants increase conversion rates and find new ways to reach customers. One-touch checkout, social and contextual commerce, predictive fraud prevention, and virtual reality commerce were among the topics PayPal vice-president and general manager Read more
Shipping solution ShipStation has integrated with Canadian carrier Purolator. ShipStation’s merchants in Canada will now be able to ship to users throughout Canada and around the world using Purolator’s delivery service. With Purolator and ShipStation, online sellers in Canada will Read more
European governments want to collect taxes on international purchases made by their residents; marketplaces want to comply with government regulations around such taxes; and sellers are left in the middle. In the case of sellers outside the EU, a recent Read more
As head of “Seller Experience,” Dinesh Lathi was the face of eBay to many sellers, attending Town Hall meetings and top-seller events and posting many of the announcements that affected sellers on the eBay Announcement Board. Lathi left eBay in 2011 to Read more
“We Canucks got the shaft again” was just one of the negative responses from eBay sellers in Canada upon finally receiving their coupons for eBay-branded shipping supplies this week. The coupons were designed to take the sting out of higher eBay Store Read more
Tuesday marked the end of dual currencies on eBay Canada as it moved to exclude the US dollar from its marketplace, and Managing Director of the marketplace Andrea Stairs thanked sellers for their hard work in converting their listings. Stairs, Read more
