A reader told us he was at the movies last night and saw a preview ad for a payment service called Zelle. “I love when EcommerceBytes does compare and contrast on anything in the ecommerce field. I am getting so Read more
Amazon is opening a new fulfillment center in Rugby in the UK, making it the fourth in the Midlands region. The company said it is increasing the size of its UK network to meet increasing customer demands and expand product selection. Read more
Amazon is working on a way to increase its warehouse capacity with zero capital expenditure. How is that possible? Turn its sellers’ warehouses into FBA fulfillment centers. It has already invited a small percentage of sellers into the program, called Read more
Amazon launched a new program for FBA merchants called Supply Chain Connect designed to increase efficiency and boost its control of inbound shipping to its warehouses. Sellers currently have two ways to get inventory from suppliers to Amazon fulfillment centers. Read more
eBay Advertising announced a new program to help it combat ad fraud called Ads.txt, which stands for Authorized Digital Sellers. Ads.txt is a simple text file that sits in the page source code of the eBay domain. eBay uses Ads.txt Read more
The saying, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” applies to a new ecommerce alliance announced today between Rakuten and Walmart as they feel the heat from Amazon’s continuing growth. Rakuten went up against Amazon and eBay after it Read more
eBay announced the winners of its first UK eBay for Business Awards. The two grand prize winners, Joe Waggot of Metal Polishing Supplies and Henry Bishop and James Grear of The Coin Supplier will each receive a cash prize along Read more
Etsy has added a tool to help sellers grow international sales. While marketplaces may offer automatic (“machine”) translations, Etsy is making it easier for multilingual sellers to add their own translations to their listings. “Translations you add yourself tend to Read more
Amazon is running a one-day sale on its UK marketplace as a “thank you” for ranking it number one in the 2018 UK Customer Satisfaction Index. However, items for sale by third-party sellers are excluded from the promotion. Shoppers must Read more
Stripe announced it is ending support for Bitcoin payments. In a blog post this week, Product Manager Tom Karlo said Bitcoin’s evolution has made it less useful for payments and better suited to being an asset rather than a means Read more
