Author: Ina Steiner

Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). She is a member of the Online News Association (Sep 2005 - present) and Investigative Reporters and Editors (Mar 2006 - present). Follow her on Twitter at @ecommercebytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com. See disclosure at EcommerceBytes.com/disclosure/.

Have You Noticed eBay Is Faster?

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Ina Steiner

eBay techies are working to make the site faster. Senthil Padmanabhan is a Vice President, Technical Fellow at eBay where he heads the front-end and user experience engineering across eBay’s marketplace. He took to the eBay corporate blog to publish Read more

PayPal Makes More Inroads into China

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Ina Steiner

PayPal made more inroads in China, announcing on Wednesday a partnership with UnionPay International. The companies said they will work together to accelerate the growth of their mutual networks. PayPal has committed to supporting UPI acceptance globally where PayPal is Read more

FedEx Ground Expands to Sunday Delivery Year-Round

January 22, 2020January 22, 2020 Ina Steiner

FedEx is now making residential ground deliveries on Sundays year-round, it announced on Wednesday. FedEx. Corp CEO Raj Subramaniam said the practice was started over the holiday shopping season. “Delivering seven days a week was critical to our success this Read more

eBay PR Shuffle, This Time in UK

January 22, 2020January 23, 2020 Ina Steiner

In yet another eBay management move, Fergus Campbell, head of communications for eBay’s UK Gumtree classifieds business, is moving to become head of corporate communications for eBay UK. His predecessor is reported to have left eBay UK in September. Campbell Read more

ShippingEasy Releases Guide to 2020 Shipping Rate Changes

January 22, 2020January 22, 2020 Ina Steiner

ShippingEasy has released a guide to this year’s rate changes by the major carriers. UPS raised its rates on December 29th, FedEx raised its rates effective January 6th, and new USPS rates will go into effect on Sunday, January 26th. Read more

Amazon Survey Shows Its Platform Boosts Small Businesses

January 22, 2020January 22, 2020 Ina Steiner

Amazon commissioned a survey that found small- and medium-sized businesses who sell on Amazon are more likely to have high growth than those that don’t sell on its marketplace. “Small businesses that sell in Amazon’s stores are 2.5 times more Read more

Amazon Eases IPI Metric for FBA Sellers

January 20, 2020January 20, 2020 Ina Steiner

Amazon is making it slightly easier for sellers who use its FBA fulfillment service by easing standards for the Inventory Performance Index (IPI). This comes after stricter rules went into place on January 1st. Introduced in the fall of 2017, Read more

UPS Launches Ecommerce Plugins for Small Businesses

January 20, 2020January 20, 2020 Ina Steiner

UPS is making it easier for online merchants to offer its shipping services in their stores. On Monday, it announced plug-ins to make UPS tools and services available within WooCommerce, PrestaShop, OpenCart, and Magento. The new plug-ins are part of Read more

Lawsuit Alleges Facebook Surveilled and Targeted Rivals

January 19, 2020January 19, 2020 Ina Steiner

Facebook attempted to stifle competition and use its market power to do so, according to a class action lawsuit filed by four developers on January 16, 2020, the Verge reported. And the plaintiffs are trying to force Facebook founder and Read more

Etsy Makes Changes to Categories and Attributes

January 17, 2020January 17, 2020 Ina Steiner

Sellers should be aware of Etsy latest changes to categories and attributes, announced on Friday. As the marketplace explained, sellers select a category for their listing by which shoppers can filter results when searching Etsy. Categories also act as tags, Read more