Amazon is holding a major sale on digital content on Friday, December 29, 2017, as part of its Second Annual Digital Day. Last year, the 24-hour event was held on Friday, December 30, 2015, when Amazon advertised “get up to Read more
Mastercard published SpendingPulse holiday data today showing that retail sales grew 4.9 percent, the largest year-over-year increase since 2011. Online sales grew 18.1 percent compared to last year, boosted by a late season rally. Interesting is the report’s findings that Read more
Amazon issued an after-Christmas press release – as always, it talked a lot about its services but was shy on details. Regarding third-party merchants and small businesses, Amazon revealed the following: “Customers shopped from hundreds of millions of products, including Read more
Merry Christmas, sellers. Now you can start gearing up for holiday returns! In fact, online sellers have already been seeing an increase in requests. We turned to some online shipping services for tips on how to cope with the inevitable Read more
Bonanza released its mobile app for sellers Version 2.0 for Android this month after having released the iOS app for iPhones in September. Sellers can use the selling apps to manage both orders and listings. Sellers can also create new Read more
The Vice President of eBay UK sent a Christmas email to sellers this week, but not glitch- or typo-free. “Mine nearly got deleted due to it coming from eBay Czech Republic,” wrote one seller on the eBay discussion boards. A Read more
The US Postal Service lets customers digitally preview their mail (the physical kind) through its new Informed Delivery service, and today it announced that people can sign up for emails that include package tracking information. “More than seven million Informed Read more
eBay has shipping-related news for Canadian and UK sellers this week. Canada Post is extending a discount it provided to eBay sellers for light parcels. And in the UK, rates for eBay Delivery Powered by Shutl are going up in Read more
BigCommerce is now allowing merchants to offer Visa Checkout on their stores. The integration allows customers who are enrolled in Visa Checkout to use pre-stored payment details and address information to complete a purchase on BigCommerce stores on desktop, tablet Read more
The former head of eBay Marketplaces Hal Lawton has swiped a key eBay executive, hiring her away from his former employer to join him at Macy’s. Jill Ramsey will report directly to Lawton, who left eBay unexpectedly this year to Read more
