Ecommerce platform Shopify acquired privately held Boltmade, a product design and development consultancy based in Ontario, Canada. The acquisition will help accelerate the development of the Shopify Plus product offering. Shopify Plus offers high-growth, high-volume merchants a cloud-based, fully hosted Read more
Amazon is adding a new benefit to its Prime free-shipping membership program with the launch of Twitch Prime. The entertainment site encouraged its users to join Prime, which costs $99/year, to receive extra benefits on Twitch. Amazon acquired Twitch in Read more
Some Amazon sellers found it helpful to compensate people for writing positive reviews for their products in order to help them win the Buy Box, but Amazon is putting an end to that practice. It officially announced on Monday it Read more
eBay is running several promotions for sellers in the UK, but as usual, it is excluding business sellers from the promotions. In this promotion that kicked off on Sunday, eBay is giving invited sellers up to 100 free listings – and is Read more
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman has promoted seven executives and boasted of some accomplishments since the split with eBay last summer that he attributed to the company’s exceptional leadership. “In the past 14 months, we’ve strengthened our core technology platform, built Read more
eBay sent a letter to some sellers this week warning them it had detected a possible policy violation, and it concerned and annoyed recipients of the email. The subject line of the email was titled “Attention: “Offers to buy or Read more
A year after eBay launched a pilot program to give sellers more control over dealing with returns from “bad buyers,” it’s expanding the program to include many more sellers. The Returns Resolution pilot gives participants broader options in dealing with Read more
If you’re in retail, you can’t avoid hearing about the holiday shopping season. Etsy, always a good source of tips and suggestions, has begun advising sellers to prepare. PayPal has said September 30th kicks off the shopping season. And a recent report Read more
You may be used to seeing eBay promote the Valet program to shoppers, encouraging them to sell their unwanted items through the consignment program. But now eBay is encouraging shoppers to buy items that are for sale through the program. Here’s an example of Read more
eBay said 27% of its listings are available through its Global Shipping Program (GSP). And citing statistics from last year, eBay said sellers can get a big boost in sales thanks to the program. “Approximately 16% of sellers who enrolled Read more
