China celebrates its largest ecommerce holiday, the 11.11. Shopping Festival, on Tuesday, but the company behind it hopes the annual shopping extravaganza will become a true global shopping event in five to 10 years. Alibaba launched Singles Day, as it’s Read more
The U.S. Postal Service will deliver packages seven days a week in major cities and high-volume areas starting November 17 and running through Christmas Day. From an operations standpoint, keeping packages moving on those 5 Sundays before Christmas likely makes Read more
PayPal’s Braintree unit is launching a new instant sign-up flow for online merchants based in Europe. Braintree is targeted at developers, enabling web and mobile payments. It also offers a mobile application called Venmo that gives people an easy way Read more
Amazon expanded its same-day delivery option to Canada on Wednesday. Customers in Toronto and Vancouver can choose Same-Day Delivery, which lets them place orders as late as noon and receive their packages before 9 pm the same day. They’ll pay Read more
eBay continues to place sellers into its Global Shipping Program on an “opt in” basis in what to some sellers must feel like a game of whack-a-mole. The latest case of opting sellers into its program came this week when Read more
eBay launched an analytics and repricing tool that helps sellers analyze sales and make improvements. It’s currently available only to certain sellers in certain geographies and only to managed accounts in the U.S. Decide.com built the tool after eBay acquired Read more
A new report finds content can boost ecommerce sales and can help merchants avoid falling into the trap of competing solely on price. And while the report studied 80 global brands, its conclusions can apply to sellers of any size. Read more
Amazon introduced Prime Photos on Tuesday, giving shoppers another reason to sign up for its Prime membership program. What originally started as a program that gave members 2-day free shipping on most Amazon-fulfilled products for an annual fee of $79, Read more
Etsy provided an update Tuesday to the problem referred to as a search clumping issue, saying the company’s Search team was actively looking into the problem. It also offered to help sellers investigate any sales slumps they may be experiencing Read more
eBay is running a promotion that’s clearly part of its effort to entice sellers to open a store. Currently eBay places a commission cap of $250 (per listing) for Store subscribers. Through the end of the year, it’s lowering the Read more
