PayPal will power a portion of Shopify Payments in the US, an expansion of its global strategic partnership with the ecommerce platform. PayPal will become an additional provider for processing online credit and debit card transactions for Shopify Payments in Read more
Sellers of all sizes who host their shops on Shopify can now use Avalara’s services to manage and automate global tax compliance seamlessly. Avalara has been providing tax calculation services for Shopify Plus customers since 2015 and has now joined Read more
Amazon is allowing merchants who host an independent store on the Shopify platform, and who use Amazon fulfillment, to offer Buy with Prime. Enabling the feature allows the merchant’s buyers who have an Amazon Prime subscription to use the payment Read more
Shopify will be smaller by about 20% after today, according to founder and CEO Tobi Lütke, as the company lays off employees and announced the sale of its logistics business to Flexport, which is headed by the former head of Read more
Etsy sellers and those with shops on Shopify have had to make important decisions about their ongoing operations in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. (See, “Run on Silicon Valley Bank Impacts Operations at Tech Firms.”) (See update Read more
Sellers who use Shopify to host their online stores got a new tool to help them manage their international shipments from suppliers. One of Amazon’s most high-profile executives Dave Clark, who jumped to Flexport last year after 23 years with Read more
Shopify launched a marketing tool in May to help its merchants improve the effectiveness of their advertising on Facebook and Instagram. Unlike marketplaces like eBay, Amazon, and Etsy, merchants who set up a store on Shopify’s ecommerce platform must drive Read more
Shopify and BigCommerce reported on sales trends over the 2022 Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Both companies provide a platform for sellers to operate their own online stores, so their reports may give greater insight into how smaller merchants performed compared to Read more
Just a few weeks ago, Amazon and some other retailers and marketplaces told Wall Street they weren’t sure what kind of fourth-quarter growth to expect with all the economic uncertainty. But aggregated sales data for Black Friday (November 25, 2022) Read more
Ecommerce platform Shopify launched a tool to help merchants manage their sales-tax collection obligations – and the company said it was just the beginning. Its long-term goal is to build a complete end-to-end sales-tax solution for sellers. A spokesperson for Read more
