Shopify Inc., the leading cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses, announced its new free Chip and Swipe card reader for in-person selling. With Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) support, the new Chip and Swipe reader lets Read more
Tens of thousands of online merchants in the US, UK and seven other European countries now can offer instant financing options to their customers courtesy of an integration between Klarna, one of the world’s most innovative payment providers, and Shopify, Read more
Shopify sent us the following data from the Thanksgiving long holiday weekend showing the impact of holiday shopping on small sellers: Many people associate Black Friday/Cyber Monday (BF/CM) with big-box retailers, but SMBs (small and medium sized businesses) are heavily Read more
Shyp, the leading provider of parcel pickup, packaging, and shipping for small to medium businesses, announced a new integration with Shopify, the leading cloud-based multi-channel commerce platform, to make the fulfillment process easier than ever before. Merchants in San Francisco, Read more
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 informed sellers in March that it was shuttering its ecommerce hosting service next year. Now it is making ecommerce platform Shopify the preferred migration partner of its Amazon Webstore service as Shopify integrates with both Amazon and its FBA Read more
Another ecommerce platform has filed its intention to go public – Shopify filed a Form F-1 with the SEC on Tuesday, as well as filing with regulatory authorities in Canada. The move follows online marketplace Etsy’s IPO filing in March, with Read more
Whether it’s watching entrepreneurs seeking a backer for their startup dreams or seeing hapless restaurant owners get verbally abused by celebrity chefs, there seems to be no end to the appeal of reality to the viewing public. But while ecommerce Read more
Bloggers using WordPress.com Business can add an ecommerce component to their blogs. WordPress.com has selected Ecwid, Shopify and ShopLocket as its first authorized commerce providers. Many people associate blogs with WordPress – it says it powers nearly 21.5% of the Read more
