How better data helps you reduce ecommerce returns
When ecommerce returns reduce profitability, you might think of logistics or tightening policies. But what if the…
How to write a return policy your team can actually follow
Pick a recent return and walk through the whole process, starting from the customer’s first message all…
New Ecommerce Tools: August 26, 2026
This week’s installment includes new products and services for popups, site builders, subscriber lists, drone deliveries, livestreaming,…
WordPress PHP-Only Block Registration
You want to build a custom WordPress block. But you don’t want to learn React, manage a…
AI-Generated Receipts Hit 71% of Expense Fraud Flags
Generative AI is giving employees a new way to fabricate expense receipts, creating a growing fraud challenge…
Ecommerce logistics issues are about visibility and connection
A promotion goes live and a bestselling product runs out while orders keep piling up. Returns come…
What’s !important #17: Custom Highlight API, CSS Navigation Matching, Fixing text-stroke, and More
Plus, how to style skeleton UIs, how to enable diagonal scrolling, how images can overflow themselves, and…
Animating CSS border-image
The CSS border-image property is one of those features we take for granted. And it’s not new…
Emotion-Led Ads Cut Costs 30%
Sarah Levinger consults with ecommerce brands on marketing psychology. She says shoppers’ emotions drive ad performance, and…
Gap Decorations Are Now Available, Here’s What’s New
For a long time now, web developers have had to use border and pseudo-element hacks to style…
Native AI Search Is Only Half the Battle for E-Commerce Brands
Shopify launched its AI-powered semantic search functionality in early 2024, giving Shopify Plus merchants more accurate and…
AI Makes Refund Evidence Easier to Fake
Fraudsters can now use generative AI to create fake photographs of product damage, false shipping records, and…
New Ecommerce Tools: July 1, 2026
Every week we publish a rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants. This installment includes updates on…
AI Forces Affiliates to Innovate or Die
Commerce publishers are the affiliate marketers behind product reviews, buying guides, comparison articles, deal pages, and niche…
Printful Exec on Profitable Print-on-Demand
Thanks to companies such as Printful, an enterprising entrepreneur can select a product, upload an image to…
Snapchat Ads for WooCommerce: Reach the shoppers who ask their friends before buying
Let me tell you about the moment I realized how Snapchat ads work. I watched a shopper…
New Ecommerce Tools: June 17, 2026
Every week we publish a rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants. This installment includes updates on…
Why Isn’t My 3D View Transition Working?
If you have played around with view transition a bunch, you may have noticed that 3D transitions…
Creating Memorable Web Experiences: A Modern CSS Toolkit
I love the fact that CSS is finally reclaiming control over visual interactions, taking charge of the…
Better Product Images Build Buyer Trust in Resale Marketplaces
As resale marketplaces grow, a platform’s ability to process and verify visuals at the point of upload…
Why European Ecommerce Fails in the U.S.
Growing up and working in Europe taught me an important lesson about ecommerce: what succeeds there often…
Technical Writing in the AI Age
This isn’t coming out of nowhere: More and more people I deeply respect and have learned a…
Cross-Document View Transitions: Scaling Across Hundreds of Elements
In Part 1, we covered the gotchas that bite you first: the deprecated meta tag that silently…
Jetpack Search now understands your WooCommerce catalog
Jetpack Search 7.0 adds product-aware filters to WooCommerce stores. Traditional keyword searches match queries to text, potentially…