How Ecommerce Succeeds in Africa
Most global ecommerce businesses outsource customer deliveries. The process depends on standardized addresses, reliable couriers, predictable delivery…
Marketing to Humans and Machines
Agentic shopping presents ecommerce marketers with a familiar problem in a new form. The promise is simple…
Accept Bitcoin with Square: A new way to take payments at checkout
Square just opened the Bitcoin floodgates. Here’s why it matters for your store. In November 2025, something…
Lawmakers Eye Dynamic Ecommerce Pricing
Several American lawmakers have expressed an interest in limiting or prohibiting data-driven price changes. The recent activity…
Digital ID in Mobile Wallets Is Helping Pull Shoppers Back In-Store
Shoppers’ acceptance of mobile wallets is firmly established. What began as a convenient way to pay has…
Authentication Failure: VCF SSO Broken
January 7, 2026 Authentication Failure: VCF SSO Broken vCenter vIDB Service Unavailable The Issue? After an extended…
Unified Platforms and Agentic AI Will Define E-Commerce in 2026
Digital vendors and e-commerce businesses enter 2026 facing a radically changed retail landscape, shaped by rising customer…
New Ecommerce Tools: December 31, 2025
Since 2016 I’ve published a weekly rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants. This final 2025 installment…
AI Favors Ecommerce Giants — for Now
Artificial intelligence has seemingly raised the barriers to ecommerce success. The industry has long been a David-and-Goliath…
From artisan to everywhere: How Melt Chocolates scaled with storytelling, Woo, and Klaviyo
Melt Chocolates is a luxury fresh chocolate brand based in London. Louise Nason started the business in…
The Grinch Wears Silicon as Bots Hijack E-Commerce Year-Round
Online shopping is turning into a battle between consumers and AI bots, and the digital challengers are…
New Ecommerce Tools: November 26, 2025
Every week we publish a handpicked list of new products and services for ecommerce merchants. This installment…
Where Investors See Ecommerce Heading
Crunchbase reported this month that ecommerce start-up funding was about to hit a five-year low as investors…
Solar Power Developer on Fueling the Grid
Chris Elrod is a renewable power entrepreneur. His company, Treaty Oak Clean Energy, builds massive solar projects…
Why B2B checkout is not one size fits all
This post was written in collaboration with Fortis, an embedded payments platform that integrates directly with WooCommerce…
Polestar Additionals grows B2C sales 232% with WooCommerce
Polestar is an electric car brand with an emphasis on performance and a sustainable future. Combining innovative…
Will AI Solve Ecommerce Personalization?
A nascent firm armed with a fresh $12.3 million investment aims to deliver on the promise of…
How Bot-to-Bot Commerce Is Rewriting the Rules of Retail
Picture this: It’s Black Friday 2027, and retail’s biggest “customer” isn’t a soccer mom hunting for deals…
New Ecommerce Tools: November 12, 2025
This week’s installment of new products and services for ecommerce merchants includes updates on agentic commerce, multichannel…
Top six things to consider for last-mile shipping in EMEA
Ecommerce sellers based in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) are well familiar with arguably the…
Refurbished Tech Market Expands as E-Commerce Drives Circular Economy
The e-commerce platform market is driving a major shift in how technology is bought, sold, and reused….
AI Shopping Surge Exposes Retailers’ Slow, Cautious Response
Artificial intelligence (AI) shopping tools are rapidly reshaping how consumers discover and evaluate products. Yet even as…
New Ecommerce Tools: October 29, 2025
This week’s rundown of new products and services for ecommerce merchants includes updates on agentic commerce, conversational…
Amazon intensifies competition with bol
Amazon will invest more than 1.4 billion euros in the Dutch market over the next three years….