New Ecommerce Tools: February 25, 2026
This week’s rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants includes rollouts for third-party fulfillment, AI assistants, agentic…
Email Marketing Awaits True AI
Artificial intelligence has not yet fulfilled its email marketing potential, at least not without human help. There…
No Pong: From startup to multinational business with WooCommerce
No Pong is one of the most popular natural deodorant brands in Australia. They launched on WooCommerce…
Use print-on-demand to scale your business without inventory risk
In a market defined by fast-changing consumer preferences, shrinking product lifecycles, and rising operational costs, many merchants…
How buy now, pay later options can help your business grow
Sales are often won or lost at checkout, so giving customers more flexibility at that critical moment…
Why growing brands leave SaaS for open-source ecommerce
For fast-growing ecommerce brands, the platform you choose isn’t just a technical decision — it’s a growth…
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…