New Ecommerce Tools: October 21, 2026
This week’s rundown of new services for merchants includes AI-powered marketing, agentic commerce, return platforms, multichannel distribution,…
80% of marketplace GMV in Europe come from cross-border transactions
The 100 biggest marketplaces that are active in Europe are expected to generate a gross merchandise volume…
How I Fixed A Failed VCF Managed Services Platform Deployment
October 15, 2026 How I Fixed A Failed VCF Managed Services Platform Deployment TL;DR VCF 9.1.1, 2-host…
Fewer Apps, More Done
I’ve worked as a content manager and copywriter for 15 years. Ask me which productivity apps I…
Connect your hosting account to AI with the Pressable MCP
The week before a sale, you open 5 tabs: cache settings, PHP version, backup history, the activity…
AI Recommendations Put Brand Loyalty to the Test: Adobe
Artificial intelligence can break or make customer loyalty to a brand, according to data published Monday by…
Open source is a competitive advantage for ecommerce brands
Open-source software is software anyone can download, change, and build on. For a merchant, that means your…
How to be the email they open on Black Friday
Black Friday is the time of year when inboxes go from manageable to overwhelming overnight. Attention spans…
New Ecommerce Tools: September 30, 2026
This week’s curated list of new services for merchants includes updates on agentic commerce, product review pages,…
Black Friday is also your payment processor’s best day of the year
Following every Black Friday Cyber Monday, revenue records make headlines. Adobe tracked $44.2 billion in US online…
‘Marketplace sellers shift focus to profitability’
Sellers no longer primarily measure their success on marketplaces by sales volumes, but by the returns they…
Google, OpenAI, ChatGPT Dominate AI-Referred Web Traffic
AI tools are sending billions of visits to websites, but more than half of that traffic is…
Google Targets Low Effort, not AI
Google’s problem with AI-generated content is less the process than the lack of effort. The search giant’s…
Google removes product carousels in Europe
Product carousels have almost entirely disappeared from Google’s shopping-related search results in the European Economic Area (EEA)….
How to choose a B2B ecommerce platform
Your B2B buyers want the same convenience they find elsewhere when placing orders; the freedom to manage…
How to choose the right social media platform for ecommerce
Don’t half-heart your social strategy by trying to be everywhere. Most brands end up on 4 or…
Small Businesses Put AI to Work in Digital Marketing
Among U.S. small businesses, AI adoption has climbed from 26% in 2023 to 87% this year as…
Print-on-demand costs almost nothing to start. Smart pricing is what makes it pay.
Launching a physical product line with custom designs is exceptionally affordable through print-on-demand. The process is simple:…
Let’s Use the Emergent CSS random() Function in all the Browsers
The creator of the TV show The Good Place wrote a tie-in book about moral philosophy which includes a chapter called…
animation-trigger
The CSS animation-trigger property delays the start of a CSS animation until a specific trigger occurs. More specifically, it…
Ecommerce fulfillment: How to know when you’ve outgrown your process
Packing 200 orders a day is manageable, but once you grow to 2,000 orders, you’ll need a…
New Ecommerce Tools: August 19, 2026
My rundown this week of new services for merchants includes updates on page builders, warehousing, dropshipping, real-time…
Email Open Bloat and Deliverability
The goal of email deliverability is to ensure messages reach recipients’ inboxes, avoiding spam folders or outright…
Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong
You closed a dialog and the console went that particular shade of angry mustard. You highlighted the…