Platforms & Apps
Our coverage of platforms and apps includes innovations and updates to shopping carts, content management systems, mobile shopping, digital-product selling, headless commerce, social media, and much more.
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Platforms & Apps
New Ecommerce Tools: April 17, 2025
April 17, 2025 • Sig Ueland
This week: tariff reduction tools, influencer marketing, installment payments, shipping, logistics platforms, and AI for customer service.
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The Real Test of Unified Commerce
April 10, 2025 • Armando Roggio
Combining multiple commerce systems for a unified view of customers and products seems compelling. Do the benefits justify the cost?
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New Ecommerce Tools: April 10, 2025
April 10, 2025 • Sig Ueland
This week's installment covers new rollouts from Amazon, PayPal, Doola, Appriss Retail, DHL, Temu, Visa, Spire, Best Buy, Trustfull, Blackhawk Networks, and more.
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How to Change a Domain Name in Shopify
April 6, 2025 • Armando Roggio
A change in products or focus could require a store to change its internet address.
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New Ecommerce Tools: April 3, 2025
April 3, 2025 • Sig Ueland
This week's digest covers developments from Perplexity, Shopify, Amazon, Commercetools, UPS, Veho, Pipe17, Chord Commerce, and more.
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New Ecommerce Tools: March 27, 2025
March 27, 2025 • Sig Ueland
This week's installment includes updates on automated ads, payments, AI-powered agents, personalization, cross-border shipping, and more.
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New Ecommerce Tools: March 20, 2025
March 20, 2025 • Sig Ueland
This week: AI-powered agents, mobile app builders, buy-now-pay-later services, logistics, B2B payments, and email marketing.
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New Ecommerce Tools: March 13, 2025
March 13, 2025 • Sig Ueland
This week's update includes tools for international expansion, Amazon selling, Shopify themes, customer support, payments, shipping, and B2B.
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New Ecommerce Tools: March 6, 2025
March 6, 2025 • Sig Ueland
This week's installment includes updates on AI agents, financing, local delivery, audience targeting, popups, security, and China.
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New Ecommerce Tools: February 27, 2025
February 27, 2025 • Sig Ueland
This week: Canada-based selling, buy-now pay-later, CRM platforms, logistics, shipping tools, long-term domain registration, and seller financing.
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New Ecommerce Tools: February 20, 2025
February 20, 2025 • Sig Ueland
This week's rundown of new services for merchants includes updates on AI-powered agents, wholesale management, fraud prevention, marketplace ads, influencers, and social commerce.
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New Ecommerce Tools: February 13, 2025
February 13, 2025 • Sig Ueland
This week: Amazon offers, product displays, subscriptions, cross-border sales, Meta campaigns, fraud prevention, recommerce, headless commerce, and packaging.
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New Ecommerce Tools: February 6, 2025
February 6, 2025 • Sig Ueland
This week's installment includes updates on AI agents, product pages, marketing models, POS tools, payment platforms, and conversational commerce.
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New Ecommerce Tools: January 30, 2025
January 30, 2025 • Sig Ueland
This week: updates on automated marketing, social commerce, product reviews, AI-powered shopping agents, value-added tax, drone deliveries, and more.
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Plain-English Guide to Shopify Liquid
January 27, 2025 • Arjus Dashi
Merchants who understand Liquid can unlock new store customizations without needing a developer.
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New Ecommerce Tools: January 23, 2025
January 23, 2025 • Sig Ueland
This week: genAI search, website builders, fulfillment, reverse logistics, mobile payments, click-to-cancel subscriptions, and more.
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Squarespace’s Tools Aid Ecommerce Novices
January 19, 2025 • Armando Roggio
The platform's AI builder and snap-in-place grid are much easier than code-based modifiers and complicated editors.
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Shopify Pro on Themes, Upgrades, Ecosystem
January 17, 2025 • Eric Bandholz
Kurt Elster launched his first Shopify store in 2011 and his "Unofficial Shopify Podcast" in 2014.
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New Ecommerce Tools: January 16, 2025
January 16, 2025 • Sig Ueland
This week's rundown includes tools for cross-border selling, online advertising, generative AI, post-purchase journeys, and B2B and B2C platforms.
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New Ecommerce Tools: January 9, 2025
January 9, 2025 • Sig Ueland
This installment includes updates on marketplaces, supply chain platforms, shipping, returns, cross-border payments, and AI-generated product videos.
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AI Apps to Get Things Done in 2025
January 7, 2025 • Sig Ueland
Today's AI-driven project management and productivity platforms automate tasks, schedules, and workflows.
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New Ecommerce Tools: January 2, 2025
January 2, 2025 • Sig Ueland
This first 2025 installment of our weekly rundown includes updates on payment platforms, shopping assistants, advertising insights, AI chatbots, mobile services, and parcel delivery.
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New Ecommerce Tools: December 26, 2024
December 26, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's installment includes updates on return solutions, pay-over-time services, cross-border sales, promotions, AI tools, and virtual try-ons.
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New Ecommerce Tools: December 19, 2024
December 19, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's installment includes updates on returns, payment financing, AI-powered assistants, social commerce, shipping, and security tools.
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Top Online Form Builders, Compared
December 16, 2024 • Sig Ueland
Features, costs and capabilities of software for contacts, surveys, payments, registrations, data, and much more.
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New Ecommerce Tools: December 12, 2024
December 12, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's rundown includes tools for generative AI, virtual commerce, product image tools, customer experience platforms, blockchain payment solutions, and drone deliveries.
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Build Your Own Ecommerce Platform in 2025
December 8, 2024 • Armando Roggio
Advances in composable commerce allow even smaller merchants to pick and choose the right apps for their businesses.
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New Ecommerce Tools: December 5, 2024
December 5, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's installment includes updates on virtual stores, tax management, cross-border commerce, circular packaging, sponsored products, product images, and more.
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New Ecommerce Tools: November 28, 2024
November 28, 2024 • Sig Ueland
Our rundown this week includes updates on ecommerce platforms, marketplaces, search engines, APIs, reverse logistics, and local delivery.
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Perplexity Shopping Tests Ecommerce SMBs
November 21, 2024 • Armando Roggio
Perplexity's shopping assistant will likely make buying easier for consumers while complicating existing ecommerce businesses.
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