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
13 Custom GPTs to Generate Content
July 9, 2024 • Sig Ueland
Need a new ad, logo, presentation, image, or video? There's a custom GPT for that.
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New Ecommerce Tools: July 9, 2024
July 9, 2024 • Sig Ueland
New tools for merchants this week include social commerce, flexible payments, luxury shopping, fulfillment, AI-powered pricing, and shopping in the metaverse.
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New Ecommerce Tools: July 2, 2024
July 2, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's rundown includes new tools for shoppable media, AI assistants, personalization, returns forecasting, installment payments, shipping platforms, and marketplaces.
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New Ecommerce Tools: June 27, 2024
June 27, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's rollouts include AI-powered search, subscriptions, social commerce, chatbots, local shopping, reverse logistics, live shopping, and retail media networks.
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New Ecommerce Tools: June 17, 2024
June 17, 2024 • Sig Ueland
New tools this week include generative AI, chatbots, digital payments, social commerce, subscriptions, media networks, and cryptocurrencies.
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New Ecommerce Tools: June 10, 2024
June 10, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: virtual universe stores, customized checkout, multichannel management, AI website builders, cross-channel commerce, product images, global sourcing, and more.
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New Ecommerce Tools: June 4, 2024
June 4, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's rundown includes updates on drone deliveries, POS systems, conversational AI, fulfillment, brand-influencer partnerships, and multichannel management.
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New Ecommerce Tools: May 29, 2024
May 29, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This installment of our weekly rundown includes updates on generative AI, product images, page speed optimization, automated marketing, omnichannel management, and more.
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New Ecommerce Tools: May 21, 2024
May 21, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: updates on tax compliance, accessibility, inventory, cross-channel order fulfillment, chargebacks, and management for perishable-goods brands.
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AI Tools to Convert Articles into Videos
May 14, 2024 • Ann Smarty
New AI tools can repurpose text into video — suitable for TikToks, Reels, YouTube Shorts, and more.
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New Ecommerce Tools: May 14, 2024
May 14, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: shoppable video, digital payments, returns management, AI-powered pricing, generative-AI ad tools, and advertising for marketplace merchants.
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New Ecommerce Tools: May 7, 2024
May 7, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: updates on ecommerce operations software, social commerce, post-purchase experiences, digital payments, the metaverse, and more.
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Using ChatGPT’s Memory Feature
May 6, 2024 • Ann Smarty
Enabling memory in ChatGPT facilitates personalized responses. The related "temporary chats" option is handy for privacy.
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13 Website Usability Testing Tools
April 30, 2024 • Sig Ueland
For merchants, elevating a site's user experience means more conversions. Usability testing platforms can identify pain points, collect feedback, more.
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New Ecommerce Tools: April 29, 2024
April 29, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: updates on drone deliveries, AI, social commerce, composable commerce, fulfillment, and cross-border payments.
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Chrome Extensions for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini
April 24, 2024 • Ann Smarty
We test third-party Chrome extensions for organization, productivity, and more.
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New Ecommerce Tools: April 23, 2024
April 23, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's updates address product images, live streaming, B2B, logistics, cross-border payments, and more.
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15 Apps for Live Streaming Video
April 22, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This all-new update to our popular resource features apps from social networks and live-streaming platforms to produce and broadcast solo or multi-source video.
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New Ecommerce Tools: April 15, 2024
April 15, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: updates on shoppable video, AI-powered search, composable commerce, payments, subscription plans, and more.
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New Ecommerce Tools: April 8, 2024
April 8, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: updates on fulfillment, design services, financing, digital marketing, payments, customer support, shoppable videos, and more.
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New Ecommerce Tools: April 2, 2024
April 2, 2024 • Sig Ueland
New merchant tools this week address customer engagement, B2B payments, product discovery, digital marketing, fraud prevention, post-purchase solutions, and more.
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AI Platforms for Competitor Research
March 25, 2024 • Ann Smarty
Competitor research was once limited to enterprise brands with big budgets. No more.
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New Ecommerce Tools: March 25, 2024
March 25, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's rundown includes tools for livestream commerce, cross-border transactions, logistics, omnichannel sales, customer experience, fraud prevention, and more.
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Charts: How Consumers Use the Internet 2024
March 20, 2024 • Adel Boukarroum
Research firm GWI surveyed global consumers as to their internet habits. Chatting and messaging were the top activities.
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New Ecommerce Tools: March 18, 2024
March 18, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: payment platforms, smart search, B2B commerce, resale programs, anti-fraud tools, logistics, customer experience platforms, and more.
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New Ecommerce Tools: March 12, 2024
March 12, 2024 • Sig Ueland
New tools this week include AI website builders, payment platforms, email and text marketing tools, logistics, video game commerce, and more.
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AI-powered Transcription Tools, Tested
March 11, 2024 • Ann Smarty
Today's transcription platforms are fast and sophisticated. We test three of them.
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11 Mobile Apps to Manage a Team
March 5, 2024 • Sig Ueland
Businesses with remote workers need tools to communicate and collaborate on tasks and projects.
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New Ecommerce Tools: March 4, 2024
March 4, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This installment of our weekly rundown includes tools for generative AI, cross-border payments, recommerce, email marketing, shopping carts, B2B, customer management, and more.
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New Ecommerce Tools: February 26, 2024
February 26, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's list includes updates on cross-border transactions, subscription sales, order tracking, streaming commerce, order management systems, fulfillment, and delivery.