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
AI Tools for Sales Teams
January 29, 2024 • Ann Smarty
Modern sales platforms can find prospects, train staff, generate outreach emails, and more.
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11 Mobile Apps for Customer Management
January 23, 2024 • Sig Ueland
It's never been easier to track sales, customers, and tasks from a phone. Here's the all-new update to our long-running list of providers.
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Ecommerce Product Releases: January 22, 2024
January 22, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: tools for generative AI, payment platforms, 3D product images, dropshipping, logistics, ad publishing, and creator management tools.
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Ecommerce Product Releases: January 16, 2024
January 16, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's rundown includes new tools and features for marketplaces, video commerce, returns shipping, content generation, cryptocurrencies, cross-border logistics, and more.
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Ecommerce Product Releases: January 10, 2024
January 10, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week's rundown includes updates involving loyalty programs, live-selling, generative AI, video players, fraudulent reviews, return shipping, and more.
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Ecommerce Product Releases: January 3, 2024
January 3, 2024 • Sig Ueland
This week: new tools for website builders, email marketing, livestream shopping, mobile shopping, chatbots, international shipping, and virtual product simulators.
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20 Open Source Ecommerce Platforms
December 31, 2023 • Sig Ueland
Open-source platforms are flexible, composable, and highly customizable. Here's the all-new update to our longstanding list.
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Ecommerce Product Releases: December 25, 2023
December 25, 2023 • Sig Ueland
This installment includes new services for social commerce, buy-now-pay-later options, generative AI, video email, analytics, website builders, and more.
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Postscript SMS Aims for Best in Class
December 22, 2023 • Eric Bandholz
Company president says focus on SMS for Shopify brands equates to market-leading performance.
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Ecommerce Product Releases: December 18, 2023
December 18, 2023 • Sig Ueland
This week's rundown includes new tools for headless commerce, cross-border logistics, payments, SMS marketing, and last-mile emissions.
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Ecommerce Product Releases: December 4, 2023
December 4, 2023 • Sig Ueland
This installment of our weekly industry rundown includes new website builders, supply chain tools, fulfillment services, AI marketing platforms, and more.
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Ecommerce Product Releases: Nov. 27, 2023
November 27, 2023 • Sig Ueland
Many companies provide software and services for ecommerce merchants. Every week we publish a rundown of new updates and releases.
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My Top Ecommerce Tools for 2024
November 24, 2023 • Andrew Broadbent
Any list of helpful ecommerce tools would be extensive. Here are five must-haves per our correspondent.
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Ecommerce Product Releases: Nov. 20, 2023
November 20, 2023 • Sig Ueland
New releases this week address video commerce, ecommerce marketing, social commerce, cross-border payments, composable commerce, more.
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21 New Shopify Tools to Explore
November 19, 2023 • Sig Ueland
Shopify's "Editions Summer '23" includes over 100 new platform features. Here are 21 of them.
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Top Shopify Updates in Editions Summer ’23
November 13, 2023 • Andrew Broadbent
Shopify's latest Editions rundown included 100 new platform features. Our correspondent chooses his top six.
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Ecommerce Product Releases: Nov. 13, 2023
November 13, 2023 • Sig Ueland
This week: composable commerce, AI-powered shopping, open banking, tax compliance, cross-border logistics, holiday shopping promotions, more.
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Ecommerce Product Releases: Nov. 6, 2023
November 6, 2023 • Sig Ueland
This week's list of upgrades and rollouts includes same-day deliveries, customer intelligence tools, conversational commerce, payment options, and more.
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Ecommerce Product Releases: Oct. 30, 2023
October 30, 2023 • Sig Ueland
This week: AR try-on tools, reverse logistics, delivery insurance, AI-powered advertising, point-of-sale tools, cross-border payments, livestream shopping, more.
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Ecommerce Product Releases: Oct. 23, 2023
October 23, 2023 • Sig Ueland
This week: drone deliveries, generative AI, tracking, verified reviews, social media ads, shoppable videos, and livestream shopping.
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Ecommerce Product Releases: Oct. 16, 2023
October 16, 2023 • Sig Ueland
This week: holiday shipping, B2B payments, returns and reverse logistics, digital wallets, social media advertising, more.
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Ecommerce Product Releases: Oct. 9, 2023
October 9, 2023 • Sig Ueland
This week's updates include email marketing, generative AI, carbon-neutral delivery, returns delivery, B2B tools, point-of-sale tools, and full-stack commerce technology.
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Ecommerce Product Releases: Oct. 2, 2023
October 2, 2023 • Sig Ueland
This week's updates include shipping labels, B2B tools, ad targeting, virtual experiences, fulfillment, and generative AI.
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Ecommerce Product Releases: Sept. 25, 2023
September 25, 2023 • Sig Ueland
Updates this week include fulfillment, point-of-sale platforms, social commerce, flexible payment options, and AI-powered customer service.
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Ecommerce Game-changers (in 2014)
September 18, 2023 • Armando Roggio
We described in 2014 five technologies that would change ecommerce. They didn't.
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Ecommerce Product Releases: Sept. 18, 2023
September 18, 2023 • Sig Ueland
This week's installment includes updates to Amazon's shipping software, new Meta ad tools, new Pinterest ad formats, and much more.
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How to Train ChatGPT for Better Responses
September 12, 2023 • Ann Smarty
ChatGPT's responses are generic by default. Here's how to customize them to your business or product.
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TikTok Replaces ‘Storefront’ with ‘Shop’
September 11, 2023 • Samantha Collier
TikTok Shop enables consumers to buy products without leaving the platform.
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Commerce Briefs: September 11, 2023
September 11, 2023 • Sig Ueland
Updates on shipping labels, green logistics, social commerce, B2B tools, headless commerce, more.
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Commerce Briefs: September 4, 2023
September 4, 2023 • Sig Ueland
This week's Commerce Briefs includes updates on Buy with Prime, Bonanza marketplace, DHL cross-border shipping, and more.
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