Our curated rundown this week of new services for merchants includes agentic checkouts, AI-powered marketing, same-day deliveries, brand intelligence, cross-border commerce, multi-carrier shipping, and cross-channel personalization.
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New Tools for Merchants
Ecom Logistics launches same-day delivery in Canada for Shopify merchants. Ecom Logistics has launched Ecom Now, a same-day fulfillment and delivery experience for Shopify merchants. Ecom Now connects a merchant’s Shopify storefront to Ecom’s connected order-to-door Canada network, bringing fulfillment and last-mile delivery together in one experience. Customers who order eligible products before noon receive their order by 9:00 p.m. the same day. Ecom Now is available for eligible deliveries in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Calgary.
Meta debuts AI tools for advertisers and commerce. Meta has introduced new commercial AI capabilities. Meta AI business assistant now features creative insights from Ads Creative Studio, a deeper memory of your business, and more. Generative AI video tools have expanded in Ads Creative Studio and Advantage+, including tools to turn product images into video. Consumers can now purchase without leaving conversations. Also, AI-enabled audience discovery is coming to Detailed Targeting.
BigCommerce Payments by PayPal launches in the U.K. Commerce, the parent company of BigCommerce, has announced the expansion of its embedded payment solution, BigCommerce Payments by PayPal, to the U.K. While BigCommerce Payments is co-branded and embedded into BigCommerce, the merchant’s payment relationship remains with PayPal. BigCommerce Payments brings cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and digital wallets together in one native checkout.
Shopify carts synced across devices via Shop. Shop, the consumer-facing shopping and package-tracking app for Shopify, can now verify shoppers while they browse a store, even before they purchase. For Shop users, checkout loads faster, carts sync across devices, sign-in is sped up with one-tap, and the “Buy with Shop Pay” button is pre-filled for a smoother checkout. Browsing activity also syncs to a shopper’s Shop account, so Shop can resurface items they viewed and abandoned carts.
Typeform launches AI Landing Pages. Typeform, an AI-native platform for interactive conversational forms, has launched AI Landing Pages, a builder that enables businesses to create branded, publish-ready pages. Through a conversation with Typeform AI, users can generate and refine a page, add native forms and payments, and track performance from one platform. Users can add an existing form or instruct Typeform AI to build one tailored to the page’s goal.
Google Ads introduces commerce audience sharing for retail media. Google Ads has introduced commerce audience sharing, allowing retailers and marketplaces to share first-party audience segments with brands and sellers running eligible retail media campaigns. Retailers can share audience segments by linking their Google Ads account with the relevant Google Merchant Center and data-sharing accounts. Both the commerce partner and advertising partner must meet Google’s eligibility requirements. Shared audiences are only available for commerce media network campaigns.
Crossmint launches Agent Commerce Toolkit enabling AI agents to pay. Crossmint, a payment infrastructure platform, has launched the Agent Commerce Toolkit, which lets AI agents pay with any card and complete purchases at any online store. The toolkit handles the full purchase flow, from saving a card to completing checkout, in a single integration. It is live and self-serve. Developers can integrate it in a single prompt and access the open-source reference app.
Zenkraft launches multi-carrier shipping app for Salesforce’s Storefront Next. Zenkraft, a Salesforce-native shipping platform that connects merchants to a global network of carriers, has launched Shipping for Agentic Commerce, an app for Salesforce B2C Commerce’s Storefront Next. Zenkraft Shipping for Agentic Commerce is available now in the Commerce App Registry, giving merchants a turnkey way to add estimated delivery dates, branded tracking, and return capabilities to their storefronts without custom integration.
Listrak integrates with SiteVibes for cross-channel loyalty data. Listrak, an email marketing and cross-channel personalization platform, has expanded its integration with retention platform SiteVibes. Marketers can bring real-time SiteVibes events and data, including loyalty insights, review activity, and customer behavior, directly into Listrak to build personalized campaigns from loyalty and behavior data. Webhooks pass data between the two platforms in real time, maintaining a single unified customer view and triggering messages in channels such as email and SMS as loyalty events happen.
SyncSpider introduces B2B portal for commerce data. SyncSpider, a provider of business integration and workflow automation, announced B2Bware, a B2B portal for managing orders, customers, products, and operational data. Through integrations with platforms such as Odoo, Shopware, and Shopify, SyncSpider helps companies eliminate data silos and reduce their dependence on spreadsheets, emails, and other disconnected order-management processes. SyncSpider provides B2Bware users a unified environment to manage product catalogs, customer information, order documents, pricing, and real-time inventory.
Shopware launches Agentic Commerce Maturity Index. Shopware, a provider of B2C and B2B ecommerce solutions, has launched an Agentic Commerce Maturity Index to help merchants measure their AI readiness and get a structured view of their current position in the global agentic commerce market. The self-assessment comprises 24 questions, takes around 25 minutes, and evaluates four areas: discovery, transactions, fulfillment, and operations. Merchants receive an immediate maturity score, a comparison with other participants, and recommendations for next steps.
Kantar launches Experience Impact, powered by Qualtrics. Kantar, a brand intelligence business, has launched Kantar Experience Impact, powered by the Qualtrics platform. Experience Impact combines customer and non-customer views to show how experiences shape brand perceptions across the market. It can include voice-of-customer and operational and brand data to understand what is happening. Kantar developed Experience Impact in partnership with Qualtrics and is available through the Qualtrics platform and marketplace.
Sellforte launches Incremental Pixel for daily ecommerce attribution. Sellforte, a measurement and optimization system for retail and ecommerce, has launched Incremental Pixel, an attribution capability that combines customer journey data with causal evidence from incrementality experiments and marketing mix modeling. Incremental Pixel calibrates attribution from multiple ad platforms to reveal which campaigns drive incremental sales. The launch gives ecommerce and retail marketers a measurement system for daily paid media campaign optimization and strategic investment decisions.
Constructor launches Agentic Checkout, powered by Stripe. Constructor, a product discovery platform for agentic commerce, has launched Agentic Checkout, powered by Stripe, enabling shoppers (humans and agents) to find and buy products within a single agent conversation and interface. With Agentic Checkout, shoppers can discover products, ask questions, get personalized recommendations, refine their choices, and then securely check out and pay without leaving the agent experience. Shoppers can pay via the Link by Stripe digital wallet or other payment methods.
DaVinci Commerce expands Agentic Commerce Experience Platform. DaVinci Commerce has expanded its Agentic Commerce Experience Platform, introducing an architecture and Product Context Memory technology to help brands and retailers compete. According to DaVinci, the expanded platform brings together three integrated capabilities: Agentic Discoverability Engine, Brand Agent, and Agentic BrandStore. Product Context Memory technology maintains a growing body of contextual knowledge around each SKU, connecting authoritative product information with relevant benefits, consumer needs, use cases, occasions, preferences, and supporting evidence.
FedEx Dataworks and Stripe partner on global commerce for SMBs. FedEx Dataworks, FedEx Corp.’s insights and intelligence subsidiary, and Stripe have partnered to expand global commerce by combining the FedEx network with Stripe’s financial infrastructure. The companies plan to leverage their platforms to expand access to financing for small- and medium-sized businesses. Additionally, FedEx will begin using Stripe as an option to process payments, adding more than 50 payment methods to its checkouts.
Razorpay partners with OpenAI to expand ChatGPT ads in India. Razorpay, a financial solutions and payment services company, is working with OpenAI to help India-based brands advertise on ChatGPT Ads through Razorpay Engage, its marketing platform. The collaboration will enable Razorpay Engage to help brands prepare catalogs, launch campaigns, and measure what works on ChatGPT Ads.





