This week’s rundown of new products and services for merchants includes updates on ChatGPT ads, digital payments, visual search ads, authenticated deliveries, agentic commerce, CRM models, logistics, ...

Sig Ueland is a longtime contributor to Practical Ecommerce, having written weekly ecommerce resource lists since 2011 — addressing tools, products, and services to help merchants. He is also a ...

A simple inventory count combined with sales velocity can reveal a lot about product demand, order planning, and even how much investment sits idle on warehouse shelves. In June 2026, for example, U.S ...

This week’s rundown of new services for merchants includes updates on payments, agentic commerce, AI visibility, product customizers, omnichannel fulfillment, dropshipping, email marketing, and ...

Google launched the Disavow tool in 2012 to help websites neutralize the ranking harm of spammy backlinks. Google has consistently warned website personnel that Disavow is an advanced feature to be ...

Ecommerce companies may soon compete not only for shoppers, but also to “own” the AI through which those shoppers buy. Conceptually, the idea is not new. Competing for customers has long included ...

The challenge of enforcing influencer disclosure rules starts with the definition. Neither the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s regulations nor the E.U.’s core consumer-protection directives use ...

Every week we publish a rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants. This installment includes updates on payments, shipping, affiliate marketing, agentic AI, ecommerce accelerators, customer ...

At 242 million, Nigeria’s 2026 population is the largest in Africa and the sixth most populous worldwide, behind India (1.48 billion), China (1.41 billion), the United States (349 million), Indonesia ...

An ecommerce shop’s busiest holiday season could also be its least profitable. Ecommerce businesses face direct variable costs with every order. Two orders with the same revenue might produce ...