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 ...

This week’s rundown of new products and services for merchants includes updates on international shipping, cross-border payments, AI-powered logistics, conversational ad campaigns, social commerce, ...

ChatGPT is becoming a valuable traffic source. It may not appear in a Google Analytics 4 overview because the volume is small, but ChatGPT traffic is often the most engaging source, even more than ...

The metaverse is the joining of physical and digital worlds. The idea isn’t new, particularly to gamers of Fortnite or Roblox. Second Life has been running a metaverse-like online world for a couple ...

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 ...

Every week we publish a rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants. This installment includes updates on release-based selling, quick deliveries, secure payments, managed social commerce, ...

Augmented reality and virtual reality provide opportunities to create product experiences for shoppers that are immersive — the feeling of being physically present. Here is a list of recent AR and VR ...

AI is transforming ecommerce, enabling smarter workflows, automation, and efficiency. I’m the co-founder of Shop Circle, a leading Shopify app provider. We’ve integrated AI into our daily operations ...

Unlike top search engines, ChatGPT does not maintain an index of global websites. It has relied instead on Bing’s index and search for training and sources. However, recent third-party tests suggest ...

Could it be that Americans are heading into the holiday shopping season with confidence? From faster delivery and cross-border buying to small business growth and AI-powered shopping tools, the coming ...

The “direct” traffic channel in analytics software might be mislabeled, misleading, and even detrimental. Imagine an ecommerce sortation center. When it cannot identify the package’s origin, the ...