Online sellers who use ecommerce platforms and listing tools to host their shops and manage inventory received news from several vendors this month about new features – along with an important security alert. The popular Zen Cart shopping cart issued Read more
Visa Checkout is making it easier for more people to sign up for an account, it announced this week. Bank of America is helping customers enroll in Visa Checkout by directly populating their Bank of America cards into Visa Checkout Read more
Amazon will open a third fulfillment center in San Bernardino, its seventh in California after opening its first warehouse in the state in 2012. Amazon employees at the new 1.1 million-square-foot fulfillment center will pick, pack, and ship smaller customer Read more
Online shoppers expect to be able to track their online orders, and marketplaces like eBay expect sellers to offer it, but it isn’t always easy to get an acceptance scan from the USPS. However, there is a way to help Read more
Two stories out this week about Craigslist and eBay classifieds sites show how criminals attempt fraud in varied ways online just as they do in real life, and show it pays to stay vigilant. The first story comes from Australia, Read more
The US Postal Service fell short of its performance targets for a host of its mailing and shipping services last year, and on-time delivery percentages in many categories were actually worse than 2014, the agency’s regulator has found. The Postal Read more
What does “big data,” PRP, and SRP have to do with shopping on eBay? The product manager responsible for the shopping experience on eBay explained how the marketplace uses models to guide shoppers to items, whether they are browsing or Read more
eBay wants to give car buyers greater selection and make it easier for them to find the vehicle they’re looking for, and it acquired Cargigi to help it. eBay announced the acquisition on Tuesday, saying it will leverage Cargigi’s technology Read more
If you advertise your products online using Google AdWords, expect to see a new user interface (or, “experience,” as Google calls it). This is not about new features – it’s a design overhaul to make it easier for business to Read more
Amazon is opening up one of its special programs for shoppers to third-party merchants, according to a seller service called Teikametrics. But not just any third-party seller, and only in select categories. Lauren Shepherd of Teikametrics told EcommerceBytes that Amazon Read more
