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Nearly half of shoppers are worried about affording holiday gifts this year

Catalog API now returns compare-at prices as `list_price`

The Catalog API now returns a merchant’s compare-at price as list_price on each product variant. Your app or agent can use list_price to tell when a product is marked down and by how much. The price field doesn’t change. No action is requir

EU wants to introduce another parcel tax

The European Commission is working on a new fee for packages from outside the EU. This surveillance fee is intended to facilitate better product inspections. The fee will be in addition to the 3-euro import duty and the upcoming 2-euro fee

Swedish ecommerce grew 8% in Q2

Online sales in Sweden in the second quarter have increased 8 percent compared to the same period last year. All online sectors showed growth. It remains to be seen if this trend will continue the rest of the year. This is according to Post

Network tokens explained

Learn about network tokens in payments, how they improve security and issuer authorization rates, plus some options on the types of provisioning available.

"Brazil Automotive Industry Chain Seminar" will be held in October, registration channel now open

On October 12, the "Brazil Automotive Industry Chain Seminar" will be held in Shanghai. We now sincerely invite representatives from all companies to register and attend, to jointly discuss Brazil market trends and seize new opportunities for the auto parts industry going global.

8.1175 million in tax refunds recovered, plus a 2x penalty! This company was brought down by old accounts

This company stumbled over old debts

36Kr Global·Focus | Taobao Going Global Ten Years: This year's focus is promoting good stores

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Your Next Product Could Be a New Brand

Flat Circle's Rok Hladnik says launching a new product line sometimes requires a new brand. The post Your Next Product Could Be a New Brand appeared first on Practical Ecommerce.

Nearly ten thousand Tmall brands enter Southeast Asia through "one-click light going global," transaction volume sees double-digit quarter-over-quarter growth

Nearly ten thousand Tmall brands enter Southeast Asia, Lazada turns segmented demand into growth opportunities

The proposition of Chinese brands going global in Southeast Asia is changing.

Jetpack 16.3 WordPress Plugin Update Is A Winner via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Jetpack announced the release of version 16.3, a major update that adds three new blocks, expands existing features, improves accessibility and security, and reorganizes settings to bring related controls together in the user interface. Thr

Study shows over 80% of ChatGPT shopping decisions come from product cards

Dean Saffron photography images filed in a case! Viral meme images must not be used commercially at will!

4 people, 3 months! How to make a data cable go viral in the US? | 1 going-global case per day

From 16.66 to 13.99: After Basemo went viral, the dividends and the branding challenge

Anker Innovations, why is it called "local domestic goods" by Japanese people

From 0 to 1.8 billion, what did Anker do right in Japan?

E-commerce Morning Brief: Meta opens Muse agent to SMBs; 68% of Amazon Fall Prime deals priced under $20

Amazon Prime Big Deal Days in October drove $9.86 billion in online spending, Adobe says

Amazon Prime Big Deal Days returned on Oct. 6 and 7 in 2026, and data published by Adobe shows that shoppers spent more than when the event was held on Oct. 7 and 8 in 2025. The two-day sales event, which fell on a Tuesday and Wednesday in

What’s new for merchants in WooCommerce 11.2

Here’s everything you need to know about updates that’ll impact your store with WooCommerce 11.2.

Hydrogen developer preview update: October 8, 2026

The Hydrogen developer preview adds new capabilities to the toolkit and extends the ways developers can build Shopify storefronts: Predictive search in the React Router template: Product suggestions appear as shoppers type. Currency on prod

New `owner_type` field for metafield declarations in Checkout and Customer Account UI extensions, required in 2027-01

Starting with API version 2026-10, Checkout and Customer Account UI extensions can specify an owner_type for each metafield declaration in shopify.extension.toml. Starting with API version 2027-01, owner_type is required for every metafield

Shopify Flow: Flow Trigger Lifecycle Callback extensions now support relative url paths

What's changed Flow Trigger Lifecycle Callback extensions now support relative URLs in addition to absolute HTTPS URLs. This works similarly to relative URLs with Flow action extensions. Running app dev resolves your relative URL against yo

Google Now Has The Math To Rank Without An Index, And The Results Page Does Not Survive It via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester

Google DeepMind proved one model can theoretically rank without a separate index. If it ships, visibility stops being a position and becomes inclusion or absence. The post Google Now Has The Math To Rank Without An Index, And The Results Pa

Google Completes September 2026 Spam Update After Nearly 14 Days via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google's latest spam update has finished rolling out after nearly two weeks, taking longer than any of the three earlier spam updates it ran this year. The post Google Completes September 2026 Spam Update After Nearly 14 Days appeared first