Category: News

  • USPS Retail Ground and Parcel Select Ground now delivered in 2 to 5 days

    Effective Aug. 1, 2022, the United States Postal Service (USPS) will accelerate service for its Retail Ground and Parcel Select Ground products from two to eight days to two to five days within the United States (excluding Alaska and Hawaii).

  • Selling to customers in Germany gets more difficult – the 2019 Packaging Act

    Germany’s 2019 Packaging Act (VerpackG) requires business sellers to license the packaging for their products and register with the LUCID database when they sell items to customers in Germany.

  • Walmart invites UK retailers to sell on the Walmart US Marketplace

    On the 17th of June, in London, Walmart in a partnership with Linnworks and Payoneer organized a Walmart UK Global Seller Summit event, promoting the Walmart.com marketplace to the UK-based companies. More merchants joining Walmart.com means a greater selection and variety of products for American customers, but also more competition for the US sellers.

  • A collection of product updates across all of Shopify – Summer ’22

    The company launched a new semi-annual product sprint called Shopify Editions, where twice a year Shopify team shows everything that they have been building. The Summer 2022 list is pretty long. Shopify is working on a lot of exciting projects. Below we present a condensed list of those most interesting features.

  • PayPal’s upcoming changes to fees and friends & family transactions

    Starting July 28, 2022, for the customers in the US, the Goods & Services seller fee will change to 2.99%, with no fixed fee. This is to compare with the current 2.89% + $0.49. Additionally, the US customers will now only be able to send Friends and Family peer-to-peer payments to consumer PayPal accounts.

  • US e-commerce grows 6.7% in Q1 2022

    In 2020, the pandemic boost excited the entire e-commerce industry about the possibility of hypergrowth. As it turned, e-commerce only grew slightly, and everything – from sourcing to advertising – got harder. This is nice to see some encouraging news from U.S. Department of Commerce – the U.S. online sales increased by 6.7% during the…

  • FedEx introduces picture proof of delivery

    FedEx will soon start offering Picture Proof of Delivery for express and ground residential deliveries in the U.S. and Canada that are released without a signature. Photos will be accessible through FedEx tracking tools and will not require an account or log-in. This service will be free and will not require enrollment.

  • New Feedback Policy for Facebook Marketplace and Shops

    Facebook Marketplace announced changes to its feedback policy to crack down on fake reviews and spam. As a consequence, Facebook will give extra scrutiny to reviews posted on the platform. The new policy provides clearer guidelines on what types of community feedback are allowed and ensures that reviews are based on real purchasing experiences.

  • eBay acquires KnownOrigin, doubling down on NFT space

    This move gives eBay access to the technology and the platform which allows users to create, buy and resell NFTs via blockchain-support transactions.

  • Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022

    President Biden signed the bipartisan bill Ocean Reform Act. This is the first significant revision to this legislation in over 20 years. The bill addresses ocean shipping supply chain issues. Among them are things like shipping container shortage, crisis management, and late fees charged by the ocean carriers and terminals, which are passed on to…