Trevor Fenner

Welcome to today’s Paradise Report. This is the daily news brief from Ecommerce Paradise for small ecommerce founders and location-independent entrepreneurs, the people building Shopify, Amazon, eBay, and high-ticket dropshipping stores from wherever they happen to be parked this month. Some of you are reading this from a condo in Bangkok or a villa outside […]

It is Saturday morning, May 30, 2026, and if you run a Shopify store you woke up to a decision you did not have a month ago. Shopify’s Summer ’26 Edition shipped Horizon, a brand new theme system, and it is the biggest change to how Shopify themes are built since Online Store 2.0 landed […]

As of midday Friday, May 29, 2026, the most quietly important story for sellers this week is not a new fee or a flashy AI feature. It is a rule change about money leaving your account without a product ever coming back. On May 22, Amazon updated its Customer Service by Amazon program, known as […]

As of Friday morning, May 29, 2026, the way you get in and out of Europe is officially a different game, and if you run an online store from the road like a lot of people in my world do, this one matters more than another Amazon fee tweak. The EU’s biometric Entry/Exit System, the […]

At 6:32 this morning, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection refund number jumped from $35 billion to $85 billion in a single court filing, and a lot of ecommerce operators still don’t know they have a claim sitting on the table. This is one of the largest refund processes the federal government has ever attempted, […]

It’s Thursday, May 28, 2026, evening, and we have to talk about what AWS quietly dropped yesterday because it changes the math for every operator running a high-ticket store. AWS launched the Agentic Shopping Assistant, an off-the-shelf SaaS that licenses the same conversational AI stack Amazon uses to drive almost $12 billion in incremental sales […]