Shopify announced Canvas on October 1, a design workspace that shows every page of a store at once and lets its Sidekick AI edit them. If you run a high-ticket store on Shopify, this lands on your most expensive asset: the storefront that your ad budget sends traffic to. According to Shopify’s changelog, Canvas does […]
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1-800-Flowers agreed Sept. 29 to sell PersonalizationMall.com and Things Remembered to PlanetArt for about $45 million in cash, per its press release. The same company paid $245 million for PersonalizationMall.com alone in 2020, according to Retail TouchPoints. The 2026 price covers two brands, so the comparison is not clean, but it is a useful signal […]
1-800-Flowers Sells Two Gifting Sites for $45M Read More »
What Leaders Should Take From This Roughly six in ten American adults had a major unexpected expense in the past year, and the most common one was a car repair, according to the Federal Reserve. More than a third of adults would not cover a $400 emergency from cash or savings, so a meaningful share […]
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Not every e-commerce sale begins with a customer clicking Add to Cart. For high-ticket products, customised orders, bulk purchases, repeat customers, and products that require consultation, the buying journey may begin with a WhatsApp message or phone call instead. A customer asks about availability. The merchant confirms the product, price, delivery location, and any custom […]
How to Collect Payments for Phone and WhatsApp Orders in E-commerce Read More »
Chase now transfers Ink Business Preferred points to World of Hyatt at 4:3 instead of 1:1, effective October 1, 2026. If you run ads for a store on that card, this hits your rewards directly. According to Chase’s Ink Business Preferred page, the card earns 3 points per dollar on the first $150,000 of combined […]
Chase Cuts Ink Business Preferred Hyatt Transfers 25% Read More »
OpenAI added bulk product campaigns to ChatGPT Ads on September 30, letting advertisers build many product-feed campaigns from one spreadsheet upload in Ads Manager. For the high-ticket store owners at Ecommerce Paradise, this removes the chore that kept ChatGPT product ads a side project. If your catalog has a few hundred SKUs, you can now […]
ChatGPT Ads Adds Bulk Product Campaigns via Spreadsheet Read More »
Best Buy said September 29 it will open a TikTok Shop storefront in late October with nearly 10,000 products from brands like Dyson, Bose and Oura. For the high-ticket store owners I teach at Ecommerce Paradise, the consequence is direct. A retailer with more than 1,000 stores just put its catalog inside the app where […]
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Open USD, a stablecoin co-owned by Shopify, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard and Coinbase, went live on four blockchains on September 30 with more than $1 billion in committed liquidity. If you run a high-ticket store on Shopify, your platform now holds equal equity in a new dollar token alongside the companies that process your cards. Nothing […]
Open USD Goes Live With Shopify as a Co-Owner Read More »
Pennsylvania began enforcing destination-based local sales tax today, so online sellers registered in the state must collect 2% in Philadelphia and 1% in Allegheny County. If you run a high-ticket store for an audience like the one at Ecommerce Paradise and you already collect Pennsylvania sales tax, a $3,000 order shipped to a Philadelphia address […]
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One of the easiest ways to get yourself into trouble with ecommerce is to look at a big payout hitting your bank account and assume you made money. I have seen stores doing $50,000, $100,000, or more per month in sales that were still completely stressed out for cash. The owner is looking at revenue, […]
Your Ecommerce Payout Is Not Your Profit: The Cash Flow System Store Owners Need Read More »