As of this morning, every Shopify merchant has one full day left to look at how their store stacks up against the rest of the platform inside their own Admin. Tomorrow, May 19, 2026, Shopify will permanently remove the Compare to Benchmarks toggle from the Analytics surface. The dataset has already stopped collecting new comparison […]

The other shoe just dropped on Amazon’s business banking stack. Last Wednesday, May 13, 2026, Amazon, U.S. Bank, and Mastercard quietly rolled out two new business credit cards that replace the Amex-issued Amazon Business and Prime Business cards Amazon has run since 2012. The new lineup includes a Prime Business Card paying 5% back on […]

If you sell on Amazon FBA, check your seller central this week. Amazon ran its monthly aged inventory assessment on May 15, and the charges hit accounts between today and Friday. This is only the second time these charges have posted under the new 181-day threshold that took effect April 17, which means a lot […]

Welcome to today’s Paradise Report. Trevor here with Ecommerce Paradise, and this is the daily roundup of what small ecommerce founders and location-independent entrepreneurs need to know across ecommerce, AI, and the lifestyle beat. Sunday is usually a slower news day, but today is anything but. Klaviyo just married Anthropic’s Claude into its core platform, […]

For the first time since Amazon began breaking the number out in 2004, the share of paid units sold on Amazon by third-party sellers has now fallen for two consecutive quarters. Third-party sellers accounted for 60% of paid units in Q1 2026, down from 61% in Q4 2025 and 62% the quarter before that. After […]

As of this past week, the two parcel carriers that handle the vast majority of international ecommerce shipments to and from the United States have stacked a fresh wave of fuel surcharge increases and per-pound surge fees on top of an already brutal 2026 cost curve. The largest move took effect Monday, May 11, 2026, […]

Earlier this week Amazon flipped the switch on a service that quietly resets the floor for every store owner on the internet. On May 12, 2026, the company rolled out Amazon Now, its 30-minute delivery service, from a couple of test cities into dozens of major US metros. By the time you read this, millions […]