AutoDS is one of the best-known automation tools in dropshipping. Its pricing page lists plans by product count, a $1 trial, and a row of add-ons, and that structure is exactly why some sellers start shopping around. When your plan is priced by how many products you list, a growing catalog moves you up a […]
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The Small Business Administration clarified its new acquisition-loan rules on an Oct. 20 lender call, according to a Coleman Report summary published Oct. 27. If you plan to buy or sell an ecommerce store with bank financing, those clarifications decide how much a buyer can borrow, what proof a lender wants from your books, and […]
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PayPal said Tuesday that online branded checkout grew just 1% to 2% for a fourth straight quarter as it raised its full-year profit forecast. For the store owners who read Ecommerce Paradise, that means the PayPal button on your checkout is no longer the growth engine it once was. The company behind it is cutting […]
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California will require disclosure on video and audio ads that prominently feature AI-generated people starting Jan. 1, 2027, under a law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Sept. 16. This lands on any Ecommerce Paradise reader who runs ads with an AI avatar presenter, a synthetic voiceover or a computer-generated “customer” reacting to the product. Those ads […]
California AI Actor Ad Law Starts Jan. 1: Label Your Ads Read More »
18 stories ran on Ecommerce Paradise today, and the one most likely to change your numbers is Meta’s Nov. 12 switch in how its Pixel counts purchases. This roundup is for ecommerce store owners, especially high-ticket Shopify operators. Each item gives you what happened, why it matters and one move to make, with a link […]
Paradise Report Oct 27: 18 Ecommerce Stories to Know Read More »
Intuit said Tuesday it started rolling AI invoice follow-ups and in-app sales tax e-filing out to US QuickBooks users on October 27. If your store books run through QuickBooks, this lands on the two jobs that burn the most bookkeeper hours: chasing money owed and filing sales tax. It matters most to Ecommerce Paradise readers […]
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OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra on Oct. 26 at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, half the price of GPT-6.1 Sol. If your store runs AI on support replies, product data, order-status checks or quote follow-up, the list price of a mid-tier agent model just dropped by half. Here at Ecommerce […]
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Google updated its user-generated spam guide on October 26 to recommend noindex by default for shareable pages, generated outputs, and interactive tools. The guidance is written for services that let users publish, but a store running wishlist apps, quote builders, saved carts or chat widgets hosts the same kind of pages on its own domain. […]
Google Wants Shared Pages Noindexed. Audit Your Store Read More »
Paddle has a short price list: pay-as-you-go at 5% plus 50 cents per Checkout transaction, with no monthly fees, migration fees, or hidden extras. The page also says Paddle acts as your Merchant of Record, which means it is the seller of record for your sales and the tax paperwork sits with it, not with […]
Make.com is a visual automation builder that charges in credits: each action in a scenario, such as reading a row, writing a record, or posting a message, uses one credit, and when the credits run out your scenarios stop until you add more. That model is powerful and cheap for some workflows and surprising for […]