Shopify added scheduled catalog changes to Rollouts on Oct. 23, so stores can set the date and time product prices and availability go live. If you run a high-ticket store on Shopify, this is the first native way to flip Black Friday pricing at an exact minute with nobody logged in. The Ecommerce Paradise read […]

Google Ads now offers Smart Bidding Exploration on Shopping and Performance Max campaigns, according to a Search Engine Land report published October 23. If you run high-ticket Google Shopping on Target ROAS, you can now tell Google to accept a return 5% to 30% below your target in exchange for bids on searches it has […]

Starting Dec. 18, Amazon will require a prepaid return label on most US seller-fulfilled returns, according to a seller notice reported by PPC Land. If you sell on Amazon alongside a Shopify store, this is a return-cost decision with an eight-week clock. The rule moves label work onto you during the busiest returns stretch of […]

Klarna is now a payment option on FreshBooks invoices in the US and Canada, and FreshBooks lists the fee at 6% plus 30 cents per transaction. If you close high-ticket orders by phone, invoice commercial buyers or sell custom installs, this puts a financing button on the document your customer already has open. At the […]

Google Ads campaigns that are limited by budget beat their ROAS targets by a median 20% in June and by roughly zero by Aug. 31, according to data from Smarter Ecommerce (smec). If you run Shopping or Performance Max on a Target ROAS and your daily budget runs dry before the day ends, a cushion […]

The IRS finalized rules on October 16 that let it accept credit and debit card tax payments directly, with processing fees passed to the taxpayer. If your store clears real profit, you owe estimated taxes every quarter, and a business card can turn that bill into points or float. Nothing changes today, and the fee […]

Shopify began taxing return shipping fees on US orders today, October 23, for stores that use Shopify Tax or Tax Platform. If you sell furniture, outdoor gear, mobility products or anything else that ships on a pallet, the return fee you charge customers is a real number, and in states that tax shipping it now […]