Temu agreed on Oct. 16 to pay Texas $3 million and test its products for lead and PFAS, ending a lawsuit Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed in February. If you sell physical products online, skip the data-privacy clauses and read the seller rules. Certificates must be filed before certain regulated products can be listed, […]

Citi and Bank of America now block AI agents from customer accounts. Here is what it means for high-ticket checkout, chargebacks and your own bank logins.

American Express will give Business Platinum cardholders free access to ZO by Tishman Speyer workspaces on Oct. 22, with no change to the card’s annual fee. If you run a Shopify store on this card and spend time in New York, Boston, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco or Los Angeles, you just picked up a free […]

Meta launched a setting on Oct. 19 that lets advertisers give each image or video in one ad set its own age range and gender, per its developer blog. If you run Meta ads for a high-ticket store, this is the first official way to put a different audience behind each piece of creative without […]

Amazon will require U.S. sellers to send a prepaid return label within seven days of a return request starting December 18, PPC Land reported on October 19. If you fulfill Amazon orders yourself, a missed deadline lets Amazon refund the customer, leave them the product and deduct the money from your account. If you run […]

Three Shopify apps were hijacked between October 10 and October 14 and used to redirect shoppers from the checkout button to fake card-harvesting pages. According to developer Roman Zipp, who traced the first redirect, and to statements from the app companies, the injected script sent shoppers to lookalike payment pages such as biliing[.]top before dropping […]

Southwest Airlines will stop counting credit card welcome bonuses toward the Companion Pass on Jan. 1, 2027. If your ad spend, software bills and inventory already run through business cards, that rule change decides whether a year of two-for-one flights costs you a few hundred dollars in fees or a six-figure spending commitment. At Ecommerce […]

Google launched Universal Cart in the US on Oct. 15, putting a shared shopping cart and Google Pay checkout inside Search and the Gemini app. If you run a US Shopify store, the catch is the default. Google switched native checkout on for matched Shopify stores starting Sept. 18, according to PPC Land, so a […]

The IRS issued final regulations on Oct. 16 that let it accept credit and debit card tax payments directly and pass the processing fee to the payer. If you run a store through an LLC, this can change how you pay estimated taxes and balance-due notices, and it changes the math on using a business […]