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 […]

Amex now puts Membership Rewards points from newly opened U.S. cards into a separate rewards account, so closing that card without linking it first can forfeit those points. If you run ad spend, inventory or supplier payments through Amex business cards, this changes your closing playbook. Per the amended October program terms reported on Oct. […]

Meta’s new Commercial Terms take effect October 30 and let it crawl websites tied to your business accounts, but outlets disagree on whether the AI-training wording survived. If you run ads, a Facebook Page or a product catalog on Meta for a Shopify store, continuing to use those tools on October 30 counts as agreement. […]