Meta’s Muse shopping agent must fill its top five product picks with well-known merchants, according to an instruction file Profound says it pulled on September 25. If you run a high-ticket Shopify store, this is a rare look at how an AI agent decides which stores a buyer sees. For the store owners we cover […]

CBP proposed bonds and pre-arrival electronic filing for imports under $2,500, with comments due Dec. 7. Here is what it means for stores with overseas suppliers.

Starting Nov. 1, the European Union will require product identifiers for every item in consumer parcels shipped in from outside the bloc, according to FedEx. If you take orders from EU customers on a US store, your carrier now needs a merchant code and a manufacturer part number for each line item, plus a barcode […]

U.S. Bank appears to have discontinued its Leverage business card, according to Doctor of Credit on Oct. 11, two weeks after launching two flat 2% cash-back cards. If you run ad spend, freight and software through a business card, this decides how much cash back you keep and whether you park $15,000 or more in […]

SBA 7(a) lending fell to 56,130 loans and $32.4 billion in fiscal 2026, and the new fiscal year starts with an even tighter credit box, American Banker reports. For an ecommerce owner, that lands on two decisions at once. If you plan to sell your store, the buyer who needs an SBA loan to pay […]

California starts taxing software-as-a-service and other remotely accessed software on January 1, 2027, and the statute takes effect whether or not regulators finish their rules. That is 82 days from today, and it reaches the monthly software bills of every store owner who has a California billing address, a California team member, or a California […]

Consumer sentiment fell to 46.3 in early October, the University of Michigan said Friday, with buying conditions for big-ticket durables plunging. That lands on the buyer a high-ticket store depends on. For Ecommerce Paradise readers selling furniture, outdoor gear, mobility products and other $1,000-plus items, durables was the weakest line in the survey, and it […]

Two Google Ads practitioners spent October 9 and 10 arguing that budget has quietly become the lever Google now rewards, and neither posted data. The posts sit on top of Google’s August 17 Smart Bidding change, which pulls budget-limited Target CPA and Target ROAS campaigns back toward their stated targets. If you run high-ticket Shopping […]