Bank of America’s Atmos Rewards business card is back at 85,000 points, with a $5,500 spend requirement, according to Doctor of Credit on Nov. 3. For an ecommerce owner at Ecommerce Paradise, that $5,500 is roughly the freight, shipping labels, software and ad bills a store with a few thousand dollars a month in expenses […]

Supermetrics let Claude create and edit ad campaigns on six platforms on Nov. 3, turning its connector from a reporting tool into one that can spend your money. If you run Google Shopping or Meta ads for a store selling $1,000-plus products, this lands on your desk directly. A chat window that can edit live […]

OpenAI’s Oct. 30 advertiser email confirmed that multi-image ads are open to every ChatGPT advertiser, the same day automatic headline and URL rewrites switched on by default. If you run ChatGPT Ads for a high-ticket Shopify store, two things changed on your account without you touching it. The system can now rewrite your headlines, translate […]

The FTC ordered Walmart, Target and seven other companies on Oct. 28 to disclose whether personal data changes the prices customers see. That reads like a big-retail problem, and for now it is. But the same agency’s August policy draft says undisclosed individualized pricing may violate Section 5 of the FTC Act, and that reaches […]

LTL carriers told investors last week they are pushing prices up again, with Saia renewing contracts 10.8% higher and Old Dominion lifting yield 5.1% excluding fuel. If you sell furniture, fitness equipment, powersports gear or anything else that ships on a pallet, this is your 2027 freight budget talking. For an Ecommerce Paradise reader running […]

Squarespace is cutting about 19% of its workforce, roughly 300 jobs, according to a company spokesperson quoted by TechCrunch on November 2. If your store runs on Squarespace Commerce, this is a vendor-risk event and not a crisis. Nothing in the coverage says checkout or store features are changing. What it does say is that […]

Market odds of a December 9 Fed rate hike have run between 71% and 85% since the Oct. 28 meeting, which would lift prime from 7.00% to 7.25%. This is a note for the store owners we write for at Ecommerce Paradise. If your ad spend, inventory or supplier deposits sit on a variable-rate card […]

About 250 port watchmen at Los Angeles and Long Beach can strike after 5 p.m. Pacific on Wednesday, Nov. 4, when the extended contract talks expire. That sounds like a dockworker story until you look at who ships through those two ports. If you run a high-ticket dropshipping store selling furniture, outdoor gear, e-bikes or […]

The FTC and Washington State announced a proposed $600,000 settlement Monday with processor Riverside Payments over alleged hidden fees and near-impossible cancellations. If you take cards through anything other than Shopify Payments, such as a merchant account for phone orders on $2,000 tickets, someone has probably pitched you “savings” on processing. This case shows how […]