Armando Roggio is the longtime senior contributor to Practical Ecommerce. He's a global ecommerce authority and a practicing merchant, developer, and journalist. Since 2008 he's written over 1,300 ...

Thanks to tools such as Grok Bot, it's a fun time to be an entrepreneur. The operational components are now less burdensome, ...

The new feature allows advertisers to set “High” or “Low” priorities for each channel.

Every week we publish a rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants. This installment includes updates on autonomous deliveries, reviews, generative AI optimization, performance marketing, ...

U.S. ecommerce sales enjoyed a second consecutive quarter of double-digit growth in 2026, resembling pre-pandemic patterns. The U.S. Census Bureau reported last week that seasonally adjusted Q2 retail ...

This week’s rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants includes updates on agentic commerce, generative engine optimization, AI-powered marketing, analytics, sales agents, payment links, B2B, ...

This week’s rundown of new products and services for merchants includes updates on ChatGPT ads, digital payments, visual search ads, authenticated deliveries, agentic commerce, CRM models, logistics, ...

This installment of our weekly, curated rundown includes new products and services for livestream commerce, direct checkout, business agents, cryptocurrencies, visual search, logistics, media ...

The future is here, sort of. Companies have staked out urban landscapes to test autonomous last-mile delivery systems on the streets and mobile food delivery robots on campus sidewalks. Ultimately for ...

We’ve all heard the buzz surrounding agentic AI agents. What’s missing for many of us is how they can help our business. What is an AI agent? Can it really perform tasks and get things done? I asked ...

Chatbots and AI shopping tools that generate gift ideas and recommend products could disrupt affiliate marketing and distort attribution in the 2025 holiday shopping season and beyond. Ecommerce shops ...

Sellers on E.U. marketplaces face heightened identity checks, contract disclosures, and suspension risk. The changes stem from the Digital Services Act, enacted by the European Commission in 2022 and ...