Forcing to login to store: a customer’s perspective I’m wondering why so many ecommerce stores use this pattern as it’s clearly a shopping blocker. I want to finalize the purchase: I have two options logging in in or buying as a guest. I don’t remember the password, I don’t care about the logging in in so I choose the “buy as a guest” option The store detects that my email is already in their …

Grumroad indirect tax collection 2024 Where can I see Gumroad’s ToS for 2024 or know if the indirect taxes were collected? (vat, gst, sales tax, hst, pst, etc.) Found nothing helpful in the settings, even in the sales reports. submitted by /u/Quwane

Suggestion on ecom course I’m a newbie into ecom business, looking for some good informative content through which i can learn how to reduce rto, taxation, meta ads & other stuffs. Would highly appreciate if i can get some suggestions for udemy, youtube or any kinda ecom course. Paid or free. submitted by /u/ChuSeChuza

APPROACH POTENTIAL MERCHANTS How do you approach small business owners who don’t have a website without getting ignored? I’ve noticed a lot of small businesses only use basic platforms instead of having a full web. submitted by /u/Whatsmname

New to ecommerce, please review/criticize/improve my plan Looking to sell a collection of digital products on a website using a sales funnel. Currently have an ebook written along with a few extra bonus content pdf’s and a free pdf to use as a giveaway to build an email list and drive sales to the other products. Also considering some additional paid content for a premium tier offering with a walkthrou…

E-commerce Industry News Recap 🔥 Week of Feb 17th, 2025 Hi r/ecommerce – I’m Paul and I follow the e-commerce industry closely for my Shopifreaks E-commerce Newsletter. Every week for the past 3+ years I’ve posted a summary recap of the week’s top stories on this subreddit, which I cover in depth with sources in the full edition. Let’s dive in to this week’s top e-commerce news… STAT OF THE WEEK: …

Recommendation of an open source ecommerce for one ebook Hello, I would like to sell an ebook online so I’m searching for options that might be easier to set up without paying a lot of money on sites like shopify or alike. I have knowledge setting up CMS like joomla or drupal, so something like this would be good, but I’m looking for the option that requires little set up. I can set it up on an AWS i…

Looking for a clothing sellers Hello! If you are running an online clothes shop in US, UK or EU – can I please have 20-30m of your time for the problem interview? I am working on a startup rn and highly needed in your opinions and insights 🙏🏼 If there is any possibility to do so or you need more details please drop “+” and your contact below and i will connect with you! Huge …

For scaling businesses: what features are you prioritizing? Am an experienced developer who’s new to ecommerce and recently started working on related projects. For those who are starting to find successful markets and niches, what are you focusing on to drive more growth and convert more customers? I mainly see efforts focused on either SEO/marketing approaches or customer retention through improving su…

Sourcing shipping supplies Where do you source shipping supplies from? Do you use a local supplier or buy online and have it shipped to you? submitted by /u/MrDiou

The complete D2C guide for Facebook ads in 2025. This is the only account structure you need to know for this year to get more sales and subscribers on your subscription… |Prospecting|ASC/manual remarketing|Scale| Exclude all web visitors from Prospecting and Scale campaigns. And exclude all purchases from the ASC/manual remarketing campaign. Start all with Campaign level budget not ad set le…

I need help/support. I just launched my store (perfume decanting in Qatar) for only qatar market so no international markets. I’m also starting to run a few ads and post some tiktoks but I’m only getting 10 visitors who take a look and never end up making a sale from them. Here the link to my store. https://13yna1-jn.myshopify.com/ submitted by /u/Low_Dragon…

Operations-Oriented, Indifferent to Product — what to sell / where’s the opportunity? About a decade of experience at the intersection of Supply Chain / Data / Finance, in the Ecom world, specifically DTC CPG. Desperate to start something but I am so agnostic to product that I’m not sure where to start, and feel like I should use that flexibility as an opportunity to go into a profitable product, and not pigeon-hole myself into s…

Just received sample, for free on Alibaba Just received a sample from a manufacturer in Pakistan without paying for it. I never asked for it to be free, but they sent it anyway. The quality seems really good, can I trust them? They have a 6yrs gold badge, I asked for an official business registration document and it looks legit I guess. Also, it’s a wool overshirt. So not just some t-sh…

What would you do? (small website with e-commerce.) thank you all in advance for guidance. Been lurking on this sub, but it’s my first time posting here. We have a very basic squarespace website, which is mainly just some information given on the homepage, email collection for a newsletter, and an FAQ. We have about 500,000 followers on social and are about to do our first merch drop. I’m comfort…

Misrepresentation Suspension-Google Merchant Center I’m at my wits end and can’t figure out why my site keeps getting denied during review. My account is now suspended and can’t request any further reviews. I guess my only option at this point is to create another account in Google Merchant Center and submit it through the new account, but I can’t figure out what I need to fix to get it approved?…

Customer support question Hi which is the most effective way of setting up customer support on the ecom store. Should I have my email there, use ai chatbot etc? submitted by /u/Professional-Soup-47

How do I know which CPA is proper to scale my Facebook ad campaigns Hi, I’m starting in this e-commerce World, and I don’t know anything about Facebook ad campaigns. I have a product that costs 20$ and gives 5$ profit, and I can pay 7$/day for advertising. How do I know if I should invest more in ads? Which CPA is normal? Or Which CPA should I aim for? submitted by /u/Ok118

E-commerce alternatives for beginners I currently run an online party supplies store on Weebly with around 1,500 products in stock, but I’m looking to migrate to a new platform. I need features like multilingual support, a rewards system, a newsletter, blogging, billing integration, and other tools that will help the business grow. Keeping costs low is important in the early stages…

How do you guys handle bulk product listings? I’ve been working on automating product listings for e-commerce stores. It’s always seemed like one of the most tedious parts of running a shop—getting product descriptions right, tagging, categorizing, and uploading them one by one. I built an AI tool that can automate this process in seconds, but I’m curious—how do you guys tackle product list…