Needs advice I have a client who needs an e-commerce website for tours and travels with the following features: He and his team should be able to edit the content of products, which are large, dynamic components. It should support creating orders without payment, reserving the product for a time; unpaid orders should be canceled with a refund. If canceled…

Fedex to taiwan?? I’ve sent packages via FedEx Global Connect Plus and UPS Expedited to Taiwan, and both times instead of delivering the packages directly to the houses, they have said to just go to Taoyuan airport to pick up the packages directly, even though they were sent DDP and made it through customs! Does anyone know why this happens or what services I sho…

Imagine you want to launch innovative product, what is your plan? Let’s say you have an idea for a product that is innovative and is not a copycat of some existing product with existing deman. This product either makes you excited about and you believe somebody needs to do it, or it makes the world better, or creates a better future(like Tesla created electric future). There is no proven market for it yet. Wh…

How do you manage returns? Apparently, customers will return $890B in merchandise this year (says Retail Dive: https://www.retaildive.com/news/retail-returns-growth-2024/735355/) Personally, for returns under $30, I just ask customers to keep the item and refund as it costs me more time and headache trying to sort out cross-border returns for POD items stocked away from w…

Do you think we should optimize for SGE rather than SEO in 2025? I hate to start a post with “thanks to AI”, but there’s been quite a lot of opinion about search generative experience, especially in ecommerce. Are you concerned enough about this to adjust your SEO strategy? If so, how do you think this will affect your store and what are you doing about it? submitted by /u/Adapowers

Why are grounding mats predicted to blow up in Canada? Anyone know? So, looking around future ecom trends, I’ve discovered that Google says grounding mats are about to blow up, specifically in Canada. And if there’s any data source I believe, it’s Google search lol. I *will* eventually figure out why as I’m still in the middle of researching this. But if anyone can put me out of my misery, please let me know wh…

Not sure how this was made with shopify but would love your input Alphalete website (http://alphaleteathletics.com) has some great design and features. Tried to look for the theme and there’s none like it on Shopify theme store. In the backend the theme is called (Alphaneu) but nothing else. I need your help to identify it or similar functionality theme. I like the menu, home page layout and PDP (product p…

My website is stuck Hi everyone, I am the owner of an e-commerce website,we launched the website 2.5 months ago and so far got 5.2K in sales (13 orders) the last one was on 16th of december. since that order we haven’t received others. We are currently running meta ads with 40€ per day as a budget, we experimented with 100€ per day but it was unsustainable. Can y’a…

What is your return/exchange system? I have been sweeping this under the rug for long enough, and I have decided to finally deal with it. I don’t have a system for returns or exchanges. Why? because it’s too expensive. It costs me more to pay for return shipping that it does to just let the customer keep the product AND get a refund. Obviously, as you can imagine, this isn’t ideal…

Cheap platform for ecommerce website? Hi! Looking to open an ecommerce website for a family member. Problem is that they are not likely to make any money for the start so looking for something cheap. I have used shopify and ionos before, but those rack up in pricing fast. All I really need is cheap monthly hosting, there will be little traffic and just a few products. What would you…

How to start an e-shop from a preexisting physical shop? My mother has been working as a clothes salesman for the past 30 years. We have a small-ish neighbourhood store that targets mostly people in the area around the shop, family acquaintances etc. The store has some social media but that’s it from an online presence standpoint. There has been some talk in the family to diversify onto online sales w…

My Brand on Walmart.com and I would prefer not. I am a brand owner, and the owner of a US trademark. When we sell on Amazon, we use Transparency QR codes. What this means is that I send my Amazon stock in with QR codes which essentially prevents anyone else from selling my product on my listing. I am the only one selling on my Amazon listing. Walmart dot com is not a big platform for us. Rece…

Paying Tiktok influencers vs using TikTok Shop Keep getting emails about TikTok Shop… For anyone that does this kind of marketing, do you prefer one or the other? * Paying TikTok influencers per post (or give them an affiliate code) to promote your products * Using TikTok Shop, where they can sell through the app Thanks submitted by /u/IllustriousLibrary8

Best website platform to test product? Hi guys, I want to make a website for my brand to see if I have product-market fit. I will be using photorealistic mockups and run ads to the site to see how much ‘conversions’ I get and also use it as an opportunity to collect emails of interested potential customers. For this experiment would you suggest shopify? Feel like it would be overkill…

Stuck in analysis paralysis It feels Ive reached a point in my ecom business that I need to begin hiring either an agency or freelance worker to begin taking on some of my workload. Problem is, I’m struggling to pull the trigger. I am a frequent user of Fivverr and occasionally Upwork for small jobs but aside from that I have a hard time trusting others companies. Social …

Looking for 25 students It’s gonna be expensive $175 a month that’s why I’m capping it at 25. Looking for people who actually put in the work and are not finding results I will locate what you are missing and show you what you need to apply even help work on it , plenty of options with such a small group and as we actually start to build some progress we can work toget…

Instagram ad scams?? These instagram ads that people post about only having to create an account, make something online like a shirt and apparently you don’t need to ship anything or make anything individually because someone does it for you? The guy is Adam Palomeque on Insta. He pretty much only posts ads that say “text ‘store’ to get the detailed instructions on …

Just finished up for the day working on my site This is my second day of researching and building my site so still don’t know a lot of stuff but would really appreciate if yall could look at my store and tell me if there’s anything i should critique about it https://dawgshappyplace.com submitted by /u/Tall-Championship892

Career Approach To Ecom I’ve studied a few courses over the years to all sorts of online sales. Once I noticed and understood the similarities (and differences) I got to work. Had a few failures with affiliate mktg, but now knew how to build websites. So I started making sites for friends and family and got pretty good at it. Today, I can cold call for a few hours and …

Is an Online Bookstore a Bad Idea? I am thinking of starting an e-commerce business selling books. I think I would focus on selling non-fiction and rare books. My question is, do you think you could make a good living selling second hand books through e-commerce. I work in digital marketing, and I can apply those skills to the business. But do you think with competing with the li…