8 min read - Walmart released its Q2 FY27 earnings on 20 August 2026, and the numbers tell a story that every eCommerce merchant should read carefully. Not because they need to match Walmart's scale, but because the results reveal where the competitive bar is being set. As the ...

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8 min read - If you have ever cancelled a Shopify order and wished you could issue store credit instead of sending money back to the customer's bank account, you are not alone. As of this week, Shopify has added store credit as a refund method when cancelling an order, a seemingly small change that has significant implications for how merchants handle cancellations...

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8 min read - The EU's €3 customs duty just changed the maths on cross-border eCommerce, and the Golden Quarter will prove it Since 1 July 2026, every parcel entering the European Union valued under €150 now carries a flat customs duty of €3 per item type. The previous exemption, which allowed low-value...

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13 min read - UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced on August 9, 2026, that a package of consumer protection measures, including a crackdown on so-called "subscription traps", would be brought forward. The legislation, which requires businesses to make subscriptions easy to cancel and to clearly warn customers before auto-renewals, was originally...

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9 min read - Every eCommerce team that has ever considered changing their checkout knows the same fear: what if the new checkout performs worse? It is a reasonable concern. Checkout is the highest-stakes page on any eCommerce site. A checkout migration that goes wrong does not just hurt conversion rates. It costs revenue...

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59 min read - Many POS options can connect with or run inside Magento. The depth of integration between these solutions and the eCommerce platform might affect the business’s data accuracy, scalability, and long-term stability. Therefore, it’s little wonder merchants often prefer Magento-native POS for their...

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8 min read - Sezzle, the buy now, pay later provider, announced on 13 August that it is pursuing a national bank charter. As Banking Dive reported...

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7 min read - On 11 August, Shopify announced a change that will reshape the checkout experience for every merchant selling internationally through Managed Markets: from 24 August 2026, Delivered Duty Unpaid (DDU) support ends in every country and region where Managed Markets supports Delivered Duty Paid (DDP). Affected markets will automatically switch to duties...

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9 min read - You are spending money on paid search. Your Shopping ads are running, your product listings are optimised, and your bidding strategy is dialled in. Then Google's AI Overview appears above your ad, recommends a different product, or suggests that the category you are advertising might not be the right solution for the shopper's query. ...

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8 min read - Custom address fields at checkout have always been one of Magento's most frustrating contradictions. The platform's Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) architecture is famously flexible: you can define virtually any attribute on a customer or address entity through the admin panel. But actually rendering those attributes in the checkout, validating them properly...

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6 min read - In the first week of August 2026, three significant AI deployments landed within days of each other. Dunelm launched "Ask Dunelm," an AI-powered shopping assistant built with Google Cloud, now live in its iOS app. Morrisons rolled out Evercheck AI-powered self-checkout technology across 200 stores. And across the Atlantic, Kohl's deployed a Gemini-powered...

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14 min read - A new, merchant-first event is coming, and it is free The Magento and Adobe Commerce ecosystem has no shortage of conferences, but most are built around vendor showcases, partner pitches, and developer deep-dives. Merchants, the people actually running stores, often come away with a stack of business...

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9 min read - When the world's largest payment network spends $2.4 billion on a single acquisition, it is worth asking what they are buying and why they could not build it themselves. On 3 August 2026, Visa ...

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9 min read - Shopify's Hydrogen developer preview just received its most significant update yet, and the headline feature is not a Shopify-specific commerce tool. It is Vue.js support. That might sound like a developer detail, but for merchants and technical leaders evaluating headless commerce, it fundamentally changes the calculation. ...

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11 min read - In five days, Google is changing how its Smart Bidding system behaves when campaigns are limited by budget, and the eCommerce advertisers who stand to lose the most are, counterintuitively, the ones whose campaigns are currently performing the best. Starting August 17, campaigns using Target CPA or Target...

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8 min read - If you're running Adobe Commerce, Adobe Commerce B2B, or Magento Open Source, it's time to schedule some maintenance. Adobe published security bulletin APSB26-92 on August 11, 2026, and it addresses seven vulnerabilities: four of...

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12 min read - Adobe's continued patching of four parallel Magento release lines, most recently with security bulletins APSB26-73 (July 2026) and ...

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38 min read - Security patches are one of the most important yet often underestimated aspects of running a Magento store. They are the backbone of a stable, high-performing and secure eCommerce platform, protecting your business from vulnerabilities, ensuring compliance, and maintaining customer trust. Failing to keep up with them can quickly turn minor issues into...

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110 min read - Magento is known as one of the most flexible eCommerce platforms on the market. Over the years, it has evolved into a suite of solutions, from free, open-source editions to fully managed, cloud-native Adobe Commerce. However, this flexibility also brings complexity. With multiple editions, deployment models, and a layered versioning...

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9 min read - On 23 July 2026, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill signed the Fair Price Protection Act into law. As the ...

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