Ready For the Holidays? Introducing Our Holiday Shipping & Selling Central The holiday selling season is mission critical for e-commerce businesses. With holiday sales predicted to increase by 15.3 percent this year, you need to make sure you’re not only attracting increased traffic, but also taking advantage of those extra eyeballs to make more sales. Hiding your head in the sand not only means you’ll miss… Read more
Speed Up Your Shipping Label Creation in Time for the Holidays For many e-commerce businesses, the holiday selling season is the most important time of year. Most retailers can expect to see a spike in orders as consumers’ purchasing habits increase. Before you start seeing dollar signs, keep in mind that an increase in orders also means an increase in orders to fulfill. If you’re doing… Read more
3 Time-saving Small Business Shipping Tips for the Busy Entrepreneur As a nimble e-commerce retailer, getting through your to-do list each day can be quite the challenge. There’s no time to waste troubleshooting an issue or wading through clunky software integrations. Even as little as five minutes can make a big difference in you bottom line. The following time-saving small business shipping tips can help… Read more
Subscription Boxes: Why They Work & How to Start Your Own Even if you’re not a subscriber yourself, chances are you’ve heard of services like Hello Fresh, JustFAB, Ipsy, Dollar Shave Club, BarkBox, and the Hot Sauce of the Month Club. They’re some of the best-known players in the booming subscription box industry. Subscription boxes have been one of the biggest e-commerce shipping trends of the… Read more
Monthly Product Digest: Batch Email Notifications, Multi-location Support, and More This month, we’re handing the microphone to our customer support team. These folks are the ones in the trenches with you day in and day out—they know that the little things can make a big difference for your overall success. That’s why we’re going straight to the source to hear what improvements and fixes—no matter… Read more
How Will FedEx & UPS Peak Season Surcharges Affect My Business in 2018? FedEx and UPS recently announced their peak season surcharges for the 2018 holiday season. If you want to avoid Santa’s naughty list this year (and meet your business’ bottom line), you’ll want to make sure you’re aware of these updates, plus the carriers’ standard surcharges which will remain in effect during the holidays. To help… Read more
Introducing Our New “How to Shippo” Video Series Here at Shippo, our goal is to remove all friction from shipping to make it easier for businesses like yours to get products to their rightful destination. As part of these efforts, we want to make sure you’re taking advantage of all of the features Shippo has to offer to help you ship faster and… Read more
The Ultimate E-commerce Shipping Guide: Solutions, Strategies, & More In today’s $461 billion e-commerce world, consumer expectations of the e-commerce experience converge on one key element: shipping. In fact, 61 percent of online shoppers will abandon their cart due to high added costs, like shipping. And, 79 percent of consumers said free shipping would make them more likely to shop online. As a retailer,… Read more
5 Technologies That Will Shape E-commerce Loyalty Programs in 2018 and Beyond One strategy in e-commerce to foster customer retention and escalate the overall profitability of your organization is a loyalty program—it enhances customer satisfaction and takes engagement to great heights. Loyalty programs are well-crafted marketing efforts that are designed to reward clients or customers who make regular purchases from a company. The market is flooded with a… Read more
Stripe vs. PayPal vs. Authorize.net—Which U.S. Payment Gateway is Right for Me? It’s a no brainer: if you’re looking to start an e-commerce business, you need to get paid by your customers in order to be successful. That’s why online retailers turn to a payment gateway or payment processor for online credit card payments. As you’re looking for the right payment gateway for your business, consider comparing… Read more
by: Helen Phung | July 9, 2018 
