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Shopify Raised the Rent Before BFCM. Here’s How to Keep More Dough.

🔥Join eCom Hot Sauce newsletter if you want to get such hot news and tips before the other eCom peeps! Same Store, Bigger Bill Shopify merchants, gather round. October delivered a little surprise to the monthly budget, and it wasn’t an early Black Friday gift. According to Common Thread Collective, Shopify raised US pricing for its … Read more

Amazon’s November 2 Insurance Shake-Up: Small Sellers, Big Coverage, No Excuses

🔥Join eCom Hot Sauce newsletter if you want to get such hot news and tips before the other eCom peeps! A little seller, a million-dollar policy Peeps, Amazon has a new rule rolling out on November 2, 2026, and this one doesn’t care whether you’re crushing seven figures or celebrating your first hundred-dollar day. Certain product … Read more

New EU Packaging Rules: What Amazon and Shopify Sellers Actually Need to Do

🔥Join eCom Hot Sauce newsletter if you want to get such hot news and tips before the other eCom peeps! Yo, European ecommerce sellers. Brussels has cooked up another compliance dish, and this one’s all about the boxes, jars, labels, and packaging you use to ship your beautiful products. Meet the EU Declaration of Conformity for … Read more

Shopify Balance Now Lets Merchants Pay International Suppliers Directly

🔥Join eCom Hot Sauce newsletter if you want to get such hot news and tips before the other eCom peeps! Yo, Shopify merchants. Your money just got a passport. Shopify Balance now supports international transfers, letting eligible US-based merchants send money directly to overseas suppliers, contractors, and business partners. No need to move funds out to … Read more

Amazon Knows You Better Than Your Friends. And It Ain’t Always Flattering.

🔥Join eCom Hot Sauce newsletter if you want to get such hot news and tips before the other eCom peeps!nd third-party partners. Yo, Amazon shoppers. You might wanna check what Big Daddy Bezos’ shopping machine thinks about you. Turns out Amazon has a feature called About You, and it’s keeping a surprisingly detailed profile of your … Read more

Meta Just Kicked TikTok Ads Out of Facebook and Instagram

🔥Join eCom Hot Sauce newsletter if you want to get such hot news and tips before the other eCom peeps!nd third-party partners. Well, well, well. The social media beef just got spicy. Meta has officially banned TikTok advertising across Facebook and Instagram in the United States and six other countries. The ban took effect immediately on … Read more

Shopify Just Gave AI Agents the Keys to the Checkout

🔥Join eCom Hot Sauce newsletter if you want to get such hot news and tips before the other eCom peeps! Yo, Shopify merchants. AI shopping just got a serious upgrade. Shopify rolled out Shop MCP on October 13, 2026, and this ain’t another chatbot that recommends products before sending customers somewhere else to buy them. We’re … Read more

Email Marketing Isn’t Dead. Your Strategy Might Be

🔥Join eCom Hot Sauce newsletter if you want to get such hot news and tips before the other eCom peeps! Every few years, somebody announces that email marketing is finished. Social media killed it. SMS killed it. AI will kill it. And yet brands continue generating serious revenue from something as old-fashioned as a message landing … Read more