Avalara is taking immediate action to integrate and maintain SuitePlus’ extensive federal, state and city Brazilian tax content and determination capabilities into its global compliance cloud platform, which already supports more than 100 countries. Additionally, Avalara will offer returns preparation, filing, and remittance throughout Brazil.
Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal are accepted in many but not all countries, and, even when accepted, they are often not the most popular payment methods. In many places, restricting your shoppers to only these forms of payment may prevent many would-be consumers from clicking to buy. Here are just a few examples, four of which comprise more than 40 percent of the world’s population.
Global ecommerce is charging forward, with online revenues growing in every market in virtually every market around the world. Zia Daniell Widger, Vice President & Research Director for Forrester Research, will deliver The 3 Trends Changing the Face of Global Ecommerce as a keynote at this year’s Growing Global conference.
Whether or not you optimize your ecommerce site—and your operations—for the global shopper, the global shopper is coming to America. Here’s a look at how U.S.-based merchants can fine-tune their global operations and delight the global shopper.
The sharp increase in U.K. online sales to China is all part of the plan for Jack Ma, who says he’d like to some day see Alibaba websites reach 2 billion consumers worldwide.
Zooz went to the Twittersphere and set up an expert panel of 13 payments influencers to answer questions about issues affecting retailers, consumers and the payments sector today. Here’s what the panelists had to say about the most significant payments trends of 2015.
A “ship to Cuba” button was seen on Amazon’s website by Reuters correspondents in Havana. But is Amazon getting ready to sell in Cuba, and is the Cuban economy ready for cross-border shopping? Here’s why Cuba may be more of an exporter if and when U.S. sanction amendments are voted on.
The rapidly growing global opportunity for multichannel and ecommerce merchants will be an important topic addressed by global ecommerce provider Pitney Bowes at the upcoming Operations Summit.
China announced it will allow full foreign ownership of ecommerce firms in Shanghai’s free trade zone. See how regulatory changes have made it easier for retailers and brands to enter the Chinese market.
Convenience, flexible delivery and payment options continue influence online consumers worldwide, says a new study conducted by comScore on behalf of UPS.