Being an ecommerce business comes with its own set of unique challenges. For one, it’s very difficult to validate a real customer, and you can also face a lot of issues that come with unauthorized transactions—such as resulting chargebacks, which can cause even more financial loss. Here are seven tips that can help you detect online fraud.
PFSweb is testing a new solution for fulfilling ecommerce orders from local malls, hoping that in the near future multiple orders from different retailers can be delivered to the same customer. The initial deployment will be in February at a mall owned by partner Simon Properties in Fort Worth, TX.
The post-holiday period proved successful in terms of ecommerce traffic, according to the 2018 Holiday Retail Index by Verizon, with average daily traffic to the top 25 U.S. retailers up 7.5% on Dec. 27 and up 7.7% on Dec. 28 compared to 2017.
Operating an ecommerce store is the perfect option for many retailers. There’s no physical overhead, a relatively small team can handle a lot of work, and you can sell your products directly to consumers. Here are a few thoughts to keep in mind as you reexamine the way you protect your site.
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Target is expanding its same-day delivery service via acquired unit Shipt, opening it up to all major categories of product in 2019 and continuing its efforts to keep customers from fleeing to Amazon Prime, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
FedEx has created a new program to address demand for faster fulfillment of online orders by offering later pickup. Extra Hours lets retailers expand their pickup cutoff by up to eight hours to more easily offer next-day local delivery or two-day delivery anywhere in the continental U.S. via FedEx Express.
Large businesses have comprehensive processes necessitated by owners and investors and the need to communicate objectives and results to various stakeholders. While long-range planning can be time consuming in larger companies, smaller ecommerce businesses can benefit from adopting some of the key best practices.
Consumer confidence and fatter paychecks steamrolled right over stock market woes and a partial government shutdown, with overall peak holiday season sales excluding automobiles increasing 5.1% to $850 billion between Nov. 1 and Dec. 24, according to data from Mastercard SpendingPulse.
Forget Black Friday – Super Saturday is going to leave it in the dust in terms of holiday sales, according to figures from Customer Growth Partners quoted by Bloomberg, projected to reach $26 billion compared to $24 billion for the day after Thanksgiving.