New Ecommerce Tools: June 10, 2026

This installment of our weekly, curated rundown includes new products and services for livestream commerce, direct checkout, business agents, cryptocurrencies, visual search, logistics, media platforms, listing strategies, and AI-powered product intelligence.

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New Tools for Merchants

Ordoro and ConnectBooks integrate for ecommerce reporting. Ordoro, a platform for shipping, inventory, and fulfillment, and ConnectBooks, an accounting platform for ecommerce sellers, have announced an integration to help merchants with financial reporting. Together, the two companies help merchants connect inventory cost data to financials to provide greater visibility into costs, margins, and performance.

ConnectBooks

Google Pay expands with direct checkout. Google Pay has introduced direct checkout, which integrates customers’ Google Wallet payment options into the checkout pages of participating merchants. The experience has launched for select merchants that use third-party payment services Airwallet and Adyen. Google plans to scale the capability to partners worldwide. Google has also updated Secure Payment Authentication to streamline transactions, ensuring safeguards for payment credentials and personal data.

Etsy adds a listing strategies feature for ads. Etsy Ads has released listing strategies to guide budget allocations, listing by listing. For daily ad budgets of $25 or more, sellers can choose a strategy for each listing rather than an entire campaign. According to Etsy, this provides more flexibility, whether getting bestsellers in front of more buyers or keeping costs in check.

Kyzuvex launches AI livestream commerce ecosystem. Kyzuvex has launched an AI Virtual Livestream Commerce Ecosystem. Key features include virtual hosts, real-time multilingual capabilities, automated product demonstrations and recommendations, intelligent customer interaction, cross-border ecommerce support, and more.

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DoorDash Ads expands commerce media platform. DoorDash Ads has launched tools for format types, off-site reach, campaign automation, and measurement. Spotlight ad format is a premium home page placement to drive discovery at key moments of intent. Symbiosys, a DoorDash company, powers off-site and on-site commerce media worldwide. A partnership with LiveRamp (identity verification) enables privacy-centric measurement that matches advertiser and DoorDash data. DoorDash Ads also features enhanced Smart Campaigns with expanded promotions and auto-bidding.

Meta expands Business Agent. Meta has expanded its Business Agent on WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram. The Agent can answer questions specific to a business, recommend products from a catalog, book appointments, and qualify incoming leads, among other features. Meta is also introducing an agentic platform that builds, customizes, and deploys a Business Agent at scale.

Crypto fintech RedotPay launches Connect for B2B companies. RedotPay, a stablecoin-based payment company, has launched Connect, which enables B2B merchants to accept stablecoin payments while settling in local currencies. With direct access to more than 700 million global crypto users, RedotPay says it opens a new channel for merchants looking to scale beyond traditional payment ecosystems. RedotPay is also launching AI-powered agentic payments using stablecoins, extending its infrastructure from merchant acceptance into fully automated commerce.

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WWEX Group and Auctane complete merger to create ShipStation Global. WWEX Group, a logistics provider, and Auctane, owner of ShipStation, Stamps.com, Metapack, and Packlink, have merged. The combined company will operate as ShipStation Global, backed by Thoma Bravo, a software-focused investment firm. The merger unites WWEX Group’s freight brokerage network with Auctane’s shipping software, global carrier connectivity, and automation.

Amazon releases real-time AI images in the search bar. Amazon has debuted visual suggestion features to enable more precise product discovery in its Shopping app’s search bar. As consumers search for products using descriptive language, AI-generated images take shape in the suggestions below the bar, shifting and refining with each word added. Customers can tap the generated image that best aligns with their vision and shop for visually similar products.

iThink Logistics debuts real-time overseas shipment tracking for India-based sellers. Ecommerce platform iThink Logistics has launched live tracking for overseas shipments of India-based sellers, including independent makers and sellers on marketplaces such as Etsy. The capability provides sellers and their international buyers with real-time visibility throughout the delivery journey, from pickup in India to destinations in more than 220 countries worldwide.

Constant Contact launches SMS marketing tool in Australia. Constant Contact has launched an SMS marketing tool for business customers in Australia. The tool brings text messaging into the company’s existing email and social marketing platform. According to Constant Contact, the service facilitates flash promotions, sale alerts, appointment reminders, booking reminders, loyalty messages, and more.

Constant Contact

Hey Savi and PayPal launch agentic commerce platform with in-app checkout. Hey Savi, a U.K.-based fashion search tool, has launched an agentic commerce experience with native checkout powered by PayPal. By providing shoppers with a unified experience for research and purchase, merchants can expand their reach and drive conversions, per PayPal. Interested U.K. merchants can sign up at PayPal.ai.

Shopsense AI launches Shoppable Intelligence Model for contextual commerce. Shopsense AI, a platform for turning content into commerce, has released the Shoppable Intelligence Model, a proprietary in-house tool for training, decision-making, dataset management, and benchmarking. Shopsense AI states the model delivers 25% to 50% higher retrieval accuracy across product discovery benchmarks versus OpenAI’s CLIP and Google’s SigLIP2.

NielsenIQ launches Product Intelligence for AI-driven commerce. NielsenIQ, a consumer intelligence company, has launched NIQ Product Intelligence to help retailers and brands transform fragmented product data into structured commerce data. NielsenIQ states the new service creates a unified product layer that standardizes attributes, resolves product identity across systems, and enriches product data at scale, enabling AI systems to understand, match, and recommend products.

TeleSuite launches an ecommerce layer for Telegram. TeleSuite, a Telegram-native commerce platform for creators and brands, has launched its transaction layer. Built for the Telegram and open-network ecosystem, TeleSuite helps creators and merchants sell products, courses, and memberships inside Telegram. TeleSuite says it adds the business layer to Telegram: storefront, checkout, fulfillment, and more.

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New Ecommerce Tools: June 3, 2026

My curated rundown this week of new services for merchants includes updates on Reddit ads, email marketing, design tools, conversational shopping, crowdshipping, agentic commerce audits, social media marketing, multichannel listings, agentic AI marketing, and last-mile delivery.

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New Tools for Merchants

Intuit Mailchimp launches Analytics AI and expands data integrations. Intuit Mailchimp has announced Analytics AI, a conversational agent that connects email and SMS marketing performance across campaigns, audiences, and revenue. Analytics AI allows marketers to ask questions in plain language. The agent provides intelligence on what changed, why it changed, and what to do next. Mailchimp also announced expanded integrations with Claude, Wix, and WooCommerce.

Intuit Mailchimp

Reddit expands Shopify integration to all advertisers. Reddit has opened its Shopify integration to global advertisers. Shopify merchants can easily run Reddit Dynamic Product Ads, according to Reddit, with quick authorization, a streamlined flow to link the Reddit Ads account to a Shopify storefront, a Reddit pixel, and automated catalog syncing. Once a merchant’s Shopify catalog is connected, product details — images, pricing, descriptions, quantities — update automatically.

DHL extends partnership with USPS for last-mile delivery. DHL eCommerce has entered into a multi-year contract with the United States Postal Service for last-mile parcel delivery services. DHL says it will handle nationwide pickup, sortation across its 19 hubs, and transport within its air and ground network  — before partnering with USPS to complete the final mile. The USPS reaches 41,550 ZIP codes and 170 million delivery points six days a week.

Affirm and Stripe partner on flexible U.K. payments. Stripe and Affirm have announced an expanded partnership to bring Affirm’s buy-now pay-later services to Stripe merchants in the U.K. Starting in July, British businesses using Stripe can add Affirm to their online checkout. According to Affirm, the companies are also collaborating on the future of AI-powered commerce, focusing on making payments more seamless and transparent as agentic experiences evolve.

Global-e acquires Passport to enhance ecommerce logistics. Global-e Online, a direct-to-consumer ecommerce platform, has agreed to acquire Passport Global, a U.S.-based cross-border logistics company. Global-e states the acquisition will strengthen its logistics capabilities by adding advanced standard shipping powered by a multi-carrier network across cross-border, domestic, and last-mile deliveries.

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Amazon Web Services launches platform for retailers to build AI-powered shopping experiences. Amazon Web Services has announced an AI retail platform that brings learnings and expertise gained from building Alexa for Shopping to retailers outside Amazon, packaged into the agentic shopping assistant on AWS. The platform provides a technical foundation with architecture guidance, starter code, and support from AWS experts and system integrator partners, helping merchants launch their own conversational shopping experiences. Each deployment aims to match the retailer’s brand voice and domain expertise.

Shopopop targets U.K. retail partnerships for its crowdshipping model. Shopopop, a France-based crowdshipping platform, has announced plans to launch in the U.K. Shopopop connects retailers with local individuals — i.e., “crowdshippers” — who deliver groceries and goods within their communities. The company is targeting a partnership with at least one major U.K. retailer by the end of 2026, with discussions already underway with Asda, Co-op, Kingfisher, Morrisons, and Tesco, per Shopopop.

Taggbox enhances social media widget for businesses. Taggbox, a social media aggregation and user-generated-content platform, has updated its social media widget. According to Taggbox, the widget enables businesses to display social media feeds on websites, showcase UGC, highlight customer experiences, and more. The widget also supports content aggregation from leading social media platforms and offers customization capabilities to align social feeds with website branding, layouts, and design preferences, per Taggbox.

Attentive updates its agentic AI marketing platform. Attentive, an omnichannel marketing platform, has released its next-generation agentic AI. Attentive enables brands to identify shoppers, personalize customer experiences, and boost performance across SMS, email, RCS, and push notifications. The update features Brand Voice 2.0, Reporting Agent, Predictive Analytics, and AI Campaigns.

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Selltonomy launches AI Buyability platform for ecommerce merchants. Selltonomy has launched its AI Buyability platform to help merchants assess whether AI agents can complete purchases on their storefronts. Selltonomy audits storefront infrastructure and identifies hidden technical glitches that can interfere with AI-assisted purchases, including structured data inconsistencies, conflicting pricing signals, ambiguous inventory states, and checkout friction. Selltonomy is platform-agnostic and supports Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento, Wix, Squarespace, and custom stacks.

PixExact launches AI design platform for ads, flyers, banners. PixExact, an AI design platform, has announced the expansion of its AI Flyer Generator and ecommerce visual workflow, providing businesses, marketers, and creators with a faster way to produce exact-size marketing assets for campaigns. The platform helps users create flyers, ecommerce banners, product campaign visuals, social media graphics, and promotional images without traditional design software. Users can define the purpose, style, layout direction, messaging, and dimensions.

Nayax launches AI-powered product discovery for retailers. Nayax, a payments platform, has launched product discovery and personalization capabilities, enabling retailers to utilize real-time data and intelligent recommendations. The capabilities leverage shoppers’ data across points of sale, ecommerce, and marketing engagement systems — to AI-powered visual and text search, product recommendations, and cross-platform solutions to Nayax’s retail platform.

SumUp launches online booking service for U.S. small businesses. SumUp, a global financial technology company, has launched SumUp Bookings, an all-in-one online scheduling and appointment booking tool for U.S. service-based businesses. Integrated directly into the SumUp ecosystem, Bookings lets merchants manage appointments, automate confirmations and reminders, and accept payments — all from one platform. The SumUp’s products include Terminal, POS Lite, Card Readers, and Invoicing.

SumUp Bookings

Goflow launches eBay listing tool. Goflow, a multichannel ecommerce operating system, has launched eBay Listing Publisher, a feature within Goflow Catalog Publishing that allows sellers to create listings from product data stored in their Goflow catalog. Goflow says the release expands its catalog publishing capabilities for eBay, adding to a framework for Amazon, Shopify, Target, Walmart, Shein, and Nocnoc.

SourceHound launches AI-powered sourcing platform. SourceHound‘s new platform helps merchants, resellers, and collectors identify profitable inventory opportunities. The platform combines live marketplace monitoring, resale intelligence, and margin analysis into a single workflow to source vintage media, luxury goods, collectibles, high-demand pre-owned items, and more. Per SourceHound, the platform surfaces inventory opportunities based on user-defined criteria, historical resale trends, estimated margins, and marketplace demand signals.

Sellyze.ai launches marketplace-agnostic product intelligence tools. Sellyze.ai has launched a research tool to turn competitor reviews into product blueprints. Designed to eliminate the guesswork of product development, Sellyze.ai reads, classifies, and interprets thousands of data points to tell sellers what to build and how to source it. Sellyze says users paste a product link into the platform, and its engine extracts up to 5,000 recent and historical customer reviews.

Alibaba International’s Pic Copilot partners with Google Ads. Pic Copilot, an AI-powered creative platform from Alibaba International, has integrated with Google Ads, enabling ecommerce operators to create and launch on-platform Google display ads. Pic Copilot provides one-click AI applications to drive ecommerce, including video for social content, and a product page design generator to create storefront visuals. Pic Copilot says it leverages Alibaba International‘s ecosystem to train its AI on real-world scenarios.

Pic Copilot

New Ecommerce Tools: May 27, 2026

Every week we publish a rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants. This installment includes rollouts for social media management, regulatory compliance, dropshipping, reputation management, fulfillment, quick commerce, and AI bot protection.

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New Tools for Merchants

DemandBird launches B2B social media management platform. DemandBird, a social media management platform for B2B teams and agencies, has announced its public launch. The platform features approval workflows for content and campaigns, a calendar for social media editorial and campaign planning, cross-network publishing and scheduling across B2B-relevant networks, and reporting and client-ready analytics with dashboards, reports, and metrics aligned to B2B outcomes. The platform includes AI tools for back-office tasks such as reformatting images, repurposing posts, and identifying analytics trends, according to DemandBird.

DemandBird

Flipkart-owned Shopsy launches AI-powered app. Founded in 2021 by Flipkart, ecommerce platform Shopsy has launched a new AI-powered app uniting social discovery, video-led product experience, personalization, and gamified rewards. The app’s product pages include immersive visuals, customer photos, and autoplay video, per Shopsy, which states the app’s AI-powered search and personalization align the right product with regional intent and vernacular discovery patterns.

eBay launches regulatory compliance support. eBay has launched a regulatory compliance support page listing vendors that offer services to help businesses meet regulatory requirements. The page resides in the eBay Regulatory Guide. Merchants can browse and compare providers that offer services to stay compliant, including regulatory guidance and required data, product safety testing and certification, E.U. Responsible Person representation, Extended Producer Responsibility registration and reporting, and other specialized regulatory support.

TheBestReputation shows businesses how AI search engines see their brand. TheBestReputation, a reputation management service, has launched AIOverview.com, a free platform that shows businesses how five major AI search engines represent their brand. Users enter a URL and receive a detailed visibility report covering ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google’s AI Overviews. The downloadable report includes platform-by-platform visibility breakdowns, competitive comparisons, keyword-level analysis, and historical trend tracking through weekly snapshots.

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Doba enhances Pilot, an AI dropshipping assistant for product sourcing. Doba, a dropshipping platform, has upgraded Pilot, its AI-powered assistant launched last month. The update improves Pilot’s AI product sourcing and Q&A capabilities, helping sellers navigate product discovery, store setup, product listing, and platform workflows. According to Doba, the assistant makes dropshipping more beginner-friendly by removing the guesswork about what to sell, how to set up a store, and which steps to take before publishing products online.

Klarna launches AI-powered Shopping Search app in ChatGPT. Klarna, a flexible payments provider, has launched its Shopping Search app in ChatGPT, providing real-time product discovery directly in conversations. Consumers describe in the Shopping Search app what they’re looking for and see visual results with current prices, availability, and offers, all within the same conversation. The app then redirects consumers to the merchant’s site to complete the purchase, according to Klarna.

Pattern launches Intelligence to accelerate AI-powered ecommerce. Pattern, a marketplace services provider for brands, has launched Intelligence, an AI-powered autonomous ecommerce engine. Intelligence identifies marketplace opportunities in real time across offers, advertising, content, pricing, and inventory. Once identified, opportunities spur action loops for immediate execution or approval.

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DataDome launches Priority Protect virtual waiting room for AI commerce bots. DataDome, a platform for bot and agent trust management, has released Priority Protect, a virtual waiting room where AI agents shop, book, and buy, protecting businesses from malicious and automated traffic. Priority Protect detects and classifies humans, AI agents, and bots on every request, applying policy control in real time, and scaling instantly to meet peak demand.

Amazon debuts New Arrival and Notable Arrival badges for products. For merchants launching a new product, Amazon may apply a “New Arrival” or “Notable Arrival” badge to highlight to shoppers. Products receiving these badges are newly launched and predicted (by Amazon) to become customer favorites. Amazon determines the period a product is new and removes the badge afterward.

Shiprocket launches appointment-based delivery for quick commerce. Shiprocket, an India-based logistics platform, has launched Appointment-Based Delivery, a scheduled service for D2C brands to move bulk inventory to marketplace fulfillment centers, distributor warehouses, and platforms such as Zepto, Blinkit, Flipkart, Myntra, Swiggy, and Amazon. According to Shiprocket, the service replaces unpredictable bulk dispatches with fixed delivery windows, giving brands direct control over shipment timelines and warehouse compliance.

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Sumsub introduces a compliance platform for marketplaces. Sumsub, a compliance verification platform, has launched Sumsub for Marketplaces, enabling those portals to scale while reducing fraud losses and staying ahead of regulatory requirements. Sumsub for Marketplaces combines identity and business verification, behavioral analytics, and transaction monitoring to detect fraud and enable legitimate transactions. The service supports multiple marketplace models, with customizable verification and risk flows across different geographies and environments.

Digital Brands Group partners with Renov AI on ecommerce tools. Digital Brands Group, specializing in ecommerce, has partnered with Renov AI, an applied artificial intelligence company supported by Canada-based Mitacs research and development, to accelerate the launch of DBG’s suite of AI-powered tools. Renov AI’s engineering and research team will support DBG across initiatives such as data intelligence, automation, and advanced analytics.

NFI adds a new California fulfillment center. NFI, a North American supply chain solutions provider, announced a new fulfillment operation in Eastvale, California. The facility strengthens NFI’s ability to deliver scalable, flexible, and technology-enabled multichannel fulfillment and parcel shipping solutions. NFI says it supports merchants across retail, apparel, food, beverage, grocery, industrial, and automotive sectors, and processes 30 million ecommerce orders annually.

Google releases Universal Cart. Google’s new Universal Cart lets shoppers select items to buy while browsing Search, chatting with Gemini, watching YouTube, or even reading Gmail. Once a shopper adds a product, the cart runs in the background to find deals and price drops, and to send alerts when an item is back in stock.

Google’s Universal Cart

New Ecommerce Tools: May 20, 2026

This installment of our weekly rundown of new services for merchants includes rollouts for quick commerce, SMS marketing, search engine optimization, agentic storefronts, multichannel management, flexible payments, AI selling agents, and dynamic product ads.

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New Tools for Merchants

EZ Texting expands into Shopify App Store to automate SMS marketing. EZ Texting, an SMS marketing platform, has announced its availability in the Shopify App Store. Merchants can connect their stores to EZ Texting and leverage its platform, including contact management, text broadcasts, AI, and automated workflows, to drive revenue and foster customer loyalty.

EZ Texting

Studio 1119 and Moz expand partnership on AI-powered SEO. Studio 1119, an AI software publisher, and Moz, an SEO platform, have expanded their partnership, deepening the integration between Moz’s search intelligence platform and Studio 1119’s ecommerce optimization tool, CataSEO. Studio 1119 customers will receive enhanced monthly performance reporting, powered by Moz, covering key SEO metrics, competitive positioning, search performance trends, domain authority indicators, and opportunities to improve product discovery.

Amazon rolls out 30-minute delivery service, Now. Amazon has launched Now, a service delivering items in 30 minutes or less. Amazon Now is available in Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Philadelphia, and Seattle, with service also available and expansion underway in dozens more U.S. cities, including Austin, Houston, Minneapolis, Orlando, Phoenix, Denver, and Oklahoma City. Amazon Now uses a network of smaller locations for efficient order fulfillment, strategically placed close to where customers live and work.

Text launches AI selling agents. Text, the company behind LiveChat, ChatBot, and HelpDesk, has released Shopify-native AI selling agents to move customer service teams beyond answering questions to actively driving revenue. The features enable companies to sell in a live chat environment, combining automation and human involvement. Text’s AI selling agent is trainable on a company’s product catalog, brand voice, and business rules.

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SureDone launches Mobile, an app for Amazon, eBay, and Shopify listings. SureDone, a multichannel ecommerce listing, inventory, and order management platform, has launched Mobile, an iOS and Android app that brings product management and multichannel listing workflows for Amazon, eBay, and Shopify. The app extends SureDone’s multichannel commerce platform, giving sellers a mobile way to manage listing and product workflows.

Klarna’s flexible payments extend to Google Search and Gemini app. Klarna, a flexible payments provider, will bring its options to Google’s Gemini app and Search, including AI Mode, via Google Pay in the U.S. Google Pay users will see a Klarna button at checkout for access to flexible payment options, including four interest-free installments and longer terms for larger purchases. Universal Commerce Protocol powers Klarna’s integration.

Swap debuts AI-powered Storefront. Swap, an ecommerce operating system for direct-to-consumer brands, has unveiled Storefront, an AI-powered platform that guides shoppers from discovery to checkout through conversation. Swap is debuting Storefront through a Brand in Residency at Air Mail’s retail newsstands in London and New York. The residency turns Air Mail’s retail spaces into a Swap Storefront, featuring branded installations, editorial takeaways, curated merchandise, café moments, and a roster of branded events.

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Stackable Labs launches AI experience layer for customer service messaging. Stackable Labs has launched a developer platform for building interactive experiences on top of Zendesk Messenger, extending customer service messaging beyond flat text exchanges. Stackable helps brands surface real-time data, bi-directional workflows, and actions alongside the Zendesk Messenger interface, transforming messaging from a basic support channel into an immersive customer service experience platform.

Cloudways centralizes WordPress management of multiple sites. Cloudways, part of DigitalOcean, has launched Site Manager, a WordPress management solution to help teams operate and scale large website portfolios more efficiently. Cloudways Site Manager centralizes key workflows into a unified, native platform. By consolidating site operations into a single interface, Cloudways says it helps agencies streamline day-to-day management, reduce operational overhead, and improve delivery speed across client portfolios.

Amazon introduces Alexa for Shopping, a personalized AI assistant. Amazon has introduced Alexa for Shopping, a personalized AI assistant available on the Amazon Shopping app and website, as well as on Echo Show devices. Combining Rufus’s product expertise and Amazon shopping history, Alexa for Shopping delivers a personal, helpful shopping experience, where consumers can browse and shop the full Amazon store using voice, touch, or both.

Stellagent launches Agentic Commerce Studio. Stellagent, an AI commerce infrastructure company, has launched Agentic Commerce Studio, a browser-based validation environment that helps merchants, payment service providers, and commerce platforms prepare for AI agent-led shopping experiences. The platform lets users experience an AI shopping session in a browser, from natural-language search to product recommendations, cart creation, shipping calculation, and checkout preparation. Teams can connect test environments and validate product feeds, inventory endpoints, shipping quote flows, checkout sessions, and webhooks.

Stellagent Agentic Commerce Studio

Meta launches Business AI on WhatsApp for small businesses in India. Meta has launched Business AI in India to provide small businesses with AI-powered customer support directly into the WhatsApp Business app. According to Meta, the feature enables eligible businesses to respond to customer queries 24/7, capture leads, and book appointments. Available in all native Indian languages, the feature requires no coding or third-party tools.

Instacart expands Ads Manager to retailers. Grocery technology company Instacart has announced that retailers can now activate ad campaigns directly within Instacart Ads Manager, extending its scaled, self-serve advertising platform to its retail partners. This expansion introduces tools for retailers, starting with self-serve promotions and off-platform capabilities. Retailers can create and manage basket-level offers, target high-intent consumer segments, and reach consumers who shop within a category but have not yet purchased.

Shoppable launches the universal checkout MCP server. Shoppable, a unified commerce infrastructure platform, has launched its Model Context Protocol server, a universal checkout integration for AI assistants. According to Shoppable, the server enables brands, retailers, and publishers to connect their product catalogs directly into AI conversations, allowing consumers to discover items, build multi-brand carts, and complete purchases with one click. The server can surface a single brand, a curated set of merchants, or the full Shoppable network.

Clinch announces enhanced creative for Snapchat Dynamic Product Ads. Clinch, an agentic AI platform for omnichannel content orchestration, has announced an AI-enabled automated workflow supporting Snapchat Dynamic Product Ads, product feed management, creative customization, and catalog enrichment. Advertisers can upload their product feed, schedule their desired refresh cadence, and then apply custom templates, adjust layouts, add pricing and promotional overlays, and publish an enriched catalog to Snapchat without rebuilding assets or switching tools.

Clinch

New Ecommerce Tools: May 12, 2026

Every week we hand-pick new services to highlight for ecommerce merchants. This installment includes updates on predictive AI, autonomous marketing, AI-powered website builders, omnichannel fulfillment, programmatic advertising, embedded payment solutions, and cross-border ecommerce.

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New Tools for Merchants

Shoplazza launches AI admin Athena for ecommerce merchants. Shoplazza, a commerce operating system, has launched Athena, an AI admin agent designed to help merchants manage back-office ecommerce workflows through natural language. Athena provides agentic execution for daily operations, including product page creation and editing, order inquiries, discount configuration, logistics information, data analysis, and platform knowledge support. Merchants can describe the need and let Athena prepare the task.

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GoDaddy releases Airo for WordPress. GoDaddy has launched Airo for WordPress, an AI-powered tool to help small businesses and web professionals build, manage, and grow websites. Airo customers can create and launch a WordPress site in minutes. Within the native WordPress dashboard, Airo combines AI-generated content and editing with full ecosystem support, managed infrastructure, agency-friendly workflows, and more.

Marqo launches Sibbi conversational agent for product discovery. Marqo, a product discovery platform, has launched Sibbi, a unified commerce agent that handles the entire shopper journey in a single conversation. According to Marqo, Sibbi lets shoppers describe in natural language what they want, upload a photo for visual search, obtain personalized recommendations, add an item to the cart, or start a return, all without being handed off to a support channel.

Preciso launches Ultima Ads app for Shopify. Preciso, an adtech company, has launched Ultima Ads for Advertisers, a demand-side platform integrated as an app in Shopify. Ultima Ads for Advertisers focuses on a merchant’s advertising goals. By syncing product feeds, purchase history, and browsing behavior with the Ultima app, merchants can create bespoke audience segments, retarget visitors who left the site without buying, and build lookalike audiences to find prospects who share the same characteristics as their best customers.

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Amazon launches Bedrock AgentCore payments. Amazon has introduced payments within Bedrock AgentCore, a platform for building, connecting, and optimizing agents at scale. The payment capabilities enable AI agents to access and pay for what they use, such as web content, APIs, MCP servers, and other agents. Amazon built the capabilities in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe, who are providing the wallet infrastructure and payment rails.

BigCommerce Payments by PayPal launches to U.S. merchants. Commerce has announced that BigCommerce Payments by PayPal is available to U.S. merchants. The embedded payments solution brings payments, balances, and payouts together, helping merchants operate and scale more efficiently. Built in partnership with PayPal, the solution integrates payment processing directly into the BigCommerce platform.

Creatable launches Predictive AI to help book creators for ecommerce. Creatable, a creator platform for ecommerce, has launched an on-site predictive search engine. According to Creatable, the engine sits on 12 years of proprietary ecommerce first-party creator engagement and conversion data, in addition to accessible social data. By combining social creator performance signals, deep product catalog data, and verified transaction-level sales info, Creatable says it trained the AI to predict precise conversion outcomes at the content level.

Creatable

Studio 1119 launches two AI-powered ecommerce applications. Studio 1119, a developer of AI applications for small-to-midsize businesses, has launched two products on the BigCommerce app marketplace. CataSEO, developed in partnership with Moz, helps ecommerce operators get discovered on Google and AI-driven platforms such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews. TruSync is a real-time order and inventory sync application connecting ecommerce stores to QuickBooks Online.

Nimble CRM adds Web Chat for real-time conversations with website visitors. Nimble, a CRM tool for SMBs, launched Web Chat, enabling real-time conversations with website visitors who then become CRM contacts. Included natively in Nimble, Web Chat includes AI Chat Helper, an automated conversation assistant that poses qualifying questions, captures contact information, and generates a session summary.

GetDandy launches autonomous AI workforce for local businesses. GetDandy, an automated growth platform, has launched its autonomous AI workforce, a system designed to handle every customer interaction for local businesses across phone, SMS, Google Business Profile, web chat, email, and social media. According to GetDandy, the goal is to ensure no customer inquiry goes unanswered.

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Flowspace launches omnichannel fulfillment for brands. Flowspace has launched its B2B retail fulfillment service. Built for brands scaling across retail, wholesale, and direct-to-consumer channels simultaneously, the new service enables teams to allocate inventory, meet retailer compliance requirements, and maintain visibility. The solution spans B2B retail fulfillment, including electronic data interchange order management, advance ship notice processing, chargeback dispute management, freight management, and channel-level reporting.

Genesys to deliver customer engagement on WhatsApp. Genesys, a platform for AI-powered experience orchestration, has partnered with WhatsApp to deliver context-driven customer engagement. Genesys Cloud’s WhatsApp option combines messaging, calling, and outbound engagement, enabling organizations to manage conversations from initial contact through resolution. WhatsApp on Genesys Cloud expands how organizations engage customers through voice interactions supported by both virtual and human agents. Genesys Cloud also supports rich WhatsApp formats, including images, carousels, interactive lists, and call-to-action buttons.

Emberos launches Merchant, an AI optimization layer for commerce. Emberos, an AI visibility operating system, has launched Merchant, an agent that provides brands with SKU-level visibility and optimization inside genAI platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. The module tracks the product recommendation rate and segments performance by prompt intent across major LLMs. When gaps are detected, Merchant deploys Fix Packs: automated optimization workflows that push recommended changes directly into HubSpot, Slack, and Jira, then re-measures to confirm lift.

Marketing platform Wunderkind integrates with Bloomreach for personalization. Wunderkind has integrated its autonomous marketing platform with Loomi AI, an agentic platform for intelligent personalization from Bloomreach. Wunderkind’s identity and behavioral data flows high-intent actions such as product views, cart additions, and purchases to Loomi AI in real-time, triggering existing journeys such as cart recovery, browse follow-ups, and catalog alerts. Loomi AI manages orchestration, messaging, consent, and reporting, while Wunderkind expands the pool of identifiable and addressable users.

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Goflow partners with Nocnoc to simplify expansion into Latin America. Goflow, a multichannel operating system, has partnered with Nocnoc, a cross-border marketplace enabler in Latin America. Through the integration, Goflow sellers can access 15 marketplaces across five markets. Nocnoc provides the marketplace access and localized infrastructure for payments, logistics, and returns, complementing Goflow’s centralized operational control.

Twilio releases capabilities for agentic conversations across multiple channels. Twilio, a customer engagement platform, has released new agentic capabilities. Conversation Memory delivers persistent memory across every interaction, maintaining customer history, preferences, behavior, and conversation state across channels. Conversation Orchestrator turns individual calls and messages into continuous conversations for multichannel, multi-agent engagement. Conversation Intelligence leverages generative AI language operators to turn live conversations into actionable, real-time intelligence that enhances human agents and triggers automated workflows across voice and messaging channels.

ZigZag partners with Trade Duty Refund on E.U. returns. ZigZag, a global returns and post-purchase network, has partnered with Trade Duty Refund to deliver an integrated duty drawback service for U.K. retailers selling into the E.U. The service combines ZigZag’s returns technology with Trade Duty Refund’s digital claims capabilities. Combined, ZigZag and Trade Duty Refund automate E.U. claim eligibility checks, assemble evidence packs, and manage filings through to refund approval, giving retailers a cross-border duty recovery solution.

Asendia and Singapore Post partner on APAC cross-border ecommerce gateway. Asendia, an international ecommerce delivery specialist, has partnered with Singapore Post, a postal and parcel logistics provider. The collaboration builds on Asendia’s presence in the Asia-Pacific region, including its recent establishment of a Singapore hub operation. International brands and global marketplace sellers will benefit from more streamlined parcel shipping to Singapore and the wider area, per Asendia.

Asendia

New Ecommerce Tools: May 6, 2026

This installment of our weekly rundown of new services for merchants includes updates on supply chain software, livestream shopping, personalization, conversational commerce, product pages, fraud prevention, cross-border shipping, and reputation management.

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New Tools for Merchants

Amazon launches Supply Chain Services to all businesses. Amazon has launched Supply Chain Services, extending the company’s freight, distribution, fulfillment, and parcel shipping solutions to all businesses. Any seller (on or off Amazon) can access a centralized console to sign up. Amazon’s transportation network includes 80,000 trailers, 24,000 containers, and 100 aircraft.

Amazon Supply Chain Services

Klaviyo brings custom AI skills to Customer Agent. Klaviyo, a B2C marketing platform, has launched Custom Skills for its Customer Agent. According to the company, the update enables brands to build unique customer experiences on the same foundation (i.e., Klaviyo) that powers their marketing. Brands can define their logic in plain language, build skills from scratch, edit existing ones, and connect skills to any system in their tech stack.

Amazon Business adds groceries to Same-Day Delivery. Amazon Business is bringing Same-Day Delivery of groceries to businesses. According to Amazon, groceries — including dairy, produce, baked goods, and frozen foods from national and local brands — are now available in 2,300 U.S. cities alongside items already available on Amazon Business. Amazon delivers the orders within set delivery hours and preferences. At checkout, customers can select delivery windows that align with their business operating hours.

Experian announces Agent Trust to power AI commerce. Credit-reporting agency Experian has launched Agent Trust, a secure, verifiable link between consumers and AI agents. Experian Agent Trust helps ensure that agent-initiated transactions are grounded in verified consumer identity. The framework resides within an ecosystem of agentic commerce contributors, including Visa, Cloudflare, and Skyfire.

Experian Agent Trust

MikMak updates its commerce and orchestration platform. MikMak, a commerce intelligence platform, has launched three new capabilities. “Aura” is a predictive engine that provides real-time market foresight for sales and media measurement, planning, and optimization. “Mak” is an AI assistant that analyzes and transforms data into strategy, including campaign design. “MCP” provides AI agents with visibility into real-time commerce data.

Skailed launches automated FAQ tool for ecommerce pages. Skailed, a programmatic ecommerce and search engine optimization platform, has launched an automated FAQ tool for product pages. Skailed FAQs create content automatically by analyzing product details and generating contextual questions and answers. Merchants can review and edit the material before publishing to product pages. The tool sits within the Skailed platform from the Australia-based marketing agency Impressive.

Livestream shopping platform Whatnot integrates with Shopify. Whatnot, a live stream shopping platform and marketplace, now integrates with Shopify. Merchants can sell products on Whatnot in live auctions or as Buy It Now listings. Orders flow into Shopify. Merchants on Shopify can add live commerce without duplicating their catalogs or manually reconciling inventory across platforms.

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Personalization platform Bloomreach launches Loomi AI for Shopify. Bloomreach, a personalization provider, has launched Loomi AI for Shopify. The app connects merchants’ Shopify stores to Bloomreach’s marketing and search products, enabling personalized experiences by unifying customer, product, and commerce data. Merchants can (i) surface relevant results for each shopper in real-time, and (ii) personalize campaigns based on purchase history, browsing behavior, and loyalty status. Loomi AI deploys AI decisioning to identify which shoppers need an incentive to convert and targets them accordingly.

reAlpha announces AiChat integration with Shopify. reAlpha, a real estate technology company, announced that its subsidiary AiChat has launched conversational commerce and ticketing for ecommerce brands. The platform enables businesses to manage product discovery, customer interaction, transactions, and post-purchase support. Through integration with Shopify, AiChat connects directly to a merchant’s commerce engine, enabling real-time access to product, inventory, and order data within customer interactions.

Easyship launches global shipping MCP server as commerce goes agentic. Easyship, a multi-carrier ecommerce shipping software and API platform, has launched its MCP server for cross-border shipping. Merchants can compare rates across multiple carriers, generate shipping labels in natural language, track shipments, and pull analytics across courier services — all inside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, or any other MCP-compatible platform.

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Commerce integrates PayPal’s Store Sync for BigCommerce merchants. Commerce, the parent company of BigCommerce, has announced the integration of PayPal’s Store Sync in the BigCommerce App Marketplace and Channel Manager, enabling merchants to connect their product catalogs, inventory, and order management to AI surfaces, including Microsoft Copilot, Meta, Perplexity, and more.

Amazon launches an AI feature for real-time answers on product pages. Amazon is launching “Join the chat,” an interactive component of its “Hear the highlights” feature that lets customers ask AI hosts questions via text or voice while listening to an audio summary of a product. The AI host incorporates a question into the conversation, delivers a tailored response grounded in product details, customer reviews, and other publicly available information.

Crosslist introduces platform to scale across multiple marketplaces. Crosslist, a product listing platform for merchants, has introduced its multi-marketplace listing and inventory synchronization system. According to Crosslist, the platform enables sellers to create a single product listing and distribute it across multiple marketplaces while maintaining synchronized inventory and pricing, reducing manual workload and minimizing listing errors.

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AskNicely launches Reputation Manager to turn feedback into visibility. AskNicely, an AI-powered customer experience platform, has launched Reputation Manager to leverage fragmented customer feedback. Per AskNicely, Reputation Manager enables businesses (i) to increase review volume by prompting customers at the right moment, (ii) monitor and manage performance across hundreds of review platforms, (iii) respond quickly to customer feedback at scale, and (iv) connect survey insights with public reviews to identify trends and root causes.

PayPal brings an identity solution to advertising. PayPal has introduced Ads ID, an advertising identifier grounded in verified commerce relationships. Ads ID constructs aggregated, consented signals from browsing behavior across the PayPal and Venmo ecosystem. Technology testing partners (across commerce, open web, connected TV, and native environments) include Magnite, PubMatic, Rokt, and Taboola.

Adobe completes Semrush acquisition. Adobe has completed its acquisition of Semrush, the search engine optimization platform. Adobe is uniting its brand visibility and agentic web solutions (Experience Manager, LLM Optimizer, Commerce platform, and Brand Concierge) with Semrush’s discoverability intelligence.

Semrush

New Ecommerce Tools: April 28, 2026

This week’s rundown of new services for merchants includes updates on AI-powered advertising, video ad generators, shoppable videos, B2B commerce, fraud prevention, box-free returns, loyalty programs, digital assistants, agentic commerce, and AI-powered contact centers.

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New Tools for Merchants

OroCommerce and Blue Yonder partner to unify B2B commerce and fulfillment. OroCommerce, a B2B ecommerce platform, and Blue Yonder, a supply chain enabler, have partnered. According to the companies, the collaboration gives manufacturers, distributors, and wholesalers accurate inventory availability, pricing, and delivery information before, during, and after purchase.

OroCommerce

Feedonomics unlocks agentic discovery with Catalog Exports. Commerce, parent company of BigCommerce and data feed platform Feedonomics, has announced Agentic Catalog Exports. The new service enables merchants to syndicate catalog data to agentic discovery channels, including OpenAI, Gemini, Copilot,  and Perplexity, according to Commerce.

AdRoll and PubMatic enable agent-powered troubleshooting. AdRoll, a multichannel advertising platform, has partnered with PubMatic, an ad performance company. AdRoll uses the Model Context Protocol to query PubMatic’s agentic diagnostics, driving real-time evaluation of campaign configuration and diagnostics. AdRoll’s agents can query PubMatic’s deal diagnostics to identify root causes of performance issues and recommend actions.

Google for WooCommerce connects a store to its YouTube channel. A new extension from WooCommerce lets merchants connect their store to a YouTube channel and tag products from their catalog in videos and shorts. Tagged items will appear as shoppable cards while viewers are watching, and also in the Channel Shopping tab. With Google for WooCommerce, product feeds sync automatically to the Merchant Center for real-time titles, descriptions, prices, and availability.

iDenfy provides fraud prevention solutions for WooCommerce merchants. iDenfy, an identity verification and fraud prevention provider, has launched an application for WooCommerce. The integration gives merchants a way to require identity verification for shoppers before purchase. The service combines biometric face recognition with 3,000 identity documents from 200 countries and territories.

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Amazon Ads launches AI-powered video ad generator in Australia. Amazon Ads has expanded its AI-powered Video Generator to Australia. The tool generates six video options from a product image, existing video, or Amazon product detail page, with multi-scene storytelling, transitions, and background music. Video Generator is available via the Creative Studio in Ad Console at no additional cost for Sponsored Brands video.

ChannelSight launches AI platform for discoverability. ChannelSight has launched a platform to help brands optimize discovery across AI tools and large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. According to the company, the platform monitors a brand’s products across AI systems, scores their discoverability, and recommends improvements, each tied to revenue impact.

UPS Happy Returns expands its box-free, label-free return network. UPS-owned Happy Returns has expanded its U.S. Return Bar network to 10,000 drop-off locations nationwide, primarily through partnerships with Annex Brands and PackageHub Business Centers. Happy Returns states that the expansion reinforces its position as a leading consolidated return network.

UPS Happy Returns

TransUnion’s Digital Business Profile helps small businesses. Credit reporting agency TransUnion has launched Digital Business Profile, helping small businesses ensure their information is represented accurately across the digital ecosystem. Digital Business Profile allows companies to manage essential details, such as business name and location, contact information, hours of operation, accepted payment methods, and service areas — all through a single TransUnion portal. Updates automatically distribute across more than 80 directories, maps, apps, and social platforms.

SumUp launches loyalty program for small businesses. SumUp, a global payment technology, has launched Loyalty, a digital rewards program that turns card payments into points and stamps. Available across the U.K., France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, and Italy, Loyalty requires no new hardware and works with merchants’ existing SumUp infrastructure. The program features push notifications, targeted promotions, and an autopilot feature that automatically identifies lapsed customers and sends personalized win-back offers.

Cognizant launches contact center platform. Cognizant, an AI technology provider, has launched Agentic Retail CX, a contact center platform combining Google’s Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience with Cognizant’s retail capabilities. According to Cognizant, the platform helps retail brands deliver personalized, omnichannel experiences while reducing operational costs.

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Google launches the next evolution of reCAPTCHA. Google has launched Cloud Fraud Defense, an agentic web platform to verify the legitimacy of bots, humans, and AI agents. Fraud Defense’s policy engine allows website owners to allow or block agents and users based on risk scores, automation types, and agent identity. Fraud Defense is invisible for most people, replacing disruptive puzzles with silent background verification.

Zendrop launches AI Creatives for UGC video ads. Zendrop, a dropshipping platform, has announced the beta launch of AI Ad Generator, a tool integrated into the Zendrop platform that enables dropshippers to produce user-generated-style video ads. Every ad is optimized for TikTok, Meta’s Reels, and YouTube Shorts, and saved to a personal Video Library where sellers can deploy across ad channels.

Meta AI business assistant expands globally. Meta is expanding its AI business assistant to advertisers and agencies of all sizes across major global markets, with local-language support in the U.S., Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. Per Meta, the assistant lives within existing tools, including Ads Manager, Business Suite, and Business Support Home, and optimizes campaigns and guidance.

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New Ecommerce Tools: April 22, 2026

Every week we publish a list of new products and services for ecommerce merchants. This week’s rundown includes AI store builders, shipping labels, composable commerce, shoppable media, video avatars, marketing campaigns, and token-based checkout.

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New Tools for Merchants

Adobe introduces a brand visibility tool. Adobe has launched a tool for visibility on generative AI platforms. The company also announced an expansion of its Experience Manager with a contextual layer for AI agents, and the launch of  CX Enterprise, an agentic AI system to simplify how businesses manage the customer lifecycle, from acquiring prospects to driving conversions and loyalty.

Adobe for Business

Australia Post offers in-store label printing for eBay sellers. Australia Post has launched a “Print in Store” capability that allows eBay sellers to generate shipping labels at participating post offices by scanning a QR code (available on eBay). The service follows Australia Post’s new small parcel option for items under 250 grams (0.55 pounds), piloted in collaboration with eBay.

Kultura integrates conversational avatars into CMSs. Kaltura, a provider of agentic AI tools, has announced integrations for three content management systems: Adobe Experience Manager, WordPress, and Drupal. Organizations on those platforms can embed any Kaltura experience as a native component. Examples include agentic avatars that greet visitors, conversational search, and interactive videos.

Vaimo launches a smarter frontend for composable commerce. Vaimo, an ecommerce developer, has launched Nexus, a frontend orchestration platform for composable commerce. According to Vaimo, Nexus sits between frontend and backend systems, offering a composable architecture without large-scale rebuilds or prohibitive overhead. The platform includes an orchestration layer that aggregates data across systems, a performance-optimized frontend layer, and connectors for platforms such as Commercetools, Adobe Commerce, Contentful, and Sanity. Nexus is part of the Vaimo Accelerator program.

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Klaviyo expands integration with Canva for marketing campaigns. Klaviyo, the email, text, and marketing platform, has announced an expanded integration with Canva. Marketers can bring their Canva designs into Klaviyo and then refine and personalize campaigns using segmentation, automation, and customer data.

Payabl. launches Click to Pay with Visa to help merchants reduce fraud. Financial technology provider Payabl. has launched Click to Pay with Visa, replacing manual card number entry with token-based checkouts. Customers can complete purchases in a few clicks once their card is enrolled. Visa Click to Pay is available through Payabl.checkout, enabling merchants to activate the service. The tool works across devices and supports existing security flows.

Shoplazza launches AI Store Builder. Shoplazza, a platform for direct-to-consumer brands, has launched AI Store Builder to simplify how merchants create, launch, and initiate operations. With Store Builder, merchants can generate a storefront by describing their products, brand positioning, and target markets through natural language. The system automatically builds key components, including home page layouts, product pages, collection structures, and policy content, reducing reliance on manual configuration and technical resources.

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SiteGround launches ecommerce platform for small businesses. SiteGround, a platform helping small businesses build, host, and grow online, has launched SiteGround Ecommerce for new sellers, providing tools for payments, shipping, taxes, orders, and inventory. Additional features, per SiteGround, include built-in marketing to help store owners get found and convert visitors.

BlueSwitch launches Unified Commerce Suite. BlueSwitch, a Shopify Platinum Partner, has launched Unified Commerce Suite, a curated collection of production-ready Shopify modules to solve operational challenges faced by B2B merchants. Unified Commerce Suite addresses gaps across pricing, ordering, onboarding, fulfillment, shipping, and account workflows, according to BlueSwitch.

Wayvia launches shoppable media platform. Wayvia, an omnicommerce platform, has launched Shoppable Next Generation, an AI update of its shoppable media tool. Next Generation enables brands to connect marketing touchpoints, including display ads, social media posts, and email campaigns. The update provides customizable landing-page templates for conversion, basket building, and awareness. Each maps to a campaign objective in Meta Ads Manager.

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UPS launches RFID sensing technology to eliminate manual scanning. UPS is rolling out radio frequency identification sensing across its U.S. small package network. The technology is in all UPS package delivery vehicles and facilities, and on every package shipped through UPS stores. RFID sensing automatically confirms that packages are picked up and in UPS’s possession.

Parsnipp launches AI search and GEO platform. Parsnipp has launched a generative engine optimization platform. The tool helps brands understand how they appear in AI-driven discovery and search by identifying specific signals, misconfigurations, and content gaps. Features include brand analytics across LLMs, competitor tracking, GEO content, search personas, and AI readiness recommendations.

Introducing Stable Commerce, an AI-powered ecommerce platform. Stable Commerce, a new AI-powered ecommerce platform, enables merchants to create and manage online stores through a chat-based AI interface. Merchants describe in plain language what they want to sell. The AI agent then generates a storefront that includes page design, product pages with descriptions and images, checkout integration, and shipping setup. Merchants can use the same conversational interface to change layout, products, or content.

Gr4vy launches toolkit for ChatGPT payments. Gr4vy, a payment orchestration platform, now supports agentic transactions, allowing merchants to manage and process payments in AI-driven environments. Gr4vy is also launching its Agentic Development Kit to equip and guide merchants in building and launching AI-native storefronts on ChatGPT and other genAI platforms. According to Gr4vy, merchants can launch AI-native storefronts, orchestrate AI transactions in real time, and maintain control over performance, security, and the customer experience.

Gr4vy

New Ecommerce Tools: April 15, 2026

This week’s installment of new services for merchants includes updates on cross-channel marketing, B2B commerce, agentic marketing, shoppable media, payments, product descriptions, AI-powered ecommerce, and predictive behavioral intelligence.

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New Tools for Merchants

OS Group launches B2B commerce platform. OS Group, a wholesale fashion and footwear network, has launched its proprietary B2B ecommerce marketplace. According to the company, the platform provides qualified retailers and business buyers with centralized access to high-demand sneakers and streetwear available for immediate wholesale purchase and fulfillment. The marketplace enables businesses to source products of globally recognized brands, including Nike, Adidas, ASICS, and others.

OS Group

Ampd launches agentic shoppable media. Ampd, an agentic tool connecting brand media to commerce, has launched agentic shoppable media, connecting shoppers directly to their preferred retailer — fully logged in and ready for purchase. According to Ampd, brands can input and maintain fair-share gross-merchandise allocations across their retail partners (e.g., Amazon, Walmart, Target) while maximizing the likelihood that shoppers land in their preferred ecosystem. Brands only need to create a single link that serves all retailers.

Airship expands AI Agent Fleet for campaigns and cross-channel experiences. Airship, a mobile-first customer experience platform, has announced an expansion and enhancement to its AI Agent Fleet. The launch introduces conversational interfaces for Campaigns AI Agent (for automation and acceleration), Native Experience AI Agent (for building app and web experiences from text descriptions or image uploads), and Journeys AI Agent (for creating and refining complex, multichannel journeys).

Clarvos introduces agentic workflow to help SMBs launch campaigns. Clarvos, a marketing technology startup, has announced the launch of its agentic marketing workflow platform to help SMBs plan, create, and run marketing campaigns. The Clarvos Agentic Workflow coordinates campaign strategy, creative generation, and activation across Google, Meta, and TikTok, using AI to simulate customer response, compare campaign options, and guide setup.

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Joybuy adopts Competera to automate European market operations. Competera, a retail pricing platform, is collaborating with Joybuy, the new retail destination from JD.com, to manage its footprint across Europe. The partnership implements a centralized system wherein Joybuy tracks competitive shifts in real time. Teams at Joybuy receive market insights every morning to identify price gaps and adjust their own points before the peak shopping hours begin.

DropsyneX debuts ecommerce system. DropsyneX, a B2B cross-border ecommerce platform integrating live commerce, merchant services, and global logistics, has launched its one-stop system, which includes a global warehouse network, smart inventory and warehouse management, and virtual livestream commerce. DropsyneX states that its AI-powered livestream commerce tool enables automated product promotion, increased conversion rates, and reduced operational dependency on manual teams.

Yobi partners with Microsoft for predictive behavioral intelligence. Yobi, a behavioral AI company, has partnered with Microsoft to unlock predictive consumer intelligence for enterprises. Built on the Microsoft Azure platform, Yobi’s consented consumer database helps organizations ethically access behavioral datasets for predictive AI models. Yobi’s model uses real-world data such as purchases, store visits, and marketing conversions to understand and predict consumer intent. Businesses can personalize outcome modeling around the metrics that matter the most to their priorities.

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Zendrop launches MCP server to connect AI assistants to live store data. Zendrop, a dropshipping and ecommerce fulfillment platform, has launched a Model Context Protocol server that gives AI assistants, such as Claude, ChatGPT, OpenClaw, and Gemini, access to a merchant’s store. Merchants choose what an assistant can read or write, from catalog browsing to order management, through a granular permissions system, with built-in rate limiting for high-volume stores. The server works with any AI assistant that supports MCP. The integration is available to all Zendrop merchants.

PayPal extends payment links to Canva creators. PayPal has announced that payment links are available directly in Canva to turn designs into a checkout experience. Canva users can create a payment link or QR code and add PayPal checkout (including PayPal, Venmo, and PayPal Pay Later) to digital or printed designs and accept payments across social platforms, email, messaging apps, and in person.

Ask Yuma to manage ecommerce customer support. Yuma AI, a platform for ecommerce customer support, has launched Ask Yuma, a conversational interface that lets merchants manage their support automation through natural language. Ask Yuma is built into every page of the Yuma dashboard and provides access to a merchant’s tickets, automations, knowledge base, performance metrics, integrations, and brand voice. Customer experience teams can build, investigate, and optimize their automation in real-time by asking Yuma.

Yuma AI

Katana introduces platform for brands selling across multiple channels. Katana, a cloud-based inventory management software, has launched as a unified platform for product brands selling across multiple channels. The announcement coincides with the launch of Katana’s native Amazon FBA integration, enabling daily or weekly sync between FBA stock and Katana inventory, multi-marketplace support, and a product mapping system. Katana also provides native connections to Shopify, WooCommerce, QuickBooks, and Xero.

Visa launches Intelligent Commerce Connect. Visa has unveiled Intelligent Commerce Connect for businesses to participate in AI-powered commerce. Through a single integration via the Visa Acceptance Platform, Intelligent Commerce Connect enables secure payment initiation, tokenization, spend controls, and authentication. The tool integrates Visa Intelligent Commerce APIs (to process agent purchases using Visa cards) and other networks’ APIs, allowing agents to pay with both Visa and non-Visa cards.

Blytz launches as a payments and collections platform. BlytzPay has introduced Blytz, an intelligent payments and collections platform that includes BlytzPay, BlytzCollect, and BlytzCash. BlytzPay powers text-first, bankless payments. BlytzCollect uses AI-driven voice and BlytzPay’s text payment links to automate outreach and improve on-time payments. BlytzCash expands payment options by enabling customers to pay in cash at a network of retailers.

Selro launches AI-powered product description generator. Selro, a multichannel ecommerce management platform, has launched an AI-powered product description generator. The feature integrates with the Selro platform, enabling users to generate product titles, descriptions, and summaries directly from existing product data, images, or title snippets — all across large catalogs and multiple sales channels.

Selro

New Ecommerce Tools: April 8, 2026

This week’s rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants includes updates on B2B tools, fulfillment, AI reporting, advertising platforms, agentic commerce, payments, affiliate marketing, and business formation services.

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New Tools for Merchants

Shopify extends native B2B features to all merchants. Merchants on Shopify can now manage wholesale and direct-to-consumer operations without plugins or patchwork. Shopify is extending its foundational B2B features to merchants on Basic, Grow, and Advanced plans, at no extra cost. Also, merchants on those plans can access native features, including company profiles for wholesale buyers, up to three custom catalogs with tailored pricing, volume discounts and quantity rules, vaulted credit cards, and payment terms.

Shopify: B2B and D2C management

ShipMonk opens fulfillment center designed for apparel brands. ShipMonk, a global fulfillment provider for ecommerce brands, has opened a center in Louisville, Kentucky. The facility has 406,000 square feet, 60 dock doors, and more than 300,000 storage locations. Per ShipMonk, the facility optimizes layouts for high-SKU density, dedicated rework stations, on-site embroidery services for premium customization, specialized workflows for wholesale complexity, and floor-ready presentation, as well as bespoke fulfillment services.

Swyft Filings launches an app to start an LLC inside ChatGPT. Swyft Filings, a provider of business formation services, has launched its OpenAI app, enabling entrepreneurs to form a business, start an LLC, register a corporation, and handle formation tasks. According to Swyft Filings, the app leverages generative AI for real-time guidance, faster filings, and more intuitive access to business formation services. The app is now available in the ChatGPT store.

Affiliate platform Levanta acquires Perch+ for Amazon sellers. Levanta, an affiliate and creator platform for ecommerce, has acquired Perch+, an affiliate network for Amazon sellers. According to Levanta, the move enables Perch+ brands to work directly with 60,000 partners in Levanta’s marketplace, with support for Amazon attribution and creator connections. Brands can run paid placement campaigns, automate product sampling, and surface who’s talking about their brand across social, per Levanta.

Miva releases 26 R1 with an embedded AI reporting assistant. Ecommerce platform Miva has released its 26 R1 update, with an embedded reporting assistant to help merchants make smarter, data-driven decisions. At the center of the release is AI Insights, an in-line reporting assistant. Merchants can use natural-language prompts to query store data, generate performance summaries, analyze conversion rates, and identify top-performing products by category or date range, all without exporting reports or building complex dashboards, according to Miva.

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Commercetools partners with TradeCentric on B2B commerce. TradeCentric, a B2B e-procurement provider, has partnered with Commercetools, an ecommerce platform for global enterprises. Together, Commercetools and TradeCentric state that they enable seamless integration capabilities to eliminate manual order processing, reduce errors, and accelerate order-to-cash cycles. Commercetools customers gain access to these capabilities while integrating with major e-procurement systems, including the 220 procurement platforms supported by TradeCentric.

Bitly introduces AI-powered features for marketing analytics. Bitly, the URL shortener, has launched Assist and Weekly Insights for marketing. Bitly Assist is an AI-powered chat assistant built directly into the platform. It enables customers to ask questions conversationally about link and QR code performance. Weekly Insights highlights meaningful changes in link and QR code activity, identifying patterns across referrers, geographies, and devices.

Durable launches Discoverability for AI search. Durable, an AI business builder, has launched Discoverability, a feature that helps businesses get found on generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity. According to Durable, Discoverability provides (i) a single measure of how findable a business is across all online channels, (ii) guided suggestions to improve results over time, and (iii) rankings against competitors in genAI visibility.

Goflow introduces Order-Level P&L for real-time profit tracking. Goflow, a multichannel operating system for Amazon-first merchants, has launched Order-Level P&L for real-time profit tracking across orders, analytics, and reporting. The new feature estimates margins using inputs such as inventory batch costs and shipping rates. Each value is labeled by source, ensuring transparency between actual and estimated figures. By making profit and margin visible at the order, SKU, and channel level, sellers can identify issues quickly, per Goflow.

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BitRail launches merchant payment suite to help eliminate fees. Fintech company BitRail has announced an expanded suite of merchant payment services in partnership with Payment Lock, an enterprise security and payment processing platform. These tools build on BitRail’s core platform, which gives merchants branded checkout, branded digital wallets, and branded payment infrastructure. The features include compliant pricing for cash and credit, checkout and pay-now buttons, API integration, customer card vault, and reporting.

BQool brings Amazon AI advertising solutions to growing brands. BQool, a platform for Amazon sellers to automate operations, has announced the availability of its AI-powered advertising feature, designed to simplify campaign management and improve performance. The feature provides a one-click system that continuously analyzes large volumes of data, automates repetitive advertising tasks, and optimizes campaigns. The feature includes “auto-harvesting,” which identifies and adds high-performing keywords, and enables sellers to adopt intelligent automation while maintaining control and visibility, per BQool.

SDLC Corp launches free Odoo-WooCommerce connector. SDLC Corp, a technology integration provider, has launched a free connector that enables data synchronization between WooCommerce storefronts and Odoo back-office systems. According to SDLC Corp, the connector includes features to support day-to-day performance, including webhook-based event processing, scheduled jobs for inventory and catalog synchronization, configurable field mapping inside Odoo, and centralized logging with error-handling capabilities — all across single- and multi-store environments.

Criteo expands its Go self-service ad platforms to SMBs. Criteo, an advertising retargeting platform, has expanded its Go self-service ad tool with full access for small and midsize businesses. Criteo Go unifies display, video, native, and social within a single campaign environment. The platform optimizes spend, while built-in genAI creative tools produce and adapt ad formats, including video, to maintain consistent messaging across channels. Advertisers can create an account, enter billing details, and launch campaigns in as few as five clicks, according to Criteo.

Criteo Go