I’d love to learn a little about e-comm and the various approaches and options - but I don’t really know where to start. I learn well through video - can you recommend any solid resources that will teach me the basics like different types of ecomm I could explore? I’d like some really practical guides that talk in very real terms, if possible.
*please ignore the stupid typo in the subject line!
I’m running creative testing for a few products on Meta and TikTok. I’ve been doing my work in Canva, and it feels like I’m doing more manual work than I should be given all of the AI tools that are out there.
Canva’s bulk create limits what I can test. It’s great for swapping text and images, but you can’t easily change background or angles. I’ve tried building a workflow that automates this using some of the big image models, but the image quality is never good enough.
Online return rates are often quoted around 20%, but that average hides a lot. Apparel and shoes can run 30% or more because of sizing, while consumables and low-priced items sit far lower. Each return usually costs more than the refund too, between return shipping, handling, and items that can’t be resold.
What’s your rate, and which change made the biggest difference?
Feels like every tool eventually starts charging you per label on top of the postage. At our volume its adding up quick and getting way to expensive.
Is there anything left that doesn’t do that or is that just how it is now?
We’re doing a few hundred orders a month and ShipStation’s pricing is starting to feel steep once you factor in everything. Looking for something that still has good Shopify integration and rate shopping but doesn’t scale the fees as aggressively.
What are people switching to?
For ecommerce teams managing larger catalogs, I’m curious where the breaking point usually is.
At what point does checking price, stock, variants, feeds and other customer-facing product data stop being manageable with normal ecommerce workflows?
Is it mostly driven by SKU count, how often prices/stock change, number of markets/channels, or something else?
I’d be especially interested in hearing from teams managing 500+ active SKUs.
How are you guys making decisions about how much discount to put on products, how do you plan supply / item velocity, how do you decide about your marketing spend and mix?
At my previous employer we had data scientists for this, now that I started my own business I don’t have this. I tried to ask claude, but the answers just look made up.
In the day and age of AI being everywhere there must be a way to do what a data scientist does without hiring data scientist right?
EDIT: on r/askdatascience someone recommended a tool called Qombra, looks like what I was l looking for, trying that now...
Hey guys,
Could you review my site?
I'm honestly and genuinely wondering why so many people have come so close by either adding to the cart or buying now but never actually pulling the trigger. There are over 200 easy, and it really hurts because not only do I need the money but nobody has bought anything yet. I have had success selling my books on Amazon which is good and I already know that selling an audiobook on my site is a little harder of a sale than an Amazon sale, but I'm genuinely curious as to why there are just so many people that have come so close but never have actually bought something.
I know the code works and I had recently went through and updated the checkout to, instead of having the stripe embedded cart, having my own branded checkout that still implements the stripe API. I have made a few successful purchases and I know the site works but I guess I'm just wondering why?
And it's so crazy to me because I have all of my socials linked up and everything so I'm just truly kind of lost right now.
Oh well! Even if I never sell anything on my website, which would be so sad considering how much work I've spent on it and the apps that go along with it, I still will always feel grateful, joyful, and peaceful, for I know what I'm doing is noble.
There must be a disconnect somewhere and I wish I knew where. I even put a feedback button at the top of my site by the hamburger menu so that I could get some type of feedback but no one uses it. Lol, sometimes I wonder if there are just people messing with me, which is stupid to think about, but who knows, or if there are bots that act like they're going to buy but don't.
🤣🤣🤣 Either way, I'll be fine. Google ads is about to dry up their free credit, so I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure that traffic will halt soon on top of it all. 🤣🤣🤣
Soon word of mouth will get out. Not worried.
Hi redditors! I came across something completely WTF on Instagram this week.
It's the account of a young woman with Down syndrome who sews dresses, and the work is seriously impressive.
She posts videos of herself at the machine, it all looks super realistic and super clean, and she sends everyone to her store. Hundreds of thousands of followers.
Except she doesn't exist. Neither do the dresses, at least not the handmade part.
I dug a bit and she's fully AI generated, the dresses are dropshipped, and once you start looking you find tons of accounts like this. AFP already looked into it back in June, and it's blowing up.
To me it's completely out of line and I'm not telling anyone to do this. But it does show how hard AI can hit ecommerce, and I think there's still room for brands to stand out with it without treating people like idiots.
No idea where the line's going to sit for the rest of us using AI in our stores, so I'd love to hear where you'd draw it.
I’ve noticed people get weird when the payment page suddenly looks like it belongs to a different company. Feels less trustworthy. Some platforms keep the whole flow looking like your event, others redirect hard.
Eventbrite, Cvent, and Eventify all handle this differently from what I’ve seen.
Has the look of the checkout page ever clearly affected your completion numbers?