Groundbreaking, innovative, trailblazing — these aren’t the type of adjectives you would think of to describe the typical shopping cart that gets pushed around physical stores. In fact, most of them look pretty similar from store to store. But, then again, you probably haven’t seen...
Online grocery delivery service Instacart could soon be facing a boycott from shoppers over a decision to eliminate tips in exchange for a raise in the guaranteed delivery rate, according to TechCrunch. The change, which is slated to begin in mid-October, could reduce some Instacart shoppers’...
Paddle, a B2B startup, wants to make its niche by selling SaaS eCommerce services to other SaaS startups to help them scale easier and place the focus on building their core products, or as Paddle itself likes to put it, its solution is a “platform for software...
Amazon is winning. Or, at least, that certainly appears to be the case when it comes to its exclusive Amazon Prime membership club. A new report released by Cowen and Company this week estimates that Amazon’s 49 million Prime members are worth an estimated $143...
While keeping customer email addresses is fairly common practice, Square wants to help its partners do that service one better by allowing customers who frequent the place to pay with the information from cards they have already used. No card required. To make this feat...
Linked2pay, the platform provider of Bank Centric Payments, announced on Wednesday (Sept. 21) that it has added automated merchant approval and onboarding to its service. In a press release, the company said that it removed a barrier for acquirers and ISOs by simplifying the option to add ACH and...
Vroom wants to disrupt the used car market and has raised $50 million in a Series E round of funding to do just that, according to TechCrunch. That brings Vroom’s total capital raised to $218 million. Vroom started in 2013 as an easy way for...
The payments industry is a fairly large pie, but the way things are currently set up is skewed to favor larger vendors and businesses — a $4 trillion industry in the U.S. alone. Of that $4 trillion pie, the U.S.’s 7.2 million small businesses make up...
Data released from the U.S. Department of Commerce on Thursday (Sept. 15) revealed that the eCommerce market took a small dip in sales during the third quarter. Though the Q3 figures showed online sales have grown 10.9 percent in August, which is a healthy gain...