Recent Articles
Sales Tax Regulations Challenged in US Supreme Court
US supreme court is challenging tax regulations made by how eCommerce companies handle sales tax.
Thoughts on Selling to Generation Z
If we thought we couldn't understand Millennials and their shopping habits, Generation Z came along and made this even harder to comprehend.
Meet the eCommerce Doctor
We're proud to announce that the doctor is in! The eCommerce doctor is here to answer all your questions and fix all your ailments that you may have in your eCommerce business. The doctor wants to listen to your problems and wants to help you resolve these issues. Possibly will need to prescribe you something so that way you can make sure you don't have to deal with the issue every again. The doctor is in and the doctor is here to help. To schedule your appointment with the eCommerce doctor, click here. Please note, if you are a customer and have any general support questions please contact support.
2018 eCommerce Trend
The past year saw tremendous growth for eTailers and continued disruption for traditional brick and mortar retailers, the question now is what lies ahead for eCommerce in 2018? Like you we have been reading stories with predictions for eCommerce in the upcoming year and would like to present what we think are the themes and questions we all should be following: Growth in Mobile Sales Consumers demonstrated ever growing confidence in shopping on their Mobile devices in 2017 with sales increasing 44% during the key Thanksgiving sales week alone. Will this trend continue in 2018? That seems a very safe bet as experts predict that our increasingly active society will turn away from desktop computers and to Mobile devices for their shopping in even greater numbers in 2018 The challenge for eTailers will be to provide a better, faster and unified shopping experience across every device their customers use to make it easy for shoppers to move from device to device while still maintaining a sense of brand loyalty. What will Amazon do? Well that is more question than prediction.
Recapping the 2017 Holiday Season
The holiday season has come and gone. Putting away your decorations, while getting yourself back to basics is quite important. Now with 2018 in full swing, it’s a great time to reflect on what was. In a new article written by Digital Commerce 360, we learned that eCommerce sales increased 18.1% from November 1 through Christmas Eve 2017. With how easy it was to shop, it also made it a lot easier to return products as well. UPS reports, that during the month of December, roughly 1 million packages a day were returned to retailers. This trend is looking to continue through the beginning parts of January. January 3, UPS National Returns Day, roughly 1.4 million packages are expected to be returned. We will share more of these stats and more information on January 11, during our Holiday 2017 Recap webinar.
Happy Holidays From Freestyle Solutions
We here at Freestyle Solutions want to wish you a happy and safe holiday and New Years!