Editorial Team, Author at E-commerce Germany News

Challenges and Opportunities in B2B E-Commerce

The launch of a B2B online shop is not always crowned by the desired degree of success: all too often, important issues are paid little or no attention during the projecting process. In this guest article Mirco Rennich, Product Owner E-Commerce and Tobias Kunitz, Senior Consultant & Sales Representative at COMPRA GmbH, show you what you should take into account when choosing a suitable shop system and how you can…

How Residential Proxies Are Useful For Businesses

Residential proxies are great tools that can be used to improve the effectiveness of businesses through profitable online activities. Think about instances when you want to obtain or verify some data online to benefit your business. There are possibilities that the data from some websites might be fed with fake information without your knowledge. Websites are now personalizing the content they display to their visitors based on visitors’: IP addressesGeographical…

An outlook on e-commerce logistics – What industry changes can we expect in 2022?

The pandemic has made a huge impact on our everyday lives in multiple aspects. In business, we have seen some industries thriving while others have fallen. E-commerce and third-party logistic services are however predicted to have a bright outlook! One industry that has gained a real boost is e-commerce and therefore the need for e-commerce logistic services. The latest restrictions have rapidly sped up online retail and direct-to-consumer (D2C) business…

Why online payments fail and how to avoid it?

Merchants and their clients experience online payments failing everyday. It is mutually annoying. Buyers spend time and effort to enter their payment details, for the payment just to be declined. When it happens, buyers have a second chance to re-think their buying decision. Let’s face it, no merchant wants their clients to think twice about purchasing. Also, when a payment fails it might damage the reputation of an ecommerce site…

Made-to-order: Understanding consumer behaviour to drive effective personalisation in retail

Discounts and coupons, though effective, do very little to nudge consumers to buy from you instead of your competitors. As consumers transition towards online shopping, their expectations from a virtual shopping experience has grown beyond the “10% Discount” coupon codes. A recent survey-based report commissioned by MoEngage brought forth a central theme in terms of consumer expectations from retail brands. 27% of the survey respondents said “Irrelevant products or content”…

What opportunities does a Dutch e-commerce merger bring to the German market?

Two major specialists now control the lion’s share of the Dutch e-commerce hosting market: European tech powerhouse team.blue has acquired e-commerce hosting specialist Hipex to be joining forces with Hypernode. Together, they form the e-commerce unit of team.blue. The union between two heavily competing companies is certain to bring some interesting developments to the international market – but in what form? The Dutch e-commerce market: weaving around the giants The…

Goodbye distance selling thresholds – Hello OSS: What will change for almost all European online merchants as of July 1st

On July 1st, Europe’s largest VAT reform will be implemented and the so-called One-Stop-Stop (OSS) will be launched throughout the EU. The goal behind it: This reform is intended to help simplify cross-border online trade in Europe and adapt it to the digital age. In this article we explain what will change for almost every online merchant starting 1 July 2021, and whether the reform will really bring the promised…

Use digitization for automation with the help of PayJoe

goodluz – stock.adobe.com Simplify your e-commerce accounting Digitization meets accounting. Take the chance and become more efficient and save money. Our software solution PayJoe enables proper bookkeeping and automates your processes. There are more and more online retailers who sell their products through their own online shops or marketplaces such as Amazon. Few of them consider the difficulties that this creates in accounting for online retailers or their tax advisors and…

Digitalization in modern FMCG retail with Listex.online

How accurate digital product data helps to optimize and automate logistics, marketing, planogramming, e-commerce retail processes The market of FMCG is huge, and this fact generates a high volume of competition. All market players carefully plan marketing actions and constantly search for technologies that help to optimize the processes, reduce costs, save time and at the same time not lose quality, which is so important at all stages of the…

Top 6 SEO tips for eCommerce websites in 2021

The importance for eCommerce websites to rank at the top of search engines continues to grow. While paid searches can lead to quick success, they are very costly in the long run. This is where search engine optimization (SEO) comes into play: SEO describes measures that help online shops to appear as high as possible when relevant search terms (keywords) are entered on search engines like Google & Co. The…

German retailers can focus on live shopping to increase online sales

A new study of European online shopper behavior shows German retailers can grow their online business by improving live shopping experiences. The Behavior of Online Shoppers Survey 2021 shows German’s are significantly more likely than other Europeans to purchase 1 or more products from a webshop during live shopping. Key findings from the research include: 67% of German shoppers are more likely to use webshops just for searching for products they want…

Where did you get it? On Amazon, of course…

One of 2020’s biggest lessons was that while everyone stayed home, ecommerce celebrated levels of unprecedented success. Amazon certainly was one of the main beneficiaries of the situation, and to examine how the saga continues this year, Neticle analysed the online reputation of Amazon.de. The large ecommerce service had more than 800 thousand public mentions on the German internet during the first four months of 2021, and especially many in…

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