"Payment reserves are supposed to protect buyers against fraud and make refunds easier to process. But longtime sellers say they’re getting caught in the system." #OnlineStores

#Etsy sellers say a #FraudProtection program is destabilizing their businesses - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/29/23810536/etsy-sellers-payment-reserves-fraud-protection

$9 Mln Funding!!!

In Indonesia, D2C platforms have become a new trend in the e-commerce industry from business-to-consumer platform that has predominated the e-commerce market

Plugo has secured $9 million funding round. Plugo plans to use the proceeds to beef up its R&D team and hire more engineers.

#funding #d2c #startup #onlinestores #paymentintegration #warehousing #endtoend #business #opportunity #logistics #marketing #digital #management #retail #strategy #building #economy

Dear online stores: instead of sorting by highest or lowest price, a much more helpful system would be displaying listings with price between an upper x percentile and lower x percentile. In most cases the midrange is where the price sweet spot is. Sorting by highest gives you way overpriced stuff (especially if it's a second hand store like #ebay), and lowest gives you irrelevant listings, junk not even worth that tiny amount of money, and even outright scams.

#ecommerce #onlinestores #webdev