Best eCommerce Payment Gateways South Africa
One of the most crucial parts of your online store is the payment gateway. It ensures your store runs like a well-oiled machine, facilitating payments between consumers and businesses across all economic sectors. A payment gateway's job is to securely validate the customer's payment details, ensuring that funds are available in order to allow...
Tiktok and Fast Fashion. The next wave of social selling
Tiktok continues to dominate the social media space with growth across all metrics. The short-form video app now has over 1 billion users, doubling its user base in the past twelve months. The bulk of this is made up of teenagers. TikTok's growth was not isolated to only users. Its revenue grew by over 70% to almost...
How Smartphones Are Changing the eCommerce Industry
Smartphones have come a long way from gadgets that are used to call and text. Today's mobile devices resemble fully-fledged computers that can do everything — from create spreadsheets and facilitate virtual meetings, to shoot films and book flights. Because of new developments in smartphones, this has since paved the way for other industries to innovate too...
Link in Bio Tool Linkpop Launched by Shopify
Shopify continues to expand its add-on services to users with a new tool called Linkpop. The new service allows social media influencers, creators, and store owners to sell their products through their own Linkpop page. Credit Shopify Linkpop also allows users to include links to content like blog posts or...
TikTok Rolling Out Search Ads For Specific Partners
The social media platform recently started testing ads in search results, with a full roll-out not far off. Store owners are always looking for new ways to reach customers. Tiktok is currently the hottest social media platform, with staggering growth over the past year. The social media app has over one billion active users...
New TikTok eCommerce Features – Order Center & Shopping Ads
Starting out as a simple entertainment app, TikTok quickly took over the world and saw the opportunity to evolve its platform. First testing the waters with product discovery features, the app is now on its way to becoming a full-blown eCommerce engine. One of their latest announcements furthers this push - with two new eCommerce features putting...
Shopify Editions Summer ’22 100+ New Updates & Features
Shopify is celebrating the summer season with over 100 new exciting features to its platform. In the latest Shopify Editions ( The company's bi-yearly spectacle of what they've been working on ), Shopify proves they have been hard at work during the first half of 2022. These new features include Shopify Audiences, NFTs, tap-to-pay, Twitter shopping, native...
YouTube Introduces Official Shopify Integration
Last week, YouTube dropped some pretty exciting eCommerce news on their official blog. This unexpected announcement shows that the video platform has been working closely with Shopify, teaming up to allow creators to utilize the creative outlet to sell their Shopify products. This news was well received, as Shopify shares shot up by around...
Instagram Enhanced Product Tags Roll Out To All Users in the USA
Instagram Enhanced Product Tags Roll Out To All Users in the USA Instagram becomes more shoppable with the availability of the new Product Tags Feature. Instagram announced the roll-out of its product tag feature to all US-based users. The feature allows users to tag products in their posts and was only...
Top 11 Shopify Apps in 2022
Managing an online store is no easy task. There's a ton to keep track of, including orders, email marketing, speed optimization, and much more. Shopify's App Store is loaded full of powerful options to help you manage your store, but the sheer quantity of options can be overwhelming when you're first starting out.
