My curated rundown this week of new services for merchants includes updates on Reddit ads, email marketing, design tools, conversational shopping, crowdshipping, agentic commerce audits, social media marketing, multichannel listings, agentic AI marketing, and last-mile delivery.<\/p>\n
Got an ecommerce product release? Email updates@practicalecommerce.com.<\/em><\/p>\n Intuit Mailchimp launches Analytics AI and expands data integrations.<\/strong><\/a> Intuit<\/a>\u00a0Mailchimp<\/a> has announced Analytics AI, a conversational agent that connects email and SMS marketing<\/a> performance across campaigns, audiences, and revenue. Analytics AI allows marketers to ask questions in plain language. The agent provides intelligence on what changed, why it changed, and what to do next. Mailchimp also announced expanded integrations with Claude, Wix, and WooCommerce.<\/p>\n Intuit Mailchimp<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Reddit expands Shopify integration to all advertisers.<\/strong><\/a> Reddit<\/a> has opened its Shopify<\/a> integration to global advertisers. Shopify merchants can easily run Reddit Dynamic Product Ads, according to Reddit<\/a>, with quick authorization, a streamlined flow to link the Reddit Ads account to a Shopify storefront, a Reddit pixel, and automated catalog syncing. Once a merchant\u2019s Shopify catalog is connected, product details \u2014 images, pricing, descriptions, quantities \u2014 update automatically.<\/p>\n DHL extends partnership with USPS for last-mile delivery.<\/strong><\/a> DHL eCommerce<\/a> has entered into a multi-year contract with the United States Postal Service<\/a> for last-mile parcel delivery services. DHL says it will handle nationwide pickup, sortation across its 19 hubs, and transport within its air and ground network\u00a0 \u2014 before partnering with USPS to complete the final mile. The USPS<\/a> reaches 41,550 ZIP codes and 170 million delivery points six days a week.<\/p>\n Affirm and Stripe partner on flexible U.K. payments.<\/strong><\/a> Stripe<\/a> and Affirm<\/a> have announced an expanded partnership to bring Affirm\u2019s buy-now pay-later services to Stripe merchants in the U.K. Starting in July, British businesses using Stripe can add Affirm to their online checkout. According to Affirm, the companies are also collaborating on the future of AI-powered commerce, focusing on making payments more seamless and transparent as agentic experiences<\/a> evolve.<\/p>\n Global-e acquires Passport to enhance ecommerce logistics.<\/strong><\/a> Global-e Online<\/a>, a direct-to-consumer ecommerce platform, has agreed to acquire Passport Global<\/a>, a U.S.-based cross-border logistics company. Global-e states the acquisition will strengthen its logistics capabilities by adding advanced standard shipping powered by a multi-carrier network across cross-border, domestic, and last-mile deliveries.<\/p>\n Global-e<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Amazon Web Services launches platform for retailers to build AI-powered shopping experiences.<\/strong><\/a> Amazon Web Services<\/a> has announced an AI retail platform that brings learnings and expertise gained from building Alexa for Shopping<\/a> to retailers outside Amazon, packaged into the agentic shopping<\/a> assistant on AWS. The platform provides a technical foundation with architecture guidance, starter code, and support from AWS experts and system integrator partners, helping merchants launch their own conversational shopping experiences. Each deployment aims to match the retailer\u2019s brand voice and domain expertise.<\/p>\n Shopopop targets U.K. retail partnerships for its crowdshipping model.<\/strong><\/a> Shopopop<\/a>, a France-based crowdshipping platform, has announced plans to launch in the U.K. Shopopop connects retailers with local individuals \u2014 i.e., \u201ccrowdshippers\u201d \u2014 who deliver<\/a> groceries and goods within their communities. The company is targeting a partnership with at least one major U.K. retailer by the end of 2026, with discussions already underway with Asda, Co-op, Kingfisher, Morrisons, and Tesco, per Shopopop.<\/p>\n Taggbox enhances social media widget for businesses.<\/strong><\/a> Taggbox<\/a>, a social media aggregation and user-generated-content platform, has updated its social media widget. According to Taggbox, the widget enables businesses to display social media<\/a> feeds on websites, showcase UGC, highlight customer experiences, and more. The widget also supports content aggregation from leading social media platforms and offers customization capabilities to align social feeds with website branding, layouts, and design preferences, per Taggbox.<\/p>\n Attentive updates its agentic AI marketing platform.<\/strong><\/a> Attentive<\/a>, an omnichannel marketing platform, has released its next-generation agentic AI. Attentive enables brands to identify shoppers, personalize customer experiences<\/a>, and boost performance across SMS, email, RCS<\/a>, and push notifications. The update features Brand Voice 2.0, Reporting Agent, Predictive Analytics, and AI Campaigns.<\/p>\n Attentive<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Selltonomy launches AI Buyability platform for ecommerce merchants.<\/strong><\/a> Selltonomy<\/a> has launched its AI Buyability platform to help merchants assess whether AI agents can complete purchases on their storefronts<\/a>. Selltonomy audits storefront infrastructure and identifies hidden technical glitches that can interfere with AI-assisted purchases, including structured data inconsistencies, conflicting pricing signals, ambiguous inventory states, and checkout friction. Selltonomy is platform-agnostic and supports Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento, Wix, Squarespace, and custom stacks.<\/p>\n PixExact launches AI design platform for ads, flyers, banners.<\/strong><\/a> PixExact<\/a>, an AI design platform, has announced the expansion of its AI Flyer Generator and ecommerce visual workflow, providing businesses, marketers, and creators with a faster way<\/a> to produce exact-size marketing assets for campaigns. The platform helps users create flyers, ecommerce banners, product campaign visuals, social media graphics, and promotional images without traditional design software. Users can define the purpose, style, layout direction, messaging, and dimensions.<\/p>\n Nayax launches AI-powered product discovery for retailers.<\/strong><\/a> Nayax<\/a>, a payments platform, has launched product discovery<\/a> and personalization capabilities, enabling retailers to utilize real-time data and intelligent recommendations. The capabilities leverage shoppers\u2019 data across points of sale, ecommerce, and marketing engagement systems \u2014 to AI-powered visual and text search, product recommendations, and cross-platform solutions to Nayax\u2019s retail platform.<\/p>\n SumUp launches online booking service for U.S. small businesses.<\/strong><\/a> SumUp<\/a>, a global financial technology company, has launched SumUp Bookings<\/a>, an all-in-one online scheduling and appointment booking tool for U.S. service-based businesses. Integrated directly into the SumUp ecosystem, Bookings lets merchants manage appointments, automate confirmations and reminders, and accept payments \u2014 all from one platform. The SumUp\u2019s products include Terminal, POS Lite<\/a>, Card Readers, and Invoicing.<\/p>\n SumUp Bookings<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Goflow launches eBay listing tool.<\/strong><\/a> Goflow<\/a>, a multichannel ecommerce operating system, has launched eBay<\/a> Listing Publisher, a feature within Goflow Catalog Publishing that allows sellers to create listings<\/a> from product data<\/a> stored in their Goflow catalog. Goflow says the release expands its catalog publishing capabilities for eBay, adding to a framework for Amazon, Shopify, Target, Walmart, Shein, and Nocnoc.<\/p>\n SourceHound launches AI-powered sourcing platform.<\/strong><\/a> SourceHound<\/a>\u2018s new platform helps merchants, resellers, and collectors identify profitable inventory<\/a> opportunities. The platform combines live marketplace monitoring, resale intelligence, and margin analysis into a single workflow to source vintage media, luxury goods, collectibles, high-demand pre-owned items, and more. Per SourceHound, the platform surfaces inventory opportunities based on user-defined criteria, historical resale trends, estimated margins, and marketplace demand signals.<\/p>\n Sellyze.ai launches marketplace-agnostic product intelligence tools.<\/strong><\/a> Sellyze.ai<\/a> has launched a research tool to turn competitor reviews into product blueprints<\/a>. Designed to eliminate the guesswork of product development, Sellyze.ai reads, classifies, and interprets thousands of data points to tell sellers what to build and how to source it. Sellyze says users paste a product link into the platform, and its engine extracts up to 5,000 recent and historical customer reviews.<\/p>\n Alibaba International\u2019s Pic Copilot partners with Google Ads.<\/a><\/strong> Pic Copilot<\/a>, an AI-powered creative platform from Alibaba International<\/a>, has integrated with Google Ads<\/a>, enabling ecommerce operators to create and launch on-platform Google display ads<\/a>. Pic Copilot provides one-click AI applications to drive ecommerce, including video for social content, and a product page design generator to create storefront visuals. Pic Copilot says it leverages Alibaba International<\/a>\u2018s ecosystem to train its AI on real-world scenarios.<\/p>\nNew Tools for Merchants<\/h3>\n
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