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How to integrate with eCommerce delivery and shipment carriers: DHL, FedEx, UK Royal Mail, UPS, USPS, Canada Post, Amazon

Altexsoft

Global delivery and logistics providers like DHL, FedEx, UPS, USPS, and more have free integrated solutions (except for Amazon, which we’ll cover later) to help online stores automate the shipping process domestically and internationally. Delivery services for eCommerce. Convenience and speed are two factors of a customer-first policy.

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ShopThing raises $10M to scale its live video shopping marketplace

TechCrunch

Checkout is completed through the ShopThing app and products are shipped to customers in 1-3 weeks via Canada Post or USPS. Once a customer makes a purchase, ShopThing fulfills the order. ShopThing charges a 20% fee to account for the shopping service, along with the purchase and shipment processes. Image Credits: ShopThing.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Holiday marketing tips, low-cost NFTs, SaaS sprawl study

TechCrunch

Boston-based VC firm OpenView interviewed nearly 600 SaaS companies for its annual pricing survey and the results are in: Automation is taking usage-based pricing (USP) mainstream. Last year, 34% of survey respondents said they were using a flexible pricing model. This year, that figure rose to 45%.

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How technology unlocks business models: The story of Netflix

TechCrunch

The CD, sent by USPS in a greeting card envelope, arrived safely the next day. So that’s what we did,” Marc Randolph , Netflix’s co-founder and original CEO, That crazy idea was to send a CD through the mail to learn whether the concept of a mail-order DVD subscription service was practical.

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10+ Ecommerce Mistakes Every Owner Make When Selling Online

Xicom

Starting an ecommerce store is amazing! But, here’s the actual thing: The Ecommerce Industry Is Not All Rainbows And Unicorns. But, before we step ahead, if you are skirting the edge of starting an ecommerce venture, forget the rewards coming with it. Mistake 1 – Redefining The Buzzword.

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Curtsy, a clothing resale app aimed at Gen Z women, raises $11 million Series A

TechCrunch

Curtsy also helps sellers to schedule a free USPS pickup to save a trip to the post office, and it will even send sellers a shipping label, if need be. As they need more supplies, the cost of those is built into the selling flow, so you don’t have to explicitly pay for it — it’s just deducted from your earnings.

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How To Integrate the Stripe Payment Gateway Into a React Native Application

Dzone - DevOps

This feature is a must-have in finance and eCommerce applications, but most other apps, even social media apps, are now offering this feature as a USP. The payment functionality has become a crucial component in app development these days as the facility of in-app payments is a standard expectation of modern-day app users.

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