Keep Prices Out of the Model: A Rate-Freshness Guard for Jewellery WhatsApp Assistants
A WhatsApp assistant for an Indian jewellery store will be asked about prices constantly. Today's rate, making charges, the cost of a design in a gi…
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A TikTok Shop API for public product data: price, units sold and stock per SKU as JSON
Disclosure: I build TubeText . This post uses our TikTok Shop Actor on Apify. The numbers below are from a run I did today. If you search for a "Tik…
The Hidden Math of Etsy: Why I Ditched Spreadsheets for Code
I remember staring at my bank account after my first big month selling handmade candles on Etsy. I had made dozens of sales, but the deposit was way…
398 of 692 Products Were Published in One Afternoon. Zero Were Created in 90 Days
I run a visa agency in Bali. The other half of my week goes into Apify Actors, and one of them profiles Shopify stores: you hand it a list of domain…
Group Chats Are Not DMs: Routing Rules for WeChat Customer Service Auto-Reply
E-commerce teams on WeChat answer customers in two different arenas: one-to-one direct messages, and group chats — buyer groups, VIP groups, store a…
Clean Product Cut-Outs: A Practical Guide to Background Removal for Catalogues and Marketplaces
How automatic background removal works Modern background removers use a segmentation model , a neural network trained to decide which pixels belong…
AI Chatbot Order Status: Cutting WISMO for Small Shops
"Where is my order" is the highest-volume, lowest-risk question a small shop gets. Here is what a WISMO agent needs, the three answers that cover mo…
Building a Google Merchant Center MCP server: what the Merchant API doesn't tell you
I run GSC Wizard , an SEO tool with an MCP server that already exposed Search Console and GA4 to Claude and ChatGPT. This month I added Google Merch…
Modelling Medical Device Size Variants as SKUs: A Ureteral Stent Example
Medical device catalogues have a recurring design problem: one product, many size variants. A ureteral stent might come in six diameters, a dozen le…
I Looked at Countdown Timers as a Shopper and a Web Developer
I noticed something about the way I shop online: when a website tells me an offer is about to expire, I suddenly feel like I need to make a decision…
Selling downloads from a short video: turning TikTok and Reels viewers into delivered files
A short video is the harshest sales channel a download seller will ever use. There is no search intent, no browsing, and no second chance at a first…
Accessible digital downloads: sell files everyone can actually open, read, and use
A digital download has exactly one job: arrive in a form the buyer can actually use. When it does not — the PDF is a scanned picture of text, the vi…
Selling downloads across borders: a field guide for buyers who are never in your time zone
A domestic sale is forgiving. If delivery hiccups, you are probably awake, probably online, and able to fix it before the buyer loses patience. An o…
Selling in drops: a countdown runbook for seasonal and limited-edition downloads
Most digital products are sold like tap water: always on, bought whenever. A drop is the opposite. The product exists for a window — a holiday colle…
Selling the same digital product on multiple storefronts without delivery chaos
Plenty of sellers do not choose to sell on multiple storefronts. It accumulates. You start on a marketplace because the traffic is there. You add a…
What actually happens in the 60 seconds after a buyer pays for your digital download (and the 7 days after)
A digital download sale looks instant from the seller's side: a notification, a payout pending, done. From the buyer's side it is a chain of about a…
Copy-paste templates: the 6 buyer emails every digital download seller needs (recovery, refunds, license keys, updates)
Most buyer email for a digital download store is not angry. It is confused, a little embarrassed, and written at the moment someone cannot find a fi…
I read 300+ one-star reviews and complaints about digital download tools. These are the failures that actually cost sellers money.
Posted by the FileFreight team. We collect seller complaints about digital-delivery platforms as research — this is what the pile says. Why I read t…
Validating Medical Device Specs in Python: A Stone Basket Example
If you maintain a product catalogue or ERP feed for medical devices, bad specification data is a quiet source of errors. A basket listed with the wr…
5 Hidden Reasons Your WooCommerce Store Is Slow (And How to Fix Them)
Running a slow WooCommerce store isn’t just frustrating—it directly hurts your revenue. Studies show that a single second delay in page load time ca…
The remove.bg API moves to Leonardo.Ai on Dec 1, 2026. Migrate by changing one URL (scripts, Zapier, Make, n8n)
If you have a script, a Shopify workflow or a Zapier/Make/n8n scenario that calls the remove.bg API, put a date in your calendar: remove.bg's API pa…
A Guide to 4 Cheap Hosted Application Logging Clues (Postgres SaaS API)
The cheapest useful logging setup is the one that can reconstruct a bad pricing decision across the API, worker, and cron job. Pick centralized sear…
Building a Consent-Aware Shopify Web Pixel Extension
If you've only ever added tracking to Shopify by pasting a script into theme.liquid , building a Web Pixel extension feels strange the first time. Y…
How Shopee Sellers Can Use Market Data to Pick Winning Products
Most Shopee sellers make product decisions with only half the picture. Shopee Seller Center is great at telling you how your store is doing — your o…
Building an Interactive Excel Dashboard for E-commerce Product Analysis: A Case Study of Jumia Products
Data Cleaning & Preparation Data Cleaning This is the process of finding and fixing mistakes, duplicates, or missing information in a given data…
Transactional SMS Alerts Provider Comparison for US and Europe Pricing
TL;DR: For an e-commerce contact form, pick the SMS provider whose delivery controls match the support team's failure policy, then put destination a…
Your webhook handler was slow, so Shopify sent it again
The server reboots at two on a Saturday morning for a security update, which is what it's supposed to do. The app doesn't come back, because nobody…
How do I track where my product ranks on Naver Shopping (without a Naver login)?
Short answer: search your keyword on Naver from a phone and count — or let a scheduled scraper do it every day. Naver Shopping Rank Tracker checks t…
Rebuilding Shopify's Finances summary from the Admin GraphQL API, line by line
In May 2025 Shopify's admin replaced the printed Financial Summary with an on-screen Finances summary. So I built a page that reproduces it from the…
Quebec's QST does not compound: the tax rule most checkout code gets wrong
Quebec's QST does not compound: the tax rule most checkout code gets wrong Most checkout tax code applies rates one after another, each on the runni…