M Ryan

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M Ryan is an ecommerce consultant with twenty years experience working with retailers, consumer brand manufacturers and other consumer-facing businesses helping them to develop their ecommerce strategy, implement ecommerce technology and improve their ecommerce operations. He works extensively throughout US and Europe, with clients including global brands, large retailers and household names in consumer goods.

Is Shopify an order management system?

Shopify is an ecommerce platform, a tool that a business can use to build its online store. Shopify is also the name of the Canadian company that has built and provides this tool to merchants worldwide for a fee. Read More : What exactly does…

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Shopify reports $2.9bn full year results 2020

February 17th, 2021. Shopify (NYSE : SHOP) has released its 2020 Q4 and full year financial results, with a staggering $977.7m revenue in Q4, up 94% from Q4 2019, for a 2020 total revenue of $2,929.5m, up 86% on 2019. Its customers transacted $41.1bn through…

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News - Salesforce adds Payments service to Commerce Cloud

February 16th, 2021. Salesforce, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist in the "Dominant" category, has announced its Spring '21 release includes a new Payments service, offering a pre-integrated payment service. Once implemented in a Salesforce B2C Commerce Cloud webstore, the new Commerce Cloud Payments…

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Major eCommerce Platforms Compared (2021)

The following shortlist of ecommerce platforms is a result of the five to ten ecommerce software selection projects I run each year for clients. It is a good starting point when considering what ecommerce platform might be the best choice for you. This shortlist includes…

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News - VTEX acquires Workarea and WebLinc

February 10th, 2021. VTEX, the São Paulo-based B2C, B2B and marketplace ecommerce platform vendor, has announced the acquisition of Workarea, owners of the Philadelphia, PA-based WebLinc Commerce platform which itself is a B2C ecommerce platform, with emerging B2B capability, with an open source core. The…

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News - novomind announces Focus Discount AG as new customer win

February 10th, 2021. novomind has announced Basel, Switzerland-based Focus Discount AG as a new customer win for its novomind iSHOP ecommerce platform and novomind iPIM product information management system. The current ecommerce store of Focus Discount is at https://www.focusshop.ch/ and the go live of the…

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News - Ferguson has selected multiple Salesforce platforms

February 8th, 2021. Salesforce has announced that Ferguson, the $21.8bn revenue US-based, but London Stock Exchange-listed, distributor of plumbing and HVAC equipment and supplies, has selected multiple of its platforms to power an upcoming digital transformation program. The selected platforms include Salesforce Sales Cloud, Salesforce…

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