We publish a rundown each week of new products from companies offering services to ecommerce merchants. This installment includes updates on AI-powered site-search, shopping assistants, product listings, merchant financing, point-of-sale solutions, cross-border transactions, and warehouse automation.
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New Tools for Merchants
Miva expands ecommerce platform with AI search infrastructure and no-code tools. Miva, an ecommerce software and service provider, has launched Miva 10.12, introducing tools to help ecommerce teams move faster and scale. The update adds platform infrastructure for Vexture, Miva’s AI-powered search engine that uses vector-based technology to interpret shopper intent. Merchants can now create and assign product page designs — a new design control panel helps teams manage fonts, buttons, and page spacing. Also, background tasks are now easier to monitor, prioritize, and troubleshoot.
Miva
eBay launches warranties for open-box goods. eBay is offering a warranty program on open-box products in the Electronics and Home categories. Listings in those categories will automatically display the Certified Open Box badge when they meet key service standards and offer free shipping and returns. Each Certified Open Box item comes with a one-year warranty serviced by Allstate Protection Plans.
New genAI tool helps Amazon sellers improve product listings. Amazon has launched Enhance My Listing, a new genAI tool wherein sellers can automatically maintain and optimize their product listings. The tool generates timely, relevant recommendations for product titles, attributes, descriptions, and missing details. Sellers can review, customize, or decline these suggestions, ensuring that listings reflect their expertise while benefiting from Amazon’s detailed knowledge.
Storfund launches merchant financing on marketplaces via Mirakl Connect. Storfund, an ecommerce cash-flow provider, has announced a new partnership enabling businesses to use its cash-flow solution on the 400 marketplaces powered by Mirakl, an ecommerce software provider. Designed to eliminate the standard delay of 25 days between sale and payout, Storfund’s new Daily Advance pays sellers as soon as they ship their goods. Sellers can apply for cash flow on hundreds of marketplaces at the same time.
Storfund
WooCommerce names Square as preferred POS partner. WooCommerce has named Square as its preferred point-of-sale provider for in-person payments. The strategic partnership enables seamless synchronization of inventory, orders, and customer data across digital and physical retail. Square’s POS integration is available to WooCommerce merchants in eight countries: the U.S., Canada, Australia, Japan, the U.K., France, Spain, and Ireland.
Ebanx integrates UPI recurring payments for cross-border ecommerce in India. Ebanx, a global provider of payment services for emerging markets, has integrated UPI Autopay, the recurring payments feature of India’s instant payments system, Unified Payments Interface, into its cross-border payments platform. With the integration, Ebanx’s global ecommerce merchants in industries such as SaaS, streaming, and other subscription-based businesses can now offer recurring payments to their India-based customers.
Bluecore brings AI shopping assistant Alby to Shopify merchants. Bluecore, a marketing technology company, has expanded Alby, its genAI customer-service agent. Merchants can access Alby through Shopify to power conversational AI shopping unique to their brand and customers. Once activated, the AI agent will learn, make decisions, and act on a brand’s behalf, pulling from product data, brand assets, and the company’s tone of voice to ensure accurate responses.
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Fluent and Rebuy partner on post-purchase advertising for Shopify merchants. Fluent, a provider of commerce media solutions, and Rebuy, an ecommerce personalization platform for Shopify brands, have announced a strategic partnership to launch Rebuy Ads powered by Fluent, designed to help merchants further engage their customers while unlocking additional revenue at no cost. The partnership pairs Fluent’s AI-powered advertiser marketplace and demand-generation expertise with Rebuy’s Shopify integration and partner network.
Shopify updates its Sidekick AI tool. Shopify has updated its AI-powered commerce assistant, Sidekick, with multi-step reasoning. Merchants can ask complex questions, and Sidekick will analyze multiple data sources to pinpoint the issue and make suggestions. Sidekick can now generate custom images based on text prompts to help merchants create visually appealing content for hero banners, marketing materials, and illustrations. Also, Sidekick now supports all 20 admin languages, automatically responding in the language detected.
Uber rolls out Courier XL in India to deliver packages up to 1,650 pounds. Uber has launched Courier XL in India, an expanded service under its logistics arm aimed at transporting packages weighing up to 750 kilograms (1,650 pounds). Initially rolled out in Delhi and Mumbai, the service is part of Uber’s broader strategy to strengthen courier offerings and compete in the large-package delivery space, with plans to expand to more cities in the coming months. Courier XL builds on Uber’s two-wheeler parcel service, Courier.
Robotic warehouse firm Pio expands product lineup. Pio, a warehouse automation provider, has announced its global expansion with a new product lineup. Pio now offers four scalable, modular systems: P100 for businesses with fewer than 10,000 monthly orders; P200 for mid-sized operations; P400 for high volume fulfillment centres; P600 for larger high-capacity warehouses. According to Pio, customers can reduce picking labour costs by up to 80%, and installations take as little as five days.
Pio