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March 17, 2020

COVID-19: Strategies to Help Your E-Comm Survive

The coronavirus will have an impact on brick and mortar retail, as well as on digital commerce. Sellers, companies, and retailers need to focus on getting their businesses operating as efficiently as possible. Here are strategies to leverage in the face of the COVID-19 crisis to help your online business weather the storm. There are many different impacts from COVID-19: Economic fundamentals of supply and demand are in play that will be difficult to influence — If you are overly dependent upon a single retailer or online channel there may be a significant risk for your business. The second impact is the major restrictions on public interactions — including work-from-home initiatives and canceled sporting and social events…

March 17, 2020 Hinge Commerce

March 17, 2020

COVID-19: Impact on FBA and Vendor Central Orders

This shares the impact of COVID-19 on FBA as well as Amazon Vendor orders. For products that are Fulfill By Amazon (FBA) : Amazon has just announced that they are temporarily prioritizing products coming into their fulfillment centers. As the COVID-19 crisis has escalated, there has been an increase in online shopping on Amazon. As a result, some products, such as household staples and medical supplies, are out-of-stock. With this in mind, Amazon is temporarily prioritizing household staples, medical supplies, and other high-demand products coming into their fulfillment centers so that they can more quickly receive, restock, and deliver these products to customers. The specific list of categories that are being prioritized by Amazon includes: baby care, health and household…

March 17, 2020 Hinge Commerce

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February 26, 2020

Amazon Announces US FBA & Referral Fee Changes for 2020

From Amazon, “Driven by FREE One-Day Delivery, this was the largest one-year investment we have ever made in FBA. Nevertheless, in 2020, we will make only moderate increases (about 3%) in fulfillment fees, below industry average, because we remain committed to your continued success. We will also decrease select referral fees and introduce an exciting new selection program.”

February 26, 2020 Hinge Commerce

February 18, 2020

“ARA Premium” is Renamed “Amazon Brand Analytics”

Effective April 2020, Amazon vendors will need brand registry to have access to Brand Analytics. Learn more in this article.

February 18, 2020 Hinge Commerce

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January 30, 2020

Gear Up For Tax Season!

If you are like most people, thinking about tax paperwork may fill you with dread. For online sellers on marketplaces like Amazon, Walmart.com, and even your own e-commerce sites, calculating and filing sales tax can be overwhelming. This article provides some basic tips to help you start to tackle your sales taxes for your digital commerce business. Determine where you have a sales tax nexus. This is a function of your physical business locations, personnel locations, and inventory warehouse locations. Determine where you have economic nexus. Even if you do not have a physical presence in a state, if you pass the economic threshold for total revenue or transactions in a state, you are legally required to collect and remit sales tax to that…

January 30, 2020 Hinge Commerce

January 28, 2020

Automated Bidding and AMS Software Platform

HINGE COMMERCE is always looking for improvements in technology and automation to improve ROI for our clients. Read about our latest offering that can help your brand’s marketing.

January 28, 2020 Hinge Commerce

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December 10, 2019

Amazon B2B: Everything Your Business Needs to Know

Amazon Business can prove to be a fruitful alternative platform to sell your large, bulk quantities of products on. The B2B platform has a few additional functionalities that are not available through dot-com, so our HINGE COMMERCE experts have put together everything you need to know about Amazon B2B.

December 10, 2019 Hinge Commerce