2024 year in review
We dig a little bit deeper into some of the company store and redemption store metrics from 2024.
eBlox Blog: e-commerce
Should you care about Bitcoin?
A cryptocurrency primer for e-commerce. Tesla announced today that it was buying $1.5 billion in Bitcoin and would soon accept the currency as payment for its vehicles. Both Bitcoin and Tesla seem to have realized some short-term financial benefit from this news (as Mr. Musk no doubt intended), but I’m sure it left a lot […]
ShipStation integration now available
ShipStation integration now available 2020 may be a year to forget in many ways, but we’ve been plugging away at some big changes for 2021 that we’re excited to show you very soon. In the meantime, we’re happy to announce that storeBlox CS now supports ShipStation! Yep, in addition to the roughly six-bajillion shipping options (we […]
How will California’s new privacy law affect you?
How will California’s new privacy law affect you? California’s new Consumer Privacy Act, a law very similar to Europe’s GDPR, is coming next year, and if you sell anything in California, it may affect you. Before we go into the details, please note that we are not attorneys or accountants and nothing here should be […]
Success Story: Using Loyalty Marketing to Build your Brand
Success Story: Using Loyalty Marketing to Build your Brand If you haven’t checked out our loyalty marketing email system yet, we’ve got even more reasons for you to get familiar with it. Loyalty marketing emails allow you to schedule followup emails based on a number of events, like a registration or a purchase. We’ve detailed […]
“Hey, Come Back!” – Cart abandonment, product-specific coupons and more in latest release
“Hey, Come Back!” – Cart abandonment, product-specific coupons and more in latest release One of the most common problems with e-commerce stores is cart abandonment – customers abandon (leave unpurchased) their shopping carts all the time, in staggering numbers. They do this for a variety of reasons; sometimes they change their mind, but often they […]
Sales Tax is About to get Interesting
Sales Tax is About to get Interesting A few months ago, we talked about the big Supreme Court case that could upend the current sales tax regime. The decision came down last week, and as we expected, the court supported a state’s ability to force retailers from other states to collect tax for them. In […]
Sales Tax Goes Back to Court
Sales Tax Goes Back to Court I designed and built my first website in 1996 (yow!), a corporate information brochure hand-coded in HTML. The second or third version of it is still available on Archive.org, proudly proclaiming that it is best viewed with Netscape 2.0. The site looks tiny and strange now, but at the […]
New File Management and Shopping Cart Features
New File Management and Shopping Cart Features We’re excited to announce a couple big “under the hood” upgrades to your storeBlox CS company store. First, we’ve noticed over the years that our customers tend to deal with more and more uploaded files – things like size charts, PDF documents, and other assets that need to be […]
Loyalty Marketing with Reorder Reminders now available
Loyalty Marketing with Reorder Reminders now available Re-order reminders. Followup emails. Surveys. Stay in touch with your customers and create repeat business with our new Loyalty Marketing feature: Loyalty marketing emails allow you to schedule a sequence of automated emails after an important event (either registration or placing an order). Some examples of loyalty marketing emails: […]