ChannelUnity - Multichannel Marketplace Management

We provide high-level marketplace integrations for all sizes of eCommerce business, to control multichannel sales through our order management system.

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AI Search Evolution: Google is now adding AI performance insights directly into the Merchant Center dashboard. Retailers can track their share of voice across AI Overviews and Gemini, moving AI search optimization from an "SEO hunch" to a measurable, data-driven metric

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Walmart is turning its physical store footprint into a competitive advantage. With ecommerce growth tied to store density, 36% of US store-fulfilled delivery orders are now arriving in under three hours: challenging Amazon with a locally-integrated fulfillment machine

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TikTok Shop is tightening its live commerce standards in the U.S. by banning AI-generated voices, prerecorded audio, and static-image formats. The platform is doubling down on "authentic" human interaction, prioritizing trust and real-time engagement to sustain its growth

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eBay Germany is shifting its fee structure starting July 1, 2026. By lowering fees on used/refurbished goods to 5% while increasing rates for certain new items, eBay is clearly incentivizing recommerce and specific focus categories over general new goods

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Amazon Prime Day 2026 is moving to late June (23rd–26th) and extending to four days. With the earlier timing and longer window, sellers should align inventory, ad budgets, and fulfillment planning immediately to avoid getting caught out in July

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Amazon Web Services launched the Agentic Shopping Assistant, an offering that licenses Amazon's AI shopping features—like search and product comparison—to third-party retailers for use on their independent online stores. #AIinEcommerce #AWS

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DHL eCommerce signed a $10 billion exclusive multi-year contract with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to manage its last-mile parcel delivery in the U.S., leveraging DHL's network for pickup and sortation before handing off to USPS. #Logistics #USPS

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Motorola was caught briefly routing users on some of its phones through an affiliate tracking link before opening the Amazon Shopping app, which inserted a new affiliate code and hijacked commissions from other Amazon Associates. #AmazonAssociates #AffiliateFraud

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eBay is testing a "Managed Shipping" model for certain low-cost US listings, where eBay sets the shipping rate and provides prepaid labels, thereby replacing the seller's choice over the final-mile carrier. #eBay #Marketplaces

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Amazon is facing a "Subscribe & Switch" class-action lawsuit over its Subscribe & Save program, alleging it lured customers with initial discounts before raising prices that ended up higher than third-party sellers' prices. #Amazon #Ecommerce

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TikTok Shop goes live in Belgium, Netherlands, Poland and Austria on 15 June. Over 100K EU businesses are already on the platform with triple-digit GMV growth. If you sell in Europe and you're not on TikTok Shop yet, the clock is ticking.

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https://t.co/LSNr4PcIpi is reportedly eyeing a £2bn bid for The Very Group. Owning Very and Littlewoods means instant access to UK retail, payments and millions of credit customers — a powerful foothold for its European logistics push.

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Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol is now open to every developer. Any app, content platform or AI agent can tap into millions of Shopify merchants and billions of products through one protocol. Your catalog just became infrastructure.

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Google just dropped Universal Cart at I/O 2026. One cart across Search, Gemini, YouTube and Gmail. Add items wherever you are, check out once. For sellers, this is the multi-touchpoint journey made frictionless — and it runs on Google's AI rails.

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Temu's US traffic has bounced back from the tariff shock. But the visits returning doesn't mean the old China-direct economics have. The audience came back — the margins didn't. That's a very different recovery.

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Amazon is consolidating its smart shopping efforts by sunsetting the Rufus chatbot and launching Alexa for Shopping, an AI agent that taps into user history for a personalized and cohesive experience across all Amazon devices

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Fast-fashion platform Shein acquired the D2C brand Everlane for $100 million, a move that highlights how a reliance on purpose-driven branding is struggling against the need for operational scale. Everlane had faced roughly $90 million in outstanding debt

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eBay is handing sellers more control via its May update, including an Issue Resolution Center and a Regulatory Compliance Support page. The platform is formalizing the complex operational layers (listings, compliance, ads) that sellers must manage

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Amazon’s third-party seller unit share dropped to 60% in Q1 2026, marking the first back-to-back decline since 2004. The shift is partly attributed to Amazon’s 1P grocery push, where fresh items dominate Same-Day orders

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Walmart’s Q1 e-commerce sales grew over 26%, driven by making stores function as multi-purpose hubs for selling, fulfillment, and local Marketplace assortment. Over 36% of its U.S. store-fulfilled orders now arrive in under three hours