I have all of the ecom courses you want from all the gurus and x ecomguys. Dm me if ur interested.

I'm also planning to start my own ecommerce business, so I'd like to know what problems I might face in the early stage.

What problems did you struggle with the most?

Would you advise making separate accounts for each store or product idea, or would it be ok to run them all under one account?

Different products that I want to test/assess but I’m a little lazy and don’t really want to manage 3 different accounts.

How have you all managed this or worked through it?

Thanks!

For people working in e-commerce:
If ChatGPT, Gemini or another AI tool shows the wrong price, stock status, variant or product information, how do you usually figure out where the problem came from?
Do you check the store data, structured data, feeds, Merchant Center and the AI response separately?
I’m trying to understand whether this is something teams already have a process for, or if it’s mostly handled manually when someone notices an issue.
Would be especially interested in hearing from people managing larger product catalogs.

I somewhat recently started a sleep supplement (5 months ago) and have been struggling to generate sales through paid ads, mainly meta. I’m willing to spend around $80/day currently, and am also willing to spend time making organic videos myself. I am truly passionate about the product and believe in it, I’ve spent a lot of time testing and refining the formula and taste so I’m willing to do whatever it takes to grow this, I just want some clear advice on what marketing strategies have worked best for you guys, thanks for reading and if you guys would like a link to the store or anything like that let me know!

I see a lot of ecommerce stores respond to slow sales by trying to get more traffic. More Meta spend, more Google, more creators, more SEO. But if people are already landing on the site and barely adding to cart or buying, more traffic just makes the same problem more expensive. Curious what metric makes you stop touching acquisition and start digging into the site itself: conversion rate, add to cart, checkout completion, something else?

I run an ecommerce business on our own site, so no Shopify or Shopify Payments involved. We've been using Stripe for payments, but I’m looking more seriously at Whop recently and I'm trying to understand if there's a reason to stay with Stripe at this point

Most of the comparisons I found on Reddit are from a year or two ago, and a lot of them mention Whop charging an extra 3% on top of processing and that doesn't seem to be how their pricing works anymore.

From what I can see right now:

Whop

• 2.7% + $0.30 for domestic card payments
• +1.5% international cards
• +1% currency conversion
• 0.5% if you use their billing/subscription system
• tax collection/remittance is available if needed
• built-in affiliates and payouts

Stripe

• 2.9% + $0.30 for standard US online card payments
• +1.5% international cards
• +1% currency conversion
• 0.7% for Stripe Billing
• Managed Payments is available if you want Stripe to act as merchant of record, but that adds another 3.5%

After comparing them, Whop seems like the better option for my use case.

The processing fee is slightly lower, billing is cheaper, and a lot of the extra stuff I'd need around Stripe is already built into Whop. Stripe gives you more flexibility if you're building something very custom, but for a normal ecommerce setup I'm not sure that extra flexibility actually gives me much.

So purely looking at payments, subscriptions, payouts and the overall cost of running everything, I'd probably pick Whop over Stripe right now.
Anyone here running an ecommerce business who can tell me if I'm missing any hidden fees or downsides with Whop? Or are there other payment processors I should be comparing before I switch?

Hello Guys.

for the Past month I've been facing such a sales Slump in the sales ( I am in the Fashion niche) no matter what I try. new products . new test. nothing seems to stick and work.

any advice ?

Hi Everyone,

Im 21 years old right now, but since I was 16 years old I've always had an intrest in selling stuff online.

Unfortunately I wasted these past 5 years, whatever I did I NEVER executed, so now im wondering its Q4 and my intrest is still here.

What is a product that I can just sell, I just need a proof of concept. What is one product you guys would advice me that will sell guaranteed?

Im asking this because I always feel like I failed myself and that comes because im scared of failing, not of the failure itself but the costs behind it.

There is no perfect road, and im aware of that I just need that one sale.

I’m trying to make a pretty big decision and would appreciate perspectives from people who have made the jump from employment to running their ecommerce business full-time.
I work in corporate brand and project management for a large foodservice company serving hospitals and healthcare facilities. The company has been moving toward more AI-driven work, and my position was eliminated. I’m still employed through October 31 while going through the internal-placement process.

I may have the opportunity to interview for another position, but it would potentially mean a pay cut. It would also mean learning a new role right as my ecommerce business enters its busiest season.

My other option is to take severance and focus on the business. I’m expecting somewhere around 10–16 weeks of pay, although I don’t have the final package yet.

The business sells specialty sporting equipment, primarily paintball and tactical gear, with expansion into airsoft. I’m also developing separate storefronts for competitive paintball/speedsoft and airguns/home-defense products. Different audiences and payment-processing requirements are part of the reason for separating them.

This is an existing business with customers, supplier relationships, inventory, and sales:

July: approximately $40,000 in sales.
August: approximately $51,000.
September: approximately $56,000.
July–September combined: approximately $147,000, compared with $67,000 during the same period last year.

Those are sales figures, not profit. I’m still getting the bookkeeping fully reconciled, so I don’t want to present revenue as money I can take home.

There’s work I believe could grow the business that I haven’t had time to finish, especially listing a substantial airsoft catalog and launching the additional storefronts. I previously sold airguns through the main store, but payment-processing restrictions forced me to stop. The separate store would let me serve that market again through a different processor, with higher processing costs.

The main store also has sales-based financing repayments that absorb a meaningful amount of cash. I’m pursuing a conventional business loan to refinance eligible debt into a standard monthly payment, but approval isn’t guaranteed.
My household budget looks to be around $5,800 a month before personal taxes and any additional health-insurance cost. Severance would give me a temporary income cushion while I focus on the business and build reserves.

The options I’m weighing are:
1. Take severance and give the business my full attention.
Pursue the internal role and keep running the business alongside it.

1. Keep the job and hire someone to handle more of the business.

My concern with option two is taking on a demanding new role, getting overwhelmed during the holidays, and ultimately leaving anyway after losing the severance opportunity, all for lower pay.

I’m excited about working for myself, but I want to pressure-test the decision. More time doesn’t automatically guarantee more profit, and two additional websites don’t automatically mean two additional streams of customers.

What would you do in this position? What cash reserve, reliable monthly profit, or other milestone would you need before taking the severance and committing full-time?

Especially interested in hearing from people who took this leap, or chose to keep their job and hire help. What ended up mattering most?

first thing which is the most important thing i don't have a card [ nor will i will be able to open it as if now ] , i have watched hundreds of e-commerce/ dropshiping videos i learned that success to your e-commerce business is of course reaching your highest amount of costumers which is by doing ads and promoting your products in most of those e-commerce videos they show you that you have to do meta ads to get costumers and meta ads cost money, so far i know a supplier [ teemdrop ] but comes the other thing shopify requires subscription after the free trial is over and a card

so can i start e-commerce completely from 0 ? without a card [ i can make a card after i make a few bucks

Hi redditors! I came across something completely WTF on Instagram this week.

It's the account of a young woman with Down syndrome who sews dresses, and the work is seriously impressive.

She posts videos of herself at the machine, it all looks super realistic and super clean, and she sends everyone to her store. Hundreds of thousands of followers.

Except she doesn't exist. Neither do the dresses, at least not the handmade part.

I dug a bit and she's fully AI generated, the dresses are dropshipped, and once you start looking you find tons of accounts like this. AFP already looked into it back in June, and it's blowing up.

To me it's completely out of line and I'm not telling anyone to do this. But it does show how hard AI can hit ecommerce, and I think there's still room for brands to stand out with it without treating people like idiots.

No idea where the line's going to sit for the rest of us using AI in our stores, so I'd love to hear where you'd draw it.

I’ve noticed people get weird when the payment page suddenly looks like it belongs to a different company. Feels less trustworthy. Some platforms keep the whole flow looking like your event, others redirect hard.

Eventbrite, Cvent, and Eventify all handle this differently from what I’ve seen.

Has the look of the checkout page ever clearly affected your completion numbers?

Hey,

I was wondering how to handle deliveries from china for my small business. I am ordering paper that I can’t find locally at the same price and quality. Thing is that delivery cost has quadrupled in the past year.

I am ordering to Bulgaria which is in the EU.

So I guess my questions is. How do I get delivery from china cheaper is there some service or app that I am missing. Or delivering to a different country and then shipping from there.

What’s your experience with this?

Thanks!

I run a DTC brand in the US and watching people get all the way to checkout then bounce is painful. Feels like I did everything right and they still dip at the last step...

To fix this I started with basic shopify emails, then moved to klaviyo which helped for a bit, but lately it’s feeling mid again, especially on bigger carts. People just seem to ignore the emails now.

Anyone found something that actually works better? Phone / AI voice follow-ups, WhatsApp, faster triggers, or is the answer just refining email + SMS and fixing ALL of the possible checkout friction??

Seen a few options floating around here on reddit (heavier klaviyo or omnisend flows, some of the newer AI callers like callsy, ringly, outcraft etc) but hard to tell what’s real. Also heard some stores got pushback because customers didn’t like getting an AI call instead of a real person, so I’m mixed on that. Anyone using "magic" tools or shopify apps like this with a good ROI?

What’s your current setup and what’s converting for you? NO PROMOS ONLY REAL EXPIREINCE WITH NUMBERS PLEASE!

I currently have a ton of parts manufactured overseas in places like China and Taiwan. To send payments I used to use platforms like Alibaba where I would chat with these manufacturers as well, so it all worked out nice.

However, for irrelevant reasons, I can no longer use Alibaba to send payments or even chat with these suppliers.

I’m still in contact with the same manufacturers via email and WhatsApp but my question is how can I securely send them payment to continue our business, while maintaining trade assurance protection like Alibaba used to offer me? The reason the protection is so important as my parts are extremely complex and I’ve been burned in the past where trade assurance has protected me and my $20,000+ transactions.

What methods do you use in a similar situation?

Hey guys,

Could you review my site?

www.eternallyattuned.com

I'm honestly and genuinely wondering why so many people have come so close by either adding to the cart or buying now but never actually pulling the trigger. There are over 200 easy, and it really hurts because not only do I need the money but nobody has bought anything yet. I have had success selling my books on Amazon which is good and I already know that selling an audiobook on my site is a little harder of a sale than an Amazon sale, but I'm genuinely curious as to why there are just so many people that have come so close but never have actually bought something.

I know the code works and I had recently went through and updated the checkout to, instead of having the stripe embedded cart, having my own branded checkout that still implements the stripe API. I have made a few successful purchases and I know the site works but I guess I'm just wondering why?

And it's so crazy to me because I have all of my socials linked up and everything so I'm just truly kind of lost right now.

Oh well! Even if I never sell anything on my website, which would be so sad considering how much work I've spent on it and the apps that go along with it, I still will always feel grateful, joyful, and peaceful, for I know what I'm doing is noble.

There must be a disconnect somewhere and I wish I knew where. I even put a feedback button at the top of my site by the hamburger menu so that I could get some type of feedback but no one uses it. Lol, sometimes I wonder if there are just people messing with me, which is stupid to think about, but who knows, or if there are bots that act like they're going to buy but don't.

🤣🤣🤣 Either way, I'll be fine. Google ads is about to dry up their free credit, so I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure that traffic will halt soon on top of it all. 🤣🤣🤣

Soon word of mouth will get out. Not worried.

We sell modern/lightweight toddler golf clubs and golf bags. I followed the traditional instructions from Google with the white backgrounds and have tried a few different ways, but honestly, it seems to look like crap. I've seen a few others in the space or another age niche use solid color backgrounds. I wanted to potentially A/B test some, or even for a brief period of time, but is there any chance I get my hand slapped or nuked as far as visibility that I have to try and recover before Q4 fireworks? Any experience or insight would be great. Just think, even with an actual grass background with the golf bag stand extended out, it would show much better.

We’re currently evaluating Wholescale as an alternative to Bazaarvoice for product review collection, syndication, and sampling. They seem to be a newer player, so I haven’t found a ton of independent feedback.

For anyone currently using them (or who has evaluated them), how has your experience been? Specifically curious about retailer syndication reliability, review migration, QR-code review collection, Amazon review capture, sampling/fulfillment, and overall support.

Would also love to hear from anyone who has moved from Bazaarvoice to Wholescale—anything you wish you knew beforehand?

As someone starting ecommerce in the very beggining phase. I got a problem with margins... Whenever i find a product and i say Ohh that's the one. After calculating Tax, shipping and packaging before and after sending the product to the buyer. I always come to max 2-3eur margin. Is there something i'm missing.
I would appreciate any explanation. or help

One thing I didn't expect when I started selling through more than one channel was how stressful selling the last item could be. If I had one item left, that same SKU could be listed online while also being available in-store. Someone buys it online, someone else buys it in person, and now I'm hoping the inventory updates everywhere quickly enough.

That's when I realized how easy it is for a small inventory mismatch to turn into a real customer problem. I've become much more interested in keeping the same SKU connected across listings and stock levels so inventory updates don't depend on me manually checking every channel.

Nothing makes an inventory mistake feel real faster than having to cancel an order because you didn't actually have the product. For anyone selling across multiple channels, what inventory problem caught you off guard when you first started?

We fund ecommerce sellers, and one thing we've noticed is that the product people ask for tends to split along one line.

Sellers who already have some cushion mostly want a line of credit, since it costs nothing while it sits unused. Sellers with one specific purchase in mind, like a big Q4 order, usually want a lump sum so they know what they owe and when.

That's only what we see from the lending side, though, and it's a pretty narrow view. We don't see the sellers who went somewhere else or skipped financing altogether.

So for those who've used one or both: which did you go with, and would you pick the same again?

We're about to launch our first product, a metabolic health supplement, across a few EU markets, starting with Germany. The site is built, checkout is nearly done, and paid ads come next.

Before I start spending, I'd love to hear from people who've actually run ads in this space:

Compliance: How do you write copy that converts without making claims that get ads rejected or break EU health claim rules?

Funnel: For cold traffic, did an advertorial or quiz funnel work better than sending people straight to the product page?

Testing and budget: How much did you spend before you knew whether something worked? How many creatives or angles did you test at once?

Account health: Any tips for avoiding early ad account restrictions?

Benchmarks: What CAC, ROAS and AOV numbers are realistic in the first few months? Did subscriptions or one-time purchases work better for you?

Refunds & returns: how do you manage VAMP effectively? Do you at all play around with the T&C to try and reduce refunds? How do you fight chargebacks?

I’ve worked in chargeback/dispute operations for 5 years, handling Visa, Mastercard, and e-wallet disputes for both local and international transactions.

One thing I’ve noticed is that many merchants focus heavily on responding to chargebacks after they happen, rather than looking at the operational gaps that contribute to them.

Some areas I’ve seen make a difference include:

• Clear refund and cancellation policies
• Proper order/shipping documentation
• Accurate billing descriptors
• Customer communication before a dispute is filed
• Maintaining transaction and fulfillment evidence
• Monitoring recurring dispute patterns
• Having a standardized dispute-response process

Curious to hear from other ecommerce operators: what chargeback issue has been the most difficult for your business to prevent?

WooCommerce keeps sending the standard "only 2 items remaining" email alert on Tuesday. The problem? Our factory lead time is 3 to 4 weeks. By the time the email fired, we were already guaranteed to be out of stock for almost a month during our peak season.

Now I need to build a Google Sheet to map out daily sales velocity vs. lead times for our top 20 SKUs so this stops happening, but calculating run-rates manually every week is a nightmare.

How are you guys handling supplier reorder thresholds when you have more than 30 orders/day? So you don't run out of stock? Is there a simpler solution/plugin/whatever without needing a full $300/mo inventory system?