Daily intel for cross-border sellers — products, policy, platforms, and the moves that work.
Effective June 2026, TikTok Shop US is restructuring return shipping cost responsibility — for buyer-responsibility return scenarios that previously split or assigned costs to the buyer, sellers will now bear the full cost. The exact scope of "buyer-responsibility" terminology an…
TikTok Shop UK has opened its Product Subscription feature to all sellers (previously beta-only). Sellers can now configure recurring-purchase discount tiers at 5%, 10%, 15%, or 20% for subscribers. The feature extends TikTok Shop into recurring-revenue territory previously domin…
Walmart Marketplace's new Exports program lets eligible WFS sellers ship US-stored inventory to Canadian and Mexican shoppers automatically, with no separate program fee — Walmart's logistics partners handle international fulfillment, and customers pay duties, taxes, and internat…
Marketplace Pulse Seller Index 2026 (181 sellers, $2B+ combined revenue surveyed): fewer than 8,000 sellers now generate half of Amazon's estimated $300B US third-party GMV — down from ~15,000 in 2023. Just 23% of surveyed sellers are simultaneously growing revenue and improving…
Revenue $631M (beat), GMS $2.5B (+5.5% YoY), 5.6M active sellers (+3.3% YoY) — the first year-on-year seller-count growth since Etsy introduced the seller setup fee. Mobile-app GMS +11.2%; app share now ~47% of GMS. The $1.2B Depop sale to eBay (announced February) is still on tr…
