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Ecommerce Trends and Automation Hacks 2023

What experts are saying merchants need to be aware of this holiday season and how ecommerce automation can help you maximize growth potential, save time, and reduce costs.

Webgility vs. Synder

Review a complete breakdown of what sellers get from Webgility's automation versus another provider. Compare prices, features, integrations, and more. Choose the best automation solution for your business.

Webgility vs. A2X

A complete breakdown of what sellers get from Webgility's automation versus another provider. Compare key features, integrations, and more. Choose the best automation solution for your business.

Sell With Amazon to Increase Revenue and Expand Your Online Reach

Independent Amazon sellers averaged $200,000 in sales in 2021, according to a 2021 SMB report. Other sources say 55% of Amazon sellers pull in more than $5,000 per month, while 16% hit the $10,000 mark. Become a seller and take advantage of new seller $50,000 in perks and incentives.

In-House Inventory Management Techniques and Trends 2023

Webgility commissioned Pollfish in February 2023 to survey 800 online sellers ages 18 and up in the US, the UK, Australia, and Canada about their most common inventory management challenges and the state of the ecommerce inventory today.

What’s Next for Your Ecommerce Tech Stack

Develop a future-forward ecommerce accounting practice with tips from industry trailblazer Jody Padar.

Overcoming Ecommerce Accounting Challenges

Rise above your top bookkeeping challenges and fuel future growth.

The State Of Ecommerce According To Online Sellers

Webgility and Avalara set out to gather information about the state of online retail from thousands of ecommerce sellers.

The Buyer’s Guide to Choosing Amazon Automation Software

Learn how to automate your Amazon channel with the help of buyers who are using automation software

Automating your High-Volume Amazon Business

Learn how you can "set it and forget it" for more streamlined operations and smooth sailing.

Demystifying Amazon Fees

Understand the fees you are paying to Amazon as a seller on the marketplace.

The Large Amazon Seller's Guide To Expanding Your Product Line

Learn 8 tips to expand your product line profitably as a high volume seller.

QuickBooks Ecommerce Features

Webgility's new guide helps users unlock QuickBooks' powerful ecommerce functionality to optimize and automate business operations—so they can focus on driving growth.

Competing With Amazon

Learn the 8 strategies high volume sellers are using to compete effectively against Amazon.

Higher Profits With Automation

How automating ecommerce orders benefit your bottom line, one step—and one data point—at a time.

Variants, Attributes, and SKUs—Oh my!

In ecommerce, the concept of variants and SKUs sounds simple enough. But once you go multichannel, things get pretty complicated. Because accounting, marketplaces, and stores all handle inventory naming differently, offering a complex catalog online can be risky business. Here’s how to find your way out of the confusion.

Ecommerce Costs Made Simple

The ideal data flow for accurate, efficient reconciliation, plus an easy worksheet for calculating gross profit of an order.

5 Ecommerce Predictions for 2018

Please enjoy our ecommerce predictions for 2018, plus our take on how businesses can adapt and adopt to win in the year ahead.

3 Fixes to make before the fall

If memory serves, last year’s holiday data debacle, inventory chaos, and accounting errors left you twitching from stress and vowing to clean up your workflows in 2017. Well, now’s the time to lay the groundwork for an upcoming holiday season filled with both peace and profits.

Get Your Ship Together for the Holidays

The essential shipping and packing primer for first-time sellers this season

How to Prep for the Holiday Storm

Most online retailers are never fully ready for holiday sales. In fact, most sellers just guess at the season's projections. It's no wonder that, although online retail continues to grow at an exponential rate, significant profit margins continue to elude independent sellers. Why? Because without the right tools, selling on multiple channels is a losing game.

The Accountant's Guide To Advising Ecommerce Clients

This guide contains real-life testimonies from CPAs who work with ecommerce clients on a regular basis, grew that part of their practices, met and continue to meet the challenges associated with this business sector, and shared their best practices and reasons for serving this client base.

The Essential Ecommerce Tech Stack

Take it from our CEO, you need not suffer in silence with app fatigue and endless data entry. In this guide, he reveals 4 important tools for running your online business in a way that is simple and scalable—and one that you cannot grow without.

The Hidden Costs of Omni-Channel

One of the biggest challenges of being a small, independent retailer is that you have all of the challenges of big retailers, but none of the resources they have to tackle those challenges. Omni-channel – the act of serving customers holistically across multiple touch points – is no different. Learn about the hidden costs of omni-channel – and how to avoid them.

Email Marketing Made Easy

Simple ways to reach—and keep—ecommerce customers who are ready to buy. In this overview, we cover the three key stages of email marketing to ecommerce customers—acquisition, conversion, and retention.

Multichannel Management in 3 Easy Steps

Every year, online retailers feel more pressure to become "omnichannel" and sell products via any device in any location. But for many ecommerce companies, omnichannel is an aspirational goal that requires them to build a functioning business structure around a basic multichannel model—easier said than done. Or is it?

How to Increase Sales on Amazon

With millions of products available on Amazon, it can be challenging for online sellers to stand out, attract customers, and increase sales. So we ran the numbers and found 10 ways to increase sales on the world’s biggest online marketplace.

In-House Inventory Management Techniques and Trends 2023

A new survey from Webgility reveals the most common challenges among online business owners who manage inventory in-house — and the state of ecommerce inventory today.

What to Look for in an Amazon Automation Software

Automating Your High-Volume Amazon Business

Avalara and Webgility: The State of Ecommerce According to Online Sellers

Demystifying Amazon's Fees

The Large Amazon Seller's Guide to Expanding Your

6 Tips to Boost Amazon Profits With Cost Tracking

7 Ways High-Volume Amazon Sellers Can Grow Profits

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Accountants vs. Bookkeepers in Ecommerce: Cut costs, not corners

Scaling your business comes with the cost of delegating and trusting others with your hard work. And when it comes to accounting, you're managing the books yourself or hiring a bookkeeper, an  accountant, or both to help out. So how do you know which route is best for your business today? And more importantly, how do you know when you're overpaying for those services?

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The ecommerce seller's guide to avoiding accounting mistakes

As a business owner, you're working on a lot of things at once, and that can expose you to risky — not to mention costly — accounting errors and common mistakes. In this 30-minute webinar, we'll go through the most common accounting mistakes ecommerce businesses make and how to avoid them in first place. Feat. Seth David, Chief Nerd at Nerd Enterprises

Real-time accounting: Your new competitive edge

Webgility and Amazon are teaming up to show you how to simplify and streamline your accounting. Join us on December 7 at 10 AM (PST). Not an Amazon seller? No problem! Join a Q&A session to get your Amazon questions answered from the experts.

How the right funding option can kickstart holiday sales

Join Webgility CEO Parag Mamnani and Onramp Funds CEO Eric Youngstrom for an open forum to help online sellers understand how the right funding option can ramp up sales and turn big goals into bigger accomplishments.

How to scale without sacrificing profits

Every ecommerce milestone comes with some complications. Those might be more SKUs to manage, more inventory to count, more taxes to remit, and more fees to pay.

How to level up your product listings and increase confidence in your inventory

Explore simple ways to level up your product listings to sell. Plus, we’ll show you how to keep prices and inventory counts consistent. Gain a deeper understanding of your business, and increase your confidence in your inventory strategies. 

How to sell more — and in more places — with less effort

Automate product listing, price management, and inventory across all your ecommerce channels.

Setting up Webgility for QuickBooks Enterprise: Part 1

With the explosive growth of ecommerce in recent years, it's no wonder why accounting professionals and business owners are using automation to save time and stay organized.

Setting up Webgility for QuickBooks Enterprise: Part 2

QuickBooks Enterprise is a must-have software for growing online businesses, but many accountants and retailers aren’t taking advantage of the time-saving benefits of ecommerce automation.

U.S. sales tax concerns for small ecommerce businesses

Staying on top of economic nexus and sales tax laws can be a tall order for even the savviest ecommerce businesses and accounting professionals. It's even more so for smaller online retailers. Join Webgility's expert panel as they break down constantly changing legislation.

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