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WooCommerce powers 48.2% of all e-commerce systems W3Techs surveys, and the licence is free. The cost lands somewhere else: hosting, extensions, payment processing and the PHP 8.3 floor that WooCommerce 10.8 introduced
Google confirms 18 August 2026 as the Content API for Shopping shutdown on four separate properties, then publishes nothing about what happens to traffic afterwards. Here is the verified breaking-change map for Merchant
Browser agents currently complete checkout by guessing at your DOM. WebMCP lets the page declare its tools instead. What that build involves, in what order, and where the DPDP questions start.
Twenty days from Shopify's non-Plus Thank you and Order status deadline: what the Help Center says, working custom pixel code, the subdomain requirement that silently breaks consent, and why event counts drop.
Google removes the enable_local opt-out for Shopping campaigns on 31 August 2026, and v25.1 code setting it false will error. Here is the channel scoping, budget split and feed work to do before the date.
Google's own migration guide links an extended-access form, and Shopify sellers need do nothing. But if you hand-build the migration, the Price change from value to amountMicros will reprice your whole catalogue
India's 23 July 2026 Press Note 3 carves an export-only exception into the FDI ban on inventory-based e-commerce. The policy is short. The engineering behind a compliant export-inventory platform is not.
The 200 ms INP threshold has not moved, whatever the 2026 update posts claim. Here is what Google's own documentation says, what redBus changed to lift sales by 7%, and how to find the same wins in your own stack.
The build quote is the part of an ecommerce app budget that stops mattering. Gateway percentages, store commissions, platform fees and RBI tokenisation rules run forever. Real 2026 numbers, and how to scope against them.
OpenAI shut Instant Checkout in March 2026, six months after launch, with about a dozen merchants live. Google's UCP kept expanding. Here is how UCP, ACP and AP2 actually stack up, and what to build first.
McKinsey projects agentic commerce will drive $3-5 trillion by 2030. Shopify's UCP makes D2C stores AI-shoppable. A readiness guide for product data, schema, and checkout so AI agents recommend and buy from you.
AI resolves support tickets at roughly $0.62 versus $7.40 for a human agent, and D2C brands regularly deflect 70-80% of contacts. Here is when to buy an off-the-shelf agent, when to build custom, and how eCorpIT ships
UPI processed 28.92 lakh crore rupees in June 2026 as the PhonePe-Google Pay duopoly slipped below 80% for the first time. What diversification, NPCI's 30% cap, and the MDR debate mean for D2C checkout in 2026.
AI agents influenced $262 billion of 2025 holiday sales, and AI traffic now converts 42% better. This guide shows D2C brands how to get recommended by ChatGPT, Google and Perplexity shopping agents in 2026.
