Ecommerce Research and Automation Resources

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?

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.

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.

Grab a seat for this 45-minute session with Greg and John, where they'll cover all of the decisions made behind the scenes and how to spot opportunities when they arise. We'll end the session with a live Q&A, so bring your questions, dig in, and learn from a business owner just like you.

Feat. Greg Gordon, Founder and CEO of PartyMachines.com

Social commerce has exploded in popularity over the last few years and shows no signs of slowing down with the advent of TikTok Shop in 2022. If you've been paying attention to the news, you're likely aware of the upcoming TikTok legislation — a potential ban of the app in the US. 

Feat. Oliver Silzer, Lead of Business Development, TikTok

The idea of connecting your technology and tools, centralizing your data, and streamlining your workflow, isn't a new one. But where do you start?

For business leaders who already sell on more than one channel, this webinar will help you define your omnichannel tech stack. For those who already have a tech stack, we'll figure out next steps and go over some tools and workflows you might not have already thought of.

Feat. Seth David, Chief Nerd at Nerd Enterprises

As someone who owns or supports an ecommerce business, it's important to have a growth plan. Often this means trying out a new storefront or sales channel and understanding the planning and effort required to be successful in a new place. 

If you've ever had the question.. "What store should I expand onto next?" This webinar is for you.

Feat. Seth David, Chief Nerd at Nerd Enterprises

The ecommerce stakes have never been higher. But your cash flow statement holds the key to taking your business to the next level — and avoiding risky or desperate investments. Join us on April 17, and we’ll show you how to unlock your cash flow and give you cost-effective ways to grow revenue, marketing spend, inventory, headcount, and other essential areas using the cash you have on hand.

Feat. Dylan Lozano, Onramp Funds

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?

Feat. Seth David, Chief Nerd at Nerd Enterprises

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

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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

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.

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.

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.