Whether you’re just starting out in the ecommerce marketplace or you have a well-established shop, there’s always room to grow your startup’s revenue, and there are many tactics you can utilize to help you do just that. Whether you’re trying to cut down on abandoned shopping carts or you want to increase the average order…
As technology evolves, there emerge more and more situations that our current sales tax laws were just not designed to deal with. Selling remotely over the internet is one of these, and when that selling involves digital products like apps, the issue of how and when to apply sales tax becomes even more complicated. That’s…
The battle between states and online retailers about when they are responsible for collecting and remitting sales tax to individual states took a new turn recently, as Amazon added Hawaii, Idaho, Maine and New Mexico to the list of states it collects sales tax in. This brings its total to 45 states plus the District…
On November 6, 2012, voters in Colorado and Washington passed amendments that made them the first states in the country to legalize marijuana for recreational use. This statute went into effect in January of 2014 in Colorado, and since then, several other states have followed their lead. One major benefit of the legalization of marijuana…
Since the enactment of most state sales tax laws in the middle of the 20th century, the economies in these states have grown and evolved considerably. It used to be that the sale of tangible goods from brick-and-mortar stores made up a bulk of the economic activity across the country, and so sales tax laws…
Living anywhere in the United States means paying all sorts of taxes, from income tax to sales tax, and indeed, the struggle for US independence began largely because of a dispute over taxes levied on colonists by the British government. Taxes play an important role in the functioning of our society, of course, as they…
All businesses need advice from a variety of professionals. One of the most important professionals that guides a business owner is their accountant. This relationship determines a lot of the financial success of the business. A good accountant providing solid advice can help an ecommerce business succeed where otherwise they might struggle or fail. Why…
For kids, it can be very exciting to save up allowance or birthday money and then take it to the store to buy a toy they’ve been eyeing for weeks. But it can also be confusing when they get to the register and find that the total cost is more than the price that was…
Consumers today have many more options than ever before when it comes to searching for, researching and purchasing products. An increasing number of shoppers compare prices and reviews across platforms before making a buying decision, and even a great deal can be negated by an inconvenient checkout experience. With these new factors in play, more…
With Earth Day fast approaching, now is a good time to look at some of the ways your business can “Go Green” in an effort to help preserve the environment. This may seem like a massive undertaking, but the truth is that there are many small steps you can take, each of which will lead…