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One hundred software tools help businesses sell on Amazon with product research, pricing, inventory forecasting, advertising management, accounting, and more.

Only low hundreds of brands adopted Buy with Prime a year after Amazon introduced the fulfillment and checkout service in April 2022.

Shein and Shopify were the biggest e-commerce winners in 2022. Their sales are still significantly above pre-pandemic levels too. Etsy was strong, Walmart with Amazon did okay, and eBay struggled the most.

Amazon is pocketing more than 50% of sellers' revenue - up from 40% five years ago. Sellers are paying more because Amazon has increased fulfillment fees and made spending on advertising unavoidable.

Buy with Prime fees are 20-40% per transaction, or even more for items below $20 due to the $1.50/order minimum Prime service fee. Yet, fees are not as critical as whether Buy with Prime is worth the operational investment.

E-commerce spending in the U.S. exceeded $1 trillion, yet the industry appeared in despair marked by crashing valuations and employee layoffs. The fifth edition of the Year in Review is a collection of the most interesting stories this year.

A dozen startups became unicorns betting on the Shopify ecosystem. Amazon has zero. A lot of capital is racing to change that.

Shopify now allows customers to search for items across all Shopify merchants. The Shop app is thus a complete marketplace. However, the functionality is yet to be available to all users.

Chinese sellers have recouped the market share they lost on Amazon over the past two years. It looked like they were abandoning Amazon for a while, but that has since turned out false.

Amazon's growth is slowing, but so has the overall e-commerce sector. Its sales are still in-line with the pre-pandemic trendline.