Inside Commerce: Ecommerce Strategy, CX and Technology Podcast

In our 54th episode, Paul and James talk about key tools and solutions for getting the most from key sales periods. We discuss a number of important areas including product recommendations, bundling, popups and overlays, basket abandonment campaigns and various other aspects of on-site trading. 

In our 53rd episode, we're joined by Shopware's Developer Evangelist, Sander Mangel who talks to us about their new ecommerce platform version 6. Shopware launched v6 and the end of 2019 and it represented a complete re-architecture to an API-first platform. We talk to Sander about how the new version has evolved in 2020, which features have been migrated, how much progress has been made by the co...

In our 52nd episode, James and Paul are joined by Rita Mantler, who is the Technical Director and Founder of Telescopic. Rita answers a host of questions on how bespoke integrations should be approached, the benefits of bespoke vs off-the-shelf solutions for integrations, how to approach technical discovery, risk management and Rita's preferred tech stacks to work with.

In our 51st episode, we're joined by Recharge's Head of Partnerships and Growth, Rob Barr, who talks to us about the impact of Shopify's recent API changes (allowing for subscriptions within the native checkout, amongst other things), the ever-changing requirements for subscriptions, Recharge's upcoming integrations with other platforms, the Recharge 2021 roadmap and much more.

In our 50th episode, Paul and James discuss the importance of on-site search in eCommerce, how search should be managed internally, the benefits of using a third-party solution, the different native platform capabilities, core feature requirements for third parties and much more. 

In our 49th episode, James and Paul are joined by Zach Hemmant-Low (Sales Director at Emarsys) to talk about the increasing need for a broader CRM / customer engagement platform in eCommerce. We ask a number of questions about the Emarsys platform, core requirements for systems today, extending the platform via APIs, integrations and the growing importance of personalisation at different levels.

In this episode Paul & James interview Burc Tanir, CEO & Founder of Prisync, about how they're helping ecommerce businesses to manage product pricing more effectively. Pricing strategy is fundamental to any ecommerce business and having the right tools in place to enable price management is a competitive necessity. Reacting to market changes for some brands can be the difference between su...

In our 47th episode, Paul and James are joined by BigCommerce General Manager (Europe), Jim Herbert, who talks us through the platform's recent growth in Europe, their shift towards headless projects, some of the larger and more complex projects that are being worked on, key items on the roadmap for 2021 and new features that've been released over the last 12 months. 

In our 46th episode, Paul and James cover the important and topical subject of peak planning - with discussion points including technical planning / provisioning, merchandising best practices, common issues and points of failure, forecasting demand and various ideas for effective trading.

In our 45th episode, Paul and James sit down with Murat Soysal (Co-Founder of Segmentify) to talk about the importance of personalisation in eCommerce, how the Segmentify product has evolved to stand-out in a relatively saturated market, the role of their search product, reporting and much more.

In our 44th episode, James and Paul are joined by world-renowned international SEO expert, Aleyda Solis. Aleyda answers questions on a host of topics, including localisation strategies for ecommerce, hreflang best practices for ecommerce, handling ecommerce edge cases with hreflang, different approaches to GEO-IP redirects and much more.

In our 43rd episode, we're joined by Mark Slocock, Managing Director of GPMD, a multi-platform eCommerce agency. Mark answers questions from Paul and James on working with different platforms, GPMD's initial transition from Magento-only to working with Shopware, the difference for developers between the open-source platforms and the SaaS platforms, their recent adoption of PWA and lots more.

In our 42nd episode, Paul and James are joined by highly experienced eCommerce director and Non-Executive Director, Gabrielle Hase, who has led and been a key stakeholder in a number of large replatforming projects. Gabrielle, who is the CEO of Soleberry (her consultancy), draws on her experience to provide recommendations on how to get leadership teams bought into replatforming projects, setting...

In our 41st episode, James goes solo to talk with Eric and Anais from French commerce platform, Proximis. James delves into key features of Proximis, the need for a unified commerce platform, key order management challenges, how Proximis can solve complex challenges around mixed basket & split shipment etc and much more.

In our 40th re:platform episode, we're joined by seasoned eCommerce pro, Mark Pinkerton (Co-Founder of Prospero Commerce), who talks to us about the pros and cons of running an RfP, best practices for how an RfP should be approached, how to get the most out of product demos and getting buy-in from various different stakeholders.

In our 39th episode, we talk to Episerver CEO Alex Atzberger about their recent acquisition of Optimizely, the product in general, where Episerver sits in the market and lots more!

In our 38th episode, Paul and James talk with Shopit Founder Adam Pritchard - covering the core platform, PIM & merchandising, multi-store & international, pricing models and then how the platform differs from some key competitors. 

In our 37th episode, Paul and James talk about how the last 48 hours of a replatforming project should be approached, things to look out for, things that can go wrong and then what can and can't be moved to post-launch / prioritised.

In our 36th episode, we're joined by Carl Hendy (Director at Reddico), who is highly experienced in large-scale replatforming projects from an SEO perspective. Some of the topics we cover include project planning for a large migration, where things can go wrong, getting buy-in from key stakeholders, managing and quantifying risk and key tools to help projects.

In our 35th episode, we're joined by Quentin Montalto, who is the COO at ShipperHQ. We ask Quentin a host of questions about ShipperHQ's growth, how ShipperHQ is able to facilitate complex shipping logic, best practices for shipping comms, live rates vs table rates, displaying multi-origin shipping comms, ShipperHQ's roadmap and much more.

In our 34th episode, Paul and James discuss how testing should be approached and resourced at different levels of a replatforming project. This episode covers who should be testing, when testing should start, what should be tested when, test environments, what should be covered in test scripts, how third parties can be tested etc.

In our 33rd episode, Paul and James welcome Martin from eCommerce platform Centra, which was founded in 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden. In this episode, we cover the core capabilities of the platform, key differentiators from the competition, the market fit, the headless approach & common technology stacks, wholesale and more!

In our latest episode, we're joined by Matthew from Reach Payments, who talks us through the product and how it solves a number of key issues with international payments, particularly with Shopify (with advanced multi-currency and lots of international payment options).

In our 31st episode, Paul and James discuss their views on checkout user experience, covering key considerations like payments, shipping comms, overall design, process & flow, fields, international areas and various other aspects!

This is the first in a mini-series focused on UX. In this episode, Paul and James discuss approaching the area of UX when planning a replatforming project, as well as various UX considerations around core areas of eCommerce.