VTEX is a cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS commerce platform that natively handles B2C, B2B, and multi-vendor marketplace workloads on a single codebase. Key differentiators include a built-in OMS (no third-party integration needed), native B2B account hierarchies with cost-center billing and contract pricing, and VTEX IO — a React/Node.js developer layer with workspace isolation for headless storefront builds. The platform uses GMV-based pricing rather than flat licensing, which aligns costs to revenue growth but requires careful negotiation at enterprise scale. A detailed comparison against Shopify Plus, Adobe Commerce, and commercetools shows VTEX wins when brands need marketplace, B2B, and OMS consolidation in one platform, but is overkill for small DTC brands or teams wanting maximum composable freedom.
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Bài viết hướng dẫn cách ứng dụng AI vào Shopify dành cho chủ cửa hàng, không yêu cầu kỹ năng lập trình. Nội dung tập trung vào các giải pháp thực tế để tối ưu hoạt động kinh doanh trên nền tảng này.
Lập trình viên nên đọc bài này để khám phá cách tích hợp công nghệ AI vào hệ thống e-commerce Shopify, giúp tối ưu hóa quy trình vận hành, tự động hóa dịch vụ khách hàng và tăng hiệu quả kinh doanh mà không cần phụ thuộc vào kỹ thuật phát triển.
Amazon's rapid-delivery service Amazon Now is expanding to over 300 cities in India, triggering a major market selloff. Eternal (parent of Blinkit) has fallen ~28% from its all-time high and Swiggy ~47%, together losing over $15bn in market value. The quick-commerce market in India was previously dominated by Blinkit, Zepto, and Swiggy Instamart controlling ~95% of the market. Amazon's entry threatens not by immediately taking market share, but by forcing incumbents into costly defensive moves: deeper discounts, higher delivery costs, and faster dark-store expansion — all of which delay the path to profitability that investors had been counting on.
Shopify POS UI extensions API version 2026-07 changes how fixed-amount line item discounts work. Previously, apps could pass a total discount for the entire line item and Shopify POS would auto-convert it to a per-unit value. Starting with 2026-07, the value passed is interpreted directly as a per-unit discount — no automatic conversion occurs. For example, passing '5.00' on a quantity-2 line item now results in a $10.00 total discount, not $5.00. Apps on 2026-04 or earlier are unaffected; apps migrating to 2026-07 must update their discount calculations to pass per-unit values explicitly. Percentage discounts are not affected.
Pick n Pay is launching Penny, an AI shopping assistant built on Google's Gemini models, within its asap! delivery app. Penny lets customers build grocery baskets via text, voice, or photo — for example, asking for a recipe and getting ingredient options added to the cart. It supports multilingual input, can reference order history and Smart Shopper points via APIs, and is billed as South Africa's first conversational grocery shopping experience. Penny assembles baskets but does not yet place orders autonomously. The feature rolls out from 6 July. Pick n Pay also noted a retail-media layer is coming, allowing manufacturers to bid on conversational search terms. Rival Checkers Sixty60 launched a similar AI assistant called Pixie in April, though with a different philosophy focused on predictive replenishment rather than open conversation.
Alibaba cùng đối tác xử lý thanh toán tại Mỹ là AUS Merchant Services (thuộc Ant International, vận hành Alipay) đã đồng ý nộp phạt 600 triệu USD để giải quyết cuộc điều tra của Bộ Tư pháp Mỹ (DOJ) liên quan đến việc bán thuốc bất hợp pháp trên nền tảng của Alibaba. Khoảng 80.000 giao dịch mua thuốc chưa được phê duyệt, hóa chất bị kiểm soát và thiết bị làm giả thuốc trị giá hơn 200 triệu USD đã diễn ra từ 2016 đến 2024.
Lập trình viên nên đọc bài này để hiểu rõ cách các hệ thống thanh toán và cơ chế kiểm soát an toàn trên nền tảng thương mại điện tử có thể bị lỗ hổng, từ đó nâng cao kiến thức về bảo mật dữ liệu và quản lý rủi ro trong các ứng dụng thanh toán và giao dịch online.
Shopify's Admin GraphQL API 2026-07 release candidate introduces support for MarketRegionSubdivision, enabling Markets to be configured with country-subdivision regions like states and provinces. This is part of market-driven shipping support. Developers should use the new stable country-subdivision region type and avoid the deprecated market.regions field for sub-region membership. Currently, only shipping is supported; other configurations like Discounts, Catalogs, and Theme contextualization are not yet available and will return validation errors if attempted.
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