Ecommerce

Pirate Ship, Shippo, Veeqo, Easyship, ShipStation, Shopify Shipping and going direct — what a label really costs a US store in 2026, where the discount actually comes from, and a separate answer for selling abroad.

Stripe, Shopify, GoDaddy, WooCommerce, Square, PayPal, Adyen and Authorize.net on US card rates and platform fees — and why the lowest percentage rarely means the lowest cost of selling online.

Six checks before you open the doors: test payments in the checkout, prove orders reach your shipping system, scan every internal link for 401s and 404s, link Search Console, submit the sitemap and connect Google Analytics — then the automation that grows the store.

Clone the page to your computer, preview it on a local port, iterate, then decide whether it is a page, a new template or a theme change before you push. Verify with an uncached fetch and a before-and-after, and nothing goes live until you have seen it.

Ask Claude to add a shop and it deploys a headless ecommerce store — products, stock, Stripe checkout and an order admin in your account. Your money lands in your own Stripe.