For Retailers, Agentic Commerce Is Here
• Retailers must upgrade back‑office and data systems to keep pace with AI‑driven consumer discovery. • Generative AI agents replace browser searches, enabling personalized product
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Behind the Scenes - A Glimpse into Tax Calculations
• Etsy now collects and remits sales tax worldwide, shifting responsibility from sellers to the marketplace. • Tax is calculated instantly when a buyer adds an item, using buyer/se
What's New This Tax Season That Can Save You Money
• New marketplace facilitator rules require online sellers to collect and remit sales tax in more states. • 1099‑K reporting threshold lowered to $600, affecting gig economy and sm
Machine Learning in Content Moderation at Etsy
• Etsy uses supervised ML to detect policy violations across 100M items. • Trust & Safety team combines community reports with automated removal. • Over 100,000 violations flagged
Managing Recurring Payments with Apple Pay Using PayPal
• Recurring payments let merchants charge buyers at set intervals via Apple Pay on mobile web. • PayPal’s JS SDK and V3 Vault enable Apple Pay as a seamless recurring payment optio
Accept E-Commerce Payments Easily with PayPal's Buttons Component
• PayPal Standard Checkout lets developers embed Payment Buttons into any e‑commerce app. • Integration requires API credentials (Client ID, Secret) and Sandbox test accounts. • Se
The AR Measuring Box: Etsy's answer to Big Tape Measure
• Etsy’s new iOS AR feature lets users visualize wall art in their rooms using Apple’s ARKit. • Initially beta‑only for wall art, the team plans to extend the tool across Etsy’s di
Leveraging Real-Time User Actions to Personalize Etsy Ads
• Personalization is key to match Etsy’s unique marketplace with the right buyer at the right time. • Etsy introduced ADPM, a reusable three‑component deep learning module that lea
From Image Classification to Multitask Modeling: Building Etsy's Search by Image Feature
• Etsy launches image-based search on mobile, letting users find similar items via photos. • Feature uses machine‑learning embeddings to represent 100M+ listings in low‑dimensional
How We Built a Multi-Task Canonical Ranker for Recommendations at Etsy
• Etsy serves 100M+ listings, using recommendation modules to guide buyers at every shopping stage. • Each module follows a two‑phase pipeline: fast candidate selection then ML‑bas