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⭐ July 24 – Your Ecommerce Coffee Break Newsletter (Issue 155)
The Ecommerce News for Online Sellers, Merchants, and DTC Brands
Claus Lauter
July 24, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes
👋 It’s Thursday, and here’s your latest ecommerce news briefing: AI is changing how products are found online—but trust in AI assistants is still shaky. Gen Z is leading the charge for private label brands. And OpenAI is working on a way to bring Shopify checkouts right into ChatGPT.
In Today’s Edition:
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🎧 On the Pod: Chargebacks, Chaos & Customer Trust: A Founder's Guide To Ecommerce Resilience
Fix Your Inventory Crisis Now
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📰 WHAT’S HAPPENING
📈 General Ecommerce News
🛒 Platforms & Marketplaces
📱Social Media & Advertising
🎙️ ECOMMERCE COFFEE BREAK PODCAST
Chargebacks, Chaos & Customer Trust: A Founder's Guide To Ecommerce Resilience
In this episode, we explore how chargebacks hurt online businesses and what smart store owners are doing to fix this problem. Chargebacks mean lost money, wasted time, and damage to your reputation with payment companies.
Our guest Conor Lyden, founder and CEO of Trustap, shares how his company helps online stores fight fraud and secure payments.
He explains how one simple solution can replace multiple expensive tools while saving businesses thousands of dollars every month.
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💡FIX YOUR INVENTORY CRISIS NOW
The big picture: Fast-growing Shopify brands are drowning in spreadsheet chaos while their cash gets trapped in wrong inventory decisions.
Why it matters: Poor inventory management kills more e-commerce businesses than bankruptcy—they simply run out of cash flow to operate.
The spreadsheet breaking point
Most brands start with Excel, but it breaks when you:
Sell across multiple channels (Shopify + Amazon + wholesale)
Launch 10+ products monthly Manage multiple suppliers and warehouses
Real example: Australian swim brand Lenny Swims couldn't launch new collections because their spreadsheet couldn't track samples, sales, and reorders simultaneously.
The costly mistakes
Missing seasons: One bedding brand missed entire summer because they ordered too late—arriving in fall
Cash flow crisis: Wrong inventory ties up money needed for growth Emergency shipping: Flying products instead of shipping costs 10x more
The solution exists
Tools like Genie connect to Shopify in minutes, automatically:
Extract all product/supplier/order data
Generate smart reorder recommendations
Track profitability across warehouses
Send automated alerts for low stock
Bottom line
"Whenever you think the right time is to tackle inventory—do it a couple months before that." Supply chain mistakes haunt you for months, unlike a bad ad that costs a few days of spend.
Take action: Install an inventory management system this month, not next quarter.
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Yours in ecommerce success,
~ Claus
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