E-commerce

If your bookstore is part of IndieCommerce 2.0, 1.0, or IndieLite, you have access to powerful tools that allow you to manage your website’s content effectively. Among these features is the ability to designate specific titles as “Not For Sale” or to completely remove them from your website.

Ransomware attacks are on the rise. Protect your bookstore with these tips.

An e-commerce update from the IndieCommerce Team summarizing the major takeaways from the 2022 online holiday shopping season.

An e-commerce update from the IndieCommerce Team. 

There are some notable online sales trends surfacing for bookstores in the lead up to the holiday season.

Online credit card fraud is on the rise. With the increase in online purchases your website may also become a target for online credit card fraud. Stay prepared with IndieCommerce's resources and reports.

Over the past 22 days, online traffic to IndieCommerce and IndieLite websites has been increasing dramatically when compared to the same period last year.

Based on 2021 sales data from 570 IndieCommerce and IndieLite websites, these independent bookstores averaged a 387% increase in their online sales revenue when compared to pre-Covid 2019 sales.

The pattern is similar to 2019, but the big differences are that 2021 holiday traffic is 100% higher and those customers are completing more online purchases. If the return to an old traffic pattern turns out to also be the “new normal,” this is very encouraging for online bookselling in 2022.

An e-commerce update from the IndieCommerce Team. 

An e-commerce update from the IndieCommerce team. 

When the increase in the infection rate from the COVID Delta variant was making headlines around the world last week, IndieCommerce and IndieLite websites experienced a 13.29 percent increase in online sales.