eComm Live is Ireland’s leading event dedicated to eCommerce retailers, agencies, entrepreneurs & software providers. 

The event returns for its 5th year at The Assembly Buildings Conference Centre in Belfast on 1st & 2nd May 2024. 

The theme for this year's event is 'Commerce For Tomorrow: Navigating the Digital Frontier for Retail.' 

Key topics include: Emerging Technologies & Trends, eCommerce for Good & Sustainability, Marketing Strategies for Future Growth, Cross-Border Growth & Internationalisation. 

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The two-day conference expects to attract 400+ eCommerce enthusiasts from across Europe.

Confirmed speakers include: 

• Jamie Laing | Co-Founder, Candy Kittens
• Daniel Green | Head of Digital Marketing, Gymshark 
• Aimee Connolly | Founder & CEO, Sculpted by Aimee
• Pippa Casey | Head of Digital, Brown Thomas Arnotts 
• Raine Peake | Head of eComm & Performance Marketing, New Look
• Steven Irwin | CCO, Vivobarefoot 
• Chupi Sweetman | CEO, Chupi 

In addition to the conference programme, there are a range of social and networking activities for delegates to enjoy during their time at the event. For more information or to book your place, please visit https://www.ecomm.live

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Following a recent decision by

One of the reasons that Zalando grew big in the past couple of years was their flexible return policy (free up to 100 days). Another was no charge of shipping costs. However, German retailers seem to have moved back from those standards. Spaniards, Irish and British customers will now have to spend more than €25 in order to avoid spending approximately €3/€3.50 on delivery costs. In Italy, the company has already started to charge for delivery.

Zalando changes the rules, again

According to the fashion platform, there are no plans to charge shipping costs in other countries yet. Els Breugelmans, an expert in e-commerce, believes that there is a turning point in terms of free shipping. She also finds it typical that Zalando, the company that has changed the rules of the game in the sector, is changing the rules again.

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Despite the great promise of mobile payment solutions, cash money will remain important in the coming years. There are some Western European countries, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Sweden for example, where the role of cash money changes the most. This appears from a newly published research by PYMNTS.

If predictions are to believed, the first cashless societies are in the making. A major step in this is the embrace of digital payment instruments. In the near future, a large part of consumers is expected to switch to paying by using their mobile phone. Although this implies that cash money will be used less and less, figures do not indicate this. This is shown by a report from PYMNTS in which it looks ahead over the next five years.

Compared to those Western European countries, the share of cash money in the Netherlands is relatively small. Just over seven percent of the total. There are only two Western European countries where people pay even less by using cash money. These countries are Sweden, where the share of cash is only six percent, and Switzerland, where cash is used in only five percent of all payments.

The fact that the share of cash money is not that big does not mean that cash is disappearing. The payment company that commissioned the report also let PYMNTS look at the actual use of cash. With the growth of economies, the use of cash also increases considerably. The use of cash money will increase with 0.7 percent until 2021 in the fifteen Western European countries. This trend is not equally observed in all countries. In some countries, the use of cash money grows extensively and in other countries, the use of cash is decreasing.The two Western European countries where the use of cash decreases most are Ireland and Finland. As the European Central Bank (ECB) concluded last year, mobile payments are on the rise. However, three-quarters of all payments at European cash registers are still made in cash. 

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Ireland and the Czech Republic: First New Countries Since 2013

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