Insights
Practical guidance for European commerce operations.
Research and operational perspectives on product data, channel readiness, market requirements and technology decisions.
Each article focuses on a decision an ecommerce, catalogue, operations or compliance team needs to make. Sources are linked where the argument depends on external figures, regulations or vendor documentation.
We checked 16 ecommerce operations vendors. Three publish a security certification.
Sixteen vendor websites, read in one pass on 28 August 2026. Three name a security certification. Six have no security page at all. Here is what to ask instead of trusting the adjectives.
The €3 rule: what the end of the €150 threshold means for your CN codes
The €150 duty relief ended on 30 June 2026. A temporary €3 flat duty applies per tariff classification until 1 July 2028 — so a CN code is now a cost driver rather than paperwork, and Product Identifiers become mandatory on 1 November 2026.
Why marketplace listings get rejected when your product data is "complete"
"Complete in the PIM" and "valid for this channel, in this market, in this language" are different questions. Five failure classes, why the schema is per marketplace rather than per marketplace family, and what a pre-submission check actually has to do.