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Episode 41 of the eCommerce Matter's Podcast is now available, entitled 'How to outsmart the competition using actionable pricing insights'.

On this episode, Philip Huthwaite, BlackCurve CEO, and Rob Horton, BlackCurve Chief Product Officer, introduce actionable pricing insights, and how viewing analytics in this manner, can be a game changer for the way retail businesses make daily decisions. The episode also covers the launch of actionable insights inside the BlackCurve platform, as well as teasing what is coming next in the product roadmap.

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BlackCurve, the platform that enables online retailers to make smarter pricing decisions, has secured £750,000 in new funding from investors including Nauta Capital and ACF Investors, bringing its total raised to £3.7 million.

In this article, we cover what are Actionable Insights, the advantages, and disadvantages of using them in your business, as well as looking at some example Actionable Insight tools.

Episode 40 of the eCommerce Matter's Podcast is now available, entitled 'The Ultimate Shopify Pricing App'. On this episode, Philip Huthwaite, BlackCurve CEO, and Rob Horton, BlackCurve Chief Product Officer, introduce BlackCurve's new Shopify Pricing App: Where to find it, how to install it, and what are the key differentiators that make it the ultimate pricing application for Shopify users.

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Episode 39 of the eCommerce Matter's Podcast is now available, entitled 'Pricing in 2023'. On this episode, Philip Huthwaite, BlackCurve CEO, and Rob Horton, BlackCurve Chief Product Officer, reflect back on the key talking points from episodes in 2022, and make their predictions for what eCommerce companies should be doing to up their pricing-game in 2023.

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This post is a roundup of some of the best eCommerce software out there. We come into contact with lots of eCommerce companies of different sizes and from a multitude of sectors. It is always fascinating to hear what technology they’re using across their business to get the edge.

In this post, we plan to pay it forward, by presenting some of the highlights from these conversations, of the best eCommerce software that you should be trying and using in 2023.

A GTIN is a Global Trade Item Number. It is unique to every product and is an internationally recognised product identifier.

In this article, we will dig into how BlackCurve tracks the prices of your competitors in order to support your competitor pricing strategy. It is presented through the lens of helping eCommerce companies.

In this article, we define competitor pricing and introduce the pros and cons of using competitor pricing to make price decisions in your eCommerce business.

We recognise that businesses are both at different stages of market size, as well as at different stages for how much pricing is being used inside the business to support growth. Therefore, we have created three core editions, or “flavours” as I typically say on demo calls with prospects: ‘Tracker’, ‘Challenger’, ‘Commander’, to support whatever stage of pricing your eCommerce business is at. This post aims to take you through these editions to help with your selection, as well as introduce our new ‘Enterprise’ offering.