In our 53rd episode, we're joined by Shopware's Developer Evangelist, Sander Mangel who talks to us about their new ecommerce platform version 6. Shopware launched v6 and the end of 2019 and it represented a complete re-architecture to an API-first platform. We talk to Sander about how the new version has evolved in 2020, which features have been migrated, how much progress has been made by the community in porting apps over to the new platform and getting under the hood of the new PWA.

In our 52nd episode, James and Paul are joined by Rita Mantler, who is the Technical Director and Founder of Telescopic. Rita answers a host of questions on how bespoke integrations should be approached, the benefits of bespoke vs off-the-shelf solutions for integrations, how to approach technical discovery, risk management and Rita's preferred tech stacks to work with.

In our 51st episode, we're joined by Recharge's Head of Partnerships and Growth, Rob Barr, who talks to us about the impact of Shopify's recent API changes (allowing for subscriptions within the native checkout, amongst other things), the ever-changing requirements for subscriptions, Recharge's upcoming integrations with other platforms, the Recharge 2021 roadmap and much more.

In our 50th episode, Paul and James discuss the importance of on-site search in eCommerce, how search should be managed internally, the benefits of using a third-party solution, the different native platform capabilities, core feature requirements for third parties and much more. 

In our 49th episode, James and Paul are joined by Zach Hemmant-Low (Sales Director at Emarsys) to talk about the increasing need for a broader CRM / customer engagement platform in eCommerce. We ask a number of questions about the Emarsys platform, core requirements for systems today, extending the platform via APIs, integrations and the growing importance of personalisation at different levels.

In this episode Paul & James interview Burc Tanir, CEO & Founder of Prisync, about how they're helping ecommerce businesses to manage product pricing more effectively.

Pricing strategy is fundamental to any ecommerce business and having the right tools in place to enable price management is a competitive necessity. Reacting to market changes for some brands can be the difference between success and failure, especially when selling a commodity product, for example an ecommerce store that’s a reseller of 3rd party brands such as electrical goods.

Managing price with a flat price file structure is time consuming and manually intensive. That’s why lots of organisations have invested in automation technology. 

In our 47th episode, Paul and James are joined by BigCommerce General Manager (Europe), Jim Herbert, who talks us through the platform's recent growth in Europe, their shift towards headless projects, some of the larger and more complex projects that are being worked on, key items on the roadmap for 2021 and new features that've been released over the last 12 months. 

In our 46th episode, Paul and James cover the important and topical subject of peak planning - with discussion points including technical planning / provisioning, merchandising best practices, common issues and points of failure, forecasting demand and various ideas for effective trading.

In our 45th episode, Paul and James sit down with Murat Soysal (Co-Founder of Segmentify) to talk about the importance of personalisation in eCommerce, how the Segmentify product has evolved to stand-out in a relatively saturated market, the role of their search product, reporting and much more.

In our 44th episode, James and Paul are joined by world-renowned international SEO expert, Aleyda Solis. Aleyda answers questions on a host of topics, including localisation strategies for ecommerce, hreflang best practices for ecommerce, handling ecommerce edge cases with hreflang, different approaches to GEO-IP redirects and much more.