Kidson Talks | The E-commerce Chemist

A pain for a lot of third party tools like ChannelAdvisor, Marketworks advisor what not and Kyozou.  Auctionbytes has brought this to our attention.

eBay announced it would phase out third-party checkout by this time next year. Third-party vendors help sellers list on eBay, and some offer sellers use of checkout systems to up-sell and cross-sell items to buyers.

I think there is nothing with wrong with eBay checkout, it has improved greatly but it will mean that ‘complete’ e-commerce systems like the ones mentioned above, will be reduced to eBay listing tools, with a web shop. Personally, it will stop the problems with third party checkouts, as you can still pay OUTSIDE the third party checkout and have your payment lost. I hate having to checkout with third parties even though I would hate to list without them!

One of eBays better decisions, and the third party tools with surely rise to the occasion.