Canada Post has revealed a series of statistics from 2020, as the ecommerce boom brings record levels of online deliveries From mid-April until the end of the year, the parcel service delivered over 1 million packages a day. In the final 2 weeks before Christmas, 20 million were delivered, 2.4 million on Monday 21st alone,…
Small business from across Canada are uniting to tackle Amazon and find a foothold online with a new website named Not-Amazon.ca, designed to connect local businesses with customers Started in the Greater Toronto Area, small businesses have joined from Halifax, Calgary and Vancouver among other places as they look to successful trade online Surveys by…
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has announced that there is over 3 million .CA domains under management, reaching the mark on November 30th .CA registrations are up 34% in 2020 over 2019 as more companies adopt ecommerce, especially small businesses. .CA currently stands as the 12th largest country code domain in the world Released…
Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday have given small businesses a good start to the Christmas season as online sales climbed Ecommerce platform provider Bigcommerce saw sales increase 74% during the 5 day period with the Sunday sales rising 86% year over year The total number of orders from the Thursday to Monday period increased…
A new report by Scotiabank found that 7 out of 10 small businesses asked said they were confident having survived Covid-19’s second wave and lockdown measures A further 4 in 10 said that they were ‘very’ or ‘extremely’ confident for the future. The report saw that many businesses feel far better equipped then prior to…
ShopHERE, launched in May of this year, will recieved C$1 million in funding from Google Canada as it expands across Canada. Originally set up as a City of Toronto initiative, the scheme is designed to help local independent businesses and artists setup online storefronts so that they can continue to operate despite lockdown measures.…
BMO is set to launch a new support system to help small businesses across Canada, in both rural and urban areas, the company had announced The banking company has said they are looking to directly help businesses that are “acutely affected” by the pandemic. The system is also looking to support minority and women…
The Royal Bank of Canada has announced the results of the Canada United scheme, designed to help local and small businesses during the pandemic by offering support and tools to help set up for ecommerce Raising C$14 million for the Canada United Small Business Relief Fund, it will be distributed to businesses to help…
Walmart Canada is set to partner with payment services firm Interac, as the company moves towards further expanding its ecommerce business The partnership, which will allow customers the option to purchase services and merchandise on proprietary wallets, adds to a number of agreements Walmart has reached in providing shoppers with more options for paying,…
Google finds its self in hot water as small businesses are coming forward to say they cannot compete due to how prominent Google makes certain adverts Smaller businesses are saying prominence is being given to larger companies as they can spend more on advertising. Google currently holds 90% of global internet searches and is…