Practical Ecommerce published a comprehensive weekly roundup of new ecommerce tools and services on September 2, 2026, covering payments, shipping, affiliate marketing, agentic AI, and merchant-of-record platforms (Practical Ecommerce). Major launches include dLocal's dMoRe merchant-of-record service for enterprises scaling to emerging markets, YouTube Shopping's integration with Amazon product tagging for U.S. creators, and ShipStation's addition of less-than-truckload freight shipping alongside parcel delivery (Practical Ecommerce). Affirm and Shopify expanded Shop Pay Installments to Australia, allowing customers to split purchases into fortnightly or monthly payments (Practical Ecommerce).
Agentic AI capabilities emerged across multiple platforms. OneRail launched OmniSTAR, an AI-powered delivery decisioning platform built with NVIDIA, enabling retailers to evaluate every available delivery option and select the lowest-cost option meeting service requirements in real time (Practical Ecommerce). LTK introduced agentic AI for creator marketing campaigns, helping brands plan, identify creators, launch programs, and surface emerging opportunities automatically (Practical Ecommerce). Ship.com announced Ship AI, a proactive shipping manager, and Ship MCP, which integrates shipping capabilities into Claude and agentic commerce workflows (Practical Ecommerce). Helium 10 launched Helium, an AI automation platform for Amazon brands that diagnoses problems, surfaces opportunities, and recommends actions in real time, along with a model-context-protocol connector for integration with Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini (Practical Ecommerce). Atomic One released autonomous agents for Amazon store operations covering advertising, inventory, pricing, and ranking, plus an MCP tool for plain-language store data queries (Practical Ecommerce).
Additional innovations include Runable raising $21 million in Series A funding to expand its AI agent platform for business operations, shipping, marketing, and customer support (Practical Ecommerce), and Nitro Commerce launching Apps, an AI tool enabling Shopify merchants to build private applications via natural-language prompts (Practical Ecommerce). These launches reflect a shift toward autonomous decision-making across fulfillment, marketing, and channel management, reducing manual intervention and enabling commerce teams to scale operations without proportional headcount increases.