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Amazon Prime Day 2026: How Sellers Can Prepare for Record-Breaking Sales

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Key Summary Amazon Prime Day 2026 is moving from July to June, giving ecommerce sellers less time to prepare for one of the year’s biggest online shopping events and increasing the need for operational readiness across multiple sales channels. Base.com helps multichannel retailers centralise inventory synchronisation, pricing, listings, fulfilment, and order management, reducing the risk of...

Common Ops Mistakes After ₹10Cr ARR

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Hitting ₹10Cr ARR can feel like stability, but in India, it often hides structural cracks that show up only when volume rises. Many brands move from a single warehouse to multi-city shipping and suddenly see delivery performance swing because zone-based courier allocation changes. On marketplaces like Amazon and Flipkart, even a small spike in late dispatch or cancellations can pull down account...

Contribution Margin D2C Benchmarks by Category

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Indian sellers often calculate margins like a manufacturer, but selling online demands sharper tracking. If you do not know your real contribution margin D2C, scaling ads will only scale losses. India’s e-commerce market crossed INR 4,000 billion in 2024, which means higher competition, rising ad costs, and thinner margins for brands that do not track contribution properly. Here is what many...

When Brands Should Use Quick commerce for D2C

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Consumer behavior in India has shifted sharply toward immediacy. In metro cities, 10 to 20-minute delivery is no longer a novelty; it is an expectation. Quick commerce platforms such as Blinkit, Zepto, Swiggy Instamart, and BigBasket BB Now have expanded dark store networks aggressively across Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities. Industry estimates suggest that India’s quick commerce market is already worth...

Quick Commerce Impact on D2C Margins in India

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India’s quick commerce is no longer “just grocery”. In 2024, the category reached roughly $6 to $7 billion in GMV, and it is scaling fast in the top metros. For a D2C seller, the margin story is shaped less by demand and more by platform mechanics. Here are the nuances many Indian sellers miss. First, commission is not always fixed. Blinkit has been shifting some categories from fixed slabs to...

Why Discounts Stop Working After Scale and Affects D2C Margin

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At the beginning, discounts feel like magic. Sales jump, traffic increases, and cash starts flowing. But for Indian D2C sellers, the math changes fast once you scale. That is exactly why discounts stop working after scale in D2C brands. In India, return rates typically range between 15 to 25 percent, and in fashion, they can cross 30 percent. If you are offering 25 percent off plus free shipping...

Base Changelog – April 2026

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Chengelog June 2025

Product Manager & Order Manager (OMS) Automatic Actions Product Automatic Actions: select multiple warehouses for stock-related actions You can now select multiple warehouses in Product Automatic Actions that reference stock levels. This makes it easier to build automation rules that span more than one warehouse at the same time. New field “Payer” in Automatic Action: Add to delivery A new...

D2C Founder Challenges: Founder vs Operator Gaps in D2C Scaling

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Scaling a D2C brand looks exciting from the outside, but in India, the stress starts showing fast once you move from 1 crore to 10 crore in annual revenue and your daily orders jump past 1,000. The reason is not marketing alone. It is the gap between D2C founder challenges and ops leadership D2C. Founders push growth, but operators protect margins, cash, and delivery promises. For Indian sellers...

How to Sell on Walmart Marketplace: Getting Started and Growing as a Seller

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Walmart Marketplace has crossed 200,000 active sellers and attracts over 500 million monthly visitors. For US ecommerce brands, it’s no longer a secondary channel worth considering. It’s one of the most significant growth opportunities available right now. The timing is particularly good. Walmart’s 2026 New-Seller Savings program offers up to $75,000 in total value for new...

What Is a Good E-Commerce Efficiency Score for Home & Garden Retailers?

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Home and garden e-commerce is one of the hardest categories to scale efficiently. A retailer selling phone cases, cosmetics, or books may deal with fairly standard picking, packing, and shipping processes. But home and garden businesses rarely have that luxury. One order might contain a small decorative vase. The next might be a garden furniture set, bags of soil, a fragile mirror, live plants...

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