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MYOB and PayPal have announced a new eCommerce solution allowing small business to establish a free website and accept online payments within an hour.

PayPal says new estimates show e-commerce will account for $37.7 billion worth of spending by 2013, as retailers begin to wake up to opportunities presented by the internet and invest more in online strategies.

mCommerce is moving towards maturity in Australia, according to PayPal figures released this week which show over 1,000 transactions are now being processed from mobile phones every hour.

In the first of the Driving Business Online case study series, Ballina-based online hardware store Hardware2U reveals how an excess of stock at Christmas led to it becoming an online business.

Rural and regional SMBs are gearing up for the arrival of an educational road show designed to give them the tools and knowledge to achieve success online.

Online ‘presale’ shopping is expected to double in 2011, with presale shopping portal Lasoo.com.au recording a record 5.6 million product interactions in December last year, with the exponential growth of online pre-shopping expected to continue in 2011.

Paypal scam emails are doing the rounds of Australian small businesses with scammers seeking to gain your PayPal login details to take money from the PayPal account you use for business.

eBay has criticised calls by Australian retailers to reduce the GST threshold applied to imported goods purchased online, labelling it as an unfair attack on Australian consumers, particularly considering the phenomenal growth of Aussie retailers online.

Australians shopping online spend more on purchases from local retailers than they do on purchases from overseas retailers despite the increasing strength of the Aussie dollar.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission welcomes the announcement by eBay that it will change the ebay.com.au website and payment policies to remove the requirement that sellers offer PayPal as a payment option.