The Junisphere

Take the pulse of the Junisphere with our blog. Here, you can connect to Juni’s knowledge, provided by our team members.

Discover useful industry insights and get closer to the heart of fintech. Find Juni’s tips to help you unlock the full potential of ecommerce and digital marketing.

LATEST BLOG

All your cash flow analytics and Amazon Store performance data in one smart dashboard

March 30, 2023

February 15, 2023

5 technology predictions for 2023 from Fatou Bintou Sagnang

In our new series, we’re talking to our VCs and investors to hear their insights and market predictions for fintech, ecommerce and tech in 2023...

Financial platform

February 14, 2023

The Juni international expansion marketing starter kit

International expansion can seem a daunting process for any ecommerce business–especially when it comes to your marketing...

Financial platform

February 7, 2023

5 ecommerce predictions for 2023 from Jarno Vanhatapio

In our new series, we’re talking to our VCs and investors to hear their insights and market predictions for fintech, ecommerce and tech in 2023...

Financial platform

January 31, 2023

5 fintech predictions for 2023 from Tom Mendoza

In our new series, we’re talking to our VCs and investors to hear their insights and market predictions for fintech, ecommerce and tech in 2023...

Financial platform

January 30, 2023

5 predictions for ecommerce businesses in 2023 from Samir El-Sabini

In our new series, we’re talking to our VCs and investors to hear their insights and market predictions for fintech, ecommerce and tech in 2023...

Financial platform

January 27, 2023

Cash flow insights that are actually insightful

No more sifting through multiple sources to get a clear picture of your finances. With Juni, you'll have all the insights you need in seconds...

Financial platform

January 27, 2023

How to optimise cash flow management when markets are down

Cash flow strategies are crucial for ecommerce businesses. Recent research has found that 37% of SMEs have cited cash flow as a major concern...

Financial platform

January 26, 2023

5 things to consider when localising your ecommerce supply chain

For many ecommerce businesses, overseas production and distribution have been part and parcel of their supply chains for years...

Financial platform

January 20, 2023

How to get the most out of your supply chain strategy in 2023

The last few years will have been the most challenging that many ecommerce businesses have faced when managing their supply chains...

Financial platform

All your cash flow analytics and Amazon Store performance data in one smart dashboard

If you’re tired of scattered data and too many open tabs, we’ve got you. You can now unify all your Amazon stores’ financial data in one real-time overview, right here in Juni...

Financial platform

What makes a winning finance tech stack?

What you put in your finance tech stack will enable your team. The right toolkit can be the difference between success and failure...

Financial platform

Futureproof your business: How to diversify your business funds

In an unpredictable economic climate, it’s essential to be as risk-averse as possible when it comes to your finances. But, along with protecting your funds...

Financial platform

Credit or cut? When and how to reduce costs in your business

The current economic climate brings increased focus on managing expenses and financial efficiency. As a result, many finance teams are preparing for the worst...

Financial platform

How Care of Carl is investing in a new premium segment

In our new Customer Spotlight series, we share news from the movers and shakers in ecommerce. Care of Carl, Scandinavia's leading online store for men since 2010, was founded with the goal of making quality men’s clothing available online...

Financial platform

February 28, 2023

Get a grip of your runway: Master cash flow forecasting

Financial planning has become essential because of the current macroeconomic conditions. In this climate, it’s better to be safe than sorry and prepare for a general downturn...

Financial platform

January 27, 2023

Cash flow insights that are actually insightful

No more sifting through multiple sources to get a clear picture of your finances. With Juni, you'll have all the insights you need in seconds...

Financial platform

November 2, 2022

How media buyers can forecast the financial downturn

Maximising the return on your advertising spend is always important. But as we enter the first economic downturn of the digital marketing age, it’s about to become even more crucial.

Beyond human optimization

October 25, 2022

Choosing the right finance technology partners

The occasional bad day at the office is to be expected. But losing enough money to buy two superyachts in the time most of us take to eat our lunch is pretty spectacular.

Financial platform

October 11, 2022

Balancing budgets for accurate ecommerce forecasting

What’s your total expenditure going to be this month? And your revenue? How about a year from now?

Financial platform

October 4, 2022

Top sources of funding for startups

Q4 is looming large. With the holiday and sale season just around the corner, are you facing the funding dilemma familiar to many startups?

Financial platform

September 6, 2022

How open banking helps you get better credit decisions

If you’re a Juni customer or use other leading fintech platforms, you’ve probably come across open banking...

Financial platform

August 23, 2022

Best expense management software for ecommerce businesses

We all know the pain of searching for receipts from multiple ad platforms and trying to match them to our expenses. But most of that frustration and wasted time is avoidable with the right expense management software.

Financial platform

Go global with a multi-currency account for your ecommerce business

Forget high FX fees by making payments and holding funds in the right foreign currency that makes sense for each of your business transactions.

Financial platform

Make working capital work for you

The ecommerce industry faces a unique set of challenges when it comes to managing working capital. Luckily for us, there is no shortage of great software and services to help make the transition to a positive working capital less painful..

Financial platform

3 tips to make the best of a high limit card

It's no secret that growth can quickly outpace profit, no matter what industry you're in. From marketing agencies to...

Financial platform

February 7, 2022

How to win through financial planning

Finance is a complex subject to navigate for small business owners. Managing cash fluctuations day-to-day, paying suppliers...

Financial platform

How to optimise online ads with data

When running multiple online ad campaigns, speed is of the essence. When your data is spread across different platforms, you need to know where to look and make the most of your data to run efficient campaigns...

Financial platform

February 21, 2023

7 digital media buying trends you should be aware of for 2023

2023 is set to be an interesting year when it comes to media buying and marketing. Budgets are likely to stay the same and, in some cases, may be reduced...

Financial platform

February 20, 2023

9 ways to deliver more impact with your marketing budget

These are challenging times for marketers. The lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, economic inflation, supply chain disruption, and the cost-of-living crisis...

Financial platform

February 15, 2023

5 technology predictions for 2023 from Fatou Bintou Sagnang

In our new series, we’re talking to our VCs and investors to hear their insights and market predictions for fintech, ecommerce and tech in 2023...

Financial platform

February 14, 2023

The Juni international expansion marketing starter kit

International expansion can seem a daunting process for any ecommerce business–especially when it comes to your marketing...

Financial platform

February 7, 2023

5 ecommerce predictions for 2023 from Jarno Vanhatapio

In our new series, we’re talking to our VCs and investors to hear their insights and market predictions for fintech, ecommerce and tech in 2023...

Financial platform

January 31, 2023

5 fintech predictions for 2023 from Tom Mendoza

In our new series, we’re talking to our VCs and investors to hear their insights and market predictions for fintech, ecommerce and tech in 2023...

Financial platform

January 30, 2023

5 predictions for ecommerce businesses in 2023 from Samir El-Sabini

In our new series, we’re talking to our VCs and investors to hear their insights and market predictions for fintech, ecommerce and tech in 2023...

Financial platform

January 27, 2023

How to optimise cash flow management when markets are down

Cash flow strategies are crucial for ecommerce businesses. Recent research has found that 37% of SMEs have cited cash flow as a major concern...

Financial platform

January 26, 2023

5 things to consider when localising your ecommerce supply chain

For many ecommerce businesses, overseas production and distribution have been part and parcel of their supply chains for years...

Financial platform

January 20, 2023

How to get the most out of your supply chain strategy in 2023

The last few years will have been the most challenging that many ecommerce businesses have faced when managing their supply chains...

Financial platform

January 13, 2023

How market volatility impacts raising working capital

Working capital is crucial for ecommerce businesses—it helps pay rent, staff, bills, and a whole host of other overheads...

Financial platform

January 5, 2023

Building sustainable ecommerce supply chains

With delegates gathering in Egypt for COP27 and the IPCC issuing dire reports on the current ecological situation, we all know how pressing the need to act on the environment is...

Financial platform

December 14, 2022

2022 UK ad spend: A year in review

The numbers are in! Which advertising platform was most popular? When was the highest ad spend? Get the answers here with our review of how UK ecommerce companies distributed their ad spend this year...

Financial platform

October 14, 2022

Getting more from your online marketing spend

What’s the cost-per-click for your top-performing keyword? And do you remember what it was this time last year? If you’ve been in business long enough, you could probably go back further and share some even more dramatic rises.

Financial platform

October 13, 2022

Scale your ecommerce business by building a community-led brand

Recession. Rising ad costs. Economic uncertainty. Consumers tightening their belts. Online shopping habits dipping from the boom days of lockdown. It doesn’t make for great reading for an ecommerce business, does it?

Financial platform

September 14, 2022

How Data Can Help You Improve Your Customer Lifetime Value

It’s just as important to keep your existing customers as to acquire new ones. In fact, some market leaders argue that customer retention is even more important because it’s a cost-effective way to drive business growth and build brand loyalty. Therefore, you should focus on your customer lifetime value (CLTV).

All-in-one analytics dashboard to track business profits and expenses

September 13, 2022

How to manage and optimise your online ad spend

Do you need to be spending that much? Could you be getting more sales and bigger growth from that investment? For many ecommerce brands, online advertising spend becomes an inevitable overhead. It’s the cost of doing business – an incidental (but very big) expense.

Financial platform

August 30, 2022

Smarter media buying for ecommerce businesses

How would you fancy dangling from a rope 100m above water, with a paint brush in one hand and a tin in the other? The painting of Edinburgh’s iconic Forth Bridge was a continuous process between the late 1800s and the early 2000s. It was the definition of a never-ending job.

Financial platform

Striking a balance between earned, owned and paid media in ecommerce

How should your ecommerce business go about prioritising earned, owned and paid media?

Financial platform

Simple ways to solve Google Ads payment problems

When you’re running successful ad campaigns, the last thing you want is Google Ads payment problems to derail them.

Financial platform

Hybrid ecommerce marketing

Tap into important industry insights, tools, and resources that can help you grow your ecommerce business. Sign up and download our free Hybrid Ecommerce Marketing blueprint below.

Financial platform

Understanding the performance marketing playing field

Performance marketing is a relatively new term for something...

Financial platform

How to nail marketing attribution

When you market your website or brand, there are many effective channels you can use to reach customers...

Financial platform

January 17, 2023

6 ways to grow your brand in 2023

For most ecommerce brands, the last few years have cemented something they’ve known all along: in ecommerce, no two years are ever alike...

Financial platform

October 21, 2022

Balancing digital marketing spend and brand building

The Tortoise and the Hare — which one of them do you want managing your marketing budget? Do you value the slow, steady success of brand building or the speedy impact of digital marketing?

Financial platform

September 27, 2022

Ecommerce brand-building tools that create better customer relationships

Which brands just ‘get’ you? There are probably a handful of brands with which your connection goes beyond the transactional. Brands you almost feel like you’re a part of. Brands with which you share a common purpose.

Financial platform

How to build your brand to thrive in the future of ecommerce

How do you optimise for the future of ecommerce and build your brand with sustainable growth in mind? Let’s look at some new and emerging ecommerce trends.

Financial platform

How to grow an ecommerce business

Ecommerce is one of the most lucrative business ventures, and it's only going to grow in popularity in the coming years...

Financial platform

October 20, 2022

Forecasting the downturn using your ecommerce data

Recession now looks inevitable. We’re heading into the first economic downturn of the ecommerce age.

Financial platform

October 7, 2022

How I’m brushing up on my ecommerce SEO

You know those fixed-term savings accounts you get at high street banks? You pay in your money, promise not to touch it for 12 months, and in a year you can buy yourself a coffee with the interest you’ve earned.

Financial platform

September 30, 2022

Lessons on testing (and not testing) ecommerce stores

You’re ready for the big ecommerce store launch. Everything’s set up and raring to go. Just the final formality of firing the Shopify link over to a few test customers to take a look. Then sit back, put your feet up, and wait for the test transactions and kind words to start rolling in…

Financial platform

September 23, 2022

Creating your ecommerce inventory checklist

A rail of clothes from three seasons ago. Tucked out of sight for safekeeping, concealed by the new false wall, and completely covered in dust. The joys of working in retail.

Ecommerce Store Manager

September 16, 2022

The problem with seasonal discounts

You’ve probably started getting Black Friday emails from marketplaces and other platforms you use. I know I have. Everyone wants to know if you’ve got your plan in place for your enormous seasonal sale. Are you ready for Black Friday? What discounts will you be offering?

Ecommerce Store Manager

September 9, 2022

Protecting your products and ecommerce brand

I want to talk about Juni haemorrhoid cream. More specifically, how I want to stop it from ever becoming a thing.

Ecommerce Store Manager

September 2, 2022

Finding good suppliers who actually want to sell you stuff

Have you seen the Austin Powers movies? If so, you might recall when Dr Evil travels back in time to 1969 and demands a $100 billion ransom — an unimaginable amount of money for the time and one that US President Richard Nixon finds laughable.

Ecommerce Store Manager

August 26, 2022

How to find the best warehouse for your ecommerce business

Welcome to Chez Stephen! Do you have a reservation for this evening? Please enjoy a drink in the bar area — we’ll have your racks and bins ready for you in no time at all.

Ecommerce Store Manager

August 19, 2022

Adventures in ecommerce barcoding

We all see barcodes every day. While you might not give them much thought, we know they’re the combination of numbers and lines scanned at checkouts. This has the dual purpose of telling us how much to pay and telling the store what they’ve sold.

Ecommerce Store Manager

August 13, 2022

Nomenclature: an unconventional approach to ecommerce product naming conventions

Have you ever tried naming products? Your product becomes a prize-winning sculpture and you an art critic.

Ecommerce Store Manager

What tools and apps do you need for an ecommerce store?

When building your tech stack, it makes sense to first think about what functions you need to fulfil and where using a tool will make your life easier

Ecommerce Store Manager

How to overcome imposter syndrome, source products, and find a fulfilment warehouse: my ecommerce empire false start

How to overcome imposter syndrome, source products, and find a fulfilment warehouse: my ecommerce empire false start

Ecommerce Store Manager

See me building an ecommerce business inside Juni

I’m Stephen, Juni’s Ecommerce Store Manager. You know when you see black ops teams on American TV shows?

Ecommerce Store Manager

October 19, 2022

Quickly pivot inventory planning with complete control over spend

Is your business among the 36% of SMEs considering switching their main financial service provider? The figure is probably even higher if you zoom in on ecommerce businesses. That’s because traditional banks aren’t built for ecommerce.

Financial platform

September 20, 2022

Top inventory management trends in ecommerce for 2022

Right on cue. That black-hooded t-shirt, already packaged and ready for fulfilment has just been ordered. Remember when we used to wait for the order to come in and then pick it? So quaint.

Financial platform

August 16, 2022

Exploring the best inventory management software for ecommerce

You’ve hit the jackpot with an ad that’s working like a dream. The products are flying out of your warehouse until… suddenly, unexpectedly, your bestseller is out of stock.

Financial platform