What are the representatives of cross-border e-commerce platforms? How to choose?

More and more merchants are opening stores on cross-border e-commerce platforms, because cross-border e-commerce is indeed very popular and has great development prospects. However, if you want to do cross-border e-commerce, you still have to find a mainstream platform. So what are the representative platforms in the cross-border e-commerce industry? Let's take stock of it for everyone.

What are the representatives of cross-border e-commerce platforms ?

1. Amazon

Amazon can be said to be a "big brother" in the cross-border e-commerce platform. It was founded in 1995. Amazon and other sellers have become the world's largest online retailers, providing customers with millions of unique new, refurbished and second-hand items such as books, movies, shoes, food, toys, etc. Mainly through the market in the United States and Canada, but in many countries have their own independent websites. Customer coverage is wide.

2. eBay

Founded in September 1995 in San Francisco, California, eBay is an online auction and shopping website that manages goods. Every day, millions of furniture, collectibles, computers and vehicles are published, sold and sold on eBay. eBay provides a personalized shopping experience and seamless connection between consumers and global products through mobile applications. The main research is aimed at the C-end, mainly through the market in developed countries such as the United States and Europe.

3. AliExpress

Express delivery is mainly based on the Russian market. And the conditions for opening a store are relatively simple and easy to operate, which is particularly suitable for newcomers of the era. In addition, Alibaba also helps small and medium-sized enterprises to contact terminal wholesalers and retailers, quickly realize small batch and multiple batch sales, expand profit margins, and comprehensively build an online foreign trade transaction platform integrating orders, payments, and logistics. Overseas Chinese markets are concentrated in Russia, Brazil, the United States, Spain, and Turkey. Many Chinese products that are allowed to be sold by companies on Taobao, such as weight loss pills, will be prohibited from being sold on express delivery. Therefore, sellers need to fully learn and understand before opening a store.

4. Wish

Wish merchant platform is a mobile trading platform, the main market is European and American customers, and the Wish platform is mainly for women. Wish platform strives to bring consumers a more convenient shopping user experience, and uses its unique budget management rules to accurately push merchants' products to customers, rather than passively relying on Chinese consumers to search. In a certain social sense, the product is proactive and no longer passively waiting. For the development of small and medium-sized enterprise retailers in my country, Wish has more than 47 million users, and Wish has huge market potential in the future.

5.Joom

Boom is a new and fast-growing mobile shopping platform, mainly in Russia, which was launched in June 2016. The Joom platform will charge a commission of 5% to 15% depending on the amount of the enterprise order. The order needs to be delivered within two or three days. The loan working time is 15 to 60 days, and the loan development time for new sellers is 60 days.

6. Cdiscount

cdiscount was founded in 1998, at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. According to incomplete statistics, cdiscount has 16 million registered buyers and 1.75 million unique visitors per month, far exceeding many large and medium-sized e-commerce platforms. There are not many different types of products, but most of them are necessities of social life, and the market development demand is rigid.

7. Lazada

Founded in 2012, Lazada is the largest e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia. The main target markets are Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan and the Philippines. The platform has more than 300 million SKU users and mainly deals in 3C electronics, household goods, toys, fashion, sports equipment and other products.

8. Shopee

Shopee is a mobile e-commerce platform from Singapore, referred to as (Shrimp Shopping) The platform was launched in 2015, mainly in Southeast Asia and Taiwan. There is no commission and no listing fee, which means we have no economic and social burden in China. However, sellers can choose local advertising and purchase paid advertising as they wish.

I have shared with you the representative platforms of cross-border e-commerce platforms. Different cross-border e-commerce platforms target different markets. Some are aimed at the US market, such as the Amazon platform. Another representative of cross-border e-commerce in the African market is the jumia platform.

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