How to apply for Shopee if you have never opened a store?

The official regulations require that you must have e-commerce experience, and providing store transactions is also to prove that you have worked in e-commerce. If you have no experience, you may not be able to successfully open a store on Shopee, and it will be more difficult to pass the review. So how do you apply if you have never opened a store on Shopee?

How to apply for Shopee if you have never opened a store?

The official recommendation for newcomers to Shopee is to first enter the Taiwan market or the Malaysia market. Here we will explain the logistics details of the Taiwan market and the Malaysia market.

Shopee is aimed at Chinese cross-border sellers, with no platform usage fees, annual fees, or deposits. There are two ways to apply: you can apply for Shopee's Southeast Asia and Taiwan e-commerce platforms on the official website; or you can participate in the Shopee investment promotion conference and directly connect with the investment promotion manager on site.

1. The general process is: submit to the official website - fill in the company information on the official website - connect with Shopee reviewers - send application materials - pass the review - open an account. The investment manager submits the application - connect with Shopee reviewers - send application materials - pass the review - open an account.

2. The conditions that need to be met at the same time to register a Taiwan site: corporate qualifications of a Hong Kong or mainland limited company or individual business (satisfying: a. corporate qualifications can be queried on the Enterprise Information Network; b. no business abnormalities; c. within the validity period)

Have more than three months of experience in operating domestic trade platforms (Taobao, JD.com, Pinduoduo, 1688, etc.), the number of product SKUs is >50, and it meets the requirements of local export and local import.

3. Shopee provides a one-stop logistics solution to solve the problem of multi-site operation. Sellers do not need to prepare goods in advance. Once a customer places an order, the seller can print the waybill and ship it to the Shopee transit warehouse. Shopee will be responsible for customs clearance and final delivery. With a delivery price about 30% lower than the market price, the fastest delivery time is 3 days, providing sellers with a low-cost and efficient logistics solution!

4. Regarding payment, Shopee has complete payment solutions for each site in the local area. It initiates payment guarantee and holds custody of payment for goods. After a successful transaction, it pays the seller the payment and freight subsidy. It pays the seller through a third-party payment partner. The payment cycle for sellers is once every two weeks, at the beginning and middle of the month respectively, and the payment amount is the orders that have been delivered before the payment date.

If you don’t have time to open a store in the near future, then you must remember not to open an account without sales permissions. This option will appear when you apply for a store. You must pay attention to it, because after opening it, your store will be directly in the opened status, and you will need to upload goods and start completing tasks.