Is Shopee easy to do business? Tips for entering Shopee

When it comes to cross-border e-commerce, the most well-known platforms are Amazon, eBay, etc. In recent years, many new cross-border e-commerce platforms have emerged, including Shopee. Let's take a closer look at the Shopee platform.

1. Is Shopee easy to do?

Shopee's main markets are in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, and it is in competition with Lazada. However, Shopee's performance in recent years is obviously better than Lazada, especially in the two major markets of Taiwan and Indonesia.

On a platform like Shopee that is not fully mature and is monopolized by large sellers, small and medium-sized sellers can still occupy the last place if they hurry up and join. For those with language barriers, running a Taiwan site is very easy, as it is like opening a Taobao store in mainland China. Shopee's current algorithm is quite conscientious. As long as you add more new products and work hard to get good reviews and likes, you will still have traffic. It is easy to get 30-50 orders a day without spending money to buy traffic. It is normal for powerful sellers to get hundreds or thousands of orders a day. Currently, Shopee has successively opened a Philippine site and will open a Vietnamese site after the new year, and it is likely to compete with Lazada.

2. Tips for entering Shopee

1. Store opening conditions

Sellers who want to open a store on Shopee need to meet the following Shopee entry conditions:

1) Enterprises must have a business license to enter Shopee. The business license can be a business license from mainland China or Hong Kong.

2) The products sold by the seller must comply with the national export policy and the import requirements of the target country.

3) Product SKU quantity requirement: SKU quantity is not less than 200

4) Screenshots of the store's order flow or cash flow. Screenshots of the overall data for the past three months are sufficient.

5) Screenshot of product quantity in the ERP system or store backend system

2.Shopee entry process

Step 1: Apply for entry. Sellers need to log in to the Shopee official website and fill in the application information.

Step 2: Receive the audit result. Shopee receives the audit information. If the seller's store passes the audit, the merchant manager will contact the seller.

Step 3: Fill in the new product form. Sellers need to fill in the batch new product form according to the requirements.

Step 4: Connect logistics and payment. Connect the corresponding logistics and payment according to the rules of each Shopee site.

Step 5: Prepare the shop sign. Sellers can prepare the text and pictures of the shop decoration in advance.

Step 6: Open a Shopee seller account. Shopee staff will open the account.

Shopee is an excellent platform for Chinese cross-border e-commerce sellers to enter the Southeast Asian market. The platform traffic and user scale are very optimistic. If you are exhausted in the fiercely fighting European and American battlefields or want to take your business to the next level, then Shopee is a very good choice.

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