How to register a local seller on Shopee? What are the advantages?

When opening a store on Shopee, merchants can choose whether to open a cross-border store or a local store. If it is a local store, you must have a local account and local business information. Next, I will talk in detail about how to register a local seller on Shopee?

It is not difficult to register a local store on Shopee. Sellers can use their connections to find some relatives in Southeast Asia to open a local account, or they can register a company and passport through formal channels. There are also some easy ways, but they need to use third-party information through service providers, which involves certain risks.

What are the advantages?

1. Local sellers do not need to go through customs inspections and are not subject to embargoes. Cross-border merchants have category restrictions, while local merchants can list prohibited products, including food, sensitive goods, etc., except for some prohibited items. Therefore, local merchants do not need to worry about price competition from overseas products. Local stores have more categories to choose from than cross-border stores.

2. The delivery speed of local store logistics is faster, because local stores deliver goods locally, which is closer, reducing the time of domestic express delivery for cross-border stores, and can deliver goods to customers more quickly.

3. Local stores do not have to pay a 6% commission, but need to pay a 2% handling fee, while cross-border merchants need to pay a 6% commission and a 2% handling fee. Compared with cross-border stores, this saves part of the commission and reduces the cost of the store.

4. Local stores will have more traffic. When searching for any keyword under the same conditions, the Shopee platform will give priority to displaying local stores. This is mainly because the platform provides traffic support for local stores, and buyers on the platform also prefer to place orders in local stores, as local stores offer a better shopping experience.

In general, if you want to register a local seller on Shopee, you have to use a local mobile phone number to register. In addition, you must register a company locally before you can register a local store.