How to Sell Products Online on Flipkart, Snapdeal, Myntra, Ebay, Amazon, Jabong, Shopclues websites
Willing to increase your business? Looking for online source of income? Popular shopping websites provide an offer to sell your products on their website. Know the step-by-step procedure to become a merchant on e-commerce.
World is growing competitive day by day and everybody wants to generate additional income. Popular shopping websites gives an opportunity to vendors and business professionals to sell their products of their website. Business is done mainly in two modes- through marketplace and through affiliates. Former method is more popular and we are going to discuss here for the same.
Marketplace available in these websites allows you to list your product on their website, place a photograph of the same, and sell it directly to the customer. Some of these websites charge little commission/ fees too on the amount of good sold by the person. You can read about it below.Eligibility to become an online merchant
Though there are not hard and fast rules to register yourself as a merchant on these e-commerce websites, basic requirements are listed below.
Bank statement
TIN/ VAT/ CST number
PAN card
Identity Proof- Driving license, Voter ID card, etc.
Address Proof- Electricity bill, Telephone bill or lease/ rental agreement
How to register as a seller on e-commerce websites
These websites provide you business by showing your products on their website. Customers look at the images of your product and place an order. Website will send you email guiding you to ship the product. Some websites also do the shipment on your behalf on a nominal charge. Income will be deposited into your bank account after deducting the fees as mentioned at the time of registration.
Though the basic steps to make registration is different for each website, here are the links which you should follow to sign up at concerned website.
Flipkart https://seller.flipkart.com/selfSignup/create
Snapdeal http://sellers.snapdeal.com/
Myntra https://partnerportal.myntra.com/faces/register.xhtml
Ebay http://sellercentre.ebay.in/in-lead-capture
Amazon http://services.amazon.in/services/sell-on-amazon/benefits.html
Jabong http://www.jabong.com/sellonjabong/
Shopclues http://www.shopclues.com/learn-to-sell.html
You need to provide your complete name, email ID, mobile number, complete address, nature of business, type of goods to be sold, websites where you are currently selling (if any), TIN number (not required if you are going to sell books or unstitched apparels), credit card details, etc. Websites do not charge any registration fee at this stage.
You will asked to verify your details. Once you are verified and successfully registered with these portals, you will receive an email where they will provide you a MS-Excel worksheet. You have to fill this worksheet providing details like cost price of each item, image of each product, your minimum profit, code name, courier type, type of shipment, description of goods, size/ color/ variety of each item, packing dimensions, etc.
You can sell a vast variety of goods. Clothes, Jewellery, Gadgets, Furniture, Kitchen accessories, Personal Care Appliances, Music, Books, Luggage, Beauty items, Baby products, Car/ Bike accessories, Audio and GPS, Hardware and Sanitary, Pet items, etc. are few main categories.
You need to pay monthly subscription fee for almost all websites listed above. Rate of fee is different at each website. You may also be asked to pay Service Tax, Education Cess and Higher Education Cess additionally. Readers are requested to get in touch with contact person of each website to know more details. Alternatively, you can register yourself and they will tell you their terms and charges once registration is completed successfully.
Shipment can be done through your own courier service or through courier service of concerned website. Additional charges are levied if you opt for their (website's) courier service. But in such a case, you will be free from any hassle as they handle any returns too.
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Why TIN/ VAT/ CST number is required for all other marketplaces for selling but not ebay.in, can you please explain? Is ebay.in doing legal business as a marketplace by giving such exception to its sellers?