What is Shopee?
Shopee was founded in Singapore in 2015, and in the next few years, it expanded to Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines and other countries. Currently it is the fastest growing eCommerce marketplace in Southeast Asia, as well as very popular for several countries in Latin America, for example Mexico and Brazil. It provides customers with an easy, secure and fast online shopping experience, the total order number has reached 2.8 billion in 2020.It is a social-first, mobile-central platform, and it is under s stage of rapid development, now it is a great opportunity to start selling and make money on Shopee, you will have the best chance to meet more buyers and boost sales.
Why use Shopee?
As we all know, Shopee platform is still in a stage of rapid development, and it is great for small and medium sellers now. Here are some points why you can use Shopee to sell products:1. Friendly for newbies, you can enjoy the preferential policy support of the platform
2. Easy to start with little cost and time
3. Easy upload products via phone
4. Chat feature, no need to contact the buyers through the 3rd-party tools
5. High potential platform with fast growth
6. App available, great shopping experience for buyers, it accumulates a large number of buyers
7. Strong and powerful logistics and shipping terms, so you can use the fast and reliable shipping
How much does it cost to sell on Shopee MY?
Shopee sellers don't need to pay any monthly fees to register a seller account or listing products on Shopee. Instead, all Shopee sellers are charged a Transaction Fee when the orders are completed. It charges 2.12% of the total order amount paid by the buyer, you can check the following images from Shopee.
How to start selling on Shopee MY?
Step1: Download Shopee App from your Apple App Store or Google Play Store, or you can go to Shopee MY website on a computer device.Step2: Register an account on Shopee MY
If you don't have a seller account on Shopee, you can go to Shopee APP or seller center to register a new account. After that, you need to add and verify your phone number and email to ensure that your store and products are visible to your buyers.
Step3: Set up your Shopee seller account
There are some main components to your shop profile, it can help you to decorate your shop and attract more buyers’ attention.
1. Design and upload the shop logo to show your business and types of products offered in your shop.
2. Upload the cover photo, the cover photo is the first thing the buyer can see when they visit your shop.
3. Enter a shop name, then your buyers can know your shop name and products you sold. But you need to follow Shopee’s policy on shop naming.
4. Upload attractive images and videos to show your products, you can also capture the buyers’ attention.
5. Provide a shop description, for example, its story, what products you sell, and others details.
Step4: Set up shipping info
You can choose the shipping options you would like to use to ship items to your customers. After you enable the shipping options here, you are able to choose the shipping options for particular products when you list new products or edit live products.
Step5: Add your first product
After settings, you can start listing your first product for sale, you need to upload the product photo, fill in the product name, description, price, stock and other fields. When you set up the shipping options, you also need to enter the package weight and size, then Shopee will calculate the shipping fee according to the package weight and size. You can select if you would like to pay for the shipping fee, if you select this option, you have to pay for the shipping fee, and Shopee will not provide any shipping fee rebates. After Filling all the information, just hit the Publish button.
After publishing products to your shop, you can boost your products and wait for your first sale. To list products, you can also use other third-party tools, for example, BigSeller, you can use it to list products, scrape products, and copy products between multiple stores. All features are free, you can also try to use it to manage your products and orders.
Conclusion
Shopee is undoubtedly the most popular online marketplace in Malaysia. It is friendly for buyers to find the products they want to purchase.For sellers, it is a newbie friendly platform. This platform is still in a stage of rapid development, which makes it easy to make money when selling on Shopee. No more consideration, just list your first product and get your first sale on Shopee.