HOW TO SELL ON SHOP CLUES: SELLER REGISTRATION
The importance of e-commerce is increasing day by day. In today’s era, electronic trade and commerce have emerged as a big industry. The ease and convenience it offers the public at large is incomparable. People are slowly accepting and relying on the whole concept of online shopping. There are various websites which acts as an interface to sell and buy various products and offer also certain services. These websites have to keep in mind the convenience of customers as well as the sellers.
Shop clues is one of the online shopping website and offer great deals to its customers. It has a fixed process on how you can sell your product on shop clues. Shop clues is an online channel and communication platform that connects sellers and buyers but the buying and selling is the contract between buyers and sellers. Shop Clue is a Business- to Consumer shopping platform. A seller can be a person who is retailer, reseller, brand owner, manufacturer, franchise holder etc. The basic procedure to be followed to sell the products on Shop Clues is as follows:
- Registration of Merchants
Visit the website :- http://storemanager.shopclues.com/vendor.php?dispatch=auth.login_form&return_url=vendor.php and signup by step- by-step process. Three basic requisites need to be kept in mind; i.e.
- Contact Information of the Seller
- Bank Details, including PAN Card No, Account No., Account Type etc.
- Service fee agreement; fee charged on fulfilment of online order is to be deliberated upon.
After this you will get your store front URL (webpage) with your Logo, store name and products’ listing. The merchant will have a website in its own name.
While providing the basic information, order pick up location is to be provided as Shop Clues or any of its courier partners will pick up the items sold by you at Shop Clues.
- Upload the product pictures
After successful registration on Shop clues, you can have access to your online store at Shop Clues and can upload the pictures of product for selling from anywhere using the internet. There are three basic ways of uploading product:
- One-by-one upload
- Express upload
- Bulk upload
Along with uploading pictures give product description (colour, size, key attributes), information relating to quantity, price, discount offered etc. You can change these variables any time and also upload any number of products on Shop Clues. Make sure that the information is accurate; the buyers will buy the products on the basis of information provided on the web portal. Also, while listing the price, compare the price in other channels and give a competitive pricing to your product.
- Delivery of Order
Once the order is received from the buyer to the merchant, the delivery; which includes pick, pack and ship process is provided by Shop Clues.
- Fees and Payment to Shop Clues
The payment policy of Shop Clues is such that you need to pay, when you sell the product through Shop Clues. They do not charge for listing of the product on their website and nor they charge for creating your shop on their web portal. The fees a merchant need to pay Shop Clues depends on the product which he sells. A certain percentage of the payment received by the merchant is to be paid to Shop Clues. Also, the pricing component for the merchants can be divided into two parts;
- Listing Fee: Shop Clues does not charge a mere listing fee, but if merchant wants more visibility and run promotions, then several marketing programmes are offered at a fee.
- Selling service fee: When a transaction is successfully completed or executed then a selling service fee is charged. A percentage of final sale value is to be paid as a fee to Shop Clues for successful transaction.
Online payment received by the merchant is handled by Shop Clue on behalf of merchant and the same is transferred to merchant’s account after deduction of selling service fee by Shop Clues.
This sums up the whole process of ‘selling’ products on Shop Clues.
Author: This blog is written by Ms. Raina Verma, a passionate blogger & intern at Aapka Consultant.
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