Can individuals register on Jumia? What do I need to prepare to open a store on Jumia?

Nowadays, e-commerce is developing very fast in many countries and regions, and the competition is very fierce. However, the market served by the jumia platform is different. It mainly targets the African market. Since the local e-commerce is developing relatively slowly, the market competition is relatively small and the potential is great. So can individuals enter the jumia platform?

Can individuals join Jumia?

Individuals cannot register on Jumia. The Jumia platform requires Chinese sellers to have corporate qualifications and register a corporate Payoneer account before applying to open a store.

What do I need to prepare to open a Jumia store?

1. Must have experience in cross-border B2C platform operation;

2. The company needs to have an independent e-commerce operation mechanism and assign dedicated personnel to connect with the platform

3. You need to open a Payoneer corporate account and the listing needs to have sufficient inventory

What information do you need to open a Jumia store?

1. A business license of a company registered in China is required

2. Payoneer corporate account that is consistent with the business license

3. The store has no less than 100 SKUs

4. Legal person ID card

5. Email address, mobile phone number

Once you have prepared the above information and meet the requirements, you can apply on Jumia's Chinese official website. The process is as follows:

1. Go to the following website https://www.jumiaasia.com.cn/jumia-newseller-2021/, submit the application form, fill in the relevant information as required, and submit it to the platform for review.

2. After receiving the email for successful store account opening, please put 5 SKUs on the shelves as required. Then, please reply directly to the email from the merchant manager to apply for store activation before you can start sales.

3. Generate an order, pack and ship it to a domestic sorting center

4. Payback in USD, safe and secure, use Payoneer for enterprise

After that, Jumia will accept applications for that week every Friday and send an email with the entry link in the second week. If you still don’t receive a reply email from the Jumia investment team in the second week, please check your spam folder.

So if individual sellers want to join Jumia, they need to register a company and a corporate Payoneer account first, so that you can open a store on Jumia. Currently, the number of sellers on Jumia is relatively small, and as the largest e-commerce platform in Africa, it has a large amount of traffic, so it is relatively easy for everyone to acquire customers, so you might as well learn more about it.

The jumia platform can only be entered as an enterprise, not as an individual. Therefore, if you want to enter the platform, you must first register a company, or directly find an agency to enter. However, there will obviously be greater risks, so it is recommended that you register a company before entering.

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