Can I do Shopee without source of goods?

As a cross-border e-commerce platform, Shopee is still very popular among merchants and consumers. There are many merchants opening stores here. Some merchants want to run stores without source of goods. So, can they run Shopee without source of goods?

Can I do Shopee without source of goods?

Shopee is an e-commerce platform that has emerged in Southeast Asia. The platform is easy to get started and operates in a no-source-shipping mode. In the early stages of opening a Shopee store, you can focus on distributing goods. After the store places an order, you can get the goods from the freight forwarder, thus realizing no-source operation.

If you don't have a source of goods, you don't need to stock up the goods yourself or buy them in advance. Instead, if a buyer places an order in your store, you need to get the products from other domestic stores and resell them. To put it more simply, it is a marketing method in which middlemen make a profit from the price difference. If you don't have a source of goods on Shopee, one advantage compared to other cross-border platforms is that you don't have to send the goods abroad by yourself, but instead send them to the domestic Shopee transit warehouse, and the official will then carry out unified distribution. However, there is a possibility that the official may accidentally lose your goods, but this situation is not common.

At the beginning, people often talked about Shopee store groups. Shopee store groups are multiple Shopee stores. Shopee's group control system is used to operate multiple stores at the same time, such as batch uploading and removing products, batch modifying product prices and product inventory, etc. These are all simultaneous operations of stores.

The basic operating principle of the store group model is to upload many products in the store, try to put every consumer's product preferences on the shelves in the store, and then increase the store's chances of placing orders. If you do a store group, after consumers place an order in your store, you can search for the same product on different domestic platforms, and you can also do your best to get the most favorable price product. After that, just write the Shopee warehouse as the address left for the merchant.

In fact, Shopee is also very suitable for businesses without a source of goods. There is no charge for opening a store on Shopee. For novice stores, there is no commission in the first three months. This actually gives you a trial period, which means that in these three months you can try through your own efforts to see if you are suitable for e-commerce and whether you can open a store.

If you choose the wrong category without a source of goods, there will basically be no traffic to you. Even if there is traffic, others will not buy it. For example, if you have a dress, but you upload it to categories such as coats or shirts, this will definitely not work.

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