As compared to Traditional Offline Business, Online Marketing Platforms are gaining more popularity among consumers these days. In recent few years, Online Shopping is fast becoming a craze among young people. That’s why online Marketing Platforms like Flipkart and Amazon are becoming very much popular and reliable for online shopping among the common people. Nowadays due to the fast growth of Online marketing platforms, the online shopping platform Flipkart is now one of the biggest online market platforms in India. Its popularity is due to the time-bound availability of high-quality products at affordable rates.

2 Simple Ways To Become A Seller On Flipkart

Now If You are Owning a traditional Offline Business, and also want to sell your products on Flipkart to reach a large number of people in order to increase your sales. Here we will explain to you two simple ways to become a seller on Flip Kart

As an Individual Seller 

As an individual seller if anyone wants to join Flip Kart. He or she should submit the following documents:-

Identity Proof

• A declaration printed on letterhead
• Statement of bank account
• PAN CARD
• PASSPORT
• DL
• Voter ID Card

Note: You can also submit any other photo ID along with a letter signed by a gazetted officer for verifying your Identity.

Address Proof

• Telephone Bill
• Ration Card
• Electricity Bill
• Letter from employer
• Bank Account Statement
• Lease or License Agreement
• Letter from authorized Public Authority

As A Private Ltd company

If you own a Private Ltd company and want to sell your product as a Private Ltd Company then you will need the following documents as Identity and address proof

ID Proof

• Certificate copy of incorporation of Private Ltd Company
• Copy of Memorandum of association
• Company PANCARD

 Address Proof

• Company electricity Bill
• Company Landline Telephone Bill
• Lease  or rent agreement

Requirements For Becoming A Seller On Flipkart

If you want to become a Flipkart Seller You should basically fulfill three main conditions given below:

•  Your product should be unique as compared to other similar products available online.
• GSTIN detail of your proprietorship firm or Private Ltd Company.
• You must submit a copy of the canceled Cheque.

The display of any item is easy on Flipkart. If we compare it with any other online shopping platform like Amazon Snapdeal etc. But a seller must have at least 10 items to display and sell on the Flip Kart

How To reap extra benefits on Flipkart

To become a seller on Flipkart and reap extra benefits as compared to traditional Offline shops in the market, a seller should keep photos of their stock items to be sold ready and they can easily able to upload the images of those items along with the text price information.

Any New seller if he wants to start doing a new online Business with Flip Kart. He may start his online business with Flipkart as Tier 2 sellers and after completing one month and 30 transactions, they will be eligible to become Tier 1 level sellers. Along with this customer dispute resolving rate also helps FlipKart in making decisions whether a seller is Tier 1 or Tier 2 level seller.

Difference between Tier 1 and Tier 2 level Seller

The main difference between a Tier 1 and Tier 2 level seller is that a Tier 1 seller gets payment for his products within 5 days of dispatch of their delivered items. On other hand, Tier2 sellers get payment in 10 days after dispatch their products. Usually, Flipkart sells any item to its customers after obtaining them from sellers.

Note:  Payment for any item sold on Flipkart is generally transferred to the seller's account within 7 days of the sale of that particular item. And Flipkart charges a nominal amount of commission for each sale.

How to sell unique items on Flipkart

If anyone wants to sell his unique item, on Flipkart. He should first off all get registered as an online seller partner at flipkart.com. Secondly, he should display his items under a specific product category. After receiving any order he should pack the item and mark it as “Ready to Dispatch”.  Now Flipkart dispatch partner will pick up the item from the seller shop or outlet and deliver it to the consumer

Note: Once an ordered item is successfully dispatched, the seller will get his payment within 7 to 15 Business Days.

Basically, Flipkart has two kinds of dispatch method for the delivery of any particular item:

1. Flipkart Standard Delivery method: Under this method, a seller has to take stock of the item ordered by a customer. Along with this, the seller is responsible to execute the delivery of the order by packing it.

Note:  The Standard delivery method is backed by 45 days refund/ Replacement policy of Flipkart.

2. Flipkart Advantage Delivery Method: Under this method, any item ordered by the customer is delivered by the company in 24 hours.

Note: Flipkart Advantage Delivery method is backed by 30 days return and refund policy of Flipkart.

Conclusion

Thus, we come to the conclusion that Flipkart as an online platform for selling their products seller can reach a large number of customers as compared to traditional offline business.  They can also reap more gains in terms of profits in comparison to traditional Offline Business (Shop/ Outlet).

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