hello and welcome this is jasour uh
director and founder of jr and firm a
us-based corporate consultancy company
uh we also have a company based in
shanghai uh also a corporate consultancy
company so far we've been uh helping so
many foreign companies and entrepreneurs
to enter the chinese market with their
products and services so today i would
like to talk about uh how you can enter
the chinese e-commerce market uh again
with your products and services and
start selling to the chinese our clients
now many people many entrepreneurs from
different parts of the world
they ask us this question how can i
open a store on chinese e-commerce
platforms those are taobao biggest ones
and also tmall.com
and there is jd.com now all these
platforms they have their advantages and
disadvantages but you know biggest
one of them is taobao obviously it
belongs to alibaba group
the question is how you can open a store
on these platforms and start selling
your products to chinese market
now we talked about this before actually
the
requirements uh still the same
what you have to do is register a
chinese entity
now in the mainland china i'm not
talking about hong kong or macau
a lot of people ask us again if they can
register a hong kong company and then
start selling on taobao the answer
simple answer is no you cannot because
you know taobao
is a mainland china e-commerce platform
basically
yes there are some suppliers from hong
kong but those suppliers to taobao
are normally managed
through chinese entities if there is no
chinese entity unfortunately you cannot
start a store on taobao.com
why because you know the opening a store
uh basically the process requires you to
present a business license from a
chinese company
that can be limited liability company or
you know you if you partner with the
local person it can be a partnership
company but depending on the structure
in any case you have to present a
general business license for your
chinese entity okay it has to be
registered here so
but if you want to own the company 100
just additional information
it's also possible we talked about this
many times before you can check out
our channel
for shanghai silk road now we've got
quite a following there
and
after you establish the company in china
then the second thing you have to do is
obviously get a chinese number a chinese
phone number why because
you need to register your company with
the
alipay
system so you need to open a corporate
alipay because during the process of
opening a store on taobao or tmall or jd
any one of these e-commerce platforms in
china you have to present a company
alipay that's different from a personal
alipay obviously
if you want to open a corporate alipay
again you have to present your chinese
companies uh documents
and it takes couple of days uh to to get
approved but uh it's not so difficult
normally you know uh all the
applications are approved but
this is one of the requirements okay to
to start um to open a store
on chinese e-commerce platforms another
requirement obviously is then your
alipay corporate alipay needs to be
linked
to your company's bank account company
bank account should be and must be in
china again a lot of people ask us if
they can just register a company in
china and then they can have their
corporate account elsewhere for example
hong kong or singapore yeah you might
still have a secondary account
but
that doesn't mean that you can link that
secondary account to your chinese
e-commerce platform here you cannot link
to your store or you cannot open a
chinese alipay for your company here
okay with your secondary account because
it's understandable so many there are so
many countries that allow you to open
offshore account using a chinese company
and
that's fine but it might be useful for
general purpose general business but
it's not useful
uh for uh for opening a store on one of
these e-commerce platforms okay so
that's why
you need to when when you register your
company in china you need to actually
open a corporate bank account that's an
obvious thing uh because again uh
alipay here they require you to have a
corporate bank account otherwise you
cannot apply for alipay now next thing
uh very important is uh nominee director
or supervisor because you know most of
the people who want to
open their stores on one of these
e-commerce platforms they say that okay
i don't want to
relocate to china especially now with
the pandemic
or i don't
want to hire anybody in china
how can i start this store from distance
okay on taobao tmall or jd.com the
answer is very simple we talked about
this before
you know there is always an option of
having nominee director for your chinese
company and also nominee supervisor if
you don't know when you establish a
company in china there are two positions
which are required by law one is company
director aka legal representative of the
company and number two is a supervisor
both of them can be of any nationality
it's not limited to only chinese
nationalities so imagine if you have
some trustworthy person here you'll
business colleague or friend etc family
member you can ask them if they can be
your company representative here if they
can you know be the company director
here and also you need to find the
second person
for your company supervisor like i said
you know company supervisor can be you
know in uh in
any other country as well they don't
have to be located in china but
please note that company director should
be in china
especially when opening a bank account
okay that's why
we ask our clients either to find
somebody here that they can trust and
they can appoint that person as their
company director so that that person is
available to go to the bank in person
you know to open this corporate bank
account but um you know
if they don't have anybody there's
always a nominee director service you
can contact um with us for that and we
will discuss your situation uh we might
be able to provide you with a nominee
director service for your company and um
that normally director is obviously is
uh you know from china so available to
go to the bank and open a bank account
but of course like i said you know uh
corporate bank account is going to be
opened uh under this normally direct
name
and that's the reason why if you appoint
somebody from your side that person has
to be uh the person that you trust
hundred percent otherwise you know you
cannot control the money because you
know like i said that person normally
directly is the signatory for the bank
account for for your company but if we
provide this nominee director as a
service obviously this control it can be
controlled uh through an agreement
between the
the owner of the company which is
yourself and the nominee director
uh person that we provide so in the
contract it will be clearly mentioned
that this person is just playing the
role of the director and he or she will
not claim any you know uh profits from
the company
so after the corporate bank account is
open you can go ahead uh and apply for a
taobao account or jd.com or tmall
account etc so in in in different words
basically uh you need to have an active
company in china okay otherwise uh it's
impossible to open a store
but um talking about the store part now
a lot of people ask again
how much does it cost to open a towel
store for example
and the answer is it's free okay if you
do it yourself
but the entire process obviously is in
chinese it takes approximately three
business days to open a store on taobao
and tavo does not charge to open a store
okay if you do it yourself now you can
try to do it yourself from distance but
you know most of the time we hear this
uh like feedback uh because of the ip uh
difference
um you know if people try to open a
store using their chinese company from
outside of china
um
sometimes it it might get blocked
because of non-chinese ip address okay
so but again you can try if you face any
difficulty you can always get in touch
with us we'll be you know glad to assist
you with the process but of course you
know we charge for this service
but
for jd.com and tmall
we mentioned
in different videos those platforms are
not free
normally they charge some sort of
deposit
but that deposit obviously it's you know
just like the name says it's a deposit
when you
you know close the store that deposit
will be you know given back to you
but um of course there there's a
difference between you know taobao and
jd and tmall.com taobao is normally uh
is a general you know and the most
common uh e-commerce platform that
people you know buy and sell stuff and
uh most of the time you can see the
different types of products there like
from poor quality uh to good quality
sometimes you can find but jd and
tmall.com they are normally especially
jd is uh you know they focus on more
technology products
and therefore they you know they invite
or they have a lot of branded products
okay
different different brand products they
have their official flagship stores uh
tmol uh more or less you know it's the
same like quality-wise t-mall has
um you know uh better like quality
products there and uh that's the reason
why probably they charge both of them jd
and t-mall uh some some service fee and
much higher than taobao uh and on taobao
as well when you sell something there's
a percentage they cut but they don't
have deposit that's the difference so
all in all guys if you want to enter the
chinese e-commerce market
you can you know
do that but you have to establish a
company in china open a corporate bank
account for your chinese company have a
corporate alipay account and then you
can apply for
store opening normally the store opening
takes you know between uh one day and
three business days uh depending on how
busy they are because there is a manual
you know process uh somebody from those
ecom platforms they're going to check
your application and then get back to
you sometimes they call you
to clarify a couple of things they ask
you for some further documentation
but you know it's it's very
straightforward for somebody who knows
how to apply for stored license and they
yeah they provide the store license as
well uh the one you can download
afterwards and you know you can you know
put it there on your store uh or you
know you can
use that for advertising purposes
showing that you have an official store
on taobao in the beginning of the video
i mentioned that we have
two companies okay we have a branch in
the us
for
our u.s
based clients and also european
european-based clients if you want to
you know uh enter the chinese market
with your products and services you can
always you know get in touch with us
send us an email or leave your questions
in the comment section below or schedule
a call with me personally i would be you
know glad to
hear from you
discuss your product uh business
situation and uh you know
i'll be glad to assist with your
market entry into china and
like i mentioned again we have a
shanghai company as well
corporate consultancy we've helped
so many clients already you know to
enter the chinese market with their
products services and still are helping
and
so yeah we have like first-hand
knowledge
this is what i want to say
and uh on on the chinese market um both
like from the legal perspective and from
trading perspective because
again we have a trading company as well
uh you know on top of this corporate
consultancy but anyways like this is
what i want to
talk about today and also you know at
the same time answer all these questions
that we receive on a daily basis on how
to enter the chinese market how to open
a store on chinese e-commerce platforms
any questions guys uh welcome to contact
us
our contact details are in the
description below or you can you know
see that on the screen
give us a call schedule a call with us
and we'll discuss
thank you for watching i'll see you guys
in the next videos