as amazon sellers and e-commerce sellers
of course you want to sell your products
to
as many people as possible should you
start your own website
should you sell on a different
marketplace should you sell in a
different country
these are questions that you are faced
with every single day
in this video we're gonna be talking
with zbooney
a revolutionary application that can
help you
sell your products any product or
service
in the uae ksa let's get started
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so ashraf thank you so much for being uh
you know a guest on our channel
thank you so much for your time so today
we're going to be talking about zbuni
unique application unique marketplace
and how it's going to be able to help
sellers basically expand their reach
and their business in the middle east
region
so let's get started first things first
what is booney
when was it created and what what is it
exactly
uh thanks a lot crystal uh we appreciate
the opportunity to be
on your channel it's an honor and we're
happy to partner with the
amazon seller society uh zabuni
is a merchant application uh
marketplace that was developed here in
dubai in 2016.
um subunit was actually one of eight
companies
that was incubated by facebook in 2018
we spent
six months with them in silicon valley
where they taught us
how to build a product that fit in our
current market
so after a lot of research
and figuring out what smes
needed here in this region we realized
that the challenge for smes to get
online the challenge
for them to put all their products in
one place and to show them to their
customers to do it digitally
uh was quite daunting a lot of small and
medium companies
here we found were really focused on
providing fantastic products and
fantastic customer experience
and didn't have the expertise and the
resources to
build a website put their products on it
uh
get a payment gateway and accept
payments
uh online so what zubuni was able to do
is we built a marketplace application
that's
for merchants so merchants download the
application uh and they are very
quickly and easily able to upload
uh descriptions of their product
pictures of their product prices
and that creates for them a store on our
marketplace
so whatever your store is called it will
be you know crystalshats.zaguni.com and
now you have your store
on the zabooni marketplace okay you can
then share that product with
your customers or the customers that are
coming into zwoony will also get access
to those
uh to those products and have the
ability to buy them so really what we
are is we're almost
a one-stop shop for smes uh
to start their kind of digital
transformation that's actually fantastic
because when people
do start in e-commerce you know they get
uh they get the bug and they want to
always think about expanding for sure
now before we get into the details of
zbuni
what marketplaces does boonie currently
serve so if i do become
you know if i do open an account and
we're going to talk about all the
details about how
you know not dive deep into details
because i do want people to contact you
uh but still we're gonna talk about how
they can apply and become
um spoon which is
customer so yeah but
let's talk a little bit about the
marketplaces that us booney serves which
is very fantastic and it's
a big opportunities for people uh so
i'll i'll let you
talk about that so zabooni is currently
live
in the uae and saudi arabia and we have
uh over 2 000 transacting merchants
in those two countries we are able to
onboard merchants that are
licensed and have bank accounts in those
two countries and we can settle their
funds
uh with them directly uh we are opening
hopefully two new markets in the middle
east very very soon
um so watch the space hopefully the next
month there's gonna be some good news
uh coming fantastic so i should have
just to get it
so if i do uh become if i am in the uae
and i do register i can also sell my
products
in ksa and vice versa correct
correct so the the uh when you set up a
store you will select
which uh when you select uh set up a
zbuni store on our marketplace
you will select which currency uh to
present in you can currently present in
two currencies
uh aed and ksa as we open more countries
we will be adding more currencies to
them um
and you can sell that to anywhere in the
world so anybody can
look at your items on our marketplace
and can buy using any international visa
master or debit card
okay the extra ability we do is that we
also allow
merchants to sell cross-border so
if i am a merchant in the uap and i want
to sell
in i want to focus on ksa our one-on-one
campaigns there and
and really focus on that ksa market i
can open the zabuni
uh ksa account present in
saudi riyal and settle my funds uh in
the uae and that's something pretty
unique
because it allows uh merchants in the
uae
to look like saudi merchants then
transact there
also gives them the ability to accept
some of the local saudi payment methods
uh like the debit card that's on their
internal central bank network which is
not accepted actually outside of the
kingdom
for sure and that's very important
because you know as e-commerce sellers
we want to try to expand our business
as much as possible and obviously for
people in the uae ksa is a very big
marketplace and vice versa
because the uae is a very diverse type
of a market
so with that being said just to make it
a little bit clearer so
spooning gives me independence so
basically you don't have a logistical
network or anything
as a seller i'm the one who's
responsible for fulfillment delivery
all of that but zbuni provides me a
marketplace where i can
sell my products i can market my
products directly on social media
and i can also uh you know get a a
payment gateway without having to bother
of trying to figure out because that's a
that's also a tough situation for
sellers in the uae
correct crystal so the the reality is is
when you're on our marketplace and you
post your products
uh we are the merchant records so we're
going to be taking uh that money and
settling with you in the app
you have a digital wallet which shows
your sales
you'll input your uh bank account
details and on demand when you push a
button we will transfer
uh your sales amounts to your uh
to the bank account that you've input
less the commission that we take
um just to just to clarify things
who do you think is the perfect uh
spoonie seller so what would their
background be
what types of products do they sell do
they even have to sell products
because i i know that you also provide
this for people who are service
providers who have
actual services and not just physical
products we
are here for small and medium merchants
um who are passionate about their
products so
we are really looking for artisans
professionals
and as you mentioned it doesn't have to
be a physical product it's a product and
a services marketplace
so you can post your product sell them
and
we are looking for the person who is
obsessed with about their product and
their customers
and they want an easy way for their
customers to get access to their
products
and there is no easier way today
to upload present your products to your
customers and close the sale
than subuni um the ethos and kind of
our mission is uh what we call
we want to level the playing field for
the small medium enterprise
so things like cross-border presenting
in different currencies getting a
website
uh creating payment links accepting
credit card
accepting debit card these are all
things that
large enterprises large retail
establishments kind of take for granted
and the way that the banking system and
the regulations have been set up in this
part of the world
it's exclusive they exclude small and
medium businesses 100 so it's a
challenge for the little guy who might
have
a fantastic product that he's very
passionate about he wants to push it out
to the market
the deck is really stacked against him
we
have a tool that they can download on
their phone
uh that within you know 20 minutes
they are able to have a digital presence
uh they're able to share that presence
with their customers either by social
media or whatever channels that they're
communicating with and that
link has cart and credit card processing
attached to it
so we're really turning the uh you know
the equation on its head here where to
get to that situation before
might have taken you know six months to
a year with
bank applications and building a website
and integrating these two things
and paying you know uh i.t folks to
connect it and to do all the plumbing
now uh
you focus on your product you take great
photos of your product you describe it
very very well you spend your time
marketing
it put it on our marketplace
and uh we will help you close that last
mile which is the sale
that sounds absolutely fantastic and you
know you're you're explaining and i can
only imagine people because i because so
many people reach out to me
because of the channel uh you know
they're selling handmade uh items
they're
so so i can only imagine how fantastic
would be for people like that and for
any for all in any sellers
so with that being said ashraf what
exactly
uh do i need uh as a seller if i do want
to open an account with
zbooney how does it work just just give
me uh uh you know
no details because i do want people to
contact you guys directly of course
yeah it's it's pretty straightforward
the first step would be to download the
app
on your android or iphone and it's
available in the app store or the play
store
uh download the app it's a very
straightforward sign in
uh you're gonna set up your your online
zubuni store
which is your presence on our
marketplace you're gonna put your logo
you're gonna put your products and their
prices
um and then somebody from our side
will contact you to activate your
account
activating your account means that you
are live you're connected to our
credit card backend and you can start to
accept uh
payment from your customers uh and your
sales will be ticked uh
into your wallet and you'll kind of see
your performance in addition
we have a basic crm so you can see who's
bought from you the most
you see which products are selling the
most um there's monthly views i can see
how much i sold this month how much i
cashed out
and a lot of business intelligence so we
want to put all of these again think
back to
the tools and the data and the analytics
that the big guys have to analyze how
they're doing
we're putting that back in the hands of
the small guy it's all on your mobile
phone
it's all available 24 7. uh you can open
it up you can see your performance
and you have me and my team that's here
you know 24 7 to support you we're a
whatsapp away
um and you can ask any questions and
our goal because there's no annual fees
because there's no monthly fees
uh we are successful when you're
successful so we're a very very small
partner of yours
and it's in our interest for you to sell
as much as possible because that's
that's
good for everybody so we really see it
as a win-win and
everybody in this organization is
dedicated to making sure that
everybody in our merchant ecosystem is
as successful as possible
and we spend all of our time thinking
about how we can
you know do that better for small and
medium businesses here in this region
sounds fantastic thank you so much for
your time i'll leave all the links
uh and anything you know as you said
it's very easy you can go and download
spoonie but
i will leave all your links in the
website and everything in the
description box below
i'm sure we're going to have you on the
channel again can i just jump in and say
one thing
specific to amazon sellers or new
sellers that are
doing here we at subuni have
identified in the past two years that
the marketplace is changing
right when i'm talking marketplace i'm
talking traditional online marketplaces
um we see the discovery phase happening
in places like noon amazon but more
often than not they're happening on
facebook tick tock so the store window
is moving right it's moving from amazon
where you put in
a search and i'm looking for tennis
shoes or baseball caps or whatever
now as i'm scrolling through my
instagram i'm starting to discover
new products so the question for the
amazon seller or the noon seller then
comes
uh what happens when that
customer has discovered your products in
a marketplace that's not
amazon or new do you still give amazon
or noon the same commissions as if
they've brought that customer to you
because that's not equitable anymore if
you've done the work to market your
product and your customer has discovered
you
in a different place and that might be i
don't know 40 50
of your business right uh why not
take advantage of someone that is trying
to help you you know
to make as much from that sales possible
to reward you for your marketing
and put it on a marketplace that will
reward you for bringing your customers
there uh will start to generate demand
for you as well
and it's a network effect so the more
that you sell the stronger your page
gets on our you know page ranking and
the more your products will appear in
front of people so we
are not one of the giants right we're
not the big
two in this region which is new and uh
and amazon
um but we give you the ability to have a
store that's dedicated to you that you
can share
a catalog that's there and the ability
to close those sales
at commissions that are much more
equitable
than uh you guys do so for
us this is not a competitive thing with
noon and amazon
this is another tool in the smes toolbox
and another uh resource that they're
going to use to go to market
you're 100 uh correct ashraf and i
started the video saying you know
you probably start on amazon or you
start on your own website or wherever
but in the region that we live in and
that we serve
we need to always and we sell in
basically we need to always think
how can i expand because we're not
obviously selling in the u.s where you
have 300
plus 300 million plus customers we're
selling in a region that
is you know not everybody uses amazon
maybe not everybody uses
booney not everybody uses noon so you
need to be everywhere in
anywhere especially when you're in sme
and not a brand that people know and
recognize and
and search for so you're a hundred
percent right and
booney is just an additional tool in any
e-seller
e-commerce sellers toolbox and i hope
they will contact you
and if they do i hope they tell you that
they saw this video and that's why
they're coming
yeah i think they will cry the last
thing i want to mention is
zabuni is really a it's a zero risk
proposition
uh for 70s there's no monthly there's no
setup there's no annual fees
if you sell through zabuni we'll take
our commission if not you know the
there's nothing yeah everybody goes back
to their corner so
there's no risk where we're really
looking to put
tools out there that merchants can use
to help close we're not asking for you
know
a two-year commitment where you're
blocking this much money it's a
no-brainer
really to get this stuff out wonderful
thank you so much ashraf and
hopefully we'll have you soon with
another video i appreciate it thank you
crystal have a great day
you too bye so thanks again to ashraf
and the wholes booney team you can see
how passionate they are
about e-commerce and about helping
e-commerce
sellers in the region make sure that you
contact subuni or you at least download
the application
and check it out and tell them that you
saw this video right here on the channel
i'll see you in another video with more
information
bye