Step by step Amazon selling guide for Indian sellers.
1.Know where do you want to sell and what do you want to sell.
Amazon is the best platform to sell online from your country to other countries. It will help in growing your business internationally with ease.
Take the local taxes into consideration before selling online . For this you can take help from your local tax advisors.
Here is the link to Amazon India for further details:
https://www.amazon.com/
https://amazon.in/?ref_=sd_gs_global_in_i&ld=NSGoogle
2. Requirements for Indians.
If you are based in India and want to sell on Amazon.
Following are the basic requirements:
-A credit card which has option to be charged internationally.
-A bank account of your country which allows Automated clearing house which means that your bank account is able to accept the payments from Amazon.
-Your address where Amazon will send you mails.
-Your phone number with country code .
-A US EIN number .Here is the link to get US EIN number : https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fss4.pdf
3. Finding products .
Find products which can give you profit on Amazon. For this , search online what buyers are looking for online from your platform . See the tips which qualifies your product to be a good product. In browse category see what are the best selling products and what items are in demand .
Here is the link to find such products: https://startupbros.com/step-by-step-guide-on-how-to-find-a-profitable-product-to-sell/
4. Restricted categories .
Do not chose restricted categories of Amazon. Here is the link : https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=14113001
5. Make list of your products .
To make a list of your items on Amazon you first have to chose the products and then proceed with listing. For this purpose, go to the inventory tab of Seller cental and click on Add items . You can search for the product information as well from here .Now see how many units of each item you want. If your item needs any preparation you can select that whether you will prepare it or you want Amazon to prepare it .
Here is the link for detail:
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/202121570?ref_=sdus_gs_guide_xscus_bil&ld=NSGoogle
6. Make your Amazon account.
For starting off Amazon will provide you with a number of options and offers through which you can make your new account. You can simply chose the one which suits you and proceed forward with creating the account. Fir this purpose the link is attached below as well. Amazon will also ask for information of specific application to proceed with account creation process.
For opening Amazon India account . Here is guide https://sell.amazon.com/?ref_=asus_soa_rd& http://go.amazonsellerservices.com/l/229492/2017-12-18/328qmc3?ld=NSGoogle
7. Payments.
It is advisable to create your own bank account in the country you are willing to sell.For this contact your local tax advisory committee. When your selling account is set your balance is positive first. It will take almost 5 business days or around that till Amazon shifts balance in your bank account. As your Amazon payments come from more than one source, it will be showed in your bank statements. Before expecting payment from Amazon you need to have a valid bank account or payment method as described in the requirements in step 2 .
For this the basic requirement is already mentioned in step 2.
8. Shipment procedure .
Amazon helps you to ship your products to the buyers online . For this there are 2 ways . Complete this by your own or use FBA which means fulfilment by Amazon.
https://services.amazon.com/global-selling/global-selling-guide.html/ref=asus_agsm_HIWpage_ship?ld=NSGoogle_SDRP_SELL_M#ship
-Fulfilment by seller
Here you can ship your products directly to the customers internationally. Keep in mind about international shipping cost and delivery time, ship accordingly
-Fulfilment by amazon(FBA)
Fulfilment by Amazon is very popular nowadays and it has become even more popular for all the right reasons.It is the fundamental of ecommerce business. Through this it is on Amazon to pick the products which you have to sell . Amazon will ship the products as well and provide them to the customers. It has made this really easy for the sellers to grow their business and continue with it without worrying about the departments of logistics , packaging or the articles , shipment e.t.c. FBA allows the sellers to rest assured that their products will be delivered in time to the customers with all the delivery essentials. This makes it really easy for sellers to depend on Amazon. One edge of FBA is that the order is delivered timely and in less days .
-Importing and exporting inventory
After expanding your business you may need a customer broker or freight forwarder. Here is the link to the details : https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/201021820?language=en-US&ref=mpbc_200781070_cont_201021820&ld=NSGoogle
Make sure that your shipments go with the Amazon policies. If Amazon does not accept your shipments then you are advised to remove the shipment from fulfilment centre. There are so many online resources which help the sellers of Amazon to check the rates and it also makes shipping easier.
9. Manage your business.
For management of your business u can provide return policies either locally or through Amazon. In addition, provide customer support to your customers in best possible way.
Discover various management tools.
Here is the link for that:
https://services.amazon.com/global-selling/global-selling-guide.html/ref=asus_agsm_HIWpage_managesupport?ld=NSGoogle_SDRP_SELL_M#support
10. Customer support.
Provide local language customer support.
Be cautious with timely replying.
Now you know all the basics to get started. You can simple follow the steps and start selling .