The 3 most important challenges to selling your products on Amazon and how to overcome them
There have been many inquiries about how to sell on the Amazon platform or open a merchant account on that platform, if the seller is outside the United States of America, and what countries are allowed for its residents to deal with Amazon based on a seller who displays and sells his products through the site.
There are 3 challenges to dealing with the Amazon platform:
1- You must be among the countries that are allowed to deal as a seller on Amazon
This is a list of countries whose residents are allowed to deal with the Amazon platform as sellers, and among these countries are four Arab countries (Algeria, Morocco, Oman, Egypt, and Jordan)
2- You must have a local phone number
3- You must have a bank account or an international credit card and an approved bank account (I mean the international credit card here, that is, the one that accepts online purchases or transactions in different countries, such as a Visa or MasterCard)
We now discuss how to deal with these challenges:
1- To solve the problem of residence or to be within countries that are allowed to deal with Amazon, we use a system called (Fulfillment via Amazon), where it is possible to send products to Amazon stores, and then Amazon sends the product to the buyer as soon as sales are achieved, meaning that Amazon is like the store for the merchant, This part has been explained in great detail in a brochure entitled (Safe Sale on Amazon).
It is possible here to seek the assistance of someone you trust who is in America to perform the commercial intermediary process between you and Amazon within mandatory contracts between the two parties that specify the mechanisms of dealing so that he deals with Amazon and you are the owners of the project, but you must pay attention to the possibility of applying US income tax laws to the income of that person or company.
2- The solution for the phone line: Many companies provide a local US number or a public key number (800), some of them are free or for a small fee, including:
A- Google, through its service called (google voice),
B- The company (grasshopper.com), and this also offers numbers, but for a fee, and is linked to your phone through their special program, and when you call that number, it comes in the form of a normal call to the phone, and this service is with a monthly fee starting at $ 12
3- Amazon deals with great caution with bank accounts or credit cards, and they must be trusted or issued from America if the solution to this challenge is:
You can get a bank account and a credit card (Master Card) through a company or service called Payoneer.
When I search for Amazon and Payoneer, all the reviews say they work well with Amazon, (God knows, because I've never dealt with connecting these two companies before).
The way is to register an account with this company, and this company gives you American bank account information and sends you a credit card, the information of that account is used on any platform (such as Amazon of course), and when you get purchases and check the amount, it is now possible to use that credit card to withdraw the amount from Any withdrawal or automated teller machine (ATM) or through the local bank, or use it as a normal credit card in purchases or the Internet.
Pay attention to the fees that will be paid, whether upon receipt of these amounts or when withdrawing them with a credit card.
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