Do you have goods you would love to sell online via a platform with a ready made market and delivery services on ground? Particularly Jumia? Well this article is for You.
Selling your goods or wares with Jumia gives you the added advantage of making said goods and wares available to prospective customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Another advantage of using Jumia Kenya’s platform is that it providers traders on the platform with weekly payments for commodities they sell via the platform, a business model which is more than ideal for Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) startups, and other businesses whose operations are conducted from home.
Jumia Kenya also takes care of the advertising of your goods as well as logistics, sales and the collection of payments.
How To Sell Goods Via Jumia Kenya
Selling goods on the Jumia Kenya platform, requires you (the vendor) to register for a selling account just like all other online platforms. Ensure that the details of your business are easily accessible to you during your application process and while this might seem obvious, please make sure that you accept the platform’s terms and conditions.
To get started:
- Go to the Jumia seller account registration page via this link: https://sellercenter.jumia.co.ke/user/signup/dostep/step/1 and fill up the registration form accurately.
- Next, set your unique password which will be easy for you to memorize.
- Once done, proceed to accept the terms and conditions of the e-contract.
- After that, you will be required to provide information regarding your business as well as your bank account details.
- Confirm all your entries and save the entries. You will get a confirmation email from the seller center and verification through a link welcoming and notifying you of your newly crew
A number of vendor or seller services are also available on Jumia Kenya’s online platform. This in turn gives members of its ‘local’ communities (the platform sees its vendors or sellers as members of a community), the opportunity to earn a lot more in terms of income.
How To Use Drop Shipping Via Jumia Kenya
The process for using drop shipping via Jumia Kenya is rather easy. Simply:
- Log in to your Jumia Kenya seller account.
- Go to ‘orders’ and select the ‘Manage orders’ option.
- Next confirm the orders and select them for processing.
- After that, select your preferred shipping provider or drop off hub.
- Once done, provide the necessary documents and then mark the commodity as ‘ready to ship’. The rest will be taken care of by Jumia Kenya.
Once you have followed all of the steps above, the order will get to your client(s).
Jumia (also nicknamed the Amazon of Africa because of its ever expanding continental reach), is an e-commerce platform for electronics, fashion, and more, which also consists of a marketplace (consisting of millions of online shoppers as well as affiliate traders and brands), that connects sellers with the respective consumers.
The company (Jumia) whose parent organization is called ‘Rocket Internet’ and who began operations in May 2013, also has a logistics service which caters to the shipment and delivery as well as the packaging of goods directly from sellers to costumers. In addition, Jumia has its own payment service, which facilitates the transactions among users of the Jumia platform in various markets.
Jumia which has operations in 12 African countries including Kenya has so far, partnered with more than 81,000 local African companies and typically delivers goods from between 2 to 5 business days. The timeframe can however extend to 7 business days.
It currently employs over 500 staff in its Kenyan operations with a target of employing 15,000 staff, a clear demonstration of the company’s impact in the job market both directly and indirectly.
Jumia has continued to experience a very steady growth with its sales rising by an estimated 80% every year since its inception. In April 2019, the company was valued at 100.2 billion Kenyan Shillings.
