Founded in 1999, Alibaba International Station is an international trade platform under Alibaba. It is positioned as an online trade market for small and medium-sized enterprises nationwide, and its service targets overseas users. Alibaba International Station provides a communication platform for overseas buyers and domestic sellers. Buyers can find the company and product information published by sellers through search and then initiate inquiries. Sellers can also search for buyers’ procurement information.
At present, Alibaba International Station has covered more than 200 countries and regions in the world, with more than 26 million active corporate sellers, and is one of the world’s largest B2B cross-border e-commerce platforms. Platform fees mainly include annual membership fees and other paid product fees.
Members are divided into basic members and senior members. As of August 2022, basic members are 29,800 yuan/year and senior members are 80,000 yuan/year. The difference between the two is that senior members can enjoy more service content and more traffic imports.
Other paid products include through trains, showcases, fixed exhibitions and other projects. In addition, the platform does not charge deposits and sales commissions.
For more platform policies, please visit the official website of Alibaba International Station.
B2B platform – Dunhuang.com
Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Beijing, Dunhuang.com is also a platform for B2B online transactions for domestic small and medium-sized enterprises. At present, Dunhuang.com has covered 233 countries and regions around the world, with more than 2.3 million registered suppliers and 36.4 million registered buyers. The average number of online products per year exceeds 25 million. Dunhuang.com also has more than 100 logistics routes and more than 10 overseas warehouses and 71 currencies payment capabilities. It has global offices in North America, Latin America, Europe and other countries.
The difference between Dunhuang.com and Alibaba International Station is that Dunhuang.com adopts a commission system instead of a membership fee model. It only charges fees when the seller successfully completes the transaction, and supports buyers’ online small-amount wholesale purchases. Buyers can choose to purchase in large quantities directly, or choose to purchase samples in small quantities first, and then purchase in large quantities when appropriate, breaking the traditional B2B foreign trade large-scale transaction model.
The iResearch report shows that in terms of Chinese consumer goods procurement, DHgate.com is the world’s second largest Chinese cross-border export B2B e-commerce platform, and DHgate.com is also the largest Chinese cross-border export small-value B2B consumer goods e-commerce platform in the United States.
For more platform policies, please visit DHgate.com’s official website.