For cross-border e-commerce sellers, FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) must be very familiar, but have you heard of FBC? Speaking of FBC, we have to mention the French Cdiscount platform first. Cdiscount is the number one e-commerce platform in France. It was founded in 1998 and is affiliated to the Casino Group. It sells all categories of goods, including 3C digital, home, gardening, outdoor, entertainment, etc. It supports self-delivery and the platform’s own overseas warehouses, providing you with one-stop European logistics management, which is an ideal choice for seizing the European market.
FBC is similar to FBA, and actually refers to Cdiscount’s overseas warehouse business. Sellers can store goods in French overseas warehouses and then deliver the goods to overseas customers faster. So, what are the processes and advantages of Cdiscount’s French overseas warehouse’s one-stop shipping service?
Cdiscount French overseas warehouse one-stop shipping service process
Cdiscount French overseas warehouse one-stop shipping service process is as follows:
1. French sellers arrange logistics?? The goods are shipped in batches to Cdiscount warehouses or third-party French overseas warehouses (such as Empire Express French overseas warehouses), and then the sellers upload the product information to the third-party overseas warehouse operating system.
2. After receiving the goods, the overseas warehouse will count and put them on the shelves, and feedback the information to the seller for verification and confirmation.
3. When a buyer places an order to purchase goods on the Cdiscount platform, Cdiscount generates order information, and the seller synchronizes the order information to the overseas warehouse for shipment. The French overseas warehouse operator sorts the goods, packs them, affixes the labels, and then ships them according to the order information.
4. The warehouse hands over the packaged parcel to the local express company, such as French Post, and the express company delivers the goods to the buyer according to the order address.
Advantages of Cdiscount’s drop shipping service from French overseas warehouses
1. Improve buyers’ shopping experience: After buyers place an order on the Cdiscount platform, the goods are shipped directly from the French local warehouse and can usually be delivered to customers across Europe within 1-3 days, greatly improving the efficiency of goods transfer and improving customers’ shopping experience.
2. High customer unit price and relatively small competition: Cdiscount is one of the earliest e-commerce platforms open to Chinese sellers, and Chinese sellers account for about a quarter of the total number of sellers. Compared with Amazon, cross-border sellers on Cdiscount have relatively small competition.
3. One warehouse for multiple uses, online and offline integration: The drop shipping service from French overseas warehouses does not limit the seller’s platform. You can operate on platforms such as Amazon, EBAY, Cdiscount and Wish at the same time. You only need to prepare goods once, and then you can transfer goods from the French warehouse to different platforms at any time, helping sellers save on stocking logistics costs.
4. Solve the problem of storage capacity: Sellers often run out of stock due to insufficient storage capacity when the goods are hot, which affects the store ranking and benefits competitors. After using the French overseas warehouse drop shipping service, sellers can transfer goods from the French overseas warehouse to replenish their warehouses at any time, or directly ship goods from the French overseas warehouse to customers, which solves the storage capacity problem and allows sellers to have no worries.
Currently, Cdiscount has more than 13 million active users, which means that one out of every two French people is a Cdiscount buyer, with more than 24 million monthly visits and a transaction volume of more than 4.3 billion euros. For cross-border sellers who want to deepen their presence in the European e-commerce market, Cdiscount is a good choice. The French overseas warehouse market is also quite mature, providing services such as FBA return and relabeling, bulk cargo transit, drop shipping, and Amazon FBA inventory recovery, helping sellers solve many problems and ensuring that sellers can operate their businesses smoothly.