As overseas buyers have higher and higher requirements for the quality of cross-border e-commerce shopping experience, how to break through the difficulties in cross-border e-commerce logistics, such as slow delivery, difficult customs clearance, difficult tracking, easy damage, high package loss rate, and difficult return and exchange, is a topic that cross-border e-commerce sellers have been exploring. Overseas warehouses were created under such a background.
Overseas warehouses refer to warehouses set up in other countries and regions outside their own country. Generally, there are self-operated overseas warehouses and overseas warehouses provided by third-party service providers. Sellers send goods in batches to overseas warehouses, and when buyers place orders, overseas warehouses are responsible for packaging and shipping. The overseas warehouse fees that sellers need to pay include first-leg freight, storage fees, package handling fees, local delivery fees, and tariffs generated when goods pass through the customs of the destination.
Opening overseas warehouse permissions, using overseas warehouses is conducive to product exposure, traffic improvement, conversion rate improvement, and convenient return and exchange. All cross-border e-commerce platforms have overseas warehouses, and you need to open the permission to use them before using them. Now take the AliExpress platform as an example to open the overseas warehouse permission.
(1) Application process
Both the main account and the sub-account of the store can apply. After the application is successful, the system will open the permissions of the main account and the sub-account at the same time.
(2) Materials to be submitted
If the company uses a third-party overseas warehouse, the following materials need to be provided when applying.
①Cooperating logistics provider.
②Customer code (the code given by the logistics provider to the customer).
③Photo of the contract signed with the third-party logistics provider.
④Background screenshots of the third-party logistics system (inventory query, order management page, etc.).
If a self-operated overseas warehouse is used, the following materials need to be provided.
①Overseas warehouse address.
②China shipping certificate (such as shipping receipt, shipping photo, logistics and details screenshot, etc.).
③Overseas customs clearance certificate (such as tax payment certificate, etc.).
④Warehouse photo (write or print the registration number on a small piece of paper and place it on the nearest local newspaper to take a photo. The house number or the actual warehouse scene can be seen in the background of the photo).
If you fail to pass the review, it may be due to the following reasons.
①No overseas inventory (including goods in transit)
②The submitted information is incomplete or cannot prove that there is overseas inventory.
③The location of the overseas warehouse is not within the opening range (currently only 9 overseas shipping locations are supported: the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Russia, Australia, and Indonesia).