[Background of the problem]
Wang Gang planned to run a store selling children’s clothing for export on the AliExpress platform. On March 20, 2016, he saw a piece of news: “Starting from the beginning of April, all merchants on the AliExpress platform must register as enterprises (excluding individual businesses), and no individual merchants are allowed to register. Existing individual merchants need to complete the enterprise identity authentication before August 15, 2016, otherwise the platform will remove the store’s online products, cancel its category operating rights and fully refund the 2016 technical service annual fee.” This means that Wang Gang’s original store registered as an individual Wang Gang’s AliExpress store needs to be upgraded to a corporate identity in the near future. In the short term, Wang Gang either registers a company himself or finds a company to authorize him to use the company’s information to upgrade the store. However, registering a company is not realistic for Wang Gang, as the registered capital and time costs are too high. Wang Gang plans to ask his friends for help. Wang Gang’s friend Zhang Wei has two companies under his name, one of which is engaged in traditional foreign trade business and has not yet involved in the cross-border e-commerce field. Hearing Wang Gang’s request for help, Zhang Wei agreed to use his corporate identity to help him upgrade his AliExpress store.
【Required Information】
1. 4 certificates of the enterprise (business license, tax registration certificate, organization code certificate, bank account opening certificate); 2. ID card of the legal representative of the enterprise (front and back); 3. Alipay account of the enterprise (should be consistent with the business license); 4. Notarization (if the notarization is not submitted, a 30-day public notice period is required). A color scan or digital photo of the original is required. The file must not exceed 2M. The information should be clear, without watermarks and unprocessed. [Operation skills] After sorting out the relevant information, Wang Gang began to upgrade the store. Wang Gang used the original AliExpress main account to log in to “My Backstage”. Wang Gang selected the “Account and Certification Center-Account Settings” page and clicked the “Upgrade Enterprise Certification” button. Wang Gang filled in the original personal certification information and Alipay account and signed the agreement; filled in the relevant information submitted when the original personal store was registered: including “original Alipay account”, “original certifier name” and “original certification ID number. Fill in the enterprise Alipay account. Click the “Enterprise Alipay Certification” button, Wang Gang asks Zhang Wei’s enterprise Alipay account to bind no more than 6 AliExpress accounts, then enter the Alipay verification page, fill in the relevant enterprise Alipay information according to the prompts, and complete the enterprise Alipay certification.
Fill in the relevant information of Zhang Wei’s enterprise. Wang Gang fills in the “Enterprise Business License” and other relevant information of Zhang Wei’s enterprise. The business license must be consistent with the business license certified by the enterprise Alipay, which are all relevant information of Zhang Wei’s enterprise; then Wang Gang uploads photos or information such as “Business License”, “Tax Registration Certificate”, “Bank Account Opening Certificate”, “Legal Person ID Card Front and Back”, “Notarization”, etc. Photos support jpeg, jpg, and pdf formats, and the file does not exceed 2M. The information is clear, without watermarks or unprocessed. Wang Gang chose to pass the notarization certification, which can save certification time. After the review is passed, it can be directly upgraded without entering the 30-day public announcement period.
After the information is submitted, it enters the review period and waits for review. After Wang Gang obtains the notarization, he submits the electronic version of the notarization for review, and the review is passed within 3 working days. At this point, Wang Gang’s store has been upgraded from a personal store to a corporate store.
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The core contents of the notarial certificate include:
1. Both parties, the seller company (with the same authentication information as the Alipay corporate account) and the natural person (with the same information as the original authenticator of the account);
2. Both parties confirm that the AliExpress account (including the account name) and its bound international Alipay account registration information have been changed from the original natural person to the seller company.