AliExpress online delivery is a logistics service system created by AliExpress and Cainiao Network together with a number of high-quality third-party logistics providers. Sellers who use online shipping can directly choose a logistics plan online in the AliExpress backend. The logistics provider will come to collect the goods or the seller will send it to the logistics provider’s warehouse and ship it abroad. Sellers can pay shipping costs online and initiate logistics rights protection online. Using the online shipping feature, you can send cross-border packages as easily as using domestic express delivery.
Offline delivery means that the seller finds the freight forwarder himself and enters the waybill number information into the backend after delivery. It should be noted that when looking for a freight forwarder, you must confirm the freight forwarder’s ability. During the big promotion period, many freight forwarders will have outages, causing package processing to be delayed for many days, seriously affecting the buyer’s shopping experience. If the buyer initiates a logistics dispute during this period, If you ask for compensation from the seller, but the freight forwarder cannot display the order information online in time, the seller can only compensate the buyer.
Overseas warehouses
Overseas warehouses refer to warehousing settings established overseas. In cross-border e-commerce, overseas warehouses refer to domestic companies that transport goods to target market countries in advance through bulk transportation, establish local warehouses, store goods, and then sort and package them directly from local warehouses in a timely manner according to local sales orders. and delivery. The use of overseas warehouses greatly shortens cross-border logistics and transportation time, avoids logistics risks caused by weather, holidays and other factors, greatly improves the buyer experience, and also reduces the international shipping costs for small parcels. The platform will give traffic tilt to the products stored in overseas warehouses, and the products stored in overseas warehouses will get more exposure opportunities.
Using overseas warehouses requires sellers to pay the storage fees of overseas warehouses. Once the goods are unsalable, they have to pay storage fees every month. The rise in warehousing costs causes the cost of goods to increase over time. If you want to ship unsalable goods, You will also need to pay a high transportation fee when you return. Using overseas warehouses requires sellers to have a certain amount of inventory. Products that are not sure to sell well are not suitable for sales using overseas warehouses
Overseas warehouses are generally provided by third-party service providers. The overseas warehouse fees that sellers need to pay include: first-way freight, warehousing fees, package processing fees, freight from the local country to the buyer, and tariffs incurred when the goods pass through the customs of the destination country.