Case:
Wang Gang planned to operate a store for exporting children’s clothing on the AliExpress platform. He saw a piece of news: “From the beginning of April, all merchants on the AliExpress platform must enter as enterprises (excluding individual businesses), and no individual merchants are allowed to enter. Existing individual merchants need to complete corporate identity authentication, otherwise the platform will remove the online products of the store, cancel their category operating rights and fully refund the annual technical service fee.” This means that Wang Gang’s original AliExpress store registered as an individual 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 field of cross-border e-commerce. Hearing Wang Gang’s request for help, Zhang Wei agreed to use his corporate identity to help him upgrade his AliExpress store.
【Required Materials】
1. Four 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 not submitting the notarization, 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 started to upgrade the store.
1. Wang Gang logged in to “My Backstage” with his original AliExpress main account.
2. Wang Gang selected the “Account and Certification Center-Account Settings” page and clicked the “Upgrade Enterprise Certification” button.
3. Wang Gang fills in the original personal authentication information and Alipay account and signs the agreement; fills in the relevant information submitted when registering the original personal store: including “original Alipay account”, “original certifier name” and “original certification ID number”.
4. Fill in the corporate Alipay account.
Click the “Enterprise Alipay Authentication” button. After Wang Gang asks Zhang Wei that the corporate Alipay account has not been bound to more than 6 AliExpress accounts, he enters the Alipay verification page and fills in the relevant corporate Alipay information according to the prompts to complete the corporate Alipay authentication.
5. Fill in the relevant information of Zhang Wei’s company.
Wang Gang fills in the “Enterprise Business License” and other relevant information of Zhang Wei’s company. The business license must be consistent with the business license authenticated by the corporate Alipay, and they are all relevant information of Zhang Wei’s company; then Wang Gang uploads photos or materials 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 notarial certificate authentication, which can save authentication time. After passing the review, he can directly upgrade without entering the 30-day public announcement period.
6. After the information is submitted, it enters the review period and waits for review.
After Wang Gang obtained the notarial certificate, he submitted the electronic version of the notarial certificate for review, and it was reviewed and passed within 3 working days. At this point, Wang Gang’s store was upgraded from a personal store to a corporate store.
The core content of the notarial certificate includes:
1. Both parties, the seller’s company (consistent with the Alipay corporate account authentication information), and the natural person (consistent with the original authenticator of the account);
2. The AliExpress account (including the account name) and its bound international Alipay account registration information are changed from the original natural person to the seller’s company for confirmation by both parties.