AliExpress sellers will not be able to pay for delivery of the first 100 orders using Cainiao services

2021: Opportunity not to pay for delivery of the first 100 orders

Sellers will AliExpress be able to not pay for the delivery of the first 100 orders to any region of Russia. This measure will apply to platform sellers who will begin to use the services of the Tsainiao logistics operator from March 1, 2021, and will supplement the previously introduced measures to support small and medium-sized businesses. This was announced by AliExpress on March 1, 2021. Investments from AliExpress Russia and Cainiao Network are part of the Alibaba Group in the local seller support program will amount to more than 3 billion rubles by the end of 2021.

Thanks to this subsidy, entrepreneurs will be able to work on the marketplace for the first time completely free, saving several tens of thousands of rubles: the platform will not take payment for the delivery of the first 100 orders and does not take a commission for the sale of the first 100 goods.

Sellers using services for the storage or delivery of goods from a partner AliExpress Russia - the company "Tsainiao" will be able to take advantage of the delivery subsidy. Sending the first 100 orders will be free regardless of the number of items in the order (if the total weight of the order does not exceed 30 kg). Delivery rates for the following orders will be standard for AliExpress: in most cases, the seller will pay 69 rubles (excluding VAT) for the delivery of an order weighing up to 2 kg to anywhere in the country. Such a tariff includes subsidies from the marketplace and Tsainiao, which allow sellers to save up to 50% of the cost compared to other modes of delivery.

AliExpress began subsidizing Russian sellers in 2020, canceling the commission for the sale of the first 100 goods. Since then, more than 25 thousand companies have used support from the marketplace. As of March 2021, more than 35 thousand Russian stores were placed on the AliExpress, in which more than 5.5 million goods are presented.

AliExpress develops as a real marketplace: we do not dictate to sellers at what price and at what discount to sell. In addition, in 2020 we introduced a number of measures to support Russian entrepreneurs, including reducing the commission, fixing tariffs for delivery and subsidizing logistics. And the local part of the marketplace is growing very quickly: the number of Russian sellers has grown 7 times, and the share of local stores in the turnover of the site has increased 2.5 times in a little more than a year. In 2021, we do not change course: our priorities remain supporting small and medium-sized businesses, expanding the local assortment and accelerating delivery, "comments Dmitry Sergeev, CEO of the Russian AliExpress.

Supporting and developing small businesses is for us one of the main vectors of development for the coming year. Thanks to the package of measures that we provide to sellers from all over the country, access to marketplaces will become even more affordable and convenient. Already in February 2021, when working with our services, small businesses can save up to half of the cost of logistics. At the same time, small enterprises can use the entire range of services that are available for large retail: from deliveries to pedestals to sorting in regional warehouses. In 2021, our additional investments in the development of projects for sellers will exceed a billion rubles, "comments Vyacheslav Savin, CEO of Tsainiao in Russia.

2020: Regional sellers will AliExpress be able to use dropshipping and business pickup services

On October 21, 2020 Press Service , the company AliExpress Russia announced that on the eve of the largest sale of the year - World Shopping Day on November 11 - AliExpress Russia and - ITlogistic the operator ("Tsainiao" owned) Alibaba Group are expanding the geography of dropshipping and business pickup services (sending and sorting orders by Tsainiao and its partners): now these services are available to sellers from more than 800 settlements. Russia

The dropshipping and business pickup service was launched in Russia in April 2020 - it allows sellers to AliExpress use the logistics capacities of Tsainiao and its partners to store and send orders. Dropshipping mechanics are organized as follows: company couriers come to the seller's warehouse or production, take the order, transport it to a sorting center, from where it is delivered to buyers. The use of the Tsainiao IT system and extensive partner logistics allows small and medium-sized businesses to save up to 50% on delivery costs.

Until October 2020, only sellers from Moscow and the Moscow Region could use the dropshipping service. Thanks to the opening of 8 warehouse complexes, this opportunity appeared for sellers from the most active regions in terms of online trade: St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Nizhny Novgorod Region, the Republic of Tatarstan, Chelyabinsk Region, Rostov Region, Krasnodar Territory, Novosibirsk Region and Sverdlovsk Region.

Dropshipping service is one of the most popular AliExpress among sellers. Tsainiao now accounts for almost half of all platform orders processed in Russia and for six months half of all orders were sent through dropshipping. We are confident that savings opportunities for manufacturers in the regions will be an excellent argument in favor of choosing our company's services. In total, over the coming months we plan to connect several thousand regional sellers, commented on Anastasia Korchinskaya, director of development of the last Cainiao mile in Russia

Over the past six months, the number of Russian sellers has grown more than twice - now about 22 thousand local stores are AliExpress. Almost 80% of them are small businesses. To sellers who use the logistics services of Tsainiao, we compensate part of the delivery costs - 60 rubles from each order. In terms of delivery costs, the subsidy covers 20-30% of the seller's expenses and, together with standard delivery rates for customers, will allow the store to keep logistics costs within 10% of turnover (with an average check of 1,500 rubles) or 15% of turnover (with an average check of up to 1,500 rubles), says Grigory Orlov, Director of Logistics and Infrastructure AliExpress Russia