What is Multi-Channel selling(Adobe Commerce) ?
When a seller apart from its usual brick & mortar store uses various platforms such as online web store, mobile app, print media, events, tele-calling, etc. to sell its products and services it is termed as multi-channel selling.
The seller interacts with its potential buyers using different mediums.
Traditionally, sellers used to set up a single physical store in a market and would wait for a buyer to come and buy their products.
But now with the help of information technology, some new platforms have been developed such as social media channels (Twitter, Facebook, youtube), e-commerce marketplace (eBay, Amazon, Flipkart), website, mobile apps, online ads, etc. which are used extensively by the sellers to interact with their prospects.
What is a Marketplace?
The word marketplace means an open space or a place where there are several sellers offering goods and services to the buyers. In the context of information technology, marketplace.
Meaning an e-commerce website that has several sellers/vendors who have listed various products on the website for the buyers to purchase.
Today there are several online marketplaces, eBay is one of them. It is an American multinational company that was founded in 1995 and currently doing multi-billion dollar business in 30 countries.
Apart from people buying and selling a broad variety of products and services, it also offers an online auction facility.
In a real-world marketplace, the buyer pays directly to the seller while in an online marketplace this transaction is managed & processed by the admin or the operator of the e-commerce website.
The admin or the operator of the e-commerce website generally charges commissions from its sellers/vendors for every product sold on the marketplace.
How to integrate products from the marketplace?
A seller can list its products on multiple marketplaces such as eBay, to increase its chances of sales conversion.
But there are hundreds of products offered by a single seller and some of its products would have different variations and characteristics.
Since every seller wants to be present where their customers prefer to shop, but updating information about each product item on every online marketplace is a difficult moreover time-consuming challenge for any seller.
eBay Connector for Magento 2 is an amazing add-on developed by the Webkul team, which helps the seller to import and update products information from its eBay store to its website.
It also updates the same information from its website to its eBay store as well.
It integrates both the stores together, where all of the information related to the products such as categories, images, descriptions,s, etc. is updated simultaneously on both ends.
This synchronization happens on a real-time basis.
Inventory management for any seller is very crucial for its business to survive in the long run. Since many sellers in the market offer the same product, it becomes an important task to have control over its stock before it gets depleted.
The buyers will not wait for a seller to get its products back in stock, the buyer will search for a different seller/vendor and buy that product immediately.
Magento2 eBay Connector module helps in managing the stock information on both ends, so if a product gets sold on the eBay store its information will be automatically updated on the seller’s website in no time.
This Adobe Commerce module also helps in integrating the order information between the eBay store and the website.
Why selling on multiple channels is beneficial?
Sales & Revenue – Every seller wants to maximize its sales number to earn higher profits. A seller who is using multiple channels will surely have more business because it is making its products more visible in front of buyers using different platforms.
The amount of user traffic on the marketplace is very high as compared to a single-channel website.
So by using multiple channels the conversion rate increases since, these are the active shoppers on the marketplace who are looking for the relevant products to purchase.
Buyer Convenience – The buyer has the convenience to purchase products through any channel, one can either go to any of the popular marketplace websites.
eBay, Amazon, Flipkart, or Snapdeal using the desktop or smartphone browser or by downloading dedicated marketplace mobile apps from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store, calling the seller directly using a telephone
Lastly by visiting the physical store. A seller having multiple channels gives freedom to its buyers to select any of the channels to purchase products.
Diversify Risk – It is one of the most important factors for using multiple channels. As they say, “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket”.
The e-commerce industry is always changing, a seller who is selling its products on multiple channels is diversifying its risk by not relying its sales only on its website or any particular marketplace.
Nobody can predict the future of the e-commerce industry, technological development can happen e.g. change in the Google algorithm happened in 2014.
Also, the buyer’s habits keep on changing as people now prefer smartphones over their desktop PCs for online shopping.
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