Did you hear about the news to entrepreneurs? Few people still don't know about the essential Olist Shops platform. It's a novelty for some and a favorite for others. If this is new to you, you are certainly interested in knowing a little more.
The Olist Shops application already has more than 80,000 users from 170 countries, and also has versions in English and Spanish. Do not you worry anymore! In this article we will show you everything about Olist and help you understand and get to know the platform better.
What is Olist Shops?
Before going deeper, how about we understand a little more about its concept?
It's basically a free application and any company/business can create their sales website in 3 minutes, and without any restrictions.
Typically, users are people or businesses that don't have a website for their store yet, or aren't happy with their current website.
The company was founded in 2006 as Solidarium, a company that sells handicrafts. Then, in 2012, it brought together artisans from all over the country in a large market.
The company has an international influence with the participation of founder Tiago Dalvi, driven by 500 start-ups, venture capital and North American accelerators. With the merger of the business, several donations for investments emerged, the two most recent led by SoftBank, respectively 190 million reais and 310 million reais.
The platform is well known as the largest department store within marketplaces and is well suited to shopkeepers who want to sell their products on the main e-commerces in Brazil or also seek alternatives to increase revenue.
Olist Shops is a new product from Olist, which already has more than 25,000 registered sellers and is present on major sales portals. While Olist Shops is aimed mainly at entrepreneurs who are starting out in e-commerce sales, Olist Store is indicated for companies that have a more complete online operation.
How it works?
In general, Olist Shops is a platform that connects your virtual store to your audience on the internet.
At Olist Shops, this is a free application that allows you to create your own virtual store in three minutes, thus facilitating sales links, for example on WhatsApp or social networks. It is a more flexible model that allows you to experience a simple and free virtual business.
-Simply download the app, create an account and register a product. You'll define a title, name and insert a photo (if necessary), add a description and name this store (yes, it can be a single product store), and you've generated a sales link.
-You will define how to deliver and pay, even the “machines” that have already been sold, and you can charge when delivering them. Olist Shops also offers a fully integrated online payment method to facilitate transactions.
List Shops also offers a fully integrated online payment method to facilitate transactions; you can also receive through Olist Shops, and New services are planned. For executives, this is how the company promotes the “empowerment” of small entrepreneurs in virtual retail.
A great incentive for growth was the city hall of Curitiba, in which Olist Shops partnered, and all this to help the city's artisans who were greatly affected due to social isolation and with that, the end of the large local fairs.
“The partnership with the city hall was very relevant for the initial growth of Olist Shops right at the beginning of the pandemic, with a free virtual store”, said Tiago Miashiro, director of Olist Shops.
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