First and foremost, African Market Junction (AMJ) is a trading platform, wehre African sellers and buyers of African products around the world meet. One of our operations consists in offering grocery products and delivery services to the diaspora in the USA. However, AMJ predominantly focuses on giving the opportunity to other sellers to conduct business on our platform by selling their own products and services while building their own stores, brand, and customer base. Consequently, the platform is opened to sellers from the African continent and the African diaspora around the world. Sellers can grow their business and customer base by selling to customers living throughout the continent of Africa and to the diaspora living abroad. Starting is not that hard! only 2 items are needed to become a seller:
- A product
- A sellers account on our platform
How can the AMJ platform benefit you?:
- Grow Your Business Internationally: you might already have a business operating in Africa or in any of the Black diaspora nations. AMJ gives you a platform to directly sell your products and services across all African nations in addition to the Black diaspora in Asia, America, Europe, Canada, and Australia. This gives you the opportunity to grow your business internationally while increasing your customer base.
- Earn Passive Income as an Individual: individuals can easily start their business 1 product at a time by selling African products on our platform. This can be used as a source of passive income.
- Manufacturers: In case you are a manufacturer of African products, this will be a platform to directly sell your products to customers. While manufacturers often partner with suppliers in B2B operations, this will be an opportunity to sell to customers directly with very little involvement depending on the business model and plan you choose with us.
How to Become A Seller?
The first step is to create a seller’s account using this link or by clicking the “My Account” link on the top-right corner of the page:
The following subscription packages are available to vendors. In case you have plans to become a vendor in the future, it is easier to create from the start a vendor’s account and choose the “Shopper/Potential Future Vendor” which is FREE, at no cost to you. This package allows you to be a regular shopper/customer and start your vendor’s activities whenever you are ready. In case you select a “customer’s” account the first time you want to create an account with us, please note that to become a vendor in the future you will be required to create a separate vendor’s account using a different email address from that of you regular customer’s account:
INDIVIDUAL PLAN
BUSINESS BASIC
BUSINESS PRO
What is included in this membership package:
- PRICE: FREE
- PRODUCTS UPLOAD: Up to 100 products
- FEATURE: Ability to manage customer inquiries
- ONLINE PLATFORM USAGE: Free
- SALES REPORTING & ANALYTICS: N/A
- VENDORS CUSTOMER SERVICE: Included
- PRODUCT INVENTORY WAREHOUSING: N/A (Separate Charge: $20/ box size up to <21″ L x 17″ W x 17″ D>) (Additional charges aft: $10/month for box size of up to <21″ L x 17″ W x 17″ D>)
- SHIPPING HANDLING: Not Included (Separate Charge : $1 per single product handled & shipped)
- SAME DAY DELIVERY OPTION TO CUSTOMERS: Applicable for products stored in our warehouse (N/A)
- DEDICATED ACCOUNT MANAGER: N/A
- BUSINESS PERFORMANCE REVIEW : N/A
- FREE FEATURED PRODUCT ADVERTISEMENT ON WEBSITE: N/A
- SALES COMMISSION: 25%
- NO APPLICATION REQUIRED (DEFAULT ACCOUNT)
What is included in this membership package:
- PRICE: $29.99/month
- PRODUCTS UPLOAD: Up to 100 products
- FEATURE: Ability to manage customer inquiries
- ONLINE PLATFORM USAGE: Free
- SALES REPORTING & ANALYTICS: Included
- VENDORS CUSTOMER SERVICE: Included
- PRODUCT INVENTORY WAREHOUSING: Free Up to 6 boxes of sizes up to <21″ L x 17″ W x 17″ D> (Additional charges after 6 free boxes : $2/month per box size of up to <21″ L x 17″ W x 17″ D>)
- SHIPPING HANDLING: Not Included (Separate Charge : $1 per single product handled & shipped)
- SAME DAY DELIVERY OPTION TO CUSTOMERS: Applicable for products stored in our warehouse (N/A) (Seperate Charge: $0.5/product delivered)
- DEDICATED ACCOUNT MANAGER: N/A
- BUSINESS PERFORMANCE REVIEW : N/A
- FREE FEATURED PRODUCT ADVERTISEMENT ON WEBSITE: 2 times/Month
- SALES COMMISSION: 25%
- APPLICATION/APPROVAL REQUIRED (SEE BELOW)
What is included in this membership package:
- PRICE: $69.99/month
- PRODUCTS UPLOAD: Unlimited # of Products
- FEATURE: Ability to manage customer inquiries
- ONLINE PLATFORM USAGE: Free
- SALES REPORTING & ANALYTICS: Included
- VENDORS CUSTOMER SERVICE: Included
- PRODUCT INVENTORY WAREHOUSING: Free up to 1 palettes of products (Seperate charge: Additonal $0.5/product sold after 1 free palettes have been exhausted)
- INVENTORY MANAGEMENT: (Included)
- SHIPPING HANDLING: Not Included (Separate Charge : $1 per single product handled & shipped)
- SAME DAY DELIVERY OPTION TO CUSTOMERS: Applicable for products stored in our warehouse (Included)
- DEDICATED ACCOUNT MANAGER: Included
- BUSINESS PERFORMANCE REVIEW: Included
- FREE FEATURED PRODUCT ADVERTISEMENT ON WEBSITE: Weekly
- SALES COMMISSION: 25%
- APPLICATION/APPROVAL REQUIRED (SEE BELOW)
Fill out this contact form to apply for the advanced sellers’ accounts (Business Basic & Business Pro). The “Individual Plan” vendor account does not require an application form and is the default account you will be assigned after openning a vendor’s account with us.
RELIGIOUS ARTIFACTS – Please note that products that are religious artifacts, or that we deem to be religious artifacts must go through our approval process prior to being posted on the platform for sale. Without approval, all religious artifact products will automatically be removed by our team.
Product Display & Presentation
Remember, first impression is everything! As a result, the way you present your product(s) to the customer might significantly impact :
- The number of products you sell
- Customer rating
- Customer overall satisfaction
- Repeat business
- Your ability to compete with other sellers
We advise sellers that their products must be well packaged (with a container such as a bottle, or commercial wrappings, or other containers used for commercial product distribution).
Sellers who are interested in partnering with us in storing their inventory in our warehouses MUST have proper commercial wrappings for their products. In other words, the products once they get to the warehouse must be ready to be shipped without further alterations needed from our team.
How To Ship Your Products to AMJ
In case you decide to store your products with us, please note that the shipping costs will fully be at your charge. You also have the option to ship with our international shipping partners. In this case, your merchandise must be weighted and sent to us after you remit the merchandise at the specific shipping location you will be provided with.
Once your merchandise arrives at our warehouse, you will receive an invoice for the final shipping cost which will need to be paid before your products are listed on the website.
Please note that the shipping dates are set based on our partners timetable and may take around 3 weeks to 2 months to arrive in the USA.
In case you will be managing your own shipping logistics, please note that once you create an account, you will be directed to set up your own shipping details.
Uploading Pictures of Your Products to The Website
Once you sign up for a seller’s account, you will be directed to create a profile page which includes a banner, a log, and seller’s information. Sellers are advised to fill in as much information as they can to build their brand, customer base, and good relationships with their clients.
All product images must be (1000px) x (1000px). Customers are advised that for better product images, the actual product size in the picture must be cropped to a height of 673 px. Then adding an empty white space adding up to the (1000px) x (1000px) a good store outlook of your picture in the store. See example below:
Sellers’ Tip To Success
Here are few tips to your success as a seller:
- Quick response to customers’ inquiries
- Transparency with pricing especially shipping
- Proper product packaging and display in the store
Sellers’ Terms & Conditions
Although we have our terms and conditions, every seller is encouraged to create their own set of terms of conditions based their business model and operations.
How To Create a Seller’s Account
In case you are currently logged in an existing regular shopper’s account, please log out first . Once logged out, click on “Create Account” and select the option “Vendor” to create a vendor’s account.