To signup on our website as vendor you must have a valid, activated and verified PayPal email account. If you don't have a PayPal account yet, you can create one here.
The PayPal account is for you to receive payments for your orders. Once you signed up as seller/vendor you must order a subscription plan in order to be able to access the seller dashboard. All aspects of your store is managed via the dashboard.
Configure your store
To start selling, first you have to define a few things such as your shipping zone and taxes, if your products are taxable.
Once you Joined a Subscription program you will be able to access the Seller Dashboard.
1. Create a shipping zone
From the Seller's Dashboard click on Zones
This opens the Zone page to set up a new one.
Note that you will see a default zone for all countries. Do not delete this as it provides support to your selected countries.
- Click on the New button to create a new zone. (Shipping)
Select the countries you will ship to: (for multiple countries use, Ctrl-Key while clicking on the name of the countries)
- Click on Done to save this zone.
That defies the shipping zone for the Country United States as seen on the following image:
2. Setting up the Tax Zone
In the United States, taxes are charged normally only in the City or State where the business is operating. In California for example the tax is applied statewide. If a business is operating in California; all shoppers from California will be paying taxes for purchased products.
To Define a tax zone for California Follow these steps.
- Click New to define a New Zone (Tax)
Note in this process Country and states has been selected for the zone. Click Done when Ready. The results is as follow.
The Tax Zone has been Defined, Next...Set the Tax Rate.
3. Setting up Tax Rate
- From the zone drop down Menu Click on Tax.
- Click On New and set the Tax Rate as seen on the following screen shot.
Observe that the Zone for taxes previously created is selected in this process. In this scenario, all products sold to Customers in California will be taxed.
Set up your Shipping