Selling on Rakuten marketplace

Want to increase your sales on the Rakuten Marketplace?

Since its takeover by Japanese group Rakuten in 2010, the former marketplace PriceMinister has introduced a whole range of features to help sellers develop their business.

Historically focused on the sale of multimedia products, Rakuten offers a more diversified catalog, proposed by all professionals and oriented towards brands, retailers and convenience stores.

Tips for selling better on Rakuten: Managing your orders

Your customer service must be fast and irreproachable, thanks to:

Optimized and ultra-efficient inventory management
Fast order processing that is well interfaced with your systems
Relevant referencing

Sellermania for order management:

allows precise integration from your e-commerce site (with Prestashop or Magento module)
provides a complete online platform (order confirmation / cancellation, sending tracking numbers, etc.)

We provide you with a tool to ensure the level required by Rakuten.

On Sellermania, you have standard, customizable e-mails available with dynamic fields (product name, order number, buyer’s address, etc.).

For example: sending of invoice in PDF, request for relaunch of evaluation, shipping confirmation

Advice for better selling and reselling on Rakuten: Consolidate your inventory

Successful Marketplace sales on Rakuten is based on good referencing of your offers .

Manage your stocks intelligently: tracking, automated decrementation
Name your offers (sku, your reference for managing your stocks) in a uniform way across marketplaces
Ensure state equivalences : new, used, reconditioned.
Decide on shipping costs (included, offered or not) for more visibility with buyers
Provide a comment seller

Sellermania facilitates your daily management of your offers

The inventory shows the title, sku and photo of the item for sale.
Your seller’s comment appears on the invoice (reducing the number of disputes).

We are compatible with the sale of Rakuten states (new, used, reconditioned).

The Sellermania chaining allows to link several sku together for a unified stock management

Tip for selling better on Rakuten: Synchronize your inventory

When setting your selling price, you need to take into account :

The purchase price
Commissions of the marketplace
Your margin
Shipping charges (to be configured on your Rakuten account)
Competition

On your Sellermania account, we offer Market First, the most successful automated pricing on the market

You set your price points between which the calculated selling price will vary
You configure the pricing strategy to apply

Once configured, the Market First pricing go automatically recalculate your prices for you, and this for all the inventory.

How it works ?

All sku in your inventory are subject to price calculation
Our system captures marketplace information (eg: competitors on Rakuten) based on the EAN
The rules of the strategy apply (ex: align your price at -1 cent compared to your best competitor)