The main mode of cross-border e-commerce

Currently there are two main forms of cross-border export e-commerce operations:

One is the common third-party platform, sellers build their own stores by stationing on the platform, such as Amazon, Sell-through, etc..

The other is the more popular in recent years, the independent station mode, sellers to build their own independent official website, independent design and operation.

Amazon is the largest U.S. network of e-commerce companies, is one of the earliest companies to start operating e-commerce on the network.

At the beginning, it only operated the business of selling books on the Internet, but now it has expanded to a fairly wide range of other products, and has become the world's largest online retailer with the largest variety of commodities and the world's second-largest Internet company.

Amazon's full-year 2019 operating income was $280.5 billion, up 20% from $232.9 billion in 2018; full-year 2019 operating profit rose to $14.5 billion and net income to $11.6 billion.

According to relevant statistics, in 2019, 1.2 million new sellers joined Amazon, or 3,287 new sellers every day, and less than one new seller in less than a minute. Seller onboarding on the US, Indian and UK sites accounted for more than half of all new sellers. There are over 1 million new sellers in the US, nearly 400,000 in India, and nearly 300,000 new sellers in the U.K. MarketplacePulse's 2019 survey data shows that the number of sellers with $10w+ in sales on the Amazon platform reached 28w+.

AliExpress is Alibaba's cross-border e-commerce platform for the international market, and is known as the "international version of Taobao" by sellers. AliExpress is the world's third largest English-language online shopping site for overseas buyers and customers, with guaranteed transactions through Alipay's international accounts and transportation and delivery using international logistics channels.

The range of customer buyers has spread to more than 220 countries and regions, covering clothing and apparel, 3C, home, accessories, etc. *** 30 first-class industry categories, of which the advantages of the industry are mainly: clothing and apparel, cell phone communications, shoes and bags, beauty and health, jewelry and watches, consumer electronics, computer networks, home, automotive and motorcycle parts, lamps and lanterns, and so on.

eBay is a B2C and C2C online shopping and auction site with a wide range of products. eBay has sites in many countries around the world, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Australia, and Japan, which are its main e-commerce markets.

eBay offers three different transaction methods, including auctions, one-bite pricing, and a combination of the two. Auctions, as the name suggests, are sold by bidding, one-bite prices are sold by pricing, and the hybrid model offers a merchant-guided price on top of the auction.

eBay's fiscal 2019 revenue was $10.8 billion, up 1% year-over-year, and total transaction volume was $90.2 billion, down 5% year-over-year. eBay had 183 million users globally*** at mid-2019, with the number of users up 1.11% from the previous quarter and 4% year-over-year .

Wish is a U.S. cross-border retail e-commerce platform that focuses on young and lower-middle-income groups in developed countries, providing users with product sharing and purchasing services through a wish list model, with products including shoes, electronics, kitchen gadgets, home decor and other types of lifestyle products.

Shopee is an e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, China . Since its establishment in Singapore in 2015, Shopee's business scope radiates to more than 10 markets, including Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Brazil.

Shopee has product categories, including consumer electronics, home, beauty and health, mother and baby, apparel and fitness equipment.

Shopee has more than 30 million social media followers, 7 million active sellers, and more than 8,000 employees across Southeast Asia and China, making it the fastest-growing e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia, and the preferred platform for Chinese products to go to Southeast Asia.

Shopee has been growing since its inception. In 2018, Shopee GMV reached $10.3 billion, an increase of 149.9% year-on-year. In Q1 2019, Shopee's quarterly GMV grew 81.8% year-on-year, total orders grew 82.7% year-on-year, and app downloads exceeded 200 million. Q2 2021 Shopee's total order count grew 127.4% year-over-year, total turnover (GMV) reached $15 billion, an 88% increase year-over-year, and total downloads ranked No. 1 among global shopping apps in the Google App Store, and included the No. 1 average number of monthly active users and the No. 1 average number of total user hours of use among both Southeast Asia as well as Taiwan shopping apps.

Shopify is a Canadian e-commerce software developer founded by Tobi Lütke and headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Shopify is a one-stop SaaS-model e-commerce service platform that provides e-commerce sellers with the technology and templates to build their online stores, and manages omni-channel marketing, selling, payment, logistics, and other services. In 2015 Shopify went public on both the New York and Toronto stock exchanges.

Lowering the technical barriers for small merchants to operate online stores is Shopify's most basic business. Merchants sign up for an account, choose a site template, upload products and add descriptions, set pricing and logistics options, add a payment method, and in no time at all they have a beautiful and reliable standalone site.

More than a million businesses have created online stores using the Shopify platform.