Parsing AliExpress prices

What are the difficulties and advantages of parsing prices from the giant AlieXpress?

Aliexpress is one of the largest shopping sites worldwide. We are talking about a giant online store, which is part of the trade holding company from China "Alibaba", the main task of which is to meet the demand for Chinese goods from consumers all over the world.

According to 2015 statistics, Aliexpress offers more than 120 million items from 800 thousand private sellers and companies! Clothing, footwear, accessories, home appliances... We are talking about a resource that offers literally everything!

For whom is it relevant to place goods on Aliexpress?

The start of cooperation with the considered trading platform is possible from anywhere in the world:

  • The Marketplace is available in 250 countries.
  • The platform is "written" in 19 languages.
  • Over 20 million unique users access the resource on a monthly basis.
  • 600 billion - that's how many times the platform's mobile app was downloaded.

Requirements for sellers:

  • Obligatory registration with the tax authorities as an entrepreneur or as a legal entity.
  • Must have a trademark. Must be registered logo, company colors and the online store.
  • Need to prove the legitimacy of the sale of your products.
  • Copies of famous brands with similar names to sell prohibited. For violation of the eternal ban.

If the seller complies with all these rules, all he has to do is to complete the 3 steps of registration:

  1. Entering personal data as a user (mail, passwords, etc.).
  2. Fill in information about the company (company name, country of registration, name of the PE, etc.).
  3. Upload your documents and wait for their validation (passport, TIN and PE documents).

The platform runs manual moderation and takes an average of 5 days to several weeks.

Parsing prices on AliExpress. Why is it profitable?

The main arguments in favor of parsing the network in question are:

  •  Wide coverage of sellers and a large range of products. Each registered user can create up to 9 stores of different orientations!
  • A large number of filters and settings. Using Helecos you can set up your parsing in such a way as to take prices for a certain region, group of goods, etc. into account.
  • Tangible benefits. Adding the 1st resource to the list of competitors will allow you to control the prices of a number of sellers selling products identical to yours!

Parsing prices on Ali will allow you to set the most competitive price for your products and minimize dumping in the segment! To learn more details or get the demo version of Helecos for test analysis, please call +38 (073) 072 1221.

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