Flipkart sets up teams in 13 MSME clusters, eases onboarding process for first-time online sellers

In order to boost the number of sellers on its marketplace platform and make the onboarding process more efficient, Walmart-owned e-commerce giant Flipkart has stationed 13 regional teams across India wherein the team members would meet and discuss the process with prospective sellers, who might be selling goods online for the first time, at their premises. Flipkart currently has over 1 lakh sellers and a customer base of more than 150 million customers. “Through Flipkart’s Feet On Street programme, the teams would explain the on-boarding process to sellers in individual locations especially in 13 MSME clusters in India such as Ludhiana for sports goods, Tirupur for textiles etc.,” a Flipkart spokesperson told Financial Express Online.

Sellers in the MSME segment are critical for Flipkart as “the future of e-commerce lies in bringing more MSMEs and smaller businesses online, which in turn will generate employment and investment, said Nishant Gupta, Head of Flipkart’s Marketplace business in a statement.