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How to Overcome 4 Common Marketplace Selling Challenges

Online marketplaces are growing fast, and for good reason. Selling on platforms like Shopee, Lazada, and Youbeli offers an affordable, low-barrier way to reach a vast audience of potential buyers.

You’ve probably heard the advice, “Sell where your customers are.” Today, those customers are everywhere—across multiple marketplaces.

Here’s why selling on marketplaces is a smart move:

• Low cost and simple setup

• Instant access to millions of customers

• Opportunity to grow without heavy upfront investment

In this blog, we’ll explore the benefits of multi-marketplace selling—and the challenges that come with it. 

More importantly, we’ll show you how to solve those challenges to set yourself up for success.

This blog will highlight some benefits of expanding to multiple marketplaces. 

Continue reading to learn more about the challenges of managing various marketplaces and the way to eliminate them in setting your multiple marketplaces selling a success.

Why Expand to Multiple Marketplaces?

Managing one marketplace can be challenging enough. So why take on the extra work of managing more?

Here’s why it’s worth it:

1. Reach More Customers

Marketplaces like Shopee and Lazada had a combined user base of nearly 70 million as of 2021. Upload your products, and you're instantly in front of a massive audience.

These platforms also help reduce the cost and effort of acquiring new customers since they already attract steady traffic.

2. Maximize Product Visibility

Shoppers compare prices, reviews, and features across different platforms. 

By listing your products on multiple marketplaces, you increase the chances of catching their attention—if not the first time, maybe the second or third.

Different marketplaces appeal to different shopping behaviors, so being present across them increases your chances of conversion.

3. Reduce Business Risk

“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” applies here too. Relying on just one marketplace can leave your business vulnerable to policy changes or account issues.

By diversifying, you reduce the risk of sudden disruptions and improve long-term business stability.

Common Marketplace Challenges (and How to Solve Them)

1. Poor Inventory Control

When selling across platforms, tracking inventory manually can lead to overstocking or overselling. Without real-time synchronization, you risk fulfillment issues and unhappy customers.

Solution: Centralized Inventory Management

With EasyStore, your inventory is automatically synced across all connected marketplaces. When you receive an order, the stock updates everywhere in real time. You’ll also get low-stock alerts—all from one dashboard.

Learn more about EasyStore’s inventory management here

2. Repetitive Product Uploads

Uploading the same product to multiple marketplaces—or editing listings one by one—is time-consuming and prone to human error.

Solution: One-Click Product Catalogue Sync

Upload your products once to EasyStore, then sync them across multiple marketplaces in a single click. 

You can also import existing listings from marketplaces to EasyStore for centralized management.

See how to sync products across channels

3. Complicated Order Management

Juggling multiple dashboards makes it easy to miss orders, delay shipments, or lose track of customer info—hurting your reputation and ratings.

Solution: Unified Order Dashboard

EasyStore pulls all orders from different marketplaces into one dashboard. Icons help you identify the source of each order, and you can fulfill orders in bulk to save time and reduce errors.

You’ll also get instant order alerts via the EasyStore mobile app.

Explore EasyStore’s order management system

4. Inconsistent Reporting

Every platform reports data differently. If you sell across five channels, comparing performance can turn into a manual, time-consuming process.

Solution: Consolidated Sales Reports

EasyStore compiles reports from all connected sales channels into a single view. You can filter by marketplace, compare metrics, and gain insights without piecing together spreadsheets.

Learn how EasyStore reports can help you grow

Take the Next Step

Managing multiple marketplaces doesn't have to be overwhelming. With EasyStore, you can centralize operations, reduce workload, and scale your business more efficiently.

Ready to simplify multi-channel selling and reach more customers?

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Over 50,000 brands have grown their businesses by embracing unified customer experiences (UCX) strategy through EasyStore across multiple sales channels - online store, retail outlets, marketplaces, and social media, ensuring consistency in product and service offerings for a seamless shopping journey.