How to tweak your GeM seller profile online?

How to tweak your GeM seller profile online?

Oct 28, 2023

Girish Khurana

Login to gem.gov.in with your GeM user ID and go to Catalogue > Products > Add New Offering

If you haven’t deposited the ‘Caution Money’, you will be notified on the screen to make payment to continue uploading the new product or catalogue

Enter the product name or any relevant keyword to find your product category, the list of product categories matching the keywords entered will open

Back to adding a new product, scroll down to ‘General Information’ section and select the ‘Brand’ for the product you chose above

Under ‘Clone Catalogue Specification’, fill in the catalogue ID of an existing catalogue from the same product category in the field and click on the ‘Submit’ button next to the field

You can find the catalogue ID from the product page in the field having the label ‘Product ID’

On clicking submit, all the specifications from the existing catalogue will be copied to the new catalogue

A dialogue box prompting for your consent to clone the specifications will pop up; click on ‘Submit’

Enter the required product specifications sought by the portal under the ‘Golden Parameters’ box; click on ‘Save/Proceed’

If the product is available in the marketplace, it will be shown for pairing; click on ‘Choose This Item’ to pair

On pairing, the portal will skip ‘Catalogue Information’ of the form and take you to the ‘Offering Quantity and Price’ section

Select ‘Resellers’ from the ‘Selling Product As’ dropdown and enter the authorisation number, authorisation agency, authorisation date, authorisation validity

Authorisation details will be available with the product’s OEM (Original equipment manufacturer)

Enter the country name where the product is made under ‘Country of Origin’

Enter details if the product is made in India such as the percentage of India-made material used in manufacturing the product

Enter the product ‘MRP’ and upload ‘MRP Documents’ such as the photo of the product package or product brochure

Enter the ‘Offer Price’ at which you want to sell including tax and duties after deducting the discount you want to offer

Offer Price must be at least 10 per cent lower than MRP

Select states where you can deliver the product and enter stock volume or maximum quantity of products you can deliver in 15 days

Enter the minimum quantity of product per order for the buyer to place the order and ‘Lead Time for Direct Purchase’; click on ‘Save/Proceed’

The ‘Product Specification’ page will open which will seek information specific to the product under three sections – General, Constructional, Certifications

Towards the end of the page, upload a document of OEM authorisation. This could be a GST invoice, BIS certificate, etc., and click on ‘Save/Proceed’

Under ‘Upload Images’, upload three images to show the front, side/top/back, and interior/close-up view of the product and click on ‘Save/Proceed’

Check ‘Review Terms and Conditions’ and click on ‘Publish’

You will see a message ‘Catalogue created successfully, will be published on approval’ on the screen. The product will be uploaded after a review by the GeM’s team

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