A world-leading B2B wholesale marketplace
Alibaba.com: B2B sourcing from global suppliers
By Mei-Lin Chua
Contributing editor, apps and storefronts
- Browse millions of ready-to-ship products across industry categories
- Request for Quotation to ask suppliers for prices on your own specs
- Trade Assurance covering orders and payments made on the platform
- Land, sea and air freight with end-to-end shipment tracking
- Live product demos and factory tours streamed in real time
- Suppliers used to serving sellers on Shopify, Amazon, Temu and more
What Alibaba.com is used for
Alibaba.com is a business-to-business marketplace. Its buyers are companies looking for stock or components from manufacturers and wholesalers, and the app lets them do that search and purchasing from a phone. The listing describes it as a way to source products from global suppliers.
The main use is finding suppliers and buying from them in bulk. Sellers on the platforms named in the listing, such as Shopify, Amazon, Walmart, eBay and Temu, are also named as the people the suppliers are experienced with.
Finding products and requesting quotes
Search covers a large catalogue of products that are listed as ready to ship, organised by industry category. Where a buyer needs something that is not listed as is, the Request for Quotation feature lets them describe the requirement and ask suppliers to respond with a quote.
The listing says quotes come back quickly. It does not say how quickly, and the quote request is the route for anything a buyer wants made to a particular specification.
Paying for orders with Trade Assurance
Trade Assurance is the platform's protection for orders and payments placed through Alibaba.com. The listing says it lets buyers purchase with extended support, and that it covers the transaction itself rather than only the product.
Payments and orders stay on the platform so that the protection applies. The listing does not describe conditions for claims under it.
Freight, shipping and tracking
Alibaba.com works with major freight forwarders, so a buyer can arrange land, sea or air shipping from the same app. The listing describes on-time delivery and competitive prices for these routes.
Once a shipment is booked, end-to-end tracking follows it from origin to delivery in the app.
Livestreams and factory tours
Manufacturers run livestreams where a buyer can ask questions during product demos and see how products are made on tours of their factories. The listing says this is real-time, so buyers can interact with the supplier while the stream runs.
The purpose the listing gives is insight into how a product is made and oversight of that process before a buyer commits to an order.
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About this APK
The build we hold is Alibaba.com - B2B marketplace 26.36.0 (APKS split bundle) for Android 7.0 and up.
- Version
- 26.36.0
- 263600
- Requires Android
- 7.0+
- Target Android
- 16
- Package ID
- com.alibaba.intl.android.apps.poseidon
- Format
- APKS split bundle
- Malware scan
- Google Play Protect
- Permissions
- 42 declared · 11 sensitive
- Approximate location
- Camera
- Draw over other apps
- Microphone
- Modify files on your device
- Precise location
- Read files on your device
- Read the photos you pick
- Signed by
- CN=Alibaba
- Certificate SHA-256
- 537845ac26c6d8a5d124842cd50194f33ce942c8160db5a2cc1ead4991c24ea3
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