1. Is the store in Pinduoduo legal without a business license?
It is legal for Pinduoduo not to provide a business license.
Pinduoduo can open a shop without a business license. In Pinduoduo, you can choose to open a shop by individuals or enterprises. Individual account opening includes self-employed individuals and individual merchants. Self-employed people do not need a business license to open a shop, and other types need a business license.
2. Licenses required for different types of stores:
1. If an ordinary store opens a shop, only the account holder needs to hold a half-length photo of the ID card and a photo of the front and back of the ID card. However, some categories still require merchants to provide qualification certificates.
If a business wants to sell food, it needs to provide: a. business license; B. food circulation license (or food business license);
C. If drinks are included, an additional liquor circulation license or application form is required; D. For self-production, only the food production license is required, and the food circulation license is not provided.
2. Qualifications required for flagship store: a. Three copies of the enterprise (i.e. original business license, tax registration certificate and organization code certificate);
B. Brand trademark registration certificate or trademark acceptance letter (TM trademark); C. Deposit payment (the deposit amount is determined according to the sales category of the store, and the deposit is dynamically adjusted according to the total monthly sales of the store); D. permission to open a company account.
3. Qualifications required by the franchise store: a. Three copies of the enterprise (namely, the original and copy of the business license, tax registration certificate and organization code certificate);
B. Deposit payment (the deposit amount is determined according to the sales category of the store, and the deposit is dynamically adjusted according to the total monthly sales of the store); C. permission to open a public account; D. distribution license of the brand.