Overview
In the registration process you will be able to choose the countries in which you want to offer your products. You should consider the available shipping options and the corresponding import processes for each one. When fulfilling by yourself it will be your responsibility to consider all the associated costs and including them in your sales price.
Product considerations
When you start selling in a new country, you’ll need to understand whether your product is appropriate and attractive. First, you need to check our Prohibited Products for each country. Also, you need to take into consideration product standards. Differences in voltage, standard measures, compatibility with different technologies, are some of the variables that need to be assessed before listing a product in a new market.
Product listings
Once you’ve created a seller account the next step is to create product listings. You will only need to add products once, and then you will be able to set up a different price for each marketplace. You may choose to do massive product upload with Flat File (csv) or integrate directly to our APIs. See documentation.
- Product identifierA global identification number such as a UPC, EAN, or ISBN number
- Product title
- Product descriptionThe product description provides detailed information about the product.
- Product images
- Product priceAlways in U$D
Exposure is highly related to title quality in Mercado Libre. Besides complying with the suggestion on how to structure it, it is highly recommended to have the local language title version. You can check with your account manager for our Title Translation program for a limited quantity of items. Nevertheless, you can always upload your listings in english language and they will be automatically translated to Spanish and Portuguese respectively.
Mercado Libre’s Partner carriers
We have agreements with DHL for US and MailAmericas for CN sellers.
Own shipping provider
You may use the shipping provider of your choice. Requirements include using a DDP service and providing tracking number for each sale.
Local fulfillment (only for Mexico)
Is the integrated service for Mercado Libre Mexico, by which we store, take care and send your products to the customers.


