Joint purchases (JP) have become today the best option for those who know how to count money and want to purchase goods without overpayments. But if this idea initially arose within the framework of a topic or section on a forum, and there was still a risk of giving your money to dishonest persons, then today the organization of a joint venture has become a kind of business. Now, separate resources are created for joint procurement, and conscientious performance organizational issues people receive a certain percentage of purchases.
What did this give to ordinary buyers? For a certain fee, they reduce the risk of running into scammers to a minimum, since a person who has made this activity his business is unlikely to be inclined to make a one-time profit. It is much more profitable for him to have a regular clientele and stable income.
Today anyone with a couple of hours of free time, a PC and a stable Internet can become such a joint venture organizer. This type of income is very good for mothers on maternity leave, students, and active retirees. It can also be done by those who have a regular income, but want to earn even more by working at night or in the evening.
The organizer's remuneration today is about 15% of the total order amount.
After the goods arrive and orders are completed, you can assign distribution. The organizer informs about the place, date and time of distribution by phone call, SMS or personal message. Usually two distributions are scheduled on a weekday and a weekend. Some organizers try to hold distributions in different areas of the city, others have meetings in the same place, both options are acceptable.
Order distributions are also carried out in distribution center(CR or Central Exhibition Center for issuing orders). This is the place (office or warehouse) where organizers store and distribute orders. Typically, orders are issued upon presentation of an identification document (passport, driver's license). The distribution center operates according to a specific schedule; each resource has its own order distribution center with its own work schedule, for example, issuing orders from Monday to Wednesday from 11-00 to 14-00 and on Saturday from 10-00 to 12-00. Opening such a center makes sense when there are a large number of participants and organizers living in one city. Payment for rent and maintenance of such centers is divided between the organizers and participants. for example, 5 rubles are added to the amount of each participant’s order, and the organizer gives 2% of the profit from each redemption to the maintenance of the CR.
Of course, as in any business, a joint venture has its own subtleties and unforeseen circumstances. But in order to reduce all the unpleasant moments to a minimum, you need to do several simple rules:
As you can see, being an organizer of a joint venture is not so difficult; you just need desire and perseverance!
I - former organizer SP. Although you probably can’t call me “former”... After all, now I also continue to engage in purchasing, but I have significantly slowed down. But more on that later!
My “career” as an organizer of joint procurement began for two reasons:
- At that time my daughter was 1.5 years old - and they stopped paying me maternity benefits. And at that time, I was so used to extra money for all sorts of girly little things!
- Having ordered and received the goods from the joint venture, I was perplexed by the percentage of the organizing fee! 40%, in my opinion, was already too much...
Created new page in Odnoklassniki. I started with Aliexpress products - then I already had about 50 orders, i.e. I didn’t have any experience, but I did have one (now there are almost 2000 of them)! Watches, underwear, children's change... And orders came... Having earned 200 rubles in the first 2 days, I realized that I would definitely continue!!!
She invited people from her city, but many refused “friendship.” And many of those who agreed did not dare to order... Then I decided to lure clients away... Now I understand how disgusting it really was... But then I went over my head... Just to get promoted, create my own circle of clients.
The promotion lasted about a month.
What was my monthly income– I can’t say for sure, but it was definitely no less than 15-20 thousand rubles. I can’t say for sure, because... my cash register was a card. I always used it to pay in stores (grocery stores), and also in every purchase of goods, of course, I ordered something for myself (personally for me, my child, my husband, my parents, my nephews, my brother, etc., etc.). Therefore, I don’t have a clear, unambiguous amount!
Main advantages
JV participant:
The price of the product is much lower than in stores;
There is no need to run around the shops and look for goods - you can sit at home and drink tea, calmly choose what you need;
You can pick it up at a time convenient for you from the organizer;
Huge assortment - you can find anything;
organizer of the joint venture:
The opportunity to use the money you have saved to order goods at the price of the site for yourself;
There is always money in your pocket/on your card.
Main disadvantages
JV participant:
You can’t try it on = you can “fly” with the size;
Sometimes there is a mismatch (wrong color, ornament, etc.);
organizer of the joint venture:
Stopping and sending purchases usually occurs at night, because until late in the evening there will definitely be those who did not have time / missed / forgot to leave their order during the day (on time). Therefore, it is easier to wait for all additional orders, and when everyone has gone to bed, calmly begin the calculations;
Apartment=warehouse;
It’s hard to go to the transport station to pick up bags/boxes of goods (that’s why I always placed orders for my husband, so as not to have to look for someone to leave the child with, I calmly sent my husband to pick up the goods);
You need to have, depending on the turnover, about 20-40 thousand rubles. “extra”, because during the time of working with many girls, friendly relationships develop, everyone has their own good reasons and often many people ask to delay the payment date, promising to pay tomorrow/the day after tomorrow/on salary/in advance, etc.;
Some girls are sometimes difficult to work with due to unfounded grievances;
You cannot go anywhere during the appointed time for distribution of goods;
There are a lot of unanswered messages and comments, often before you answer everything (for example, from 11 pm to 2 am), you get to the stop (invoicing the order) by 5-6 am - hence the ETERNAL LACK OF SLEEP!
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After maternity leave I went to work... It was very difficult for me to combine work and a joint venture! You must always be “in the know,” always answer questions online, send orders promptly... It got to the point that I slept 2 hours a day.
I decided to quit. I wrote about this to clients...
Now orders are coming in - of course, not in such volumes...
I made friends with the organizing girls, I send them my orders (3-5 thousand for each purchase) - they usually only charge me transport and bank fees (up to 5% in total).
The interest earned (about 500-900 rubles from each purchase) is spent mainly on ordering something for your family.
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How the joint venture influenced my life - only positively!
Thanks to the joint venture, my husband and I (during my maternity leave) saved almost the entire amount for our first car.
Thanks to the joint venture, I always had money, again during maternity leave - when maternity leave was no longer paid.
Thanks to the joint venture, we now have a bunch of products that I probably wouldn’t have come across in a store.
Thanks to joint purchases, I bought sooooo many clothes, bedding, towels, dishes, toys and all sorts of other goodies!
Thanks to SP, my child is equipped with things “from start to finish” - after all, when I was actively involved in SP, I gained a lot of things for growth. Even now, after I've been passively doing JV for 2 years, we still have a ton of big stuff in our drawer.
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If you are ambitious, decisive, active, if you have “everything on fire”, if you want to earn extra money, if you have free time(well, at least a child’s nap during the day to get some basic sleep) - I RECOMMEND YOU TO BECOME A JV ORGANIZER!
If you just want to buy things at a profit and at prices significantly different from market prices, this is the place for you - join the ranks of the joint venture participants! The main thing is to find a decent organizer. Order one item, receive your order = make sure the organization is honest!!! And go ahead and buy orders))))!!!
Odnoklassniki is a Russian social network that was launched in March 2006. At the beginning of June 2017, it ranks sixth in the ranking social networks among RuNet users. Despite the fact that the site is not one of the three most popular, its daily traffic is about 70 million people!
61% of visitors are female audience! Of these, 40% are women from 25 to 35 years old and 29% are women from 36 to 44 years old - the most solvent contingent. The most popular platforms are groups with women's themes.
What do you think, dear organizers, is it worth opening a joint purchase on Odnoklassniki or 29.5 million potential clients not worthy of your attention?!
If you do not yet have your own account (your own page) on this social network, then be sure to create one. Without this, you will not be able to open a joint purchase on the site.
You can open a joint purchase on Odnoklassniki in three ways: create product catalogs on your own page, join an existing joint venture group, or create your own group.
All three options work well! But let's look at each case separately.
We organize a joint venture on our page
To organize a joint venture on your own page, you need to make an announcement on the page that you are the organizer of the joint venture, write down the offer and terms of purchase, upload product catalogs to albums and invite purchasing participants to become your “friends”.
We become an organizer in an existing joint venture group
Join already ready group A joint venture in your city is quite convenient. There are many advantages: the most important thing is that there are already buyers there who have already been trained in all purchasing rules, you will have someone to learn from - you can always turn to more experienced JV organizers for advice. But there are also disadvantages! It is not always possible to find an already promoted group of joint ventures in your city, which has several different organizers who are ready to take on more people who want to join.
Firstly, there are not many such groups, and secondly, if you don’t have experience yet, then most likely they won’t take you. In addition, there may already be an organizer in this group who works with your supplier.
Own group of joint ventures
Therefore, it is better to create your own group and conduct procurement in it. "In every kitchen there should be one mistress..." Your group - your rules!
As the only organizer in the group, you can make your own design, create your own purchasing conditions, assign your own organizational percentage, publish your own content, figure out how to attract a buyer, and so on. But, of course, be prepared to work hard too. The group, like your own page, will have to be promoted independently.
The most the best option will use all three methods at the same time, or at least two, if it is not possible to find an option with an existing group in which new organizers are being recruited. But first, let's create our own group and prepare it for promotion (searching for potential participants in your purchase). In the following articles we will discuss the technical aspects of creating and design features of the Joint Purchases group on the Odnoklassniki social network.
Good afternoon, dear readers! Today we will touch on a topic that interests many, namely how to pay taxes if you are engaged in joint purchases, and whether you need to pay them at all. Let's start with what " Joint purchases"? For simplicity, they will be further abbreviated to SP.
What is a joint venture and are they a business activity?
So, a joint venture is a purchase by a group of individuals of any goods. What is characteristic of a joint venture? The joint venture has an organizer who invites other people to get together and buy certain products in bulk directly from the manufacturer. Products, in principle, can be very different - from children's products to materials for creativity.
For example, there is a manufacturer who is ready to sell goods in bulk; the minimum batch is 20 units. The organizer invites familiar and not so familiar people to unite to purchase products at a lower price than usual retail stores. A group is assembled to provide an order of 20 units. Then the organizer collects money from them, transfers it to the supplier, receives an order from the latter, and distributes the products to procurement participants.
Is this a business activity?
In almost all cases, it can be argued that such actions of the organizer are entrepreneurial activities. I am almost 100% sure that after the publication of this article there will be readers who will write in the comments something like: “Yes, we organized such a purchase once and that’s it,” “Yes, we don’t take anything for ourselves, we have no income,” and etc. Of course, there are cases when a joint venture was organized only a couple of times exclusively in personal purposes, they gathered relatives and friends as participants and had no benefit other than products at a wholesale price. But this is rare.
No procurement organizer will work for nothing, but he does. He spends his time communicating with the supplier, collecting participants and money, and leads some forum or group on a social network, where this whole process takes place. The organizer's income is % from each purchase. For example, the purchase organizer offers to purchase certain products for 1,100 rubles per unit, of which 1,000 rubles is the supplier’s wholesale price, and 100 rubles is the organizer’s remuneration.
In the end, everyone benefits: the supplier sold his products, the organizer received his income in the form of a percentage of orders, and the joint venture participants bought the goods at a lower price.
criterion entrepreneurial activity is its systematic nature with the aim of generating income. In the case of a joint venture, this criterion is met: the organizer periodically places a set of clients in the joint venture in order to receive its reward. Well, since joint ventures are a business activity, it is quite natural that the organizer must pay taxes.
Tax office's opinion
SP as a phenomenon in our country appeared relatively recently, but is developing very quickly. In almost every group on social networks you can come across an offer to take part in a joint venture. Well, as the turnover of this activity grows, so does the interest in it from the tax authorities.
For those involved in joint ventures, I advise you to read the letter of the Federal Tax Service No. AS-3-2/2057@ dated 06/07/2013, which clearly states the opinion of the tax authorities and the measures that should be taken. According to this letter, the purchase organizer must pay tax on the income received. Moreover, if he receives it on a systematic basis, he needs to register as an individual entrepreneur and pay taxes in accordance with the chosen one; if the joint venture was carried out once, then the organizer must declare his income and pay personal income tax.
Of course, if you organized purchases once and your remuneration is small, then the tax office is unlikely to be interested in you. But for those who are engaged in joint ventures on a regular basis, it is better to pay taxes and, as they say, “sleep peacefully.” How can the tax authorities find out about the joint ventures you are conducting? I will give only two points that are the most common:
- From social networks, the media, messages from other citizens.
- From other sources that are required to carry out certain control measures.
Here, in fact, everything is also simple. Most organizers collect money from individuals for their bank card, and this risks the fact that the bank will consider these transactions suspicious, block the card and report to the relevant authorities about suspicions of your business activity. By the way, about the consequences of using personal bank card thus we have already written.
What to do and which tax regime to choose
It is best for the organizer to register as an individual entrepreneur; in this case there is no point in registering. You will also need to open a bank account; procurement participants will transfer money to it. You can read about choosing a bank to open a current account.
Now more important point, which must be decided upon immediately. JV can be carried out according to two schemes:
Option number 1 – trade: you buy goods in bulk and then sell them to purchasing participants. The price of the product for the final buyer includes the organizer's percentage.
Option No. 2 – provision of intermediary services: You purchase goods for a fee on your own behalf in the interests of the customer, and then transfer them into the ownership of the customer.
Depending on which option is preferable for you, you choose OKVED codes for your activities.
Now about taxation. If the joint venture is considered in the light of option No. 1, then it will be online trading, or distance trading, and in the light of option No. 2 - mediation activities. In both cases, neither UTII nor a patent are suitable as tax systems; all that remains is to choose between the general regime and the simplified tax system. For individual entrepreneurs, it will certainly be easier to work on the simplified tax system.
But on the simplified tax system we are again faced with a choice: “Income” or “Income minus expenses”? The simplified tax system with the “Income minus expenses” base is more profitable to use in option No. 1: here the income will be all receipts from procurement participants, and the expense will be the cost of purchasing goods from the manufacturer and other costs associated with the implementation of the activity. The simplified tax system with the “Income” base is more profitable to use with option No. 2: the income in this case will be the organizer’s remuneration, that is, the percentage that he keeps for himself.
Moreover, the most suitable and even profitable option is option No. 2, which involves the services of an intermediary. Why is this so?
Think for yourself, option No. 1 represents trade, and this, in turn, means that at the time of the actual purchase and sale of a unit of goods, this product must belong to the seller. In practice, the joint venture scheme does not provide this condition. The seller, that is, the organizer of the purchase, does not actually have the goods on hand; he pays and receives it only after he recruits a group of participants and receives payment from them. That is why it is easier to describe a joint venture as mediation service, which represents the placement of an order by the organizer with wholesale supplier in your best interests.
As for the moment of “benefit”, the following should be taken into account. With any tax calculation base, you pay tax, fixed contributions to the funds for yourself and an additional contribution to the Pension Fund if your income exceeds 300 thousand rubles.
We do not take into account fixed contributions; they are the same for everyone. We won’t compare tax amounts either; it’s already clear that you need to choose the option where the tax will be lower. But what about the extras? contribution? You really have to do the math here. Under the simplified tax system “Income”, only the organizer’s remuneration is included in the base; accordingly, this contribution will be calculated from this amount. And in the case of the simplified tax system “Income minus expenses”, the contribution will be calculated from all income; expenses will not have any significance here. Compare two figures: income in the form of organizational % and all income in the second option. Of course, from the point of view of reducing the load on individual entrepreneurs, it is more profitable to use the simplified tax system “Income” - in this situation, some people’s income will not exceed 300 thousand rubles at all. and you won’t have to pay any additional contribution to the Pension Fund at all.
Intermediary agreement with the procurement participant
The option with income in the form of an organizational percentage has its own characteristics, the main one of which is an intermediary agreement with those involved in the purchase. Why is it important? Without an agreement, in the event of an audit, the tax office will insist that all income in your current account is income, and not just part of it. How is this problem solved?
The intermediary provides services on the basis of a commission agreement, assignment or agency agreement. Depending on the type of agreement, the organizer of the joint venture can act both on its own behalf and on behalf of the joint venture participant, but always in the interests and at the expense of the latter. It is unrealistic to sign a paper agreement with every client - there are many of them and they are located in different places. In practice, this is most often implemented in the form public contract offer. Since the majority of joint ventures are carried out on social networks and forums, posting a public offer is not difficult. The main thing that needs to be included in it is the responsibilities of the parties and the amount of remuneration of the organizer. It is important that the text of the offer states that by transferring funds to the organizer, the joint venture participant agrees with all the terms of this agreement. In turn, the organizer, upon receipt of these Money to his bank account also becomes obligated to perform all actions for the purchase and transfer of goods to the participant. The offer must contain all the essential points for the parties. The amount of remuneration can be specified either as a fixed amount or as a percentage of the amount.
The presence of a public offer will be proof that your income as an organizer is solely the amount of remuneration, and not all funds received from the participants of the joint venture.
Hello! In this article we will talk about making money on joint purchases.
- How much can you earn: from 18 thousand rubles per month.
- Minimum Requirements: self-organization, a small amount of money at the beginning.
- Is it worth it?: if you approach it seriously, like a full-fledged business .
General information on earning money on joint purchases
Joint shopping is quite a popular thing among women. They negotiate, buy wholesale quantities of goods, which cost much less than in stores, and the responsible person delivers all the goods to their addresses.
The person who oversees the entire procurement chain is called an organizer. On his shoulders:
- supplier search;
- ordering goods;
- acceptance of goods;
- distribution of goods between customers.
He also works with the audience: answers questions, advises, and solves various problems. That is, the organizer does a colossal amount of work, for which, naturally, he should receive money. And it turns out that on joint purchases you can not only save, but also earn money.
So, some girls first try to purchase goods together, and then decide to become organizers, seeing how much they can earn in this area. The income is not huge, but it exactly corresponds to the full salary in the regions.
The following categories of goods are in demand:
- women's clothing and shoes;
- children's clothing and shoes (from birth to eight to ten years);
- toys;
- knitwear for the whole family;
- decorative cosmetics;
- household chemicals and hygiene products;
- men's clothing and shoes;
- outerwear for the whole family;
- costume jewelry and accessories;
- leather goods.
These are the most hot goods on which you can. You can also make a profit from other categories of goods, you just need to understand that you need to gain an audience for them, and even more so regular customers, it will be much more difficult.
Now let's move on to step by step instructions: how to make money on purchases.
How to organize earnings on purchases: step-by-step instructions
This business is mainly carried out by girls. This is primarily due to the fact that the bulk of joint purchases are girls, and it is easier for them to communicate with each other. Let's figure out how to organize your business.
Decide on a trading platform
There are two options: special websites or social networks. Websites are often created in the form of forums, where in each individual thread it is proposed to organize joint procurement, product categories, terms and all related information are displayed. Simple, functional, but it is much more difficult for a beginner to advance on the forums: very high, which is concentrated in one place.
Social networks - more interesting option for newbies. There are two options: Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. On Odnoklassniki the audience is more mature and therefore pays more; on VKontakte it is more lively and prone to spending money. Judging by the reviews, VKontakte brings more opportunities than Odnoklassniki.
Competitor analysis
In fact, it's very important stage. Here you can find reliable suppliers, design and design options, and also analyze the work of the group itself. If you are a beginner, this analysis will help you start making money. You do everything like your competitor does, watch, ask your friends to watch, improve and achieve greater results.
Create a group
After you have seen the strong and weak sides competitors, you can safely create a group, choose a name, design it and make your first posts. Describe what kind of group it is, what it was made for, etc.
We select products, suppliers, upload photos and descriptions
You may work with companies that are partnered with more established competitors. This is a reliable option, stable, with a minimum of pitfalls. Or you can choose companies yourself at your own peril and risk. An unreliable supplier is a guarantee of losing money. Product quality is also very important here. If they bring it defective goods- the responsibility will fall on your shoulders.
At first, try to work with suppliers who have small restrictions on wholesale, around 5 - 10 thousand rubles. So, with a minimum of people you will work at the most favorable prices.
Attracting potential audience
Here you will have to work very hard at first: communicate with friends, on forums, in social networking groups and use all opportunities to gather as many people as possible for the first 1 - 3 purchases.
With due diligence, you can find people to order the first batch in literally a week. You can make it free (that is, all temporary expenses fall on your shoulders): this will allow you to get the first reviews, several regular customers and make a name for yourself. Remember that in such a business, reputation comes first. If you do something wrong once and don’t compensate for the costs, they will stop working with you and dissuade potential clients.
Reception, processing of applications and full functioning of the group
This is also a rather difficult stage. Get ready for the fact that your personal account will be full, and if you leave your phone, it will also be bursting with calls. It will take you a relatively long time to get used to this rhythm, so try to clearly differentiate work time and rest.
You won’t be able to make your first purchase without investment. Most likely, you will have to order with your own money, and then send it by cash on delivery. It is unlikely that anyone will trust their money to a stranger without reputation and reviews.
Profit calculation
Typically, organizers of joint purchases receive a profit of 10 - 30% of the total order amount. In the first stages, many write that they received 5-6 thousand a month if they had the opportunity to attract friends from their city. The first period, as always, is the most non-monetary.
But after suppliers are found, regular customers collected, you can earn an income of 18 - 30 thousand rubles per month in normal months and up to 60 thousand rubles on holidays. Quite a good increase in salary in the regions.
As you can see, becoming an organizer of joint purchases and getting money from it is not as easy as it seems. You need to find a supplier, take on all the costs of raising funds, concluding an agreement with the supplier, paying and distributing the goods. You will have to work 5 - 8 hours a day, answer messages, calls, contact suppliers, look for goods, etc.
This is a full-fledged business that not everyone can handle. Let's look at the minimum skills that will be required in order to organize earnings on joint purchases.
Minimum requirements for earnings on purchases
Your reputation is everything. If people trust you, there will be clients and stable income. If people don’t trust you, they will very quickly spread bad information about you, and you will be left without orders. And creating a new page, doing everything anew is not very easy work.
Another very important skill is responsibility. You must accept responsibility for your mistakes. We ordered the wrong product - we kept it and returned the money. We made a mistake in the calculations - the money was returned. For any minor inaccuracy you will have to shell out money from your pocket. Yes, the ability to double-check and make fewer mistakes comes with experience, but first be prepared for it.
And the last point follows from the previous one - willingness to take risks. As with any business, you work with real people. You may well receive a low-quality product, and color discrepancies occur in every second batch from small suppliers. Supplier mistakes are very difficult to correct, especially at first.
If you know what you are buying well, this is your big plus. The organizer, who can give advice, suggest quality and choose a product, uses in great demand. That is why at first, work only with products that you have used or know a lot about.
In general, this is a rather interesting earning option for those who want to try themselves in mediation, sales and working with people. For many, this is nothing more than entertainment during maternity leave, but for some people this income remains their main income. Therefore, if you want to try, go ahead, make your first trial purchase, see if it’s for you or not, and then decide whether it’s worth doing.
Conclusion
As already mentioned in the announcement of the article, you can really organize income from joint purchases only if you treat this activity as a full-fledged business. You will develop a supplier base, help customers choose goods, carefully monitor your operations and make minimal mistakes - then you will be able to earn normal amounts and achieve a good monthly income.
