Amazon business looking to offer multiple licence options at signup

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Amazon Business is the B2B offering of Amazon India that provides its business customers with access to products with a GST invoice allowing them to take input tax credit..

These customers also get business-exclusive deals and quantity discounts on products, as per its website.Agencies..

Amazon Business is looking to provide its business customers with an extended array of licence options to choose from while signing up, in a bid to further expand its customer base among the small businesses in the country...

"There are legal licence types which are allowed and our goal is to let customers come on to Amazon Business with their approved legal licences..

Amazon is probably wanting to tap these customers, as a majority of very small businesses fall in this category in India, he said.. With Fssai, there is minimal compliance that needs to be done, while with GST, there are several requirements, including filing of periodic returns, he said.. Subhas said when Amazon Business started off, sales were heavily skewed towards electronics and laptops because it is a ubiquitous category but while this segment continues to see traction, he said that increasingly, customers are also looking at MRO (maintenance, repair and operations) and office products along with things like furniture...