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Selling and invoicing in Benin, step by step.
Our guides are written by the ShopX and Facto team, from official texts and merchants' questions. They're free, need no account, and are published in French on shopx.bj.
Standardised invoices and formalities
- Issuing a standardised invoice online in Benin (e-MECeF)
Signing up with your IFU, logging in to SyGMEF, the invoice step by step, its PDF and how to check it.
- Checking a standardised invoice (MECeF/DGI code)
Where to find the MECeF/DGI code and the NIM, what to compare, and what to do if the invoice can't be found.
- Standardised-invoice software in Benin: what to choose?
The DGI's online tool, a MECeF machine, approved software or a till on your phone: what each option changes.
- Standardised invoices on your phone: e-MECeF or Facto
From your phone, with the DGI's online tool, or at every sale with Facto.
- IFU online in Benin: get it, find it, update it
Request it with your NPI, find a forgotten number, check an IFU, change your phone number or email.
- monentreprise.bj: IFU and RCCM online, step by step
Sole proprietorship or SARL: documents, cost, timing and steps on the APIEx one-stop shop.
Selling online and keeping customers
- Starting an online store in Benin: where to begin
Social media, a marketplace or your own site, plus the formalities, payments and delivery to plan.
- Accepting Mobile Money in your store
Personal number, MTN MoMo merchant code, aggregator or built-in platform: what each option changes.
- WhatsApp Business: organising your orders
Catalogue, order taking, payment and follow-up, without spending the day replying.
- Selling on Facebook without losing orders
Page, posts, comments and Messenger: turning every “price?” into an order.
- Delivery for an online store: zones and fees
Zones, fees, timing and cash on delivery, and what the law requires you to display.
- Setting your online selling prices
Cost price, margin, Mobile Money fees, delivery: the method, and how the law says to display prices.
- Photographing your products with a phone
Light, background, framing, angles: photos that sell, without a studio.
- Getting your store found on Google
How Google discovers a store, which searches to target in Benin, what makes a product page findable.
- In-store loyalty programmes: points that bring customers back
Choosing the mechanism, setting the rule without losing money, enrolling customers, measuring results.
On shopx.bj
- All guides on shopx.bj
The full library, most recently updated first.
- ShopX video tutorials
Creating your store, adding an item, handling an order, getting paid: every step on video.
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