Selling on Facebook vs on a Marketplace

Selling on Facebook works best with people who already follow you; a marketplace reaches buyers who are searching for a product and have never heard of you. You do not have to choose. Many sellers in Bangladesh keep their Facebook page for loyal customers and add a free marketplace shop such as Midmart for search traffic.

Both are good tools. They are simply good at different things, and knowing which is which saves you effort.

What a Facebook page does well

• Relationships. Followers, comments, live videos and a community around your shop. People buy again from someone they feel they know.
• Speed. A new product can be posted in a minute, and a buyer can message you straight away.
• Familiarity. Almost every buyer already uses it, so there is nothing new to learn.
• Paid reach you control. Boosting a post can put a product in front of new people, on a budget you set.

Where a page needs more work

Orders arrive as conversations, so the details — the item, the price, the address, what was agreed about payment — end up spread across chats and notes. Posts move down the feed, which makes last month's products hard for a new buyer to find. How many people see a post depends on the feed and on what you spend. And a buyer who has just discovered your page has little to go on when deciding whether to trust it.

None of that makes a page a bad place to sell. It means a page is strongest with people who already know you.

What a marketplace adds

• Buyers who are searching. On Midmart your products appear in search, in category pages and on the home page, and buyers can browse shops by district — so you reach people who were not following you.
• A structured order. Each order is recorded with the item, price, delivery charge, address and status, with a message thread attached. That record stays with the order if a question ever comes up.
• Trust signals a new buyer can read. Shops are reviewed before they go live, every listing is reviewed before it appears, ratings come from delivered orders, and you can earn a verified badge by submitting your ID.
• Shop tools. Stock, coupons and flash sales in one seller panel that works on a phone.

What a marketplace asks of you

Rules. Listings are reviewed and can be sent back. Some products cannot be sold at all. You sit beside other shops, so clear photos and honest prices matter. On Midmart you also set a delivery charge per zone, charged per shop. What Midmart does not ask for is money: there is no setup fee, no listing fee, no subscription and no commission, and payment and delivery stay exactly as you run them now.

Side by side

• Who finds you: on Facebook, mostly followers and the people they share with; on a marketplace, people searching for what you sell.
• Where orders live: on Facebook, in chats; on Midmart, as recorded orders with a thread.
• How you get paid: the same on both — your own bKash, Nagad, bank or cash on delivery. Midmart never holds the money.
• Who delivers: the same on both — you, with your own courier.

Running both together

1. Keep your page. It is your relationship with your regular customers.
2. Link to your Midmart shop from your page, your posts and your packaging.
3. Keep prices the same in both places, so nobody feels misled.
4. Point "how do I order?" messages to your listing, so the order and its details are recorded in one place.
5. Use your district. Buyers near you can find you by location — see selling online in your district.

Questions sellers ask

Do I have to close my Facebook page to sell on Midmart?

No. Keep it and link to your Midmart shop from it. Many sellers use their page for regular customers and their Midmart shop for buyers who find them through search.

Does Midmart take a cut of orders from my Facebook followers?

No. Midmart takes no commission on any order, wherever the buyer came from. The buyer pays you directly and the full order total is yours.

Is a marketplace better than Facebook?

Neither is better in general. Facebook is strongest with people who already know you; a marketplace is strongest with people who are searching. Using both covers both.

Want to try it alongside your page? Open your free Midmart shop with your mobile number — it takes a few minutes.