According to the latest data in December 2019, it is free to open a Taobao store and you only need to pay a deposit of 1,000 yuan. For those who want to start a business with Taobao, the cost can be said to be very small. Now if you choose to open a personal Taobao store, you only need to pay a deposit of 1,000 yuan, and then use your ID card and bank card for authentication.

Moreover, this 1,000 yuan is only paid as a deposit. When the store is not opened, the deposit money will be returned to Alipay. Although the cost of registering a Taobao store is very low, if you really run a store well, you still need to invest some money.

1. First of all, it depends on what type of Taobao store you open. Let's start with the simplest C store. Generally speaking, if you want to open a store, you need to pay a consumer deposit. If you don't pay this money, your store will have no traffic, so you have to put at least 1,000 yuan in it.

2. The certification for opening a Taobao store is completely free, so you don’t have to worry about how much it costs. Then you must decorate your online store and purchase software to increase and analyze traffic. These all cost money, ranging from a few yuan a month to more than ten or dozens of yuan a month. You can choose the appropriate ordering software according to your own situation.

3. In order to increase traffic, you may also need to participate in the through train, which is more expensive and suitable for large stores with certain financial resources. The specific cost depends on the popularity of keywords.

4. In addition, you also need to care about your purchase costs, time and energy investment, etc. These are also intangible wealth and your personal investment.

5. In summary, to open the simplest qualified Taobao store, you still need to spend a lot of money. You must pay at least 1,000 yuan for consumer protection, otherwise there will be no traffic and it is equivalent to not opening it.

In general, there is no need to charge any fees for the opening and certification process of Taobao stores, but in some cases, it is recommended to pay a deposit of 1,000 yuan, which can help your store to obtain greater benefits.

After the Taobao store is opened, you need to keep some money for operation and purchase. However, for some novice sellers, you can use the mode of dropshipping in the early stage to familiarize yourself with some of the store's operating procedures, and then purchase goods by yourself after you have rich experience. In addition, we need to know the principle of making money on the Taobao platform. The Taobao platform itself is not a platform for selling goods, but a platform that helps sellers sell goods. Therefore, if you want to make money on Taobao, you must make money from the sellers. In this way, if you only register a Taobao store for free to operate, Taobao will definitely not give you a lot of traffic, because you can't let Taobao make money from you.

Therefore, if we open a Taobao online store on Taobao, we should prepare at least three or four thousand. Although many people say that it only takes more than 1,000 yuan, this is just the deposit for registering a store. If you really want to run a store well, you must prepare about 3,000 to 4,000 yuan.