A Prime Opportunity for Listing Products in the Hudson’s Bay Department Store

Staying ahead is crucial for success in today's fast-moving e-commerce business. Selling in different marketplaces always helps you to get a wide range of audience. There are many ecommerce marketplaces available for you to list products, such as Amazon, Houzz, Walmart, Etsy, Overstock, Wayfair, The Bay, Home Depot etc.

Let's focus on "The Bay," also known as "Hudson’s Bay"

Hudson's Bay is a major Canadian department store chain with a robust online presence featuring everything from fashion to electronics. It’s the longest and largest company with millions of visitors. Consequently, it's a prime spot to showcase your products.

However, getting your products uploaded efficiently to “The Bay” can be challenging without a solid plan.

How to Sell on Hudson’s Bay

Before you start selling on Thebay.com, ensure you have your business name (brand), address, contact information, registration documents, UPC/EAN/ISBN codes for products, a digital product catalog, and information on order fulfillment, returns, and customer service management.

Additionally, you need to submit information on shipping locations, distribution centres, retailers carrying your brand, product categories, presence on other marketplaces, and whether your brand is BIPOC owned or designed etc.

Once you have The Bay team’s approval, you can list products after creating Bay account.

You can either create each product manually on backend or can do bulk uploading using template.

Here's the category list of products you can upload to "The Bay".

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The following tips will be very helpful in uploading products into Hudson's Bay

1. When preparing data for the product, please make sure you are adding all relevant details like title, description, attribute, category, image and price in the uploading template.
2. There are columns in both English and French in the uploading template. You need to fill French columns as well using any translator tool.
3. Avoid brand name, when updating title and description in the template.
4. Use high-quality images for uploading. Hudson's Bay recommended image dimension is 2000px x 2000px and file size must not exceed 3mb.
5. Hudson's Bay main product image must be in white background. Additional images can be in any background or lifestyle image, however size should not be exceed 3mb.
6. Write descriptions that highlight what makes your products special, using keywords smartly.
7. Double-check price and inventory to avoid frustrating discrepancies between listings and availability.
8. If you are planning to upload option product, please make sure you are updating same title and description for all child products/variants in the uploading template.
9. Please be aware that “The Bay” allows only one option per product and that too in either size or color.
10. When updating the title for option products, avoid mentioning option details in the title.
11. Research relevant search terms and use them naturally in your product info.
12. Choose the right categories to make sure your products listed in relevant searches.
13. Provide detailed info about your products to help customers find what they're looking for.
14. Once your products are live, the work continues. Keep an eye on how your listings are performing and make tweaks as needed.
15. Pay attention to metrics like click-through rates and sales volume, and be ready to experiment with different strategies to maximize impact.