Guide
Sell on Instagram in Kenya
Your new post goes up, and the comments fill with "bei gani?" To sell on Instagram in Kenya, give every post a link where the buyer can pay. The price, sizes and delivery fee are already there. Mybizna builds that website from your public posts in about a minute. The link goes in your bio and every reply.
KSh 0 to start,
no card.
Why the DMs lose sales
Look under any vendor’s post in Kenya, and the comments ask the same things. Buyers ask the price, if it is available, where you are and if you deliver to Kasarani. About one comment in five asks only the price.
Buyers say "DM for price" makes them look for another seller. They say a hidden price feels like a different price for everyone. Every unanswered question is a sale that cooled.
A page with the price written on it answers before you do. The buyer sees the sizes and a button to pay, or to order and pay at the door. Once you have set your delivery fees, they also see the fee for their area.
Keep chatting with the ones who want to chat. Send the link when they are ready.
From your posts to a website, in about a minute
Type your handle on mybizna.com. Mybizna reads your recent public posts and keeps the ones that show a product. Each becomes a product with its photo, and a name and price from the caption. Your profile picture becomes the logo.
You watch it build. It can be ready before your tea is. Then check the prices and fix any the captions did not say.
Nothing is posted to your account. If you do not activate the website, we may text its link to your bio’s number once or twice. Then we leave you alone.
It needs a business or creator account, not a personal one. It also needs a WhatsApp number in your bio. We text a code to that number when you activate the website. That way, nobody else can claim your products.
No number in your bio? Add one and check again, or start with photos from your phone instead.
One link for your bio, one for each reply
Your website lives at yourname.mybizna.shop. Each product has a link of its own. Put the website in your bio. Send a product’s link when someone asks about that one.
The buyer pays by M-Pesa, card or cash on delivery. The order lands in your dashboard with their details. The page also shows what Mybizna has checked about you. A copied account cannot show that.
Sell on Instagram, and keep posting as you do
Instagram stays your window. Mybizna is the counter. Products you add on Mybizna do not post themselves to Instagram. New posts do not add themselves to Mybizna either.
You add a product with a photo from your phone in a minute. It is free to start. Once your phone number is confirmed, your first business gets 14 days of Pro, with no card. After that, you are on Free at KSh 0 a month, with a fee only on online payments.
How it works
Use a business or creator account
In Instagram’s settings, switch from personal if you have not. Put your WhatsApp number in your bio.
Type your handle on mybizna.com
Your website builds itself from your public posts in about a minute. Watch the products and prices appear.
Activate it with the code we text
We text the code to the number in your bio. Your website is then live at its own address. Its products are yours.
Check the prices in Products
Fix any prices the captions did not say. Remove anything that is not for sale. A product with no price waits as a draft until you set one.
Put the link in your bio
Send a product’s link in your next reply too. Add your payout number so buyers can pay by M-Pesa and card.
Questions
- My Instagram account is personal. Will it work?
- Not as it is. Instagram does not let us read a personal account. Switch to a business or creator account in Instagram’s settings, which is free. Then try again, or sign up and add photos from your phone.
- My captions have no prices. Will it work?
- Yes. The products are made from the photos. A product with no price in its caption arrives as a draft. Buyers do not see it until you set its price in Products.
- Does Mybizna post or message anyone for me?
- No. It reads your public posts and nothing else on your account. It posts nothing. If you leave the website unclaimed, we may text its link to your bio’s number once or twice.
- Can buyers still DM me?
- Yes. Put your WhatsApp number on your website, and buyers can message you from there. The link is for the moment they are ready to pay.
- Do I need many followers to sell on Instagram?
- No. A website works for the first buyer as it does for the thousandth. It needs clear photos and prices.
