Both of Tmall and Taobao ecommerce websites are operated by Alibaba Group. Tmall was founded in 2012 and Ranked 6 in global website by Alexa. It has averaged 90 million active users per day. Tmall integrates thousands of brands and manufacturers to provide a one-stop B2C solution between merchants and customers. It provides 100% quality-guaranteed items, 7 day after sales service with no reasons to return of China e-commerce service.

Taobao is Rank 7 in global websites, and founded in 2003, as China’s largest ecommerce platform, it has around 500 million registered users and recently average 57 million users per day visiting taobao. The daily number of listed items has exceeded 800 million and average 48,000 items are sold per minute on Taobao. All transcation on Tmall and Taobao both are safety and guaranteed by Alipay.

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What’s the difference between Tmall and Taobao websites

As the largest China e-commerce platforms, Tmall is focused on B2C(Business to Customer) sales mode but Taobao is more like C2C (Customer to Customer) sales mode. Tmall requires that their sellers are qualited brand owners or manufacturers and Taobao allows individuals sellers, retailers, and wholesalers to list freely items and sell almost everything directly to buyers.

And Taobao website is accessable to Tmall items and sellers. So, Chinese customers can buy any items on taobao, from clothing, fashion accessories, cosmetics, food, beverages, electronics, furniture, gardening, decorations, toys, gifts, books, medicine, cars, services, property, etc. almost everything you can think of.