# Small Shop & Standard Components Merchant Access Guidelines

Merchants need to open a Mini Store or to connect Weixin Mini Program to the standard trading component and in the back office of the Mini Program league, scan the code to sign up to use the Mini Program-league services such as Twitter matching, product promotion, and effect tracking.

For specific preparations and access steps, please refer to the documentation below.

# Access Preparation

The Weixin Mini Program Alliance currently only supports enterprise and self-employed types merchant access, and is not yet open to individual types of merchant access.

# 1. Quickly open a Mini Store

Quick opening of a Mini Store is suitable for first-time merchants.No development, zero cost shop, a key to generate WeChat small shops. After opening a Mini Store, businesses can enjoy product letter release, product trading, Weixin Mini Program live and other e-commerce functions.

Please refer to the specific opening process "Enterprise & Individual Shop Guidelines" .

# 2. Weixin Mini Program has access to standard trading components

The Standard Edition Trading Component is an official component developed by WeChat. Weixin Mini Program Developers can invoke standard trading components in their Mini Programs to give their apples basic operational capabilities (e.g. goods, orders, logistics, stores, etc.).

Specific access process, please refer to "Standard Trading Component Access Guidelines" .

# Access steps

# 1. Sign in by scanning code

Go to Weixin Mini Program alliance merchants official website , use WeChat to scan the page two dimensional code;

# 2. Read and sign the agreement

Read and agree to "Weixin Mini Program alliance function terms of service (merchant side)," click "open" button, complete the access process.

# 3. Set commissions and promote goods

Once the access process is complete, merchants can use the Weixin Mini Program affiliate to promote goods. For more information on how to use it, please refer to [Merchant Backend Functions Dxplaination]]](./instructions.md) .

Merchants need to pay attention to the following two points: