What is a third-party service provider?

What is a third-party service provider? What are the categories of third-party service providers? Let’s take a look at it with the editor below!

A third-party service provider refers to a third party other than the user and seller, a professional company whose main business is selling services.

The Service Provider model refers to the ability to provide users with targeted supporting services for online transactions and e-commerce activities, such as business information services, payment services, logistics services, and comprehensive support services for enterprises to establish e-commerce systems.

Service providers generally target industries or regions with relatively concentrated industries, and are highly professional and focused. They emphasize "comprehensive, in-depth, and specific" service areas, and are able to provide targeted services to customers. Service providers do not pursue large-scale and comprehensive services, and generally only provide services in one or a few detailed areas to meet the professional needs of customers.

Classification of third-party service providers:

According to the different levels of technology and application, service providers can be divided into network service providers, application service providers and business service providers. Network service providers provide Internet access services, information services and value-added services to users. For example, Oriental Netscape provides dial-up access services, domestic and foreign domain name registration services, virtual hosting services, dedicated line access services and other services. Application service providers refer to professional service companies that provide configuration, leasing and management application solutions for businesses and individuals through the Internet. According to the different needs of customers, they build application system operation platforms and rent application software systems in different industries to serve various economic organizations. For example, China HiChina, in addition to providing domain name registration services, also provides corporate email, virtual hosting, website production, website promotion, independent hosting and other services. In addition to providing application hosting services for enterprises, business service providers also provide business processing services to solve certain problems. For example, the American eConvergent company, in addition to renting CRM software to customers, also provides consulting services, including customization work for customers' personalized needs, special software product training and general training on CRM software.

According to the different services provided, service providers can be divided into several types, such as information service providers, transaction service providers, and comprehensive service providers. The information service provider model integrates relevant industry information resources to provide users with information services such as policy information, supply and demand information, industry analysis, information search and release, consulting, and e-commerce solutions. Such as Soufang.com and Zhaopin.com. The transaction service provider model refers to the service provider providing transaction services including logistics, online payment, business rating, shopping agent, credit certification, contract delivery, and custody to users through its online transaction platform. The transaction service provider provides corresponding services to customers for the purpose of profit, such as Alipay, Yunwang, Dana.com, etc. The comprehensive service provider model provides users with multi-faceted services, including information services, transaction services, professional consulting, and other value-added services, such as China Insurance Network.