First Hour on One Two Sell

The difference between users who succeed quickly on One Two Sell and users who don't is almost always whether they finish a complete first session: signed up, profile set up, the products you sell in My Items with an offer on each, your list shared, first deal posted, first message sent. Start with the items: it builds your stock list and gets you discovered by every buyer looking for those products, at the same time. This guide is the playbook to do all of that in about an hour.

This guide assumes you're a real business owner or trader sourcing or selling actual products. Adjust the timing and effort for your situation.

Minute 0–5: Sign up

1. Open web.12sell.app, the iOS app, or the Android app.
2. Tap Sign Up.
3. Pick your country (auto-detected, fix if needed) and enter your phone number.
4. Receive the 6-digit OTP on WhatsApp (or SMS if WhatsApp fails).
5. Enter the code → it auto-verifies.
6. Pick a Business Title — short, unique, max 18 characters. Use your trading name, not your legal entity name. "AlphaPhones" not "Alpha Phones Trading LLC".
7. Add email and a password (≥ 6 characters).
8. If you have a referral code from someone, enter it now — both of you get a token bonus.
9. Tap Create Account.

Full reference: Sign Up.

You'll be signed in and see the start of profile setup.

Minute 5–15: Profile Setup

This is the most important step on day 1. Your answers control how good your feed is and how easily other businesses find you.

1. What do you want to do? Pick Sell, Buy, or Both. (Picking Both is fine — it just sets the default for your first deal.)
2. Categories — pick the broad areas you trade in. Be specific. A phone retailer picks Mobile Phones, not five random categories.
3. Subcategories — drill down. Smartphones, Feature Phones, etc.
4. Brands — pick the brands you actually buy or sell. Three accurate brands beat ten irrelevant ones.
5. First Deal — the wizard prompts you to post a real deal. Don't skip this. Use the structure below.
6. Profile photo — upload a clean square logo or a real photo of yourself. Required to finish setup. Profiles with default avatars get a fraction of the messages.

Full reference: Profile Setup.

Minute 15–30: Get the products you sell into My Items

Start here. This step does two jobs at once: My Items becomes your stock list, and your offers get you discovered — every buyer who looks up one of those products sees your offer under it, and your business profile lists what you sell. It's also the one that keeps working after your first hour ends: a deal expires, an offer on a catalogue item doesn't.

Everything later in this guide is built on it. Your shareable list, the deals and showcases you post, the stock list you send in chat — all of them are generated from My Items. Fill it once and the rest is a few taps each.

The fast way: send the list you already have

If your stock lives in a spreadsheet, don't retype it. Open Items → My Items → Send your list, send the Excel or CSV you already keep (or paste it out of WhatsApp), and every line becomes an item with your price published on it. A 200-line price list takes a few minutes instead of an afternoon.

Your first 300 items are free, and the 30-day clock on that allowance starts with your first item, not with your sign-up date.

What that list then does for you — buyers finding you, the ready-made lists you send in chat, one-tap deals and showcases — is here.

The manual way: one product at a time

Fine for your first few lines, or if you don't keep a sheet.

1. Open the Items tab. You land on Discover.
2. Search for a product you actually stock — by name, or paste its barcode or part number off a supplier list.
3. On its card, slide Add to my items to the right (on the item page it's a button). Your first 300 items are free; after that it's 10 tokens per item, once for life.
4. Tap Add offer (on the apps the form opens by itself) and answer the steps: Export or Local sale → shipping terms, e.g. When I hand it to the carrier → FOB (export only) → the place, e.g. Jebel Ali → Price per unit, plus optional quantity and minimum order, condition and lead time → Publish offer. See adding an offer, step by step.
5. Repeat for your best-moving lines — aim for 3 to 5 today. Your answers carry over, so each one is quicker than the last.

From now on, any buyer searching that exact model sees your offer next to everyone else's, and can message you straight from it. Your offer stays live as long as you confirm it every 12 days — Refresh prices in My Items does your whole catalogue in one tap.

If a product you sell isn't listed, use My item isn't listed and paste your supplier list; One Two Sell adds what's missing.

Full reference: Items.

Minute 30–35: Share your list

Now that My Items holds what you sell, you have a ready-made list to send out — no more retyping it for every customer. This is the first of several things the list does for you for free; Create turns the same text into a Deal or a Showcase, and the chat composer can send it into any conversation.

1. Open My Items.
2. Tap Stock list (what you carry, no prices — safe to forward to anyone) or Price list (each price with its terms).
3. Choose which details travel with it (UPC, MPN, quantity, MOQ, lead time), then Copy.
4. Paste it into WhatsApp, an email or any other platform — your regular customers, your trade groups.

On the web, Create turns the same list into a Deal or a Showcase, already filled in for you to edit and publish.

Full reference: Sharing what you sell.

Minute 35–45: Write your first deal properly

Your offers keep working in the background; a deal is how you announce stock to move — or something to source — right now. It's the one deal that matters most on day one, so write it properly. (You can start it from your list with Create, or write it from scratch.) Use this template:

Title (the most important field)

Format: Brand Model + Spec + Quantity + Condition + Region

Examples that work:

• "500× iPhone 15 Pro 256GB · Brand New · UAE in stock"
• "WTB 200× Galaxy S24 — Singapore — pay USD"
• "Lot of 50 MacBook Air M2 — Used Like-New — Hong Kong"

Examples that don't work:

• "Phones for sale"
• "Need stock"
• "Best deal ever"

Description structure

Use bullet points or short lines:

Model: [exact model number]
Quantity: [number] units
Condition: Brand New / Used – Like New / Refurbished / etc.
Target price: $X each (or "Best offer", or "Send me your offer")
Stock location: [city, country]
Payment: [TT / LC / Escrow / Cash on inspection]
Lead time: [days from confirmed order]
Contact: [your preferred reply channel]

Full reference: Writing deals that convert.

Deal settings

• Type: Want to Sell or Want to Buy (pre-filled from your Step 1 answer).
• Duration: 1 week is the safest first choice — long enough to attract attention, short enough to test signals.
• Categories, brands, condition, region: nothing to set. 12sell works these out from your title and description after you post, which is the other reason the template above is worth filling in properly.
• Boost: optional. New accounts get 150 starter tokens, enough for a 1-day boost. Worth it for your first deal — see Boost.

Tap Post. The deal goes through automatic review (usually instant) and lands in matching feeds.

Minute 45–50: Post one Showcase

A Showcase is a permanent product gallery. Posting one in your first hour signals that you're a real, ongoing business — not a tire-kicker.

1. Tap + → Showcase.
2. Upload 2–3 photos of your strongest product (clean background, well-lit, the actual product). Up to 5 allowed; 3 is enough on day 1.
3. Title — same format as a deal: brand + model + key differentiator.
4. Description — the spec sheet, MOQs, what makes you the right supplier.
5. Use AI Rewrite if your description feels rough — it polishes B2B language without inventing facts.
6. Tap Post.

Full reference: Writing showcases that win business.

Minute 50–55: Browse the feed and send messages

Now you take action on others' content.

1. Open the Deals tab. The feed is personalized to your categories from Profile Setup, so most of what you see should be relevant.
2. Find 3 deals that match what you sell or want to buy.
3. For each, tap Message and send a real, specific opener:
   • "Hi, saw your WTB for AirPods Pro. I have 500 units in Dubai, brand new sealed. Send me your target price?"
   • Not: "Hi" or "Interested"

The first message you send on One Two Sell sets the tone. Tight, specific messages get fast replies. Vague ones get ignored.

If the deal poster is verified, prioritize them — verified counterparts close faster.

Full reference: Messaging.

Minute 55–58: Set up notifications and follow

1. Open Settings → Notifications.
2. Confirm Push Notifications is on.
3. Deal Notifications: switch from default Following to All for your first week — you want to see everything in your category space while you're still learning the platform.
4. Showcase Notifications: leave on Following (less time-sensitive).
5. Go back to feeds and follow 5–10 active businesses in your category — businesses with verified badges and recent posts. Their content shows up in your Following filter and their Tales appear at the top of your feed.
6. Follow 3–5 catalogue items you buy regularly. You'll be notified the moment anyone quotes one — including the first price ever published on it, which is often the best one.

Full reference: Notifications.

Minute 58–60: Set yourself up for credibility

Two final touches that pay back over the next weeks:

1. Connect your social pages — Settings → Connections. Add your Instagram, LinkedIn, WhatsApp Business, Telegram. Buyers check these before messaging.
2. Plan your verification — read Getting verified. You'll want to verify in week 1 or 2 for the badge that significantly increases reply rates. Cost: 3,000 tokens, one Business Pack ($99.99) or earned through referrals.

What to expect over the next 24 hours

If you've done the above:

• First message replies: usually within hours if your title and description are clear.
• First incoming message to your deal: depends on category, but commonly 4–24 hours.
• First follower: same.

If you haven't gotten activity in 48 hours, the most likely cause is the deal title and description. Read Writing deals that convert and rewrite. Edit the existing deal — you don't need to repost.

What to do in week 1

• Add 10–20 more products to My Items, with an offer on each — the full range you actually carry. This is the single highest-leverage hour in week 1: unlike deals, offers keep pulling buyers in for as long as you keep them confirmed. Add a calendar reminder to confirm your prices every week or two (Refresh prices does them all).
• Share your Stock list or Price list with your regular customers and trade groups whenever it changes.
• Post 2–3 more deals as you have stock or sourcing needs.
• Post 3–5 more showcases to fill out your profile.
• Reply fast to incoming messages — first-response time is the strongest predictor of closing.
• Run a 1-week boost on your strongest deal once you've seen which one attracts replies.
• Apply for Verification once you've collected your trade license + ID.
• Invite 2–3 trade contacts using your referral code. Once they're active you earn 150 tokens each.

Common first-hour mistakes

Next steps

• Writing deals that convert — the deeper guide on titles and descriptions.
• Writing showcases that win business — same for permanent catalogs.
• Trading safely — what to watch for as you start transacting.
• Getting verified — your week 1–2 priority.