Profile Completion on GeM Portal

We have created our seller account on the GeM Portal in previous article. You can see all the pre requisites and the steps to create a seller account on the GeM Portal in this article. Today we are going to complete our profile on GeM so that we can get the orders and participate into the bids. It will only takes 5-10 minutes to 100% profile completion.

Pre-requisite For Profile Completion

Before moving forward let's have a look on the pre-requisites to complete our profile on the GeM Portal.

1. Permanent Account Number of Enterprise

2. Date of Incorporation/Registration of your business

3. CIN (Company Information Number) in case you are registering as a Private/Public Limited Company

4. Income Tax Return Details (ITR Form and ITR acknowledgment) for the last three years

5. DIPP number if you are registered under Startup India.

6. MSE Number if you are MSME

7. Bank Details (Account Number & IFSC Code) for the account which will be used for business done on GeM

8. Billing Address with GSTIN Number (in the absence of GSTIN you will not be able to accept any orders beyond INR 2.5 lacs on GeM)

The profile section is divided into four sections

1. My Company
2. My Action
3. Personal Setting
4. My Team

My Company

You can see all the details of the company in this section like PAN, Bank details etc. There are two types of the fields available in this section, one is required and another one is optional.

My Action

There are five options available in this section

• Vendor Assessment : You can manage Vender Assessment from here
• OEM Panel : Manage all the resellers and catalogue from OEM Panel
• Reseller Panel : Manage all the reseller activities from here
• Change Business or Organization Type : use this section to change the business/organization type ^note
• Close Account : use this panel to close your GeM Account

Personal Setting

This section has three options

• Change Password : to change your GeM Accounts password
• Change Email : use this panel to change the primary email of your GeM Account
• Update Aadhaar : this panel will help you to update your Aadhaar

My Team

This section has one option to manage the secondary user, called "Add Secondary User".

Steps to complete the GeM Profile

Now let's go through the steps to complete the GeM Profile

1. Log in to your seller account on the GeM Portal with your username and password and click on the "My Account" option, available on the top right corner of the screen
2. PAN Validation section will open automatically. Now just enter your PAN details and click on the "VERIFY PAN" button. After the verification of the PAN, the section of the "PAN Validation" will be green
3. Now click on the "Company Details" section to proceed further
4. We have to fill the company details and click on the "SAVE" button to save the details in case of business/organization type is company additional information required is CIN.

After the CIN details and company name enter, type of company and Date of Incorporation will fetch automatically

5. Click on the next section i.e. "Company Profile" to proceed further

6. Click on the options as applicable

   • If you are a Startup and registered with Startup India, then click on yes. Now enter your DIPP number and the phone number linked with the same to verify the OTP.
   • If you are MSE and registered with Micro and Small Enterprises, then click on yes. Now enter your UAM number and the phone number to verify the entity
   • If you want to participate in Bids then click on yes

After filling the all details click on the "SAVE" button.

7. Now it's time to add an office location. (Office registered address is mandatory)
8. To add a location click on "NEW" button, then enter the all details and verify with your email and click on "CREATE" button to save the details Companies and Firms are required to verify key person information as per ITR recodes
9. Click "VERIFY COMPANY DETAILS" after filling all details
10. Now click on the "Bank Accounts" section to proceed further
11. Fill in the bank account details and click on "SAVE" button
12. "Tax Assessment" panel will open. Please read the instructions carefully and fill in the ITR Details

Now your profile is 100% completed and My actions, My Team and Personal Settings tabs will get activated.

• Account can only be closed in case no catalogue is uploaded in the account
• You can view the seller details in Personal Settings > Seller Profile
• You can change password by going Personal Settings > Change Password
• You can update the email address by going Personal Settings > Change Email