Ordering is two payments with a warehouse in between, whatever the step numbers say

The operator has published this flow three separate times, and no two versions agree on how many steps it has. They agree on everything that matters.

Every step name below is quoted from the operator. The grouping, and the observation that the counts disagree, are this site.

The bar

The order screen counts to seven, and puts a payment at either end of the warehouse

This strip sits across the top of the order screen and follows you through the whole process. It is the version you will actually live with, because it is the one that tells you where you currently are.

Read the two payments off it. One sits before the warehouse and one sits after, and everything between them happens while your money is already committed and your goods are not yet moving. That is the single most useful thing the bar tells you, and it tells it without a word of explanation.

A horizontal progress bar with seven numbered stops reading Select Products, Confirm Order, Pay for Products, Inspection and Warehousing, Submit Parcels, Pay international shipping fee, and Wait For Receipt, the first carrying a tick and the second circled in orange — The progress strip from the order screen, with the first stop ticked and the second highlighted as current. Both payments are numbered stops, not footnotes.View full-size screenshot

One road, cut in three different places

The promotional video counts five moves. The order screen counts seven. The written guide in the help centre counts ten. Nobody is wrong: a video is selling the idea, a progress bar is reporting a state, and only the written guide is trying to be complete.

The reason this matters is conversational. When somebody in a group chat says they are stuck on step four, the answer depends entirely on which version they are counting from. Lining the three counts up against each other, as below, makes the ambiguity disappear.

What actually happens	The video	The order bar	The written guide
Making an account	Counted first	Not counted	Not counted
Finding the item	Counted second	Select Products	Select Item
Pinning colour, size and quantity	Folded into finding	Confirm Order	Submit Purchase
Paying for goods and the domestic leg	First payment	Pay for Products	Pay for Products
A buyer placing the order with the seller	Not counted	Not counted	Purchasing agent
Checking, weighing and storing	Not counted	Inspection and Warehousing	Inspection and Storage
Choosing what goes into the parcel	Select items from warehouse	Submit Parcels	Submit the Package
Paying a deposit against the international leg	Second payment	Pay international shipping fee	Pay the deposit
Settling the difference once it has been packed	Not counted	Not counted	Confirm International Shipping
The parcel leaving the warehouse	Not counted	Not counted	Shipment
Delivery	Not counted	Wait For Receipt	Receipt

Not counted means the version does not give that event a number of its own, not that it does not happen. The full written version is on the operator site.

Naming a country is what splits the journey into two priced halves

Before anything is paid for, the operator asks for a destination, and it asks in a way that gives the game away. The prompt is numbered. Leg one runs from the seller to the warehouse. Leg two runs from the warehouse to wherever you are.

Only the first of those has a price attached at this point, and it is the seller's price, quoted between two Chinese provinces. The second leg has no number yet because nothing has been weighed. Choosing the country early matters anyway: it decides which carriers are even offered later, and some things cannot be carried at all.

A panel headed Please select the destination country or region, listing leg one as Seller to OOTDBUY Warehouse and leg two as OOTDBUY Warehouse to Destination, with a country dropdown reading Australia beside the second leg — The destination prompt, written as two numbered legs. The first is already priced by the seller; the second has not been quoted yet.View full-size screenshot

What the checkout accepts, and the warning it buries in small type

The payment screen is grouped by method rather than by country, and each group carries its own conditions. The card group lists the schemes it accepts and then adds something worth reading twice: repeated failed attempts will put a temporary hold on your ability to try again.

That turns a fixable problem into a day of waiting. If a card is likely to decline a cross-border charge, the thing to do is clear it with the bank before the third attempt, not after it.

The other group on this screen is regional, and it says so plainly: it is available only to addresses in one country, with a named list of currencies. A method being visible is not the same as a method being open to you.

A checkout panel with a Credit Cards row showing Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, Discover and Diners Club logos beside a tip warning that multiple payment failures will trigger a twenty-four hour risk control limit, and an iDeal row stating that addresses are supported only in the Netherlands alongside a list of nine accepted currencies — The two payment groups on the checkout screen. The note about repeated failures sits inside the first group, in the same grey as the list of accepted schemes.View full-size screenshot

The written guide names a wider set of routes than this screen shows, including bank remittance and a transfer method between friends. Which options appear depends on the account and the destination, so treat any list you read anywhere, including this one, as a starting point rather than an entitlement.

A summary row reading Amount Payable beside a total in US dollars, with a smaller grey line below stating that the international shipping fee is not included, and a red arrow pointing up at it — The total on the operator's own confirmation screen. The figure is whatever that example order happened to come to; the grey line underneath it is the part that applies to every order.View full-size screenshot

The first payment step by step, in the order the screen asks for it

Four things, and one of them is a negative. The line under the total is the most important sentence on the screen, and it is set smaller than every figure above it.

The goods
The seller price for the variant that was pinned, at the quantity set.
The delivery inside China
Getting the item from the seller to the warehouse. The written guide names this in the same sentence as the product price, which is the clearest statement of it anywhere on the operator site.
Anything you switched on
Value-added services are opt-in. Opting in is also how they get paid for.
Not the leg that crosses a border
The screen says so, in smaller type than the total. There is no weight yet, so there is nothing to quote against.

The questions the step counts keep causing

What the link committed you to before any of this started is the previous page. What happens to the goods once they land is the warehouse.

Three versions of the same flow. Which one do I follow?

The written one. It is the only version that treats the purchasing agent, the settlement after packing and the dispatch as events in their own right. The progress bar is a status indicator, not an explanation, and the video is an advertisement that happens to be accurate.

What does the first payment actually cover?

The goods, the delivery inside China that brings them to the warehouse, and any value-added service you switched on. The written guide names the domestic delivery in the same sentence as the product price. The screen names what it excludes in smaller type underneath the total.

Can I keep adding items after I have paid for the first one?

Yes, and that is the ordinary way to use a warehouse. The operator says to repeat the early steps and then carry on, and points out that combining goods is what brings the international cost down. What limits the habit is time, not quantity, and that is on the warehouse page.