Bifixit National LIVE Trade Fair: A Complete Vendor Guide

The Bifixit National LIVE Trade Fair runs Saturday 12 to Sunday 13 December 2026, and if you sell anything online in Nigeria, it is worth understanding exactly how it works before you decide whether to register. This is Nigeria's first national livestream-native trade fair, meaning the entire event happens inside live video, not on a physical showground with a website attached as an afterthought.

What the trade fair actually is

Vendors broadcast live at scheduled slots across the two days. Buyers tune in, watch the product get shown in real time, and check out directly inside the stream, the same way shopping works on TikTok Shop LIVE. Nobody has to leave the broadcast to open a separate app or hunt for a link in a caption. The sale happens while the seller is still talking, which is a fundamentally different experience from posting a product photo and waiting for DMs.

Dates and how slots work

The fair spans Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 December 2026, with vendors assigned scheduled broadcast windows across both days rather than everyone going live at once. That scheduling is deliberate: it spreads buyer attention across the full event instead of concentrating every vendor into the same hour, and it gives each seller a real, uncluttered window to perform their pitch.

Categories open for registration

The fair covers Fashion, Beauty, Electronics, Food and Groceries, Home and Living, and more categories beyond those five. If your catalog fits any of these, or something adjacent, you are eligible to apply for a slot.

Who can register

Nigerian vendors with a valid CAC business registration number get priority slot allocation, meaning registered businesses are placed into prime broadcast windows first. International vendors are also welcome to register, widening the buyer pool for everyone since the fair draws attention from outside Nigeria as well as inside it. If you sell food, cosmetics, drugs, or medical devices, you will need a valid NAFDAC number to register in those categories, no exceptions, since this is a regulated-goods requirement rather than a Bifixit policy.

What it costs

Registration is ₦100,000 if you sign up before 1 November 2026, rising to ₦150,000 from that date onward. If your shop is already on Bifixit's active paid subscription plan, registration is free entirely, no fee at either rate. That makes the subscription worth checking before you pay anything, since existing paid subscribers walk into the fair at zero extra cost.

What vendors get for registering

The fee is not just for a broadcast slot. Registered vendors receive creative promotional materials, including event graphics, countdown assets, and caption templates, so you are not designing your own marketing from scratch. Bifixit also provides delivery support and guidance to help you handle the order volume a live event can generate, and every vendor's go-live moment auto-posts to Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook automatically, which is free promotional reach you would otherwise have to build yourself.

Perhaps most importantly, your shop and your slot replay stay live and sellable after the event ends. This is not a one-off Saturday event that disappears on Monday morning. Buyers who missed your live slot can still watch the replay and buy afterward, and your shop keeps functioning as a normal storefront going forward.

The technical and cost advantages

Because Bifixit runs its own self-hosted livestream infrastructure, there are zero per-minute or per-viewer video platform fees for vendors. A big crowd watching your stream does not cost you more than a small one. Delivery targets are 24 hours for same-city orders and up to seven days for international orders, and Nigerian buyer payments settle directly, so you are not waiting on a slow payout cycle after the fair ends.

Rules every vendor must follow

Streams must be genuinely live. Looping a pre-recorded video and presenting it as a live broadcast is not permitted. Prohibited items across every category include tobacco, alcohol, weapons, counterfeit goods, prescription drugs, and adult content, regardless of what category you are registered under.

How to register

Registration and full event information live at bifixit.com/tradefair. The earlier you register, the earlier you lock in the lower fee and the more time you have to prepare your catalog, your promotional assets, and your delivery plan before 12 December arrives.

Read this once, decide your category and slot ambitions, and register early while the fee is still at its lowest.