🇿🇲 Zambia · Updated August 2026
How to work with Farmasi in Zambia
Where the money comes from, what you do each week, and which expectations are realistic.
Farmasi is a direct sales company: it manufactures its own cosmetics in Turkey and sells them through people rather than shops. You enroll as an entrepreneur, buy at a discount, and earn in two ways: from what you sell and from what the team you build sells. That much anyone will tell you. The detail is where it gets interesting.
Where commissions come from
Your purchase discount
You buy below retail. Resell it and the difference is yours; use it yourself and it is straight savings. This is the part that works from day one.
Sales from your online store
Every entrepreneur gets a store under their own name. Orders placed there earn you commission without you handling stock or shipping.
Personal volume bonus
A tiered percentage based on the volume you move in a month. It starts at zero and climbs by bracket: more volume, higher percentage.
Group and leadership bonuses
When you sponsor others and they sell, you earn the difference between your percentage and theirs. Past certain ranks you add multi-generation bonuses, cash rank bonuses and, at the top ranks, a car allowance.
The part that is not in the brochure
Worth saying plainly: most people who join any direct sales company earn little or nothing. Farmasi's own 2025 income disclosure states that 46.43% of participants earned no commission that year. That does not make it a scam; it means half the people enroll, do nothing and drop out. Join expecting automatic income and you will be disappointed. Join understanding it is a small business you have to work, and it looks different.
What it really costs to land product in Zambia
Zambia has the most workable small-parcel regime in this group. Single postal shipments below USD 50, including freight and insurance, come in duty-free. There is also relief for non-alcoholic postal consignments under USD 1,000 sent to a private person for personal, non-commercial use — read that condition carefully, because it does not stretch to stock you intend to resell. Above that, cosmetics carry customs duty, an excise duty of 20% and VAT at 16%. No clearing agent is needed below USD 2,000 CIF.
The Bank of Zambia Currency Directives 2025 do not stop you paying a US website. All domestic transactions must settle in kwacha, with real penalties attached, but international transactions are expressly exempt. The practical consequence is worth internalising: you may buy in dollars, but you must price and sell in kwacha inside Zambia.
Going official as a seller in Zambia
Register with the ZRA once you sell regularly, and build the 20% cosmetics excise into your pricing rather than discovering it at the counter.
What the week actually looks like
- ◆Use the products yourself. You cannot sell what you do not know.
- ◆Show what you use on social media, without the sales-rep script: results, routines, before and after.
- ◆Answer everyone who asks. Most sales come out of private conversations, not posts.
- ◆Batch your orders to make use of promotions and volume tiers.
- ◆Train the people who join your team. Your group commission depends on them selling, not on how many you sign.
How much time it takes
As a side income, five or six focused hours a week will hold it up. As a main activity it is a full-time business like any other, except there is no salary: you earn what you move. The first quarter is usually learning and small numbers, and that is exactly where almost everyone quits.
If you want to start in Zambia
Enrollment happens on the official Farmasi Zambia site and takes about ten minutes. The sign-up guide has the exact requirements, the paperwork and the direct link.
If you want to start in Zambia
Enrollment happens on the official Farmasi Zambia site and takes about ten minutes. The sign-up guide has the exact requirements, the paperwork and the direct link.
Join Farmasi ZambiaTakes you to farmasius.com, the official Farmasi site for the United States.