Are you a manufacturer or a supplier?

Are you looking for more retailers and dealers to subscribe to your product catalog and sell more of your products?

Well, if you haven’t already figured out the answer to the above questions from the title of this article, you need to read on to know everything about Dropship Connection and how you can acquire more dealers by enabling this simple solution on your eCommerce platform.

What is Dropship (Connection)?

Dropship or Dropshipping is an online retail fulfillment model where retailers and dealers do not have to maintain physical inventory and still take orders and successfully process them.

When a customer places an order on a retailer’s webstore, the order will be redirected to the supplier to ship and fulfill the product. The biggest difference in this model is that the sellers do not have to purchase inventory or worry about fulfilling it.

That being said, Dropship is also an advantage for the manufacturers and suppliers as they do not have to worry about marketing their products as it will be done by the sellers, which eventually results in more sales. A win-win model for both the supplier and the seller.

Benefits of Dropshipping?

Dropshipping is a lucrative and accessible business model for both sellers and suppliers. However, not many manufacturers and suppliers take advantage of this eCommerce solution. As a result, they end up missing out on a lot of easy sales.

So, let’s look at some of the top benefits or reasons for you to provide dropshipping through your online platform.

Focus on what you do best

As mentioned above, if you are a manufacturer or supplier, you probably do not want to entangle yourself with marketing your products than focus on creating your product lineup.

If that is the case, providing dropship functionality to your sellers is a fool-proof way to transfer the marketing responsibilities to them. This provides more time to focus on developing your products and other aspects of effectively running your business.

Leverage the power of compounding

With Dropship, you can essentially leverage the power of compounding by acquiring numerous sellers to do the marketing and sell your products for you.

So, it basically is an effective way to expose your products to a larger percentage of shoppers compared to you alone selling it.

Easy and quick setup

With today’s ever-growing technology, it has increasingly become easier to set up and get started with such dropship functionalities and enable your sellers to quickly sell your products through you.

Choosing the right eCommerce platform can empower you to quickly provide your sellers to sell your products through dropship with minimal setup hassles.

Ensure your brand identity is intact

By providing dropshipping, you can also ensure that your brand identity is intact by pushing product descriptions and other promotional assets to your sellers directly in just a few clicks.

Expand your retailer base

Most retailers and sellers choose to subscribe to a brand’s catalog based on dropship feature availability. This is because, providing dropship to such sellers reduces the need for maintaining inventory upfront and fulfill the order, which encourages them to subscribe to a particular catalog.

As a result, you end up acquiring more retailers and sellers just by providing dropshipping.

How SellersCommerce integrates Dropship functionality to your eCommerce platform

The Dropship process in SellersCommerce is pretty straightforward. As soon as the end customer places an order on a sellers site, the order detailers will be seamlessly transferred to your desired platform or eCommerce site for fulfillment.

The order information and other data can be transferred between your platform and the seller’s site through 3 options:

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): EDI is an intercompany communication portal that facilitates the transfer of business documents in a given standard format.
Webservice: It is a software function that utilizes a network to communicate or share data between two electronic platforms.
Flat Files: While the above two modes transfer the order information and data directly to your desired eCommerce platform, the Flat Files option shares the data in a text format via FTP server.

Steps to fulfill a Dropship order

There are 3 steps to fulfill a Dropship Order

Orders: As soon as the end customer places an order in the seller’s site, the order information and the shipping address will be automatically pushed to your platform for fulfillment.
Acknowledgment: Once you receive the order details, you may send an acknowledgement back to the seller to confirm that you have received the order details and that you are in good standing to fulfill the order within the given duration.
Shipment: As soon as the order is shipped, you may share the shipping updates like the tracking number with the seller.

What are the brands that provide Dropship on the SellersCommerce platform?

Being the leading eCommerce provider in the uniform industry, we currently house catalogs of over 120 prominent suppliers, of which the below brands provide Dropship functionality through our platform.

As more and more brands and suppliers are starting to realize the power of SellersCommerce catalog subscription and Dropshipping, we are set to add more catalogs in the near future.

Guide to Dropship Connection through your eCommerce store

What is Dropship (Connection)?