Jay2
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I've been working on a ecomm market place website for about 2+ months. Initially in my business plan I thought I would be drop shopping, then I realized I would rather fulfill orders, however since the product is semi-perishable the manufactures that I spoke with this week prefer their product drop shipped to preserve their brand and to guarantee freshness. I agree with this, even though it's a slight set back to the business plan.
So far I have contacted 4/10 manufactures, 1 does offer drop shipping using shipstation.com. with great margins for me as well. So I made an account on shipstation to tinker around, site seems fairly straight forward.
Today I talked to another manufacturer in the LA area, he didn't seem to understand the concept of drop shipping, but when I explained the concept to him he seemed to agree and be ok with it, said we'll talk next week after he looks at a few things, price catalog etc.
Issues I need to reconcile -
1.) What do you do if several different manufactures accept drop shipping but don't use the same platform like shipstation? for example if the second manufac ends up working with me, how does my business transfer payment to his business without incurring unnecessary fees? The product will cost around $17-20 + taxes and shipping, so about $27 shipped, minus my sale commission (25-30%) My website is set up to collect either credit card or paypal, however I'm not sure what the most efficient method to transfer funds is, I know paypal collects 4% already. The second manufacturer said I could e-mail the customer order and they can ship it via express, but I don't understand best way to transfer funds, especially when it may be 20-50 transactions/week.
2.) Since this is a drop ship business, what is the easiest way to have the manufacturer use a template to print the invoice when the product ships to a customer? Obviously I want the invoice to name my company, but I don't know the correct way to have them do this per each order.
Appreciate the help/solution!
I've been working on a ecomm market place website for about 2+ months. Initially in my business plan I thought I would be drop shopping, then I realized I would rather fulfill orders, however since the product is semi-perishable the manufactures that I spoke with this week prefer their product drop shipped to preserve their brand and to guarantee freshness. I agree with this, even though it's a slight set back to the business plan.
So far I have contacted 4/10 manufactures, 1 does offer drop shipping using shipstation.com. with great margins for me as well. So I made an account on shipstation to tinker around, site seems fairly straight forward.
Today I talked to another manufacturer in the LA area, he didn't seem to understand the concept of drop shipping, but when I explained the concept to him he seemed to agree and be ok with it, said we'll talk next week after he looks at a few things, price catalog etc.
Issues I need to reconcile -
1.) What do you do if several different manufactures accept drop shipping but don't use the same platform like shipstation? for example if the second manufac ends up working with me, how does my business transfer payment to his business without incurring unnecessary fees? The product will cost around $17-20 + taxes and shipping, so about $27 shipped, minus my sale commission (25-30%) My website is set up to collect either credit card or paypal, however I'm not sure what the most efficient method to transfer funds is, I know paypal collects 4% already. The second manufacturer said I could e-mail the customer order and they can ship it via express, but I don't understand best way to transfer funds, especially when it may be 20-50 transactions/week.
2.) Since this is a drop ship business, what is the easiest way to have the manufacturer use a template to print the invoice when the product ships to a customer? Obviously I want the invoice to name my company, but I don't know the correct way to have them do this per each order.
Appreciate the help/solution!
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