Drop-shipping is a retail fulfillment method where a store doesn’t keep the products it sells in stock. Instead, when a store sells a product it purchases it from a third-party and is then shipped directly to the customer. The merchant never sees or has to handle the product.
With drop shipping there is no need to manage a warehouse or invest thousands in extra inventory. Plus, there is no need to worry about packing and shipping orders. With a dropshipping model, you don’t have to purchase products until after you have made the sale and your customer has paid you.
Are you looking to build a successful online business? Then read on to learn more about what you need to run an online drop-shipping business.
Not only is this a very unique model, there are numerous benefits of drop shipping if you are an entrepreneur:
Easy to Get Up and Running – Running a fashion eCommerce business is much easier than the traditional retail method because you don’t have to deal with managing physical products. Just imagine not having to worry about:
Tracking your own inventory
Paying for and managing a warehouse or fulfillment center
Spending your valuable time packing and shipping your orders
Ordering new products and continuously managing inventory levels
Low Overhead
This is by far one of the biggest advantages to dropshipping. With our eCommerce experts, we can setup your own drop-shipping business without the huge costs of you having to manage your own warehouse and your overhead will be much lower vs. the traditional retail model. Let us help you keep your product selection growing while keeping your inventory costs low.
Scalability
In a traditional business it’s typical that if you receive double the business, you’ll have to perform 2x the work. However, by leveraging our drop shipping services you can expect to do less work vs. a traditional business as you grow larger. Scalability is a huge issue that we help our clients solve. Your business should theoretically be able to handle 10 orders per week with ease in the same way it would handle 100 times the orders per week. At eFashionStarter, we help you make your business scalable.
As with any business model, dropshipping isn’t perfect and it has a couple downsides. However, we address these with the following solutions:
Automate Your eCommerce Store – Managing Multiple Vendors
Shipping complexities can arise, especially if you are dealing with multiple suppliers. With our drop shipping automation solutions we can allow you to effectively automate your eCommerce business by sending your orders automatically, sync your inventory with vendors so your online store shows the appropriate items in stock in real-time. (Check out our blog post on Inventory management for more details!)
Automated Order Management – No More Manually Fulfilling Orders
As an example, let’s suppose you have multiple suppliers/vendors on your eCommerce store. If a customer orders, say, one shirt from each brand you carry – things can get pretty time consuming by manually routing orders to your vendors, suppliers, distributors, or fulfillment centers.
But by automating your order management, you will have a solution we can implement that automatically routes your orders as soon as they come in by intelligently sending your orders to the correct place – even if the order contains products from multiple vendors. Get it right the first time and avoid costly and time-consuming mistakes – we have case studies we can show you, just ask.
We’re here to help. Are you spending too much time managing orders? Are you feeling out of control? Are you customers unhappy? Let us help by automating your order routing, setting you up with an order and inventory manager, and accounting sync.
How Does it Work?
Allow us to explain how we can help you automate your online eCommerce business through dropshipping and dropshipping automation. Contact us today so we can get you started!
P.S. Don’t forget to ask about our free 30-minute consultation.
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