I am considering cooperating with another company/shop to sell products but want to ask if/how this could be set up. The other company have a more established store than mine and are willing to display our products in their storefront. However, they do not want to keep stock or handle shipping. They would more or less be an additional display window for my products. And when they get an order for my products, I will drop ship the product directly to the customer and send an invoice to the other company for the product.
My questions are:
- Is there a convenient set-up for this scenario?
- Can product data (inventory, prices, description, images…) be synchronised between our Shopify stores?
- Is there a way for them to share admin rights in their shop but only for certain (my) products so that I can manage these products?
- Is there a way to forward relevant orders directly to my shop (since I will be handling them)?
- Do you see any other challenges for this set-up? If so what are they and how can they be solved?
Hi @Suricata ,
Hyde here from Shopify. Great question!
The way most dropshipping apps work is as an integration with a single store. So if you are using the Oberlo app, for example, it is synced with your Shopify website, allowing for orders that are placed on your store to be communicated directly to the app and from them on to the supplier. You cannot have the same Oberlo account on multiple stores. (here’s a guide on How Oberlo Works).
So in order for you to partner with another store in selling those same products, you would need to use a Buy Button.
A Buy Button is like a shortcut for buying one of your products. You can place Buy Buttons on a non-Shopify website or blog. Buy Buttons can show product pictures, descriptions, and prices, all while letting customers purchase products without leaving the website. Any updates to a product’s details in your Shopify admin will appear on the product’s Buy Button.
If you could secure permission for your partnering business to place a buy button on their website, that would be the way to allow visitors to buy the product on that store and have the data directed to your dropshipping app, where you can fulfill the order.
I would recommend you check out our Dropshipping 101 course on our Academy, as well as our Intro to Dropshipping. It always helps to really become an expert at how the model works.
I hope that helps! Let me know if you have any further questions.
All the best, Hyde.
Hi Hyde and thank you for the reply,
I will have a look at the drop shipping links that you provided. However, I assume it would be the other business that use the Oberlo app in this case as they will be an interface towards the customer and I will be shipping when they get an order?
I also got the app “Syncio Multi Store Sync” recommended from another person at Shopify support. Need to have a look at this option too.
No further questions at this point. Thanks for your quick support. 