Hi there,
I am currently working with a client who is a manufacturer/wholesaler of clothing. One of their clients is a B2C brand that is all online, is asking to be able to set up a dropshipping partnership with them. Essentially, to sell their product on their shopify storefront and then have the wholesaler recieve the order on their own shopify store (as that is where the inventory is being managed)
Is there a capability for Shopify to Shopify marketplacing/ dropshipping? I am new to this dropship world and have no clue if what I am asking makes any sense.
Yes, couple ways you could do that:
a) When the sale happens on your store, have an email notification go to the supplier’s store (you can send manually, or automate that with Order Automator once you’re doing some volume), then they ship the order and send you the tracking number, and bill you. That’s the most basic way.
b) Same as A but if they want to track the order in their Shopify store then they would create a draft order with your order details.
c) You could automate B by creating a custom app that listens for orders from your store, and if it meets certain criteria then it creates a new order in the supplier’s store. The app would need private API keys from each store to function. Any new stores / suppliers you add you can have them generate private app API keys, then integrate that into the custom app.