Dropshipping Automation Software

Dropshipping briefly explained: you open an online ecommerce store, offering products to be sold from suppliers and other vendors who let you sell their products and agree to fulfill them on your behalf. Of course, that oversimplifies things a bit but that’s really it in a nutshell. While dropshippers don’t actually handle and ship out products they can track shipments.

Dropshipping is usually fairly easy to enter, especially if you focus on niche markets, but like anything else, it is what you make it. In the beginning, at least, your profit margins may be lower while you build up a customer base, but before long, if you’re doing it right and taking the time and effort to apply what you learn, you can eventually make some serious money.

To get started in dropshipping you’ll have to:

• Select a market segment to sell to
• Analyze your competition and their sales
• Locate a supplier for your products
• Select an ecommerce platform such as eBay or Shopify to create an online store presence
• Develop your marketing and customer attraction strategy
• Begin receiving orders

Dropshipping software gives ecommerce businesses access to drop shipping companies from just a single platform, and without having to create expensive supply chains or ship products.

Why you’ll need a good automation software designed to work for and with dropshippers: most inventory and shipping management software is geared toward ecommerce retailers or traditional brick-and-mortar stores. These operations have very different requirements than dropshippers and may not be nimble or flexible enough to perform the functions you need. Not only that, but you will likely be paying for features you don’t even need. Shipping is one of those./p>

As a dropshipper, you will be less concerned with bills of lading, documentations, and other headaches. You will, however, be much more concerned about maintaining plenty of products in your inventory from suppliers and warehouses, and that’s another area where Ordoro really shines./p>

What are the differences between Ordoro and other services connecting to dropshipping suppliers? Sprocket, Easyship, and Shopify integrate nicely into most ecommerce platforms but may lack some features offered by Ordoro./p>

A good dropshipping operation is one that effectively manages its inventory and orders / reorders, as well as connects with suppliers and sales channels, refilling orders as needed./p>

For example, one dropshipping product research tool from Ordoro is a specialized app for hooking up with potential suppliers and even lets users create a portal between dropshipper and supplier/ warehouse. As a time-saver, the Ordoro app dropshipping management tool and other dropshipping tools from the Ordoro apps toolbox enhance your customer’s buying experience from purchase to fulfillment.

Automated Dropshipping Software

If you want to succeed at dropshipping (or at any ecommerce business) you absolutely must have really good inventory/ shipping management software installed or downloaded. In the good old days, we had to use the dreaded spreadsheets – meaning, hours spent laboriously entering product data, vendor data, carrier data, sales data, ad infinitum. Overseeing inventory and sales would be all but impossible with the old, cumbersome methods. Luckily, things have changed and we now have access to top quality, downloadable software that takes care of just about every aspect of running an ecommerce dropshipping business.

Good dropshipping inventory management software can also handle bulk orders, match the right warehouse to its designated suppliers as well as assign and send orders and even automated reorders.

Dropship Toolkit helps owners figure cost/ price analytics, as well as marketing and competitor analytics. Ordoro also can handle those tasks with easy-to-use plugins that help take the guesswork out of analytics, producing sales reports, and other administrative functions.

Dropship inventory management software is really a specialty unto itself and Ordoro takes things further than most: they’ve made the entrance into dropshipping as fast and easy as possible. You can start in minutes by simply filling in supplier information, importing and assigning products to designated vendors, and just like that – you’re ready to go.

If you’re looking to build an automated dropshipping website there are several ecommerce platforms that help you set up your own site. Shopify Dropshipping, an arm of the noted Shopify brand, and WooCommerce are two popular sites that are worth checking into. As we’ll discuss further below, Shopify offers extensive guides to setting up your online dropshipping store and tips to find products and more. There’s a monthly charge that’s pretty competitive with most other hosting platforms out there, depending on how much you want to spend and how many bells and whistles you want on the site. WooCommerce is free, as of this writing, and is a WordPress plugin, although you might find yourself paying for a plugin such as WooDropship.

Automated dropshipping software that is downloadable, as with Ordoro’s handy plugins, enables you to take full control of your dropshipping business with just a few clicks. Since they take an auto-centric approach to all operations from inventory management to automatic reordering, shipping, tracking, and dropshipping, Ordoro’s ability to auto-sync lets all of your functions interact seamlessly with each other and ensures that your streamlined workflow remains smooth, providing your customers with an awesome buying experience.

eBay Dropshipping

As a rule, no special dropshipping software for eBay is required other than listing directly on their site as with any seller; however, there are platforms such as BigCommerce, which can help add product listings to eBay as long as eBay's terms and conditions are met.

A few eBay dropshipping tools designed for just that purpose include Hustle Got Real, a Chrome listing extender with automated price stock management features, SkuGrid, with over 800 reliable suppliers and more than 10 integrated sales channels, and AutoDS, which automatically imports price listings to an eBay store as well as monitors inventory. Ordoro’s open API allows customs integrations with vendors to streamline the order fulfillment process, eliminating emails and other tasks.

There is also a free tool "Seller Hub" created by eBay for their subscriber sellers. Users pay only for any subscriptions such as Selling Manager Pro.

Amazon Dropshipping

If you’re thinking about using the retail giant’s Amazon dropshipping, you’re not alone. While not a dropshipper itself, the site is comprised of individual retailers who use the site to sell a mind-boggling array of products, many of which are from suppliers such as AliExpress.

In spite of the heavy competition on the site, if you’re getting into dropshipping Amazon is one platform with the very real potential for excellent sales that you should consider. Amazon dropshippers are drawn to the site because of the profit potential with low overhead: while heavy competition exists, even novice dropshippers may realize good commissions selling quality wholesale products, especially on popular items.

Amazon dropshipping tools are easily used even by a novice seller: while Amazon does have a good guide for starting out dropshipping, providing dropshipping software for Amazon (or the rest of the Big Guys) is just one of Ordoro’s functions. Using Ordoro’s automated dropshipping plugins, Amazon can reward dropshippers of all experience levels from experienced sellers to newbies with a boost in Amazon sales.

Shopify Dropshipping

For those who don’t want to stock and track inventory as well as deal with shipping and other ecommerce tasks, but are looking for a source of dropshipping software Shopify dropshipping stores are one answer.

As a side-specialty of the popular Shopify platform, Shopify dropshipping offers a complete dropshipping course on its website, as well as support. Everything you need to set up a successful dropshipping enterprise is all there, from finding products to creating an online store website to attract customers and boost sales, as well as tools for tracking shipments and sales analytics.

Shopify dropshipping suppliers tend to do well with the ecommerce platform, which also offers suggestions for finding suppliers on their website under the dropshipping heading, partnership with Oberlo, which is linked with the Shopify platform and helps locate recommended products from supplier lists as well as download them to a Shopify store. The Shopify dropshipping app store offers its users more helpful tools to build a successful dropshipping business.

Best Automated Dropshipping Software

Finding a reliable sales platform, such as Shopify or WooCommerce is only part of the story. If you’re looking for drop ship software for ecommerce, you’ll need features that allow for easily and quickly managing your inventory - not an easy task when you don’t have a physical location such as a stockroom to pull stock from but have to rely on a supplier’s integrity and ability to fulfill orders within the promised time frame.

The best automated dropshipping software enables users to monitor inventory levels, interface easily with a variety of sales channels and designated suppliers as well as assign and send orders as well as be set up to automatically request reorders based on stock levels and sales. Ordoro’s inventory management software plugins can not only perform those tasks but handle bulk orders, matching the right warehouse to the customer as well as supplier.

With the Vendor Portal feature, you can offer your suppliers an account enabling them to log into Ordoro in real-time and check on their active orders, as well as print labels and track information on order status. This information is then relayed back to your sales channels.

You’ll also need access to sales analysis and reporting, and Ordoro can handle those tasks with easy-to-use plugins that take the guesswork out of analytics, producing sales reports, and other administrative functions. This gives you a snapshot of how your business is doing as well as any areas that need more attention.