Ordoro vs. Shopify Inventory
Your storefront is only one part of the puzzle.
Shopify gives ecommerce businesses tools to sell products, manage orders, track inventory, and ship. As the operation becomes more complex, Ordoro adds tools for managing more of the work behind those orders, including multichannel inventory, purchasing, kitting, manufacturing, dropshipping, and fulfillment.
When your Shopify store needs more behind it.
Shopify gives businesses a powerful place to sell, but as your operation grows, more of the work starts happening behind the storefront. Orders may come from multiple sales channels, inventory may span locations, and purchasing, kitting, suppliers, and fulfillment can become more involved. Ordoro connects with Shopify to help manage that operational layer, with unlimited users and no per-user fees as your team grows.
Shipping beyond the storefront.
Shopify offers built-in shipping tools, including discounted labels from major carriers. As shipping becomes more complex across multiple sales channels, locations, carriers, and fulfillment methods, Ordoro gives businesses more ways to manage and automate the workflow.
With Ordoro, businesses can:
- Manage shipping across connected sales channels
- Compare carrier options and create labels
- Process orders in batches
- Automate shipping rules and presets
- Use multiple ship-from locations
- Keep shipping connected with inventory and fulfillment
- Expand carrier options through integrations like Shippo
When inventory becomes part of a bigger operation.
Ordoro is built for businesses that need inventory connected with the workflows around it, across sales channels, suppliers, products, warehouses, and fulfillment.
- Keep inventory synchronized across connected sales channels
- Manage purchasing and receiving
- Manage kits, bundles, and components
- Work with bills of materials and manufacturing orders
- Manage inventory across warehouses and fulfillment workflows
When your products get more complex.
For businesses that assemble, manufacture, kit, or bundle products, knowing how many finished products are available is only part of the inventory picture. Ordoro helps manage the components and workflows behind those finished products.
- Kits and bundles
- Bills of materials
- Component inventory
- Manufacturing orders
- Purchasing and receiving
- Inventory adjustments throughout the workflow
Manage the operation across your sales channels.
A business may start with Shopify and eventually expand to marketplaces, additional storefronts, wholesale channels, or other platforms. Ordoro gives businesses a central place to manage orders, inventory, shipping, and fulfillment across connected sales channels instead of treating each storefront as a separate operation.
With Ordoro, businesses can:
- Connect multiple sales channels
- Keep inventory synchronized across channels
- Manage orders from one place
- Apply shipping and fulfillment workflows across channels
- Manage more of the operation without jumping between platforms
Keep dropshipping connected.
Shopify has a large app ecosystem for dropshipping. Ordoro brings dropshipping workflows into the same platform businesses can use to manage their other orders, inventory, shipping, and fulfillment.
With Ordoro, businesses can:
- Automatically route orders to suppliers
- Manage supplier information
- Send orders for fulfillment
- Keep supplier and order activity connected
- Manage in-house and dropship fulfillment together
- Give suppliers access through vendor portals
Real support from people who know Ordoro.
When you have a question, you should be able to talk to someone who understands the software and the work you’re trying to accomplish.
Ordoro customers have access to a small, experienced team that helps with setup, troubleshooting, and everyday workflows. Our support team also works closely with product and engineering, so customer questions and feedback stay close to the people building Ordoro.
- Get help from real people who know the platform
- Get hands-on help with setup and workflows
- Reach phone support on paid plans
- Work with a team that stays close to customer feedback
Where Ordoro goes deeper.
When your operation needs more than order processing and shipping, Ordoro brings more of the work behind your orders together.
- Purchasing and Receiving
- Manage purchase orders, receive inventory, and keep purchasing connected to stock.
- Kitting and Bundling
- Manage kits, bundles, and component inventory as products are sold.
- Manufacturing
- Use bills of materials and manufacturing orders to manage products you build or assemble.
- Multichannel Inventory
- Keep inventory synchronized across connected sales channels and warehouses.
- Dropshipping
- Route orders to suppliers and manage dropship fulfillment alongside your other orders.
- U.S.-Based Support
- Get help from an experienced U.S.-based team that knows the product and works closely with the people building it.
Do you need Shopify, Ordoro, or both?
The right setup depends on where you sell, how much operational work happens behind your orders, and whether Shopify’s built-in tools still fit the way your business works.
Shopify may be all you need if:
You primarily sell through Shopify and its built-in shipping, inventory, purchasing, and fulfillment tools handle the needs of your operation.
Ordoro may be a good addition if:
Your operation has grown beyond a single storefront and you need to manage multiple sales channels, more involved inventory workflows, purchasing and receiving, kitting, manufacturing, dropshipping, multiple warehouses, or more complex fulfillment.
And you don’t have to choose between them.
Ordoro integrates with Shopify, so Shopify can remain your ecommerce storefront while Ordoro helps manage more of the operational work behind your orders, including orders from Shopify and your other connected sales channels.
Ready to do more behind your Shopify orders?
Keep Shopify at the center of your ecommerce business while Ordoro helps manage the shipping, inventory, purchasing, kitting, dropshipping, and fulfillment workflows behind your orders.
Choose What Your Shopify Operation Needs
Add the Ordoro apps that fit the way you work. Start with Shipping, Inventory, or Dropshipping, or combine them as your operational needs grow.
- SHIPPING
- Fulfill your orders swiftly and accurately across all channels.
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- INVENTORY
- Precisely track your inventory in all stores and warehouses.
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Starting at$349/mo
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- DROPSHIPPING
- Consolidate, automate, and oversee all your dropship orders.
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Starting at$299/mo
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Ordoro vs. Shopify Inventory FAQs
- Not exactly. Shopify is an ecommerce platform for building and running an online store, while Ordoro focuses on the operational work behind ecommerce orders, including shipping, inventory, purchasing, kitting, manufacturing, dropshipping, and fulfillment.
- Ordoro integrates with Shopify, so businesses can use Shopify for their storefront while using Ordoro to manage more of the work behind their orders.
- Yes. Shopify includes inventory management capabilities. Ordoro is designed for businesses that need inventory to connect with broader operational workflows, including multiple sales channels and warehouses, purchasing and receiving, kitting, manufacturing, dropshipping, shipping, and fulfillment.
- For businesses where inventory is a critical part of the day-to-day operation, Ordoro provides a more connected way to manage the work behind every order.
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- Yes. Shopify offers shipping tools for buying and printing labels. Ordoro is designed for businesses that need shipping to work alongside inventory, purchasing, multiple sales channels, dropshipping, and other fulfillment workflows.
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- Businesses add Ordoro to Shopify when the work behind their orders becomes more complex. Ordoro can help manage shipping, inventory, purchasing and receiving, kitting, manufacturing, dropshipping, multiple warehouses, and fulfillment while Shopify remains the ecommerce storefront.
- Yes. Ordoro integrates with Shopify to help keep inventory synchronized while giving businesses a central place to manage inventory across their connected sales channels and operational workflows.
- Yes. Shopify orders can flow into Ordoro, where businesses can manage shipping alongside the inventory and fulfillment workflows behind those orders.
- Yes. Ordoro can bring orders and inventory from Shopify together with other connected sales channels and marketplaces, giving businesses one place to manage multichannel inventory, shipping, and fulfillment workflows instead of handling each channel separately.
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