Dropshipping may not be a novel business model. Discussions about whether it is obsolete or dead are still rife in overseas media.
However, there are still many sellers operating in this format. But not all platforms welcome drop shipping. The analysts of B7Dropshipping introduced to the brand factory that dropshipping is a violation on e-commerce platforms such as eBay and Amazon. Amazon issued measures against dropshipping in February this year. If such behavior is detected, it will be immediately banned.
However, unlike Amazon, independent website builder SaaS people remain friendly to this model. According to statistics of overseas mainstream website building tools Shopify, SquareSpace, and WooCommerce stores, some data agencies found that about 27.86% of WooCommerce stores use drop shipping, the corresponding proportion of SquareSpace stores is 21%, and the proportion of Shopify is about 11.8%.
Take Shopify, which has the richest application ecological layout, as an example. In its application, the search results under the \”drop shipping\” category can be as high as 275. Most of these apps provide product selection and supply chain services for \”drop shipping\” sellers, allowing sellers to focus on marketing.
The \”one-piece dropshipping\” in the independent website ecology, the place where Chinese companies play their strengths, is also the focus of B7Dropshipping.
In addition to platforms such as AliExpress, which have long been the \”source of goods\” for such sellers, a large number of Chinese companies are joining the Shopify application ecosystem in the form of providing drop shipping solutions. B7Dropshipping is your first choice among these methods. .
01 Start by solving form pain points
Many entrepreneurial stories of \”drop shipping\” apps start with the manual processing of orders. In the absence of automated processing tools, they struggled with repetition, inefficiency, and various mistakes in sending forms.
Oberlo co-founder Tomas Slimas remembers back in 2014 as a drop shipping seller, \”I remember we would wake up almost every day and export all our orders from Shopify and then send those orders as a CSV file to Our suppliers so they can download them, add tracking codes manually, and send them back to us, and we import them back into Shopify.”
Hence, Oberlo, which he co-founded with other founders in 2015. Originally known as \”Ali Importer\”, Oberlo\’s only free feature was importing products and automatically updating inventory and prices.
In the same year that Oberlo was founded, some Chinese companies also noticed the pain of sellers doing drop shipping at that time. This is also the origin of Eprolo, a drop shipping solution in Shenzhen.
Before the launch of Eprolo, the company used to be a cross-border e-commerce seller, selling various electronic products on AliExpress, eBay and other platforms. At that time, many Shopify sellers began to order goods on AliExpress through them. More and more, both parties found it difficult to process orders through AliExpress, so they tried to use Excel tables to process order information outside of AliExpress. Soon, the Eprolo team chose to launch its own app and publish it on Shopify\’s app store.
This is one of the first Chinese companies to enter the Shopify application system. It was still in the early stages of Shopify trying to build its own app ecosystem. In 2009, the first iteration of the app store had fewer than 12 apps. By 2013, the number of apps in the Shopify app store had grown to 100. At this time, the 100 apps were managed by a team of three, one of whom was an intern. By 2015, the number of apps in the Shopify app store had grown to 900.
In that year, in addition to Eprolo, many Chinese cross-border e-commerce companies discovered the demand of overseas sellers for \”drop shipping\”. Only in 2015, Focus Technology completed the acquisition of Doba, an American direct delivery service platform. Yiwu Cujia Trading Co., Ltd., rooted in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, was also established that year, and quickly grew into a platform integrating product procurement, order processing and transportation fulfillment.
Soon, Shopify also took notice of drop shipping and completed its acquisition of Oberlo in 2017. In this year, an agency analyzed the Shopify app store in terms of the number of reviews, and counted the 25 apps with the highest reviews, and Oberlo ranked among them with 1,021 reviews. In 2017, the number of reviews in the Shopify app store The number of applications has grown to 1800.
However, due to the information gap between the platform and manufacturers in dropshipping through the platform, dropshipping agent will be a better choice. Shopify\’s erp system is used to manage orders, and dropshipping agent will help you process orders and get closer to each order in time. progress, after-sales problems can be better resolved. B7Dropshipping has 60+ logistics partners in China, which can provide faster and more stable logistics, better quality products and better after-sales service than aliexpress.
It is not difficult to understand why Shopify is interested in \”drop shipping\”. In October 2022, Shopify President Harley Finkelstein mentioned in an interview that every time he went to a retail conference or an investor conference on Wall Street, he would hear people questioning the \”drop shipping\” model. But Harley Finkelstein holds a different view. \”Actually, I think they completely ignore it. Dropshipping as a business model is the way to start a business.\”
Starting from \”one-piece drop shipping\”, it is a common way of starting a business among overseas sellers. The development of today\’s DTC brand unicorn Gymshark also started from drop shipping. More than ten years ago, Gymshark founder Ben Francis, who was still a college student, created the first version of Gymshark, and then he and his classmate Lewis Morgan \”sold\” fitness supplements through this website. They used the money they made from consignment sales, and the money Francis made as a delivery guy at Pizza Hut, to buy a sewing machine and screen printer and start making their own workout clothes. This is Gymshark\’s original story. Today, the overall valuation of the sports DTC brand has already exceeded 1.4 billion US dollars, and the IPO plan is announced in 2021.
More importantly, drop shipping solves the problem of supply for novice sellers who are interested in building a website through Shopify.
That is to say, B7Dropshipping can provide you with more flexible supply, more timely reply, faster logistics and lower price.
02 AliExpress and JD.com embrace Shopify\’s \”one-piece drop shipping\”
Today, there are still new drop shipping apps on the Shopify app market. In Shopify\’s open app ecosystem, there are as many as 275 search results under the \”drop shipping\” category, which may be the existence of Chinese companies. One of the strongest categories.
In May 2022, the cross-border e-commerce SaaS software service provider DSers completed the merger with Shopify\’s software Oberlo of the same category, involving an amount of nearly 10 million US dollars. Some media said that the merger of the two created the first cross-border e-commerce business. For example, the record of Chinese SaaS merging overseas SaaS.
After the merger of the two, DSers has become the most installed product among all dropshipping apps on Shopify. According to Shopify Hunt estimates, DSers have accumulated about 92,000 installs so far, far ahead of Printful, which has about 37,300 installs.
Whether Oberlo or DSers, the accumulated downloads in the Shopify app store are inseparable from AliExpress. Zhao Xinglong, founder of DSers, once introduced in a sharing that some domestic users will operate the Drop Shipping model through other supply chain B2B platforms, etc., which involves relatively basic procurement, sorting, packaging, logistics and other links, but AliExpress It can be shipped directly overseas, which will reduce huge unnecessary labor costs.
However, this model may encounter more and more competitors in the future.
As a result, more and more overseas platforms have begun to have Shopify drop shipping, and they have begun to settle in to provide a wider selection of products for independent website sellers.
For example, Spocket, founded in Canada, hopes to find \”sources\” outside China. On August 21, 2018, when the company completed a $1.2 million financing, it stated that its wholesalers are mainly located in the United States and Europe, but also in Canada, Asia, Australia, Brazil and other countries and regions.
In January 2022, FashionGo, a fast fashion B2B platform, announced its access to Shopify to launch a drop shipping service. In August, home improvement platform Qalara announced that it would launch drop shipping services through Spocket and Syncee, integrating into platforms such as BigCommerce, Wix, Shopify, Woocommerce, Squarespace and Ecwid.
The drop shipping service has also gradually begun to enter more vertical fields. For example, on April 5, 2021, GreenDropShip launched a new application on the Shopify App Store, allowing Shopify sellers to add natural and organic food to their stores for sale . GreenDropShip said it has supported more than 20,000 products, including food, beverages, vitamins, skin care products, and more.
After the epidemic, more and more sellers and brands also began to provide drop shipping services, such as Macy\’s, Nordstrom, Kohl\’s, Target, Lowe\’s, Best Buy, REI, Chewy, DSW and Williams-Sonoma all opened their own one For drop shipping services, even Prada has signed a drop shipping agreement with Net-a-Porter.
In China, many companies have also chosen to find suppliers outside of Alibaba to build their own supply chain systems. For example, CJDropshipping, which has accumulated about 24,400 installations in the Shopify app store, is like a combination of Aliexpress and Oberlo. Suppliers have been approved and settled in advance to CJ overseas warehouses.
However, Shopify may be more comfortable with competition. Some overseas media have found that the reason why many overseas brands use drop shipping is also their choice in the competition with Amazon. Through the supply chain system established by Amazon, consumers can find a variety of products on almost any of its sites, and Amazon can also provide fast and even free shipping services.
It\’s critical for Amazon\’s competitors to offer a wide variety of products on their sites, because if shoppers can\’t find what they\’re looking for on one site, they\’re likely to search on Amazon. Under pressure, they had no choice but to rapidly expand their online inventory and streamline their shipping logistics.
For dropshippingers in Shopify, what they need to do is to open their own traffic. How to do marketing is the biggest problem. At that time, this can help you avoid endless price struggles. e7 dropshipping agent will provide you with the best Product selection and optimal logistics channel selection.
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