The Latest About Dropship Integrators
What are Dropship Integrators? Dropship Integrators are companies that take the responsibility of finding trusted dropshippers and integrating their products in a single place where members can choose which products to sell.
Many dropship integrators will simply sell you a list of company names often referred to as wholesale sources.
These companies really don't do anything but just gather names of companies for you.
Selling wholesale sources was very popular many years ago when dropshipping was still something new to the online market.
Today people are looking for much more than just wholesale sources and its now expected that such integrators offer much more than just names of companies.
Today's dropship integrator also offer order fulfillment services to make the ordering process as easy as possible but this comes at a cost.
Companies that offer such services are subject to large overhead costs since they now take on the job of capturing orders on behalf of the dropshippers and providing customer support services.
They are also subject to merchant transactions fees.
All these fees are not FREE! In the end, the only way a dropship integrator can absorb these costs is by passing them on to the buyer.
In essence this is what we refer to a "middleman" where wholesale prices are marked up by a certain percentage in order to cover all the extra fees accrued by the dropship integrator.
If you are trying to start your own online dropship business and you want to get this done quickly then working with companies that consolidate products from various dropshippers can be a potential good shortcut.
If you prefer to work directly with the suppliers you will kneed to spend time finding the right supplier that provides the products you wish to sell and also you will need to provide the supplier a tax id or reseller id in order to gain access to their wholesale prices.
If you work with a dropship integrator, you do not have to provide any tax id or reseller id since they will work with the suppliers in the backend for you.
Many dropship integrators will simply sell you a list of company names often referred to as wholesale sources.
These companies really don't do anything but just gather names of companies for you.
Selling wholesale sources was very popular many years ago when dropshipping was still something new to the online market.
Today people are looking for much more than just wholesale sources and its now expected that such integrators offer much more than just names of companies.
Today's dropship integrator also offer order fulfillment services to make the ordering process as easy as possible but this comes at a cost.
Companies that offer such services are subject to large overhead costs since they now take on the job of capturing orders on behalf of the dropshippers and providing customer support services.
They are also subject to merchant transactions fees.
All these fees are not FREE! In the end, the only way a dropship integrator can absorb these costs is by passing them on to the buyer.
In essence this is what we refer to a "middleman" where wholesale prices are marked up by a certain percentage in order to cover all the extra fees accrued by the dropship integrator.
If you are trying to start your own online dropship business and you want to get this done quickly then working with companies that consolidate products from various dropshippers can be a potential good shortcut.
If you prefer to work directly with the suppliers you will kneed to spend time finding the right supplier that provides the products you wish to sell and also you will need to provide the supplier a tax id or reseller id in order to gain access to their wholesale prices.
If you work with a dropship integrator, you do not have to provide any tax id or reseller id since they will work with the suppliers in the backend for you.
