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Dropshipping Payment Process Questions!

by soudy
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Okay so I have a question about the process on how to successfully drop ship a product.

Okay so when a customer or agent processes an order for an item. We take the payment ( if credit card) thru our e commerce store ( Volusion). Then we WAIT about 2 days for it to clear in our bank account THEN we notify our wholesaler to ship to this customer.


Being that there is a 2 day wait on our funds to clear, we dont want to send the product without collecting the payment, is there a better process for this ?

Because now, all of the orders are manually inputted into a spreadsheet then sent out and its very time consuming and not efficient at all.

ANY suggestions or ideas will be very helpful,

ALSO if there is another shopping card solution that handles this better PLEASE let me know, we are open to changing e commerce providers.

Thanks guys
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  • Profile picture of the author dropshiponebay
    Just my opinion...but stay clear of paypals "real" payment processor. I had many issues with them letting fraudulant charges pass through and the 2 day wait period wouldnt matter in that case. This is different from the regular paypal method..I am referring to the merchant paypal account.
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  • Profile picture of the author pavv
    Hi Soudy,

    This problem occurs when you are just starting out and don't have a cash buffer. When I started with ecommerce I was using paypal to accept credit card payments. It would take 2-3 days for the money to reach my account to then place the order with the supplier.

    After a little while there would be enough money in the account to place orders straight away and the PayPal money would come through later to place future orders. Maybe just give it some time.

    The only other solution around this is that you pay your drop shipper through PayPal.
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