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Dropshipping: How do you handle the shipping when a customer orders from multiple suppliers?

by xixna
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When a customer orders from multiple suppliers in your store, the items come from multiple places with multiple shipping fees.

Should I use a fulfilment service to pack everything together and then ship it to customers?

Or do I really need to package everything together? I can ask all of my suppliers to ship everything directly to my customers? But this way, customer will receive items at different times.

Which is the best way?
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  • Profile picture of the author agmccall
    One of the biggest problems with using multiple dropshippers is the shipping. If you sell 3 items to one person each will have a separate shipping cost. If the dropshippers use UPS for example the minimum is around $9.00. So, are you going to charge $27.00 for shipping. And, if you have the items shipped to you or a fulfillment center then you have the $27.00 plus fulfillment fees, plus shipping from the fulfillment center.

    So, to answer your question, I would have one dropshipper and if I wanted to use more I would then have multiple sites.

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  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
    We build shipping into the prices and offer "free shipping". That way, it doesn't matter where things are ordered from.
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