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How to send products to customers directly from suppliers (drop-shipping)?
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What is drop-shipping?
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Drop-Shipping is a system that allows orders taken from your store to be
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shipped straight from your supplier to your customer. On a usual
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delivery system, products are sent from your supplier to your warehouse
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to be put in stock, and then shipped to your customers after ordering.
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With drop-shipping, no item is stocked. When a customer places an order
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in your shop, the item is delivered straight from the supplier to the
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customer. Therefore, the product doesn't need to get through your
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warehouse.
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Points to be considered while implementing drop-shipping
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- Use drop-shipping only for the products you can't or don't want to
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keep in stock. One reason is that you'll always make smaller
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margins on items that are drop-shipped, so you should keep it
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only for items that take up a lot of space in your warehouse.
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- Drop-shipping is best for niche products. Chances are that products
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that are in high demand are being offered by large suppliers at a
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fraction of the price you'll be able to charge, so using a more
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costly shipping method won't be financially rewarding. But if
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your product is unique, then it makes sense!
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- To protect your customers from bad experiences, test drop-shipping
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companies for yourself beforehand and list the best ones.
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- Make sure time is not against you. Drop-shipping should take a
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reasonable amount of time and surely not more than it would have
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taken you to handle it all by yourself. It's also nice to be able
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to provide your customers with a tracking number.
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- Items have to be available from your supplier. It's good to know if
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the product you're selling is available upstream. If you don't
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have that information, inform your customers that you don't hold
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the item in stock and that it's subject to availability from a
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third party.
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.. tip::
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For more information and insights on Drop-shipping, read our blog on
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`What is drop-shipping and how to use it <https://www.odoo.com/blog/business-hacks-1/post/what-is-drop-shipping-and-how-to-use-it-250>`__.
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Configuring drop-shipping
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- Open the menu :menuselection:`Inventory --> Configuration --> Settings`.
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Go to **Location & Warehouse**, locate the **Dropshipping**
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option and tick the box **Allow suppliers to deliver directly to
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your customers**. Then, click on **Apply**.
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.. image:: media/dropshipping06.png
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:align: center
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- Then go to the menu :menuselection:`Sales --> Configuration --> Settings`.
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Locate **Order Routing** and tick the box **Choose specific
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routes on sales order lines (advanced)**. Click on **Apply**.
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.. image:: media/dropshipping05.png
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:align: center
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- Now, open the menu :menuselection:`Sales --> Sales --> Products`.
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Add a supplier to the products you want to dropship.
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.. image:: media/dropshipping03.png
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:align: center
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How to send products from the customers directly to the suppliers
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- Create a **Sales Order** and specify on a sales order line for your
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products that the route is **Dropshipping**.
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.. image:: media/dropshipping01.png
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:align: center
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- Open the menu :menuselection:`Purchases --> Purchases --> Requests for Quotation`.
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The draft purchase order is automatically created from the
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procurement with the drop-shipping route. Once the order is
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confirmed, you will see that one shipment has been created.
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.. image:: media/dropshipping04.png
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:align: center
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- To confirm the sending from the vendor to the customer, go back to
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**Inventory** app. On the dashboard, click on **# TO RECEIVE** on
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the dropship card.
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.. image:: media/dropshipping02.png
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:align: center
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- It will open the list of drop-shipping transfers. Validate the
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transfer once it has been done. The items will be directly
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delivered from the partner to the customer without transiting to
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your warehouse.
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.. seealso::
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* :doc:`inventory_flow`
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.. todo::
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Add link to this section when available
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* How to analyse the performance of my vendors?
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