Dropshipping

DROP-ship-ingnoun

Topic: Selling online

1. A way of selling in which you take the order and the payment, but your supplier packs and posts the goods directly to the customer, so you never hold the stock.
2. It lowers the cost of starting, since there is no stock to buy up front. The trade-offs are thinner margins, less control over delivery and quality, and a dependence on your supplier keeping accurate stock and price information. If the supplier runs out and you do not know, you have sold something you cannot send.

Example She runs a garden furniture shop on a dropshipping basis, so the supplier ships each order from its own warehouse.

See also Stock sync Product feed API