DropShip logical and infrastructure

Lost in Ru
Nov 5 · 2 min read

Description of the actors:

  • Customers: End-user that buys the product
  • Shopify User: Our direct subscriber who pays us for the service
  • Company: Service provider
  • Suppliers: Those that do the shipment of products and have the stock
  • DropShip account: unique account where Shopify users can save the products they are interested in and change details from them.

Description of the project:

The company will provide a database of products without having stock, creating a system where connects suppliers by API´s calls, data scraping or parsing with subscribers.

Those who subscribe to the system (Shopify Users) will have access to that database of products and can add them automatically to their Dropship account and from there edit images, description and add their profit over company’s price, and synchronise to their Shopify accounts.

When Customers access to the Shopify users shops they can buy products, and the company will receive the funds, place the order on the different suppliers, and suppliers will send the products directly to the customers.

The company will pay the subscriber their profit margin, keep a commission and pay the supplier.

For the description of the logical operation, we will go from the supplier of the products to the final customers.

The supplier has stock of products and is responsible for the shipments to the final customer without either the Shopify user or the Company having to manage it, everything will be automated.

The provider needs to have one or more conditions to be valid:

  • Have an API for getting products
  • Is it possible to do data scrapping
  • Data can be parsed
  • Allow changing shipping addresses depending on the order (imperative)

To obtain the data from the supplier we can use API´s, or directly make Data Scrapping or Parsing (or copy text data + images or insert part of the web in the system).

The company will not copy the products in bulk, avoiding IP bans and server costs, it will be shown real-time. The most searched products can be stored on the servers to speed up loading times.

After searching for keywords (e.g: Bluetooth earphones), the products will be shown. The Shopify user can add in their profile (dropship account) that will be unique to him and can manage it by changing images, description, adding tags etc, then click on synchronize and upload it automatically to your Shopify account.

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