For e-shops: How does the drop-shipping work in practice
What is drop-shipping?
Many drop shipping models exist, but in principle this is what it is all about: the clients offer products from a supplier on their e-shops. The customer who buys the product on the e-shop pays supplier and the online store user gets a commission from that sale.
Nábytek-Jeko.cz is well known for its wooden furniture but offers also other various ranges and styles to meet requirements of customers’ differing tastes.
Nábytek-Jeko, as a supplier, offers to e-shops data on its all products
To explain the drop-shipping method in the Nábytek-Jeko.cz case study: a prerequisite for a drop-shipping is to establish cooperation with a supplier. When an e-shop is connected to Nábytek-Jeko, it automatically retrieves all data about products from the Nábytek-Jeko.cz online store - the name of a product, code, price, annotation, descriptions, parameters, images etc.
Nábytek-Jeko.cz answers all questions from the customers of partners’ e-shops
The supplier also supports all its partner e-shops when it comes to compete service for their clients. This way the supplier contributes to his/her own success, because this further leads to an increase in the supplier´s turn over. The supplier can, for example, help answer questions from candidates and customers, as done by Nábytek-Jeko.
„„I was pleasantly surprised by our cooperation with the Jeko Moravia company which offers partner-cooperation through drop-shipping. All - income orders are immediately processed in the FastCentrik system and that is why I can immediately see the status of individual orders and what commission will I get. That allows me to have enough free time to focus on e-shop promotion and answer all the questions my clients have,” said Mr. Roman Barackai –owner of online furniture store www.nabytek-bydleni.eu, talking of his experience with drop-shipping.
The supplier ensures execution of orders and product delivery
Nábytek – Jeko.cz takes care of the execution of orders received in the drop-shipping partner e-shops including the correct delivery of products. The transport is done, in 90% of cases, by Nábytek-Jeko suppliers’ own trucks and that not only provides the opportunity for the partner e-shops to offer delivery but also export and installation of the furniture.
What is drop-shipping on the Internet? Simply put, it is about getting the commission.
The supplier guarantees the products and resolves any potential complaints
Nábytek Jeko, as a supplier, also guarantees the quality of products and resolves any potential product complaints.
Nábytek Jeko expands its services and these can automatically be used by its partners
For e-shops who do business through drop-shipping, it is beneficial to improve their services and products gradually. However, when drop-shipping is used, the partner is dependent on the service of their supplier. Nábytek-Jako is continually expanding the variety of services for its customers. It offers, for example, new payment methods and installment payments. It develops its product range and all these improvements are automatically available to drop-shipping partners.
Nábytek Jeko offers a wide range of payment methods (cash on delivery, MoneyBookers, bank transfer, Česká spořitelna payment card etc.) and installment payments. These are also all available for its drop-shipping partners.
The e-shop provider need only optimize and maintain their online store
It doesn’t look like there is much to do when your online store is connected to Nábytek-Jeko.cz. However, there remains a very important role for e-shop providers – the care and optimization of their own online stores in order to be well positioned on the Internet. That is the only way to get enough visitors, customers and orders in your e-shops and earn enough money. So, do not forget to prepare and create texts and articles, make sure you take care of the link-building and marketing.
E-shop gets a commission from the supplier for the realized sales
The profit of an online store which does business through drop-shipping consists of the commissions paid by the supplier from sales to customers who purchase in the particular e-shops.
Read more: Interview: Drop-shipping has increased the turnover of Nábytek-Jeko.cz online store
Drop-shipping: E-shop can be provided by anybody
Anyone can easily run an e-shop through drop-shipping. You will not need any traditional, physical shops, warehouses, nor complex information systems or multiple personnel to deal with the business. Most of the obligations of an internet provider are fulfilled by their supplier. Anyone who is interested in this way of doing business simply has to run an online store and optimize it for the search engines in order to be well positioned on the Internet. To manage an e-shop through drop-shipping does not take too much time and therefore this kind of business can be done by anybody - even those who have another job or are studying.
