VendorDesk runs your dropship program. Online retailers list your products without holding stock, and send you their orders. Each order is checked, charged to the retailer, and created in your Shopify store with their customer's address. You ship it like any other order.
Who it's for
Wholesalers and brands that sell to online retailers and want to offer dropship. We're starting with pet supplies, home decor and lighting, and auto and powersports. VendorDesk is a web app you run your program from. Your catalog and orders stay in your Shopify store.
How retailers connect
Retailers pick whichever way suits them.
- Retailers on Shopify
- They install VendorDesk Connect, a free Shopify app, pick products from your catalog and set their own prices. Prices and stock stay in sync on their own, and prices never go below your MAP.
- Retailers on their own systems
- They get a product feed in CSV, JSON or XML, with ready-made formats for Duoplane and Flxpoint. They send purchase orders by email or CSV, or enter them on an order page that needs no login.
What happens to each order
It's checked
VendorDesk checks stock, the ship-to address and the regions you don't ship to. If an order needs a person, it's held for your review and nothing is charged.
The retailer pays
They pay your wholesale cost plus your shipping and dropship fee. Card payments go through your own Stripe account, so the money goes straight to you. Or put a retailer on net terms and they get one invoice a month.
It lands in your Shopify store
The order is created as a normal Shopify order, with the customer's ship-to address and the retailer's name on the packing slip.
Tracking goes back
When you ship, the tracking number goes back to the retailer's order automatically.
Works with what retailers already use
No retailer has to change how they work to join your program.
- Shopify
- Your catalog and orders stay in your Shopify store. Retailers on Shopify connect with the free VendorDesk Connect app.
- Dropship tools
- Retailers on Duoplane, Flxpoint or any tool that reads a CSV feed load your feed into it and email you their POs.
- Spreadsheets and email
- Feeds by link or email in CSV, JSON or XML. POs as CSV attachments, or typed into an order page.
- Stripe
- Retailer cards are saved and charged in your own Stripe account. Refunds go back the same way.
- EDI
- For retailers that need EDI, we set it up with you as a one-time service.
- Your other systems
- ERP, warehouse or another store platform: we can build the connection as a one-time integration.
What you control
- Wholesale pricing
- Base wholesale cost on your Shopify cost, a percentage off retail, or set it by hand. Put each retailer on a price tier.
- MAP
- Set a minimum advertised price. Retailers using VendorDesk Connect can't list below it.
- Safety stock
- Show retailers a little less stock than you have, so a busy day doesn't oversell you.
- Shipping and fees
- Set your shipping rules and a dropship fee: flat, a percentage, or both.
- Regions
- List the regions you won't ship to. Orders going there are caught before anything is charged.
- Who's in
- Approve each retailer's application. When you remove one, they get notice first, 14 days by default, so no order is cut off partway.
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Pricing
Starter
$249/mo
or $2,490/year
- 300 dropship orders a month
- 15 live retailers
- 2,500 product variants
- $500 one-time setup
- Email support
Growth
$499/mo
or $4,990/year
- 1,500 dropship orders a month
- 75 live retailers
- 15,000 product variants
- $500 one-time setup
- Email support and a monthly check-in
Scale
$999/mo
or $9,990/year
- 5,000 dropship orders a month
- Unlimited retailers
- 50,000 product variants
- Setup included
- Priority support and custom feed formats
Every plan includes every feature: card payments through your own Stripe account, net-terms invoicing, product feeds, emailed POs, price tiers and MAP. Orders are never held back. Past your plan's limit, each extra order is $0.25. Retailers never pay VendorDesk anything. More than 5,000 orders a month, or need EDI? Ask about custom pricing.
Apply for the pilot
VendorDesk is in early access, and we're taking three founding wholesalers. Founding wholesalers get the Growth plan for $249 a month, locked for 12 months, with setup included. It's built from running a live dropship program with about 100 retail stores. Tell us what you sell, how many retailers you work with now, and how they order from you today.
Or email support@deskapps.app.
Guides
- Getting startedConnect your store, choose your products, set prices and shipping, and add your first retailer.
- How retailers connectThe Shopify app, dropship tools like Duoplane, feeds and emailed POs, the order page, onboarding checklists and cards on file.
- Orders, changes and cancellationsWhat happens to each order, the order numbers you'll see, and how to change, cancel or refund an order.
- Getting paid and invoicesCard payments through your own Stripe account, net terms, order invoices and monthly invoices.
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