Drop Shipping

Drop Shipping is a supply chain management technique in which the retailer does not keep goods in stock, but instead transfers customer orders and shipment details to wholesalers, who then ship the goods directly to the customer. The retailers make their profit on the difference between the wholesale and retail price.

There are (still) opportunities to make money using the internet with some startup costs and low on-going costs. If you can get orders from customers using your website, and then pass the order directly to another company who ships the product directly to the customer and just bills you the (lower) cost for the product and shipping.

OSCommerce can provide a low cost website to sell products. You put find a drop shipper yourself, I can't help you. However one of my customers found a drop shipping company to supply him and they also provide an electronic feed of stock levels and products.

Graith Internet developed a number of scripts which are run automatically whose job it is to collect and process this data. They also download product images and set the selling price. In this way, 5467 products were added to the OSC website in less than two minutes (the product images took longer to download).

Because the data feed format will be different for another drop shipper, we can't give you a price for this work, but please contact us giving us details and we'll happily help you set up a site like this.

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Car Audio Direct

CarAudioDirect uses leading-edge technologies of Open Source Commerce with PHP and MySQL with custom components and heavy design integration.

There's also an automated integration with an offline order processing system.

A panel of specialists and reviewers from within the industry were selected to judge the categories, which this year included trade awards. All CAR readers had the opportunity to vote for the trade awards.

Car Audio Direct are proud to announce that we picked up the award for Best eCommerce Site 2005
I would personally like to thank all who voted and we promise even more exciting website developments for 2006...
Mike
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