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Originally Posted by BaggaDonuts  Dang, I kinda wish this thing worked with my invoicing software right now lol. |
Shoot me a message and we can see if it is feasible to get it setup to work with your invoice software. Is it actual software on your computer or a web app?
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Originally Posted by phaz0rz That's pretty cool. I applaud your effort on a not-for-direct-profit project. Really cool how you've made notes about your software's interaction with each e-commerce platform. I don't dropship but I've been trying to get my wife to give it a try. I think I'll download just to have the software.
Just out of curiosity, what language did you write this in?
Oh wait, is this just a Chrome plugin? Sorry for the noob question but I can't seem to get a download going on FF. |
Thank you! I do want to get it working with Firefox but they are completely different platforms and it would require a complete rewrite and I am not sure if there is the interest there yet. If there was I would definitely consider that.
To be the most accurate we found Chrome was the way to go - at least with our experience.
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Originally Posted by Play Am I right in saying that there are already dropshipping tools available which automate the entire process, or at least most of it? From automatically adding listings, to auto repricing, to auto ordering? |
There are and actually recently a number of ones have cropped up. As far as automatically listing goes there are some really good ones available such as Hydra Lister.
Before we made this tool I actually signed up for all the automated services I could find. There are several flaws I noticed which prevented me from being comfortable using them and I will list them:
#1. Very limited - Almost all of the automated services only order from Amazon and only work with eBay orders. My dropship company actually sources from 32 different suppliers. So using a automated service would only cover 1 of those suppliers. And I wanted something that would be able to work with every supplier we used. And from there we added 50+ that we don't use but I know a lot of other dropshippers do. My goal is to offer support for whatever is needed.
#2. Pricey - Most of these automated services charge a monthly fee plus per order auto-ordered. The lowest price I have seen is $.20 a order and some are as high as $.50 a order. If your margins are $1-2 as many dropshippers are this is a HUGE cut into profits especially when again they are covering a very small part of the market.
#3. Bots make mistakes - While I will be the first to admit no tool is perfect (mine isn't) the fact of completely automating insists that there be a level of perfection. With one of the services we used it fulfilled 25 orders through Amazon, 3 of them were shipped to the wrong address, 1 had part of another address left in the secondary street field. Another service we tried had fail-safes to help mitigate errors which resulted in a large percentage of orders being flagged to do manually. The plus side is we saw no mistakes in ordering but a large portion of orders we were still doing manually.
I am not just knocking these services because it is a fairly new field and I think in time they will get to the point where I would actually feel comfortable using them but I don't right now. And when our orders are fulfilled I want somebody checking to make sure it is correct.
My goal, again, is to fill a need I saw. There are other tools in this niche, but none as accurate or that work with so many suppliers and order management software. The owner of Skugrid told me he is planning to release a auto-order feature at the end of this year. So it is possible in time DropshipNPaste will become obsolete but I feel right now it fills a very much needed hole in the market. That's my opinion anyways lol
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