If your business sells widgets and then immediately orders them from your suppliers then you will like our new drop ship feature.
Typically eBay traders, e-commerce shops and other businesses who don’t hold inventory on hand or who have their suppliers deliver direct will find this very useful. Essentially, when you enter a Sale you can choose a ‘Do more’ option called ‘Save and Drop Ship’.
Saasu drop shipping for small business is quite unique due to our inventory capability which extends to assembly/build style inventory and API support.
What happens?
Once you click Save and drop ship Saasu automatically loads a new purchase with the order information for your default supplier set as the Contact. It also loads the ’ship to’ address you chose in your Sale along with a bunch of other important bits of related transaction information. All you need do is ‘Save and Email’ the purchase as a one step confirmation. This saves on data entry, reduces the chance of input error (during translation from Sale to Purchase) and helps to ensure each sale has a matching purchase to obtain better confidence in fulfillment.
We plan to expand this feature out further so let us know what you think, send in your ideas.
Big thanks to Klaeton who’s a Platinum Ebay Power Seller for all his help. His company, Australian Direct rocks it out using Saasu around the world – literally as a muso working & performing in Germany.
Great update – this means I can sell a custom item and automatically order from the factory. Helps eliminate mistakes in ordering and makes it easier for tracking expenditure. I haven’t worked it out yet, but hopefully this will eventually allow me to report on GP%/$ acheived for every invoice. I would need to link multiple purchases to an invoice… thanks for the improvements – don’t stop! Richard – Hiphome
Comment by Richard A — February 12, 2009 @ 11:05 pm
The drop ship is a great idea to incorporate. Nice. Do you know any good drop ship suppliers who will hold books as stock and then send them out for us – most likely our customers will be within 2 hour drive from Sydney.
Comment by Michael — February 19, 2009 @ 7:16 am
Great idea. Simplifies data entry and the sale/purchase process. Thank you.
Comment by Ravi Bhatia — March 23, 2009 @ 3:18 am
I would love to hear more about this topic.
Comment by billige Kontaktlinsen — April 5, 2009 @ 10:20 am
Were did you get your blog design?
Comment by billige Kontaktlinsen — April 5, 2009 @ 12:18 pm
Marc Lehmann built it.
Comment by admin — April 7, 2009 @ 6:44 am
any way to do this for multiple sales orders at once? we don’t want to bombard our suppliers with multiple purchase orders every day and would prefer to collate all sales for one day into one purchase order per supplier. any ideas if this is possible without a lot of customisation?
cheers,
Lance
Comment by Lance — April 28, 2009 @ 5:11 am
Hi Lance, Service desk has you on a development ticket for that feature now. The current drop shipping method was really designed as a first step. There is more to come later in the year.
Comment by admin — May 7, 2009 @ 10:33 pm