Oberlo equivalent for dropshipping

Hi,

No one asked for an integration for that plateform so we don't have any plans for it for now.
Also, I see on their website that Oberlo was made for shopify so I'm not even sure that it is possible to build such integration for HikaShop.

I guess that what usually happens is that they give you the URL to a product feed so that you can import the products in your store (you can do that with HikaShop's import system), and then they need to be notified when orders are placed on your website to be able to do the shipping. That usually requires an integration via a plugin.

Hi,

Well, one thing you could do is tell Oberlo that you would be interested in an integration with HikaShop. While they probably won't do it in the short term, the more people ask, the more they'll think about doing it.

Now, I've read a bit about dropshipping.
While tools to automate dropshipping seems to be a good way to streamline processes, it seems that manually adding the products you want to sell allows you to better market them.
And while Oberlo was made for Shopify to intergate with AliExpress for dropshipping, you could handle it manually without it, or build a similar integration with AliExpress for other ecommerce platforms.

I'm not familiar with dropshipping, so I don't know if that would be really interesting. It looks like Oberlo is only integrated with AliExpress but form what I understand, their are hundred of other platforms for dropshipping, each one requiring a different integration in order to automate this. To me, Oberlo looks like kind of limited compared to alternatives like www.ordoro.com/ who have an open API with many integrations with dropshipping services and many integrations with ecommerce solutions. It looks like it might be more durable in the long run.

Of course, if you already have your dropshipping suppliers with one solution, and you want to keep working with them, you're kind of stuck with that solution.
It's a bit like payment gateways from what I can see. If you're accepting payments with Authorize.net but the ecommerce solution you want to move to only has a plugin for PayPal, either there is a need to have a payment plugin developed for authorize.net for that ecommerce solution, or you're stuck with the other one.

Hi,

As Jerome replied there, the vendor will be notified of what he needs to ship by email and he can also see that in his HikaMarket vendor control panel.

Hello,

1 - Customer buy products
2 - HikaShop create sub orders for every concerned vendors.
3 - Each vendor is notify by email
4 - Each vendor can ship to the customer and mark it sub order has shipped.

So I'm sorry but the dropshipping is handle by HikaShop+HikaMarket.

Regards,

Hello,

Thanks iDanny ; your explanation was very useful !

So yes, if you want to have a sync with an third party system so your "vendors" do not have to create or update their products in your store, the usage of a specific plugin would be required.
Via the mass-action it is possible to perform some kind of automatic import but it requires a CSV file formatted correctly.
That's why for such kind of feature, a custom development might be more appropriated in order to have something which will read the external content and convert it to HikaShop internal format.

Regards,