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# fabric Dropship for Merchants

fabric Dropship empowers merchants/retailers to offer new product assortments with minimal risk, no added inventory, and no additional overhead. fabric Dropship allows you to fully integrate with a retailer’s commerce stack—handling everything behind the scenes from product syncing to supplier management and billing—so teams can scale product offerings without scaling complexity.

## Key Features

fabric Dropship is structured around a few core experiences, accessible from the top navigation:

* **Products**: Retailers can curate and manage product assortments easily:
  * Browse supplier catalogs, approve product listings, and manage imports.
  * Filter products by connection status, platform sync (Shopify, BigCommerce), and assigned merchandising contacts.
  * Export reports to track changes, trends, or pending proposals.

* **Orders**: Stay in control from order to invoice:
  * View all open orders and those requiring action.
  * Create purchase orders or return requests.
  * Manage backorders, cancellations, and late invoices.
  * Drill down with powerful filters and search.

* **Suppliers**: Build and manage supplier relationships at scale:
  * Onboard new suppliers.
  * Track a supplier's status and performance.
  * Configure workflows and product visibility.

* **Reports**: Generate real-time insights to drive better decisions:
  * Sales performance dashboards showing top suppliers and products.
  * Detailed reports on orders, shipments, invoices, returns.
  * Export data as needed with customizable filters.

### Additional features

* **Integration & Automation**: Connect fabric Dropship with your existing tools:
  * API support for syncing products, inventory, orders, shipments, invoices, returns, and more.
  * Webhooks enable real-time updates across systems.

* **Returns & Cancellations**: Maintain customer satisfaction and supplier clarity:
  * Configure workflows, return allowances, and SLA windows.
  * Choose platform-managed or supplier-managed invoicing, depending on who generates the invoice for each transaction.
  * Define cancellation permissions and time limits.

## Integration Examples

The following examples highlight different use cases for fabric Dropship.

### Enforcing Strict Cancellation Rules to Protect Customer Experience

John Doe manages eCommerce operations at a major home goods retailer. One big challenge? Customers were getting frustrated by last-minute supplier cancellations. John needed tighter control.

With fabric Dropship, John:

* Disabled partial order cancellations for certain suppliers.
* Set a strict 24-hour cancellation window.
* Enabled automatic invoicing to ensure consistent billing practices.

Now, the retailer delivers a smoother experience—and reduces post-purchase churn.

### Reducing Oversells with Safety Stock Buffers

Jane Doe oversees merchandising for an online fashion marketplace. After a viral boost, they oversold a supplier’s items—resulting in hundreds of order cancellations.

To avoid future mishaps, Jane enabled Dropship’s Safety Stock feature:

* If a supplier lists 20 units, only 15 appear to customers.
* The 5-unit buffer ensures availability even during stock updates or spikes.

Now, Marco’s team sells with confidence—even during sudden demand surges.

### Seamless Integration with Shopify

Jane Doe runs a fast-growing DTC skincare brand that also sells through retail partners. Her product catalog and inventory live in Shopify, but managing wholesale dropship orders was becoming a manual burden.

With fabric Dropship’s Shopify integration:

* Retailer purchase orders are automatically pushed into her Shopify store.
* As Jane's team fulfills orders in Shopify, shipment tracking syncs back to Dropship and the retailer—no need for double entry.
* Inventory updates flow both ways, keeping stock levels accurate across channels.

Dropship turned her partner operations from a manual task into an automated, reliable workflow.