Shopify Collective: Supplier

I've previously used a number of dropship supplier apps, and this has been a big improvement. To wit:

- Product importing is seamless

- It is easy to set different commission rates for different groups of products, and if desired to give different retailers different price lists

- Your normal shipping rates are pulled through for Collective orders (rather than some kind of flat rate shipping that doesn't work for all your items, or needing to set individual rates for every product, as in other apps)

- Payments proceed automatically into your Shopify funds rather than through some third party payment processor

Shopify bringing this in-house rather than making everybody use (and the retailers pay for) clunky outside apps is a tremendous efficiency for those who want to dropship or supply dropshippers.

Largely works really well. Some issues with new Collective Partners understanding the margin component (vendors have wondered why items were 0 margin - it was because the item was out of stock not because we don't pay margin.) Also some work is involved on the partner side - once you import the items, you need to set them to be available in your store and align to your catalog (we offer 10k products, so bulk changes are your friend here!) Otherwise, our partners are making bank and we're happy to ship the items!

Excellent way to collaborate with other brands in order to reach crossover audiences. Very easy to use and simple to track. Collective raised our unit sales by more than 30% after the first 90 days... Great service, I highly recommend!