You have an online store and may be used to buy from Aliexpress, Alibaba, or other B2B/B2C platforms, but you may face the below problems in your business.
Not sure if you are getting the product at the best price.
The supply of the products is not always stable.
Want to know if there are any faster available shipping methods.
Want to do your private label on the products.
Can’t get a refund when got damaged products.
Fortunately, yes, all your pain points can be settled. Dropshipping agents can help you solve all of your problems above. They take care of quality inspection, warehousing, shipping, and some other important parts of the supply chain, share your workload, and enable you to focus on other more important parts, for example, marketing, sales, promotion…
How can a dropshipping agent help?
A dropshipping agent is a middleman between you and your dropshipping supplier. They are complementary to a dropshipping supplier. You can send a product inquiry to your dropshipping agent. Later they will look for a supplier who can offer the best quality at a cost-efficient price.
Then they buy from the supplier and store it in their warehouse. When new orders get from your store, they will arrange the shipping to your end customers. Except for these basic works, a dropshipping agent also offers you extra value-added services, for example:
- Quality check before shipping, in case the defective product is to be shipped
- Customized branding package, offering hangtags, insert cards, branding bags, or packages with your logo.
- Private label or white label, dropshipping your own brands became possible.
- Photography and video
- Select the best shipping method based on your destination
- Share you with the latest trends in the industry
- Merge multiple orders into one, saving your procurement and shipping costs
Yes, a good dropshipping agent can do all these for your online store. You can get benefits when you get one to help.
Reasons why you should hire a dropshipping agent
1 Better price-quality ratio than a dropshipping supplier
The primary benefit that an agent gives is improving your product sourcing for your dropshipping services for free. You don’t need to drown in the numerous suppliers to search for products and compare prices. A dropshipping agent will do this work for you.
The agent with rich sourcing experience, they are not only familiar with the local wholesale markets, but also some other sourcing channels. They usually combine online and offline channels to find the most cost-effective products more quickly and efficiently than doing it yourself.
While helps you ease your burden, save time, and save your purchasing cost at the same time. A dropshipping agent helps you to beat your competitor.
2. Stable supply
You may face this issue before when you sold out one product, but when you try to place an order to your dropshipping supplier and found out the product is not available anymore or the cost raised more than what you have sold.
A dropshipping agent they don’t rely on an only a fixed supplier. They keep looking for other resources as backups. So with their help, you can keep a relatively fixed price and stable supply. Even if it meets industry reasons, the price rise across the board, dropshipping agent will advise you upfront, enabling you to adjust your sales strategy to deal with.
3. Flexible shipping methods
If you are used to dropshipping from China by Aliexpress or Alibaba such platforms, your packages are likely to be delivered by these methods:
ePacket
China Post
Aliexpress standard shipping
EMS
A dropshipping agent has access to more shipping channels with a good relationship with many worldwide shipping logistics service providers. They can offer the best way to arrange your packages based on your customer’s location.
A dropshipping agent can provide worldwide fulfillment service and shipping products directly from China by more than 15 shipping options, like DHL, FedEx, 4PX, Yun Express, YanWen Express, CNE Express Aramex, and some other special logistics lines.
However, it would be better to choose a dropshipping agent in Guangdong(Guangzhou/Shenzhen) and Zhejiang(Yiwu/Hangzhou/Shanghai) area, and these regions have gathered the largest number of international logistics companies, can offer the best shipping rate.
4. One on one support service
Working with a dropshipping agent, you will get one on one support service. You just need to talk to one single agent instead of dealing with multiple vendors. An agent will handle all your requirements and take care of all your supply chain works. This makes your online business easier and more efficient.
Whenever you have a request or question, you can easily contact your dropshipping agent via social channels like Whatsapp, Wechat, Telegram, Skype, also email…
5. Bulk Inventory Storage
Dropshipping agents can offer free bulk inventory storage service, and you can buy inventory at a better price, and all products can be held in their warehouse. When you get new orders from your store, your packages can be sent out immediately.
As the traditional dropshipping supplier requires to prepaid each order, it’s better to get one dropshipping agent than hire multiple vendors and manage their payments and shipments more efficiently.
6. Branding package
Every business needs to establish a brand, even for a dropshipping business. However, it’s hard to take care of the branding and private labels for your products with various vendors during all the other importing processes. Dropshipping suppliers just offer neutral packages and conventional packing. So it makes it almost impossible to do your own brand while working with dropshipping suppliers.
So a dropshipping agent is particularly important in this case. They help you build your brand by making a branding package with your logo, private label, tag, a thank-you letter, insert cards, or special packing for your goods. You just need to tell them your requirement, and your agent will locate the best fit options for your existing business.
Conclusion:
Hiring a dropshipping agent can be a perfect way to lighten some of your workloads and grow your online business. A good dropshipping agent can offer you more opportunities to expand your online stores by branding, private labeling and maintaining your customers through high quality and faster delivery experience.
Need a China dropshipping agent service for supplier sourcing, branding, QC, and fulfillment? See our China Dropshipping Agent Service page to learn how we support Shopify and independent sellers from the China side. Talk to our team here.
Need More Hands-On China Support?
If your next step is not just learning the process, but actually getting China-side execution support, these service pages may help:
- Sample Checking and Quality Control Service when you need sample comparison, packaging review, or pre-shipment QC before the goods leave China.
