Integrations with Dropshipping suppliers and Create and manage home page with categories, products??

[sick gust]

I have a question, does Medusa have any integrations with Dropshipping suppliers to manage shop's inventory and orders automatically. And also is it possible to (add products in bulk), (add categories), (create and manage home page with categories, products, etc. in any of Frontend examples)?

[snow wadi]

up!

[snow wadi]

I haven't seen a dropshipping plugin yet but I am interested
Basically dropshipping is a paid service, and you have to pay a subscription like per month to have a list of products to add to your shop, right?
Then import that list, saying bulk import
In this case how can it be possible to test and develop a solution, I may be interested in contributing

[snow wadi]

You write like a ninjaaa @sick gust 🥷 I was reading and it disappeared 😂

[sick gust]

i'm still writing)) wait a minute pls

[snow wadi]

no problem you can also write in #lounge it may interest some people

❤️

[sick gust]

hello, thank you for your interest. So, the main features are:
(1) bulk products uploading by providing Dropshipper's products' IDs or Links
(2) automatic updating of products' quantity (stock)
(3) placing orders with Dropshipping suppliers and shipping orders to costumers

(1) example: at first you make a list of Dropshipper's products' IDs or Links (if you don't have a CSV file) then you upload this file to Medusa and then script gets needed data and uploads it to Medusa store

(2) It can be done by (cron job) daily running script which somehow gets Dropshipper's products' quantity (stock) and updates quantity (stock) in Medusa

For (1) and (2):
The way how to do it depends on Dropshipping supplier. It can be done by using Dropshipper's APIs-(if it has it), scrapping data directly from page-(for example: Selenium with python) or making a Chrome extension again for scrapping data directly from product's page or products' lists page

(3) not the most important but still needed:
example:
1. Costumer places an order (by paying, or payment on delivery selecting if this payment method is possible) with Medusa store
2. This order automatically places with Dropshipping supplier (by paying, or payment on delivery selecting if this payment method is possible)
3. Dropshipping supplier ships this product to costumer with:
3,1. Dropshipping supplier's personal shipping services
3,2. already integrated with Medusa shipping services
3,3. any other shipping services

Dropshipping suppliers:
The free and popular one is AliExpress.
Of course there are more, but unfortunately i havn't heard of them

P.S: So, I would call it Automated Dropshipping. Maybe some automations are only possible with minimal manual actions but its ok

Feel free to ask any questions and share your ideas!)

[snow wadi]

You should write a motivational article about these features ❤️

[sick gust]

you mean i should motivate devs to do it?)

[snow wadi]

I am one of the first interested in a dropshipping solution with medusa as it's 100% open source, and as we are saying, the open source alternative of Shopify

[sick gust]

perfect, are you interested to work on it?)

[snow wadi]

Absolutely, to contribute

the only problem I have is that dropshipping providers are paid, like DROPIX, 29bucks/month for 200 products max

[sick gust]

i can cover this payment if it works as requested) But also, are there any free alternatives?

[sick gust]

for a development period

[snow wadi]

I know DROPIX they are based in France 29/month and BDroppy they are based in Italy 99/month they sell Nike, Adidas, ...

[sick gust]

it would be great to Cover Europe and the USA as main Medusa`s clients are from there, but other world is important aswell

[snow wadi]

Sure other countries are still suffering in a bad coverage of shipping and payments

But in medusa you can restrict the Region

[sick gust]

we are currently based in Germany and these 2 don't fit, i would say that best stock is in AliExpress, but im not sure about Shipping options and integration

also DropIx has integration with AliExpress

https://shop.dropix.io/supplier/1655716933154x412301386322303300

[sick gust]

but unfortunately only in France

[snow wadi]

Oh didn't know that

Do you think it is possible to work directly with Ali Express ?

[sick gust]

I have seen such integrations in Bagisto and Shopify (not sure), so that it's possible))

[sick gust]

So, what do you think about it all?)

[snow wadi]

I think it's a chore that must be done in the project, dropshipping no one can escape from it and finding how to do that with Ali Express is a must do

I bet there are many people that dream to have their Medusa shop dropshipping in few clicks

[sick gust]

I completely agree. Also, how do you think I can get it done?

[snow wadi]

Probably by coding a plugin which the template is on Adrien's GitHub

Try to test import a CSV file

Open an Ali Express account

Look how dropshipping works on YT

Stuff like this

If you code such a plugin I bet you'll have many stars

The question is how to retrieve the Ali Express data

That is pertinent also and will make money

[sick gust]

Unfortunately I'm not able to code this plugin by myself

[sonic plume]

I'm developing a store for dropshipping, I would like to collaborate on such a dropshipping module @sick gust

Getting familiar with medusajs, but the part with fulfilling the order should be possible with brightpearl plugin right?

[sick gust]

hi @sonic plume I thought about this plugin and how it can be done. So, AliExpress is a good option but it should not be the only one Supplier, we need to connect more and also leave an option to add products manually. Also if you have any questions or offers - share.

[empty steeple]

Has there been any progress on this?