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Inventory Source can be the IT Department for your business and provide Supply Chain Management services between your wholesale supplier and your product listings. In short, we help you to load, list, update, and manage your wholesale drop ship product listings regardless of if you are selling on marketplaces like eBay and Amazon or from sites like Magento or Zen Cart.

With no long term contracts, our business is based on helping the dropship resellers succeed. Growing your business is our business. We provide you with free access to a growing database of integrated wholesale supplier programs as well as training guides, tutorials, and technical support.

We understand your business and your needs. We have developed a powerful suite of tools exactly for your business. We are NOT a "turnkey site". We can work with the shopping cart platform and 3rd party marketplaces that YOU choose. Below is a sample of just some of the value adding services that we can provide to you.

 

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Tools & Features:

  • FREE Wholesale Supplier Directory and Product Browsing
    It is hard to find quality dropship programs by searching on-line. Many of you do not have the time or means to go to trade shows or industry events. Worse yet, there are plenty of sites online that say they have done this or say they are a dropship supplier. We are not selling a list. You can review our integrated suppliers now for free regardless of if you use our services or not. It is a growing network of some of the most trusted dropship suppliers and we work hard to grow our network of integrated supplier programs every month. We have some of the largest distributors in North America and some of the most target niche supplier programs. There is something for everyone. If you already work with a supplier from our network you can easily have their catalog integrate with your listings.
  • FREE Guides and Tutorials
    We are always adding new guides and tutorials on our Dropship Community & Support site as well as video tutorials to our main site. Let us know if you have more questions and we will try to find ways to help your business succeed.
  • Automated Price, Quantity, and Status Product Updates
    In our standard and download files as well as in our Full Inventory Automation service, we capture the data from the supplier and convert it into the format you can actually use to sell your items. Every day, every product is updated from the supplier and applied to your product listings or files. No more selling a product that has been discontinued. Avoid the hassle of out of stock product sales and protect your feedback ratings. We will update your stock status for every product automatically in the system. Also, since you can control your markups if your supplier increases the price of the product your profit margin will still be protected. If they drop the cost of an item then you can be one of the first resellers listing your product online with the discounted price while still protecting your profits...and its all done automatically while you focus on other aspects of your business or your life. No more need to waste hours trying to manage your business reviewing multiple price and availability files for thousands of products.
  • Automated Product Loading
    If you already have a website or use our hosted site, Inventory Source may be able to AUTOMATICALLY load the products in the format that you control to your website directly. If your supplier adds a new product Friday night, you can be one of the first people selling that product on Saturday morning while you are still asleep. No more wasting hours every day trying to copy and past product details to your website. This service is integrated with a growing list of shopping cart platforms. Let us know what cart your site uses and we can tell you how we can help.
  • Automated Image loading (Beta)
    We provide free image loaded for our Hosted Site members and integrated platform automation users. Just ask us about which platforms are integrated with this service. When we pull the new images from the supplier we are able to add them to the site automatically. No more need to spend hours pasting images to your store.
  • Formatted Data Files
    While consolidation is a powerful too, be sure to do your research! There are many companies on the internet these days that will promise you an all-in-one service, but many of them are actually just middlemen. When consolidating your operations, be certain that you are not giving up your profit margins on your inventory or overpaying for unnecessary services.
  • Custom File Creation & Download
    Besides our great standard file formats, we can build a file with your product data with the exact format that your unique shopping cart or market place requires. Some sites make you use their platform to take advantage of their services. At Inventory Source, we think you should be in control of the shopping cart that you prefer. Let us build a custom file for you and update it daily with the latest data from your dropship supplier so you can easily promote your products in bulk on eBay, Amazon, Price Grabber, Shopzilla, Google Product Search and more.
  • Instant Push To eBay Tool
    Simply browse the products from your supplier subscription or select the SKU and you can push your product to your eBay Store in seconds. The advanced controls allow you to customize and control your titles, descriptions, images, categories, prices and even select from a growing collection of ebay HTML templates for promoting your listings.
  • Enhanced product information
    If you have ever tried to use a data feed direct from the supplier you know how imperfect the data can be. Inventory Source removes all bad characters from the feed which disrupt an internet browsers ability to differentiate between text and HTML. We also correctly apply the data from the supplier to the fields that you need. For example, some suppliers send image names, titles, and other details in the description field. We ensure the data is only placed in the fields where it is required.
  • Image pulls and updated zip files
    We collect your images several times a week and convert them into the image format that your site requires. You can create the zip file with your images for large, small, and new images.
  • Custom Price Markup Settings
    No one would want to manually set or update prices for several thousand products, but that is exactly what happens when your business is not supported by Inventory Source. You can use the Custom Price Setting Tool to review your existing price strategy for each of your websites or custom files. You can apply different prices for each supplier, website, or custom file. You design the price strategy that you want applied to your products, and we will update your prices every day for you.
  • Custom Pricing Overrides
    Not only do you have all of the great options for Custom Price Markup Settings, but you can even create product specific price override. This lets you change your product prices in bulk AND still allow you to be as precise as you need for all product price strategies.
  • Custom Product Filters
    Automation and custom file users can filter their supplier catalogs with push button controls so they get the products on their site and listing that they need. You can easily filter by brand or SKU. You can block items from showing which are above or below a certain price. You can block products missing an image or even mark all low stock items below a quantity that you control as out of stock to better protect your feed back around peek holiday sales or any time during the year.
  • Custom Category Management
    For automation and custom file users who want to change their categories, our updates are applied to the products regardless of where you categorize your products. Also, if you have a platform with our Product Loading Service, we can add new products to your site with custom categories. To allow your custom category structure to remain in place on your site, we can load the new products to an existing or new category of your choice. The products are loaded to this location on your site, and you can recategorized them as needed.
  • MAP Filtering (when available)
    Protect your site against having Minimum Allow Price violations. When there is a MAP provided in the supplier feed we can apply your custom price setting or the MAP depending on which is the higher price.
  • Products Alerts - Daily/Weekly/Monthly
    You choose the frequency of the Alerts, and we will notify you of all new products for your suppliers. You can even find out that very same day!
  • Daily Automation email status reports
    You receive verification that your updates have completed, as well as any new images or products that have been loaded.
  • Notification of new suppliers
    No one likes junk mail. Inventory Source will only send you an email newsletter when we have added new features or suppliers. We try to only send a monthly newsletter as a notice of our growing list of reseller value adding services monthly.
  • Hosted Website Packages
    If you need a website that is fully managed and support or simply want to change from an existing platform, we can provide our automation users with a FREE shopping cart platform and secure SSL protected hosting account. The platform comes with free templates and quick setup wizards. We can activate the platform for you in seconds and have it fully load with your supplier products and images the same business day.
  • FREE Phone and Email Support
    If you have any questions or topics that you would like the Inventory Source Editorial Staff to provide additional content and training materials for to meet your needs, just contact us with your request.

  • Custom Services:
    Programming customizations : Contact us with any custom application requirements or contribution installation project requests.
We have a service for everyone so please contact our team if you have ANY questions about which service is right for you. Tell us your experience level and where and how you want to sell items from your suppliers and we will recommend the best collection of tools and features. While we are already integrated with shopping carts like Magento, osCommerce, CRE Loaded, Zen Cart, X-Cart, VirtueMart, Joomla, Mambo, Yahoo Stores, Miva Merchant, Open Cart, eBay ProStores and more, if you need us to look at integrating with a new platform, just let us know. Also, if you are still in need of a site or need an improved platform to allow you to sell thousands of products, then we can also provide your with a powerful ecommerce website as well. Enjoy your free account access and begin by reviewing the growing list of integrated supplier platforms. We add new supplier programs every month and if you do not see the supplier program that you currently work with, let us know, and we can evaluate their program for potential inclusion in the network. Create your account and find out why Inventory Source has been the Web's Largest and Most Trusted Dropship Data Solution Provider for close to 10 years.