Magento 2 Dropship Extension: Dropship is a shipping method where the store owner does not require the storing of products in its location. Rather all the products are in different warehouses across regions.

So when a customer places an order, the shipping is from the nearest warehouse instead of the store using the Magento 2 dropship module.

Dropshipping also complements Magento 2 backorder, where the store owner can accept orders that are not yet available.

Using the Magento 2 (Adobe Commerce) Dropship module, the admin can add multiple warehouses for a product with the quantity.

Basically, the Magento 2 (Adobe Commerce Cloud) Dropship module provides the Multi-Source Inventory concept. Thus, lets the multi-source sellers manage their multi-warehouse inventory conveniently.

Using the module, the admin can even import products from AliExpress into his store. Thus, one can start selling those products within his own store very easily.

To place the orders at AliExpress the admin just needs to click a single button. Hereafter, allowing you to make the payment as we have automated the order process for the AliExpress Orders.

A small overview of the Magento 2 dropship plugin can be seen in the video mentioned below –

Video Tutorial – Importing Products from AliExpress To Magento 2 Store

Features

• Import AliExpress products(simple & configurable) from AliExpress into your selected store.
• Create configurable products if the product has options otherwise, create a simple product.
• Edit the product information(with images) on the AliExpress website before importing it to the store.
• Update AliExpress order status from AliExpress Chrome extension.
• Import products from the AliExpress Product, Search, and Category pages.
• Shop URL verification while registering your Magento store URL.
• Add Product Price Synchronization from AliExpress using cron.
• The description of the product also gets imported the same as AliExpress.
• Admin can import AliExpress products website-wise.
• The product information like-
  • basename,
  • price,
  • product reviews,
  • meta-
    • title,
    • keywords,
    • description,
  • SKU, description(simple tags, HTML tags, and multiple images), and
  • configurable attributes get imported along with the product.
• The Admin can add Warehouses.
• View all AliExpress Orders in a separate section.
• Automated Order Process for the AliExpress Orders.
• Mention warehouse stock quantity in the products.
• The admin can assign multiple warehouses to a product.
• The shipping cost is calculated according to the warehouse location.
• The admin can add warehouse(supplier) product price rules.
• The mapping of Magento categories is done with the Warehouse Categories from the admin end.

Few More On Features-

• Provide multi-warehouse inventory features in your Magento 2.0.x, 2.1.x, and 2.2.x version.
• The Warehouse manager can manage his order after admin approval.
• Allowed Warehouses(suppliers) to view their dashboard to analyze sales.
• The module properly works with default Magento shipping methods.
• The admin can add the Data-Flow Profile to map Magento product attributes with warehouse product attributes.
• Admin can import products from Aliexpress with Multiple images, product description, Reviews & Metadata.
• The admin can import multiple warehouse(supplier) products using a single CSV, XML, and XLS file.
• Update AliExpress Edit Popup Model.
• Manage thumbnail, attribute & Variations price.
• Also, Import swatch images from AliExpress
• Allowed admin to import individual warehouse(supplier) products using CSV, XML, and XLS file.
• Automatically created supplier account if not exist during warehouse products import using CSV, XML, and XLS file.
• Applying price rules on warehouse(supplier) products during import using CSV, XML, and XLS file.
• The admin can view the warehouse(supplier) dashboard to analyze sales.
• The admin can also view warehouse(supplier) orders and warehouse(supplier) products.
• Mass Assign/Un-Assign imported products to various warehouses.
• Set the Default quantity and cost of the imported products when they are assigned to the warehouse.
• Assign the warehouse automatically or manually.
• Google Maps API-based address auto-complete.
• Select the email template for order approval and a new warehouse account.
• Select shipping methods for every warehouse.
• Separate warehouse manager login for managing the orders and shipments.
• The admin can do complete management (add/edit/delete) of the warehouses.
• The admin can assign warehouses to unassigned orders.
• Add shipping rate information using a CSV file.

Additional Features As For Magento 2.3

However, the below features are part of Magento 2.3

• Dropship usage MSI feature.
• Each Warehouse is mapped with a Source.
• When creating a warehouse, a source for that will be created and assigned to stocks.
• Quantities are managed through sources on the product edit page.

The installation is quite simple just like the standard Magento 2 extensions.

Customers will get a zip folder and they have to extract the contents of this zip folder on their system.

Henceforth the extracted folder has an src folder, inside the src folder you have the app folder.

Now, you need to transfer this app folder into the Magento2 root directory on the server as shown below.

If you have downloaded the module from Magento Connect then unzip the respective extension zip.

Hence, create Webkul (vendor) and then Dropship (module) name folder inside your Magento root directory as app/code/Webkul/Dropship.

Thereafter, move all module files inside /app/code/Webkul/Dropship/ folder in the Magento root directory.

After the upload, you can see the folders in your Magento 2 Root Directory.
Then you have to run these commands in the Magento 2 root directory.

Hereafter, running these commands, you have to flush the cache from the Magento admin panel. Hence follow the navigation as->System->Cache management as shown below.

First Command 

composer require phpoffice/phpspreadsheet

Second Command 

php bin/magento setup:upgrade

Third Command 

php bin/magento setup:di:compile

Fourth Command 

php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

Magento 2 (Adobe Commerce) AliExpress Importer Chrome Extension

You need to install this extension on your Google Chrome browser for importing the products to your Magento 2 store.

So, please follow the link and install the extension from the Chrome Web Store.

Multi-lingual Support

For multilingual support, the admin will navigate through Store->Configuration->General ->Locale Options.

Hence, select the locale as German (the language into which the admin wants to translate his store content).

Translation

If a user wants to translate their module from English to German then they need to follow the path app/code/Webkul/Dropship/i18n.

Thus, unzip the Magento2 Dropship folder and get a CSV file with the name en_US.csv. Now they will rename that CSV as de_DE.csv and translate all right-side content after the comma in the German language.

Hereafter, edit the CSV, save it, and then upload it to the path app/code/Webkul/Dropship/i18n where they have installed Magento2 on the server.

The module will be translated into the German Language. Thus, it supports both RTL and LTR languages.

The user can edit the CSV like the image below.

Thus, after the accomplishment of the installation steps, the admin can configure the Magento 2 dropship extension by navigating to Store>Configuration>Dropship Manager.

General Settings

• The admin can enter the Name and e-mail id of the admin account.
• Select the auto or manual assignment of the warehouse.
• Google API key to connect the Google Map with the website.

Note- Dropshipping is only visible to the customer when the mode of Warehouse Assignment is set to Auto. However, in Manual mode, Dropshipping is not applicable.

How to Get Google API Key

The admin needs to get the Google Maps API key to address auto-complete to work. Please check this link for getting the API Keys.

Dropship Transactional Emails

Show Price Details in Order Approval Mail – The admin can configure the mail by selecting this option as yes or no. This allows the visibility of price details in Order Approval Mail.

Order Approved Template – The admin can select the template for the mail generated on order approval.

New Warehouse Account Template – The admin can even select the mail template shared when a new warehouse account is created.

AliExpress Settings

First, Install the AliExpress Chrome Extension.

Username and Token – The admin will set the username and token, this will be used in the Store authentication at the Aliexpress end.

Quantity – This is the default product quantity at the time of the warehouse assignment.

The Default Cost – This is the cost of the product when the warehouse is assigned to a product.

Default Attribute Set Id – The selected attribute set will be assigned to Ali-express products by default.

Default Tax Class – The selected tax class set will be assigned to Ali-express products by default.

Weight – The default weight for the Ali-express product.

Currency Rate – The admin enters currency rates according to import currency.

Product Active – The admin manages the product status that imports.

Default Warehouse -The admin selects here the default warehouse for the Ali express products.

Default Website – The admin selects the default website that assigns to the Ali-express products.

Now, the admin can navigate to Stores> Configuration> Sales> Shipping Methods> Dropship and manage the setting using the Magento 2 dropship extension.

• Enable or disable the dropship shipping for the checkout.
• Enter the title for the drop ship shipping method.
• Select Yes if want to show the dropship shipping method even if the dropshipping is not available else select No.
• Enter the display error message that will be displayed to the customers when the dropship shipping method is not available.

Admin Management

Now, the admin can see “Dropship Manager” in the admin panel as per the image below.

Warehouse Dashboard Section – Admin’s End

Clicking the menu option will redirect to the default admin dashboard page.

Warehouse Manager

If you have having growing business and selling products over locations like Dubai, Japan, the US, etc.

Hence, the module lets you create (MSI) multiple warehouses for each inventory location easily.

Here, the admin can see all the Warehouses, user names, titles, statuses, and links to edit the warehouse.

The admin can add a new Warehouse by clicking on the “Add New Warehouse” button. Thus,  a new page appears where the admin has to enter all the warehouse information.

Herein, the admin has to select the shipping methods for each warehouse.

Manage Stock

In Magento 2.3.x before creating the warehouse the admin need to create stock first and assign that stock to the website.

Hence, to manage Stock the admin will navigate through Stores>Inventory>Stock.

Here, the admin enters details relative to the stock- the name, Sales channel- Websites, and Source- List of Warehouses where the stock is available.

The admin then needs to edit the warehouse with the following information- Upload File, Field Mapping, Price Rules, Run Profile, Added Products, Orders, and the dashboard.

Warehouse Info

The admin can edit a warehouse by clicking on the edit button that brings up the page with the warehouse information.

Upload File Section

Under this section, the admin can Upload Products with their Images for this selected warehouse.

Two sample types to download from, that can be used for easily uploading the products

• Download Samples If the SKU doesn’t exist.

If you download these samples then you can add new products by filling in the product information in the CSV, XML, or XLS file and then upload it under the “Upload Product File” section.

Please check the below example using the CSV file.

• Download Samples If SKU exists.

If you download these samples then you can update the warehouse products. Here, the admin will enter the SKU, Price, Stock, to update the products.

Now, after downloading the sample file (CSV, XML, XLS) if you want to use it for uploading the products in bulk. Then you need to enter the product details first and then under “Upload Product File” upload the file. After that add the images zip file under “Upload Product Images.zip”. Now, click the “Save Warehouse” button to upload the products.

Field Mapping

For the selected warehouse, the admin can either select an already created Dataflow Profile. Else can Add Field Mapping for the In Database values versus the In file values.

In case, a user has changed the CSV header name to match the database values with the in file values, the admin can create the field mapping.

Price Rules

If the admin wants to change the product price set by the warehouse, the admin needs to select any of the price rules as per need.

Thus, the admin can see the selected price rules for this warehouse and can multi-select other price rules as well that are available.

The warehouse cost for the product is $10 and you want to set the price for the product at your website as $ 20, then select the price rules that will allow this hike.

So, the admin can easily create the price rules under the “Manage Price Rule” section.

Run Profile Section

If the admin has uploaded the product file and the product images zip file. Then the admin can select that profile to run so as to import the products to the warehouse.

Here, the admin can enable/disable the option -“Want to skip if product warehouse price is greater than product price” by checking and unchecking it.

If enabled, this will allow the admin to skip the products of the warehouse that are having a greater price than the product price.

If you already have a product at your web store that is already set to price $100. Whereas, the warehouse from which you are importing the products has set the price for that product as $120.

Then you may check the option “Want to skip if product warehouse price is greater than product price”.

In order to skip those products of the warehouse that are having a greater price than your store’s product price.

Added Products

The admin can see all the warehouse added products and also can see the orders placed for each of the products.

Also, the admin can click on the View Orders to see all the orders placed for this warehouse product.

Orders

The admin can find all the orders placed for this particular warehouse.

The admin can see the Order numbers, their status, the total Order Total, the Warehouse Total, and the Warehouse Shipping.

Dashboard

Under this section, the admin will be able to see the statistics like the – Statistics for the Orders placed and the amount of revenue generated for the selected warehouse.

So, the admin can see the warehouse information like – Lifetime Sales, Average Order, last Orders, Most Viewed Products, etc.