One of the difficulties of starting a business is that you don't have a saleable product. Finding suppliers and sourcing products is often the first step in starting a business.
However, if you choose to open a shop on Shopify, then you have dozens of sourcing options and you can source a wide range of products for your shop depending on your needs, work with suppliers who specialize in certain products or even materialize your abstract ideas by labeling products.
What is product sourcing?
Once you have developed the idea for your business, the first issue you will have to face is product sourcing. At this stage, you will decide how to get the products you want to sell. Possible options include finding a manufacturer of bespoke products, a wholesale supplier of third-party products, or working with a one-off seller.
In this article, you will be introduced to three product sourcing options. These services can help you to fulfill the orders and allows you to focus less on logistics and more on building your brand, running effective advertising campaigns, and providing great customer support.
13 Shopify apps to help with product sourcing (for one-offs)
Oberlo
Handshake
Printify
Dripshipper
Spocket
Syncee
Creative Hub
Printful
My Online Fashion Store
Lulu Xpress
Shapeways
Modalyst
MXED
1. Oberlo: Choose your target from a wide range of products to sell
Price: free plan available
Oberlo is the official Shopify app designed to simplify the process of finding products, quickly adding them to your Shopify shop, and delivering them directly to your customers.
With a wide range of products, there is only one niche you can't think of, and no product you can't find here. You can source products from here for your online shop to serve your specific audience, such as pet accessories for pet owners or smartphone photography equipment for travel enthusiasts.
The best part is that Oberlo provides you with data on the performance of each product so you can make the most informed decisions about what to add to the shop.
The types of products that can be sold are:
Rings
Sunglasses
Watches
Clothing
Digital products
Mobile phone accessories
and many other products
2. Handshake: Shopify's wholesale marketplace
Product Sourcing
Price: Free
Handshake is a wholesale marketplace and product sourcing app built and operated by Shopify. This product sourcing app features hundreds of thousands of products from a variety of brands sourced from all over the US. (Currently available for the US only).
The Handshake catalog contains a wide variety of products, so whatever your niche, find the next hot trend with this product sourcing app. Some of the top product categories include:
Apparel
Candles
Stationery
Fragrances
Home Living
and many other products
3. Printify: Print-on-demand clothing and accessories
-Product sourcing
Price: Free plans available
If you're looking for a way to inject your creativity into the products you sell, then print-on-demand products are a very popular option. With Printify, you can choose from a large catalog of products to customize to your design.
Printify is free to use (pay per order). However, you can also upgrade to a paid plan for $29 per month to increase your commission rate when you decide to expand your business. On the paid plan, you get a 20% discount on all products.
With the power of Printify, you can place your designs on.
T-shirts
hoodies
Handbags
Coffee mugs
Wall decals
Posters
Beach towels
Laptop
Pet beds
and many other products
Interested in exploring how to build your app for Shopify? Feel free to learn how to build a Shopify app on the Web Design and Development blog.
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