User Guide of Magento 2 Dropshipping 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 dropshipping extension, the admin can add multiple warehouses for a product with the quantity.

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

Using Magento 2 dropshipping extension, the admin can even import products from AliExpress into his store. Thus, one can start selling those products within his store very easily.

To place the orders at AliExpress the admin needs to click a single button. Hereafter, we are 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 on our youtube channel.

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 Warehouse 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 rates 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.

Installation

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) then Magento 2 dropshipping extension name folder inside your Magento root directory as app/code/Webkul/Dropship.

Thereafter, move all module’s files inside /app/code/Webkul/Dropship/ folder in 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 Magento 2 dropshipping 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 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 want to translate his store content).

 

Originally Published:- https://webkul.com/blog/dropship-for-magento2/