There are two possible integration workflows with the remote platform, both supported by brandsdistribution.com.

Dropshipping

Dropshipping integration consist in directly shipping goods from the supplier of the Magento platform to the end customer.

Every time an order containing products from the remote supplier is payed, the system automatically creates an order to the supplier without any effort form the Magento administrator.

With Dropshipping integration products will be reserved when the order status become pending_payment (which corresponds to the phase beetwen the placement of the order and the actual confirm of the payment) and the single order will be automatically sent to the remote supplier with the shipping details of the customer to be shipped directly to.

 

Remote Supplier

Remote supplier integration consists in making a single big order from the supplier to the Magento platform owner who will take care to ship goods to the final end customers.

This method needs some actions from the website admin in order to send the supplier orders to the remote platform. This is made just by pressing the “Send Supplier Order” button from the “Booked Order” interface.

 

In order to track the statuses of the supplier orders, an additional column to the Order interface has been added which shows the remote order status.

Possible statuses:

• Booked: order has been placed on the IDT platform and just awaits to be confirmed by the remote supplier staff when they will have received the payment.
• Confirmed: order has been paid
• Working On: order is being prepared by the staff.
• Ready: order has been prepared and it is ready to be shipped.
• Dispatched: order has been shipped by the remote supplier (final status)