Hi all
I am building a dropshipping webshop in nopcommerce for a customer.
He has a concern regarding the business model, since he intends to have many vendors.
If he eg. charges 5EUR for shipping but the customer selects 5 cheap items from different vendors, then the 5EUR shipping wont cover actual shipping cost as each vendor would have a cost of 5EUR for shipping totally 25EUR of shipping cost.
He ask how does other get around this problem?
Also some items shipping cost may vary and exceed the 5EUR he charges, he also intends free shipping when purchase is above 40EUR, which can make matters worse if customer buys many cheap items from different vendors that will not offer free shipping for such amounts.
How does other dropshipping webshop ensure that shipping cost are covered?
He does NOT want to have higher prices to cover shipping and considers a service fee, I advised him against this as customers hate service fees.