## Documentation Index

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fabric Dropship empowers merchants/retailers to offer new product assortments with minimal risk, no added inventory, and no additional overhead. fabric Dropship allows you to fully integrate with a retailer’s commerce stack—handling everything behind the scenes from product syncing to supplier management and billing—so teams can scale product offerings without scaling complexity.

## Key Features

fabric Dropship is structured around a few core experiences, accessible from the top navigation:

- **Products**: Retailers can curate and manage product assortments easily:  
  - Browse supplier catalogs, approve product listings, and manage imports.  
  - Filter products by connection status, platform sync (Shopify, BigCommerce), and assigned merchandising contacts.  
  - Export reports to track changes, trends, or pending proposals.  
- **Orders**: Stay in control from order to invoice:  
  - View all open orders and those requiring action.  
  - Create purchase orders or return requests.  
  - Manage backorders, cancellations, and late invoices.  
  - Drill down with powerful filters and search.  
- **Suppliers**: Build and manage supplier relationships at scale:  
  - Onboard new suppliers.  
  - Track a supplier’s status and performance.  
  - Configure workflows and product visibility.  
- **Reports**: Generate real-time insights to drive better decisions:  
  - Sales performance dashboards showing top suppliers and products.  
  - Detailed reports on orders, shipments, invoices, returns.  
  - Export data as needed with customizable filters.

### Additional features

- **Integration & Automation**: Connect fabric Dropship with your existing tools:  
  - API support for syncing products, inventory, orders, shipments, invoices, returns, and more.  
  - Webhooks enable real-time updates across systems.  
- **Returns & Cancellations**: Maintain customer satisfaction and supplier clarity:  
  - Configure workflows, return allowances, and SLA windows.  
  - Choose platform-managed or supplier-managed invoicing, depending on who generates the invoice for each transaction.  
  - Define cancellation permissions and time limits.

## Integration Examples

The following examples highlight different use cases for fabric Dropship.

### Enforcing Strict Cancellation Rules to Protect Customer Experience

John Doe manages eCommerce operations at a major home goods retailer. One big challenge? Customers were getting frustrated by last-minute supplier cancellations. John needed tighter control. With fabric Dropship, John:

- Disabled partial order cancellations for certain suppliers.  
- Set a strict 24-hour cancellation window.  
- Enabled automatic invoicing to ensure consistent billing practices.

Now, the retailer delivers a smoother experience—and reduces post-purchase churn.

### Reducing Oversells with Safety Stock Buffers

Jane Doe oversees merchandising for an online fashion marketplace. After a viral boost, they oversold a supplier’s items—resulting in hundreds of order cancellations. To avoid future mishaps, Jane enabled Dropship’s Safety Stock feature:

- If a supplier lists 20 units, only 15 appear to customers.  
- The 5-unit buffer ensures availability even during stock updates or spikes.

Now, Marco’s team sells with confidence—even during sudden demand surges.

### Seamless Integration with Shopify

Jane Doe runs a fast-growing DTC skincare brand that also sells through retail partners. Her product catalog and inventory live in Shopify, but managing wholesale dropship orders was becoming a manual burden. With fabric Dropship’s Shopify integration:

- Retailer purchase orders are automatically pushed into her Shopify store.  
- As Jane’s team fulfills orders in Shopify, shipment tracking syncs back to Dropship and the retailer—no need for double entry.  
- Inventory updates flow both ways, keeping stock levels accurate across channels.

Dropship turned her partner operations from a manual task into an automated, reliable workflow.