Dropshipping
Definition
Dropshipping is a retail model in which the store sells products it does not stock: when an order comes in, the supplier ships directly to the customer and the store keeps the margin. It needs very little capital, but the store controls neither stock accuracy nor delivery quality. In Turkey it usually runs on a supplier's XML or JSON product feed.
Why it matters for your store
Dropshipping lets a store open with a large catalog and no warehouse. The costs come later. Margins are thin because the supplier sells to many stores. Stock is only as accurate as the last feed import. Delivery times and packaging are the supplier's, but the customer's complaint comes to you, and so does the legal responsibility for the sale.
The operational core is the feed. It has to be imported often, mapped correctly to your product fields, priced with your margin, and cleaned up when the supplier removes items. Doing that by hand with thousands of products is not sustainable.
How Kambloo handles it
Kambloo's feed import engine takes a supplier feed by URL in XML, JSON, or CSV, with optional authentication, and runs it on a schedule you choose. A mapping screen lets you drag feed fields onto Kambloo product fields, with a preview of a sample record, and supports nested paths for complex feeds.
Price rules apply your margin: supplier price times a multiplier, with VAT handling and different rules per category. Large feeds are streamed rather than loaded into memory, so files with tens of thousands of products import without trouble, and records that have not changed are skipped.
For products that vanish from the feed, you choose the policy: deactivate, set stock to zero, or leave untouched. Images are copied to your own storage rather than hotlinked from the supplier. Orders, contracts, invoices, and returns run through the standard flow, because legally the sale is yours.
Questions about Dropshipping
How does a dropshipping store keep stock accurate?
By importing the supplier's feed on a schedule, hourly or daily, and deciding what to do with products that disappear from it: deactivate them, set stock to zero, or leave them. Anything less frequent leads to selling items the supplier no longer has.
Is the store still responsible for delivery and returns?
Yes. Under Turkish consumer law the seller is the store, not the supplier. The customer's contract, invoice, and right of withdrawal are with you.