Dropshipping

Sell a
supplier’s
range without
buying the stock.

Dropshipping on Orbit starts in the Suppliers directory: connect a UK supplier, import the products you want, and set your price as a rule on their cost. When a customer orders, Orbit raises a purchase order to the supplier, and their tracking lands on your order and in your customer’s inbox.

Start for free
14 days free, no cardSee what the supplier sees

On every plan from £25 a month. Orbit adds no fee to a purchase order.

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    Your shop, start to finish

    Nothing says dropshipped

  2. 10:14· With auto-send switched on

    Purchase orders raised for you

    Straight to Dynamic Office Solutions

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    Notifications at every step

    From acknowledged to shipped

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    Tracking synced to your order

    A tracking number for each parcel

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    Branded shipping emails

    Carrier and tracking number included

  • On every plan
  • One purchase order per supplier, raised for you
  • Stock mirrored as the supplier changes it
  • Tracking lands on the customer’s order

Supplier import built in

Photos, variants and your prices

Import

Their catalogue, your shop.

Every supplier in the directory has been approved by Orbit before you see it. Connect to one, tick the products you want and they arrive in your Products list with the photos, the variants and a price from your rule.

Three ways in

Open suppliers connect on the spot. Password suppliers give you a code, or you request one. Approval suppliers read a short message about your shop and answer under Pending requests. Already buy from UK suppliers who are not listed? Invite them by email or copy the sign-up link.

Import in the background

Tick one product or the whole page and press Import. The import keeps running if you leave the page, with a count of how many have landed and a Stop button if you change your mind.

Everything that matters comes across

Name, description, SKU, barcode, gallery and variant photos, options such as Colour: Black, brand, category, shipping class, weight, dimensions, SEO title and description, custom fields and the supplier’s stock count, with inventory tracking switched on.

White-label when you want to

Switch sync off field by field, for the whole connection or for one product. Turn off the title or the description and your words stay put when the supplier edits theirs. Leave stock on so their count is your count.

Start for free

Automatic pricing from cost

Markup, margin and .99 rounding

Pricing rules

Set the margin once, keep it on every product.

Your selling price is worked out from the supplier’s cost price by rules you write on the connection. Rules run by priority, the first one whose conditions match wins, and a rule with no conditions covers everything.

Markup or margin, your choice

Add a percentage markup, a true gross margin, a fixed amount on top, a fixed amount off, or an absolute price, and chain them: 60% on cost, then round.

Rounding that reads right

Finish at the nearest penny, up, down, at any increment you pick, or on .99 or .95, so a cost of £180.21 at 60% sells at £288.99 rather than £288.34.

Rules by brand, category or cost band

Match on the supplier’s brand, their category, your own store category, custom type, SKU, name or a cost price band, all of the conditions or any of them, with a live count of how many products each rule catches and a preview on a sample cost.

Cost changes never move a price you typed

A supplier cost change waits in your Updates inbox unless you switch on auto-accept. Either way the price is re-derived through your rules, and a price you edited by hand is left alone.

Every operator, every rounding mode

Runs without you

The order you never touched.

Six things that happen on their own once a supplier is connected and Auto-send purchase orders is on.

Raising the purchase order

The moment a customer order lands, one purchase order per supplier is created for the supplier-sourced lines, carrying the customer’s name, delivery address and phone and never their email. Auto-send posts it to the supplier straight away; leave it off and it waits in Drafts for you.

Mirroring stock

When the supplier records a stock change, your on-hand count follows and the storefront stops selling what they have run out of. An hourly sweep catches anything a dropped event missed.

Re-pricing on cost changes

Accept a cost change, or auto-accept it, and the selling price is re-derived through your rules. Hand-edited prices stay where you put them.

Carrying tracking to the customer

When the supplier ships a line, the tracking is written onto your order, the shipped email goes to your customer under your shop’s name, and the same numbers appear on their account page.

Watching the parcel

With Orbit Shipping connected, Orbit keeps checking each supplier parcel with its carrier for up to 30 days when it can match the carrier the supplier named, and the shipment on your order is marked delivered when the carrier says so.

Telling you what changed

Acknowledged, on hold with an expected date, part-shipped, shipped, declined, invoice uploaded: each is a notification in your dashboard, and shipments, holds and declines are emailed too. Cancel the customer’s order and the purchase order is cancelled with it, or a cancellation request goes to the supplier if they had already acknowledged.

Every detail

What syncs, what ships, and what stays yours.

For the careful buyer: the fields that move, the rules you can write, a purchase order’s life from Draft to Fulfilled, and what your customer sees.

What syncs

The whole listing follows, unless you say not.

On import and on every supplier edit: title, description, stock, brand, category, shipping class, images (gallery and per variant), SKU, barcode, SEO title and description, custom type, weight, dimensions, custom fields and cost price, plus tracking from the supplier’s shipments. Title, description, stock, brand, category, shipping class, images and tracking each have a switch on the connection, and most of those a switch per product; the rest always follow the supplier. Variants the supplier adds, removes or renames always wait for your review.

  • Title
  • Description
  • Stock
  • Brand
  • Category
  • Shipping class
  • Images
  • SKU
  • Barcode
  • SEO
  • Custom type
  • Weight
  • Dimensions
  • Custom fields
  • Cost
  • Tracking

Pricing rules

Markup, margin, round, in any order.

Operations: percent markup, percent margin, percent off, fixed markup, fixed off, absolute price and round (nearest, up or down at any increment, .99 or .95). Conditions on brand, supplier category, store category, custom type, SKU, name or cost price with equals, not equal, contains, does not contain, starts with, ends with, in a list, at least, at most or between. No rules means the cost passes through unchanged, so write one before you import.

  • % markup
  • % margin
  • % off
  • Fixed
  • Absolute
  • Round .99
  • By brand
  • By category
  • By cost band
  • Live match count

Purchase orders

Draft, Sent, Acknowledged, Fulfilled.

Numbered PO-2026-0001 upwards per shop. A purchase order created from a customer order links back to it; you can also raise one by hand to restock your own address. Sent orders lock their lines. Cancel outright before the supplier acknowledges, or send a cancellation request after. The supplier can decline with a reason, put the order on hold with an expected despatch date, ship line by line with a tracking number per parcel, and upload their invoice to it. Your template adds your logo, a header message, payment terms (Net 30 from invoice date unless you change it), delivery instructions, a default VAT rate and a lead time that sets a required-by date and flags late orders.

  • Draft
  • Sent
  • Acknowledged
  • Partially fulfilled
  • Fulfilled
  • Cancelled
  • Declined
  • On hold
  • Late
  • Invoice uploaded
  • Download PDF

What your customer sees

Your shop, start to finish.

The product page, basket and checkout are yours; nothing says dropshipped. The supplier gets the customer’s name, delivery address and phone, never their email. The packing slip in the parcel carries your store name or logo, your order number and the items, with no supplier identity and no prices. The shipped email goes out under your brand with the carrier and tracking number, and the same numbers sit on the customer’s account order page.

  • Name, address, phone only
  • No customer email
  • Your name on the packing slip
  • No prices in the parcel
  • Shipped email from your shop
  • Tracking on the account page

The updates inbox

Nothing changes behind your back.

New products, changed titles, descriptions, images, brands and categories, cost changes and retired lines arrive as updates grouped by supplier. Accept one, accept all, or dismiss. Auto-accept new products, cost changes or stock changes per connection; stock is on by default because it is the one you always want. When a supplier retires a product your copy is archived, never deleted, and the inbox tells you.

  • New product
  • Update
  • Accept all
  • Dismiss
  • Auto-accept
  • Retired lines archived

The supplier’s side

One inbox, every reseller.

Your purchase order lands in the supplier dashboard marked New, with the PDF by email, the ship-to block and a packing slip to print. They acknowledge it (with accepted quantities and an expected despatch date if they need one), ship each line or all remaining lines with a carrier and tracking number, or import tracking from a CSV or a scheduled feed. Unshipped orders are chased by a reminder email every morning once they pass the number of days the supplier set.

  • New
  • Acknowledge
  • Decline
  • Put on hold
  • Ship all remaining
  • Import tracking
  • Daily reminder

Access and directory

Approved suppliers only.

A supplier appears in your directory once Orbit has approved their account. Each one sets Open, Password or Approval required. Search by name, category or description, read the profile (about, gallery, sample products, contact, links) and connect. Invite a supplier who is not on Orbit by email, or copy the sign-up link.

  • Open
  • Password
  • Approval required
  • Pending requests
  • Invite supplier
  • Copy sign-up link

Money and plans

Nothing extra to Orbit.

Dropshipping is on every plan from Solo at £25 a month. Orbit adds no fee to a purchase order, and you pay the supplier directly, on the terms printed on the order and against the invoice they upload. Your customer pays you at your checkout at the card rates on the payments page.

  • Every plan
  • No PO fee
  • You pay the supplier
  • Invoice on the PO

You

The seller of record

The customer buys from your shop on your terms. Returns, refunds, consumer law and customer service are yours; the supplier is responsible for the product, the stock and getting it out of the door. Orbit is the platform between you and never takes title to the goods.

Your terms

Paying the supplier

Orbit raises and tracks the purchase order with your payment terms printed on it, the supplier uploads their invoice to it, and you pay them the way you agreed.

Your name

On the packing slip

The slip in the parcel carries your store name or logo, your order number and the items, with no supplier identity and no prices.

See the supplier programme

What you need

Three things before the first order.

None of them takes an afternoon.

Supplier

A connected supplier

Pick one from the directory, or invite the wholesaler you already buy from: the free supplier plan covers their first 5 resellers. Check the supplier takes purchase orders through Orbit before you rely on it.

DirectoryInvite by emailTakes POs via Orbit

Price

A pricing rule before you import

With no rule the supplier’s cost passes through as your price. Add a blanket markup first, then brand or category rules if you need them, and check a real cost in the preview.

Add blanket markupPreview sample costRound to .99

Delivery

Your own delivery rates and returns policy

Your customer pays the delivery charge you set in Settings > Shipping, whatever the supplier charges you for carriage. Publish a returns policy that matches what the supplier will take back. Connect Orbit Shipping if you want supplier parcels followed until the carrier marks them delivered.

Shipping zonesReturns policyOrbit Shipping optional

Pricing

On every plan. No fee per purchase order.

Solo

Included from here

£19

a month, billed yearly, ex VAT

Included: Supplier connections and dropship purchase orders

14 days free, no card

Team

£64

a month, billed yearly, ex VAT

Included: Supplier connections and dropship purchase orders

14 days free, no card

Pro

£187

a month, billed yearly, ex VAT

Included: Supplier connections and dropship purchase orders

14 days free, no card

Enterprise

£749

a month, billed yearly, ex VAT

Included: Supplier connections and dropship purchase orders

14 days free, no card

Compare every plan

Orbit adds no fee to a purchase order. The card rates on your customer’s payment are on the payments page.

Get started

Which of these is you?

I am starting with no stock at all

Connect one or two suppliers, import the ranges, set a blanket markup and switch on Auto-send purchase orders. Your first order raises its own purchase order.

Start for free

I hold stock and want a wider range

Keep your own lines as they are and add supplier lines beside them. A mixed order splits itself: the supplier’s lines go on a purchase order, yours you ship as usual. Raise a direct purchase order when you want to bring stock in.

See orders and shipping

I am the supplier

Publish your catalogue once and let shops on Orbit connect to it. Free for your first 5 resellers, and no commission.

See the supplier programme

FAQ

Dropshipping, answered.

Cost, who pays whom, what the customer sees, stock, price changes, and how to stop.

Related

The supplier’s side, and your own.

Stock

Inventory

The on-hand count the supplier’s stock mirrors into.

See inventory

Included on every plan

Sell the range. Skip the warehouse.

Connect a supplier, import the products, and let the first order raise its own purchase order.

Start for free
14 days free, no cardSee the supplier programme

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