Opencart DHgate Dropship Management

Using this plugin, the store owner does not need to keep goods in stock but instead transfer sales orders and shipment details to the warehouse manager, who then ships the goods directly to the customers. Shipping rates will be calculated according to the warehouse origin address.

The admin can assign warehouses to the products and can add shipping methods that the warehouse provides, and during checkout, the buyer can choose those shipping methods as per the choice.

Using this extension, apart from the warehouse creation, the store admin can also import products from the Dhgate webstore to the OpenCart store. After import, the admin can list the products and start selling the same on their website. All of the DHgate orders are visible in another section for better management.

Before importing the products, the store admin will have to install a Chrome plugin that allows doing so. After the plugin gets installed correctly within the Chrome browser, the admin can start selecting the products to import. Here, to import admin is able to -

• Install the DHgate product importer to the Chrome browser.
• Verify the OpenCart Store.
• Import Products from DHgate to the Webstore.
• Import a single product or products in bulk as required.

A small configuration is required before the admin can make use of the OpenCart DHgate product importer. To configure the module, the admin will have to configure three tabs which include - General, Product, and DHgate tabs.

• Add the API key required to set the Latitude and Longitude of the warehouse location being added.
• Select the users that will be assigned and the order status.
• Select the order status that is supposed to be a complete order status for the warehouse products.
• Allow/disallow the warehouse managers to add products under their warehouse account panel.
• Allow warehouse Managers to add products under their assigned warehouses.
• Select the option to enable the products for listing directly to the OpenCart store.
• Enable/disable the option to approve the products that have been added by the warehouse managers.
• Select the product field tabs that the admin wants the warehouse managers to use while creating products.
• Use the username and token for authenticating the store, set the number of products to import.

The store admin can create multiple warehouses and can assign products to them as needed. The admin needs to fill in required data of the warehouse and the latitude and longitudes get auto-filled. The admin can manage the warehouses by -

• Add/Edit/Delete the Warehouses as required.
• Assigning Managers to the created warehouses.
• Assigning Products to the warehouses.
• Assigning Dhgate products to the warehouses.
• Assigning product quantities to the created warehouses.

The admin will be able to see all of the products that are added to the various warehouses and can manage them as well. Apart from that, the admin can also filter the warehouses with the given filter options. Here, the admin can -

• Approve, Disapprove, and delete any of the products that are assigned to the various created warehouses.
• Filter products according to the assigned warehouse.
• Using the product name filter the particular warehouse product.
• Filter products as per the model, quantity, price, and status.
• View the quantity of each product for the respectively assigned warehouses.

The admin can easily check the orders that have been placed for all of the products that are assigned to the various created warehouses.

This allows the admin to easily check the information regarding the orders that have arrived for admin’s created warehouses so that the admin won’t miss any. Here, the admin can -

• View the orders for the default products that have been assigned to the warehouses.
• View orders for the Dhgate products that have been assigned to the warehouses.
• View the order place dates for all of the orders to keep a check. View the Bill to & Bill for names for the placed orders.
• Option to access the order information by tapping the View button.

After importing the products to the OpenCart store from the DHgate marketplace, when these product’s order gets placed within the OpenCart store all of these orders get listed under the Dhgate Orders section. Here, the store owner can -

• See a complete list of DHgate Orders placed by the customers.
• DHgate order status is visible to the admin.
• Check the order status for the DHgate products - Not Placed, Placed, and Processing.
• Tap the available Place Order button to place the respective order at DHgate on Behalf of the customer.
• View the date when each of the respective orders has been placed by the customers.

The admin can create pricing rules for the products. These rules apply to the admin default as well as the DHgate imported products. To apply the rules, first, the admin will have to create the rules. Here, the admin will be able to -

• Choose a channel from - Default or DHgate to apply the price rules.
• Enable or Disable the price rules.
• Set the Price range From & Price Range To Values within which the products will fall to apply the pricing rules.
• Use the increment or decrement operator to accordingly change the price that gets added or subtracted from the product’s actual price.
• Select the amount type as fixed or percentage of the product price as required.
• Enter the amount or percentage that is to be applied according to the selected amount type.

After importing the products, the admin will now be able to check the sellers of the imported products as well. This section displays the sellers whose products have been imported from DHgate to the OpenCart store.

Under this section, the admin will be able to -

• See the Dhgate seller names whose products have been imported to the Opencart store.
• Check the date when the products were added.
• Total Number of products that have been imported for each of the respective sellers.
• The admin has the option to view the products imported for each of the sellers.
• The admin can also edit the products imported by the sellers from this section as well.