Dropshipping is easiest to understand as a single order travelling through five hands. Once you can trace one order, the whole model is obvious.
01You list the product
You choose a product from a supplier catalogue, set your own selling price in taka, and publish it to your storefront with your own brand name, images and description.
02The customer orders
A shopper picks a product, enters a name, phone number and address, and chooses how to pay — cash on delivery, bKash, Nagad or card. The order lands in your dashboard immediately.
03You pass the order to the supplier
You pay the supplier cost for that single unit and submit the customer's shipping details. The supplier picks, packs and hands the parcel to a courier.
04The courier delivers
For local orders a courier such as Pathao collects the parcel and delivers it, collecting cash if the order is COD. Status updates flow back to your dashboard as the parcel moves.
05You get paid
Card and wallet payments settle into your payment account. Cash on delivery settles from the courier after successful delivery, minus delivery and COD fees. What is left after supplier cost is your profit.
Questions
- Does the customer know it is dropshipped?
- They see your brand. Good suppliers ship without their own marketing material, and your storefront and delivery slip carry your store name.
- What happens if the supplier runs out of stock?
- The order cannot ship. This is why stock sync matters: your listing should go unavailable automatically when supplier stock hits zero.
Do this in DropShop BD
DropShop books the courier, tracks the parcel and reconciles cash on delivery inside the order record.