How It Works

• Account Setup, Product Selection & Technical Integration

• 1. Set up your drop-ship account

  • Sign the BUYSEASONS Drop-Ship Agreement
  • Establish a credit line based on credit application and references. In some cases we may require a credit card to be used until a credit history can be established.
  • Provide logo and returns information to be printed on merchant packing slip.

  2. Establish Assortment

  • We will provide you with our electronic product catalog so you can create the most appropriate assortment for your online store. Item data file will be sent to you through a CSV or excel file to help build the products in your content management system.
  • Data provided includes high-quality images, basic product descriptions, pricing, product shipping weights, dimensions, size info and other data.

  3. Technical Integration (this will require merchant technical resources)

  If you will not be placing orders manually through our online order form, our systems can be connected with our proprietary order and inventory management system. This system depends on a relatively simple but very robust technical back-end series of XML messages to keep inventory and order information in sync between your ecommerce system and our system. Nothing we do involves "manual" uploading or downloading of inventory or order information. Using FTP the technical integration for drop-shipping with us involves the passing of three XML messages between both your and our systems.

  • Inventory feed - XML message sent every 15 minutes with incremental inventory updates and a reset feed sent twice daily.
  • Order feed - XML message from merchant containing order information. Sent every 15 minutes.
  • Fulfillment feed - XML message sent to you with order status information including shipment information such as tracking numbers, cancellations or delays. In other words, we tell you immediately when we receive and ship an order. Messages will be pushed and/or pulled via Secure FTP. Full XML XSDs are provided which fully explain all field mapping and required data.

  4. Perform end-to-end testing of all messages, systems and shipping.

  5. Begin taking orders on your site.

• Product Data Provided

• Every product we carry has full and accurate product data you can use to build and market items in your content management system. Data provided includes:

  • High-quality (1600x1600 pixel) accurate jpeg images suitable for image zoom applications
  • Accurate product shipping weight
  • Accurate product shipping dimensions
  • Basic product description including items included and not included with costumes
  • Item categorization (i.e. Boys, Girls, Accessories, etc.)
  • Country of origin
  • Care Instructions
  • UPC codes (where available)

• Pricing

• There are three items to consider for pricing: product cost, shipping cost and handling fees.

  1. Product pricing

  Product pricing is very competitive and generally within a few percent of manufacturer list wholesale prices. Sample price lists are available upon request.

  2. Shipping Pricing

  Most shipments are sent via UPS and you’ll get a significant discount off retail rates for each level of service. Shipping rate table is provided upon request.

  We offer four levels of service to get packages to your customers affordably and fast:

  • Economy: 5-8 Day Service
  • Standard: 3-5 day service
  • Express: 2-3 day service
  • Premium: 1-2 day service

  3. Handling fees

  Each order will be subject to a small handling fee. There is a small $500 account set-up fee with $400 being applied to your account as a credit. However there are no, monthly or yearly fees associated with our program.

  To learn more about out direct drop-ship program, contact the BUYSEASONS Direct Team