Drop shipping is a method where the supplier does not store the items sold in stock but purchases the items from a third party and ships directly to the customer. You can use the following process to manage the drop ship orders in Turbo Inventory.


Steps to manage Drop Ship Orders

  1. From Settings & tools -> Business Details, create a new Business (also known as a Warehouse) called "Drop Shipping", or similar named title that is unique and relevant to your business.
  2. When placing the sales order (Sales -> Sales Invoices -> New Sale), select the "Drop Shipping" from the Business list.
  3. Add your products.
  4. Park the sales order.
  5. When creating the purchase order to send to the supplier (Purchase Orders -> Order Stock), select the “Drop Shipping” from the Deliver the stock to 
  6. Click More -> Ship To and enter the Delivery Address of the customer from the sales order.
  7. Place the purchase order.
  8. Receipt the purchase order (Purchase Orders -> Receive). You can narrow the search by select "Drop Shipping" from Location drop down
  9. Now that you have the stock on hand, you can complete the sales order.



This allows you to manage orders and keep track of the requests for fulfillment to your drop-shipping supplier. This Purchase Order and Sales Order will also automatically transfer across to your Account Package


          


Due to the nature of drop ship products never being on hand, the receipting of the purchase order and completing of the sales order should be done at the same time. It also allows you to quickly see if there are any outstanding sales orders as there never should be stock in the Drop Shipping warehouse