DROPSHIPPING

What is dropshipping?

Dropshipping (also sometimes called white-label shipping) is where a seller’s products are packed and shipped to the customer by a third party service.

If you are an artist or photographer who sells prints online, either through your own site or platforms such as Bluethumb, Art Lovers Australia or Saachi Art, we can print your orders on demand and ship them direct to the buyer – anywhere in the world.

Why dropship?

Dropshipping saves you time, space and money. You don’t have to have stock taking up space at your studio, or pay for prints on spec that may not sell. Plus of course you don’t have to pack the work and take it up to the post office yourself.

International sales

We ship anywhere in the world so if you’re an Australian artist it’s no problem if you need to ship overseas.

If you’re an artist outside Australia and you make a sale to an Australian customer, we can print and send from here – saving you significant postage and customs costs. Even if you’re a northern hemisphere artist and sell to the Asia-Pacific area, it may still be more convenient to dropship with us for your southern hemisphere orders.

White-label dropshipping for galleries

If you are a gallery owner and would like to sell select, premium-quality prints either during an exhibition or from your online gallery, we can print and ship direct to your customer with your gallery branding and inclusions. We can include business cards, certificates of authenticity or other documentation and, if you have branded labels we can affix these to the packaging. Don’t have branded labels? We can refer you to our trusted commercial print partners to have them created, printed and sent straight to us.

You’ll set the appropriate sale price and terms with the artist as usual and provide us with your inclusions and branded labels to use when we pack. When you make the gallery sale, either you or the artist can place the order with us and we’ll print, pack and deliver.

Call or email to discuss how you can partner with us for your dropshipping – we’d love to work with you!

1. Digitisation

We can work with you to create high-resolution digital files of your work to ensure the prints are of the quality and accuracy that buyers will expect – especially important if they have seen the original at a gallery. Alternatively you can provide us with a suitable file or, if you are a photographer, the original file.

2. Inclusions

Deliver to us any items you would like included in the packaging. Common inclusions are business cards and certificates of authenticity. If you have an upcoming exhibition you may want to provide us with flyers.

If you would like the packaging to show your logo or return address, we can attach a label that either you can provide or we can arrange to be printed for you (at extra cost).

3. Sell and send! 

When a customer orders a print, let us know by email or the site (you can create an account so it’s easy to repeat orders) and we will print and ship to your customer within 5 business days.

Voila! Your orders are fulfilled for just a few minutes of your time.