- Dropship is a retail model designed to allow stores to conduct sales without keeping a physical product inventory. The store owners are referred to as distributors/sellers and conducts their business by selling the products available from their dropship to buyers where orders of purchase are send to the dropship to package and delivery the orders on the distributor’s behalf. Distributors does not require to stock actual physical products or rent warehouse/storage space.

- It is an easy e-commerce setup with minimal risk hence is widely popular and convenient business venture due to low overhead entry costs and simplicity while covering a wide market niche. This model also helps out distributors to test out the e-commerce market environment on product demands without risking on keeping leftover inventory for out of season products.