Does Shopify need to ship abroad first? Does Shopify ship by itself?

Shopify is an independent website. This platform is only available in English, but it is not that difficult to operate. After opening a store on it, merchants need to understand the logistics and transportation methods. Does Shopify need to ship abroad first?

Whether to ship abroad depends on the buyer's address.

1. Does Shopify ship its own products?

The things that can be sold on Shopify can be physical objects, virtual electronic media or services. Therefore, you can decide whether to check "This product requires shipping" according to your actual situation. Shopify can choose to ship from a third-party overseas warehouse, so you can choose not to ship the goods yourself.

2. What are the delivery methods of Shopify?

1. Self-delivery

That is, after the seller receives the buyer's order, he will ship the goods from the country and then deliver them to the buyer. Self-delivery requires the seller to contact the logistics company himself, and then transport the goods to the destination by sea or air, and deliver them, which is relatively flexible.

The advantage of self-delivery is that sellers do not need to stockpile goods, because the goods are transported after the buyer places an order and are delivered directly to the buyer. They do not need to be stocked in the warehouse. This can avoid product unsalability and increase in storage costs, and can also reduce financial pressure.

2. Shopify Shipping

This shipping method connects your Shopify account to Shopify's carrier account, but it is currently only available for orders shipped from order fulfillment locations in the United States, Canada, and Australia.

After the seller purchases the shipping label in the Shopify backend, he prints it out and sticks it on the outer packaging of the package, and then hands it over to the post office to deliver the goods to the destination.

The advantages are that goods can be shipped more efficiently, while also speeding up the packaging and delivery process, saving time spent at the post office, displaying calculated shipping costs to customers, and reducing shipping costs through logistics providers such as Canada Post.

3. Overseas warehouse delivery

The overseas warehouse model is now a very important logistics method for cross-border e-commerce. Sellers must first transport their products to the overseas warehouse at the destination; after receiving the goods, the overseas warehouse will unpack and put them on the shelves; when a buyer places an order, the seller pushes the order information to the overseas warehouse through the docking tool, and the overseas warehouse will be responsible for the sorting, packaging, transportation and delivery of the products.

In general, whether Shopify should ship abroad first depends on the logistics method chosen by the merchant and the buyer's address.