You would pay the supplier directly from their website. For example, for AliExpress products, you can pay the supplier from the orders page in AliExpress.

Good question. In dropshipping, you should wait to receive payment from the customer before you send them the order.

But some payment processors might take several days to release the payment to your account. In those cases, it’s really up to you to decide whether to pay the supplier with your own funds or wait until the customer funds clear into your account.
If you care about processing time, then you might opt to pay the order quickly.

Hope that makes sense and helps.

Is it next practice once you make a sale to wait until customer pays you first or do you pay out if your pocket first?

Hi Walter,

No, that won’t be possible since you don’t have your customer’s card details.
You accept payment from your customer in your store platform, and then you pay the in AliExpress with your own payment method.

Order fulfillment automation for eBay works similarly to our AliExpress order automation 👍

For Wish and all other sites, you’ll need to manually place and fulfill orders.