These are the 25 terms that come up when a brand hands its shipping to someone else: what is on the parcel, what is on the paperwork, what is on the invoice, and what the card networks do when a customer disputes a charge. Each one is defined here in a sentence or two, with a full page behind it explaining how it works in practice.
Written from the fulfillment side, so the definitions say what actually happens to an order rather than what a textbook says should. If you are new to the model, start with what peptide dropshipping is, then come back for the vocabulary.
Fulfillment and shipping
How an order becomes a parcel, and who is named on it.
- Blind shipping
- Blind shipping is an arrangement in which a parcel leaves the warehouse carrying the retailer's name and nothing that identifies the supplier who packed it.
- Dropship fulfillment
- Dropship fulfillment is a model where a retailer sells product it does not hold, and the order routes to a supplier who ships it straight to the customer.
- Third-party logistics (3PL)
- Third-party logistics (3PL) is the practice of outsourcing warehousing, pick and pack, and shipping to an outside operator that runs them on your behalf.
- Order routing
- Order routing is the logic that decides which fulfillment location or supplier receives an order once checkout completes.
- Tracking sync
- Tracking sync is the automatic write-back of a carrier tracking number from the fulfillment system to the store order it belongs to.
- WooCommerce-native fulfillment
- WooCommerce-native fulfillment means the integration runs inside WooCommerce itself, reading orders and writing tracking back through the store's own records.
- Postage at carrier cost
- Postage at carrier cost means the fulfillment operator bills you exactly what the carrier charged for the parcel, with no markup added.
- Parcel protection
- Parcel protection is coverage that refunds or replaces a shipment that is lost, damaged, or confirmed stolen in transit.
- Address correction fee
- An address correction fee is a surcharge a carrier bills when it has to repair an incomplete or invalid delivery address after the parcel is already moving.
Documentation and labeling
The paperwork that travels with a lot, and what a label is allowed to say.
- Certificate of analysis (COA)
- A certificate of analysis (COA) is a laboratory document that reports identity and purity testing results for one specific production lot of a material.
- White-label COA
- A white-label COA is a certificate of analysis reissued under the retailer's brand rather than the supplier's, covering the specific lot that shipped.
- Lot traceability
- Lot traceability is the ability to follow a specific production lot from the supplier who made it through to every order that shipped a unit from it.
- Research-use-only (RUO) labeling
- Research-use-only (RUO) labeling marks a material and its paperwork as intended for laboratory research and not for human or animal use.
Pricing and billing
What you are charged, when you are charged, and what the invoice lines mean.
- Wholesale price
- The wholesale price is the per-unit price a supplier bills a business buyer, before labeling, handling, or shipping charges are added.
- Suggested retail price
- A suggested retail price is the price a supplier recommends its buyer sell at, offered as a reference point rather than a binding term.
- Minimum order quantity (MOQ)
- A minimum order quantity (MOQ) is the smallest number of units a supplier will accept on a single order.
- Per-order handling fee
- A per-order handling fee is a flat charge a fulfillment operator adds to every order to cover picking, packing, and label generation.
- Net-7 payment terms
- Net-7 payment terms mean an invoice is due seven days after it is issued.
- Refundable-credit deposit
- A refundable-credit deposit is money held by a supplier at account opening that is applied against your future invoices as credit rather than kept as a fee.
Supply continuity
What happens when the shelf is empty.
- Backorder
- A backorder is an order accepted for an item that is not in stock, held open until supply arrives instead of being cancelled.
- Backup supplier
- A backup supplier is a second, already-qualified source for a material you sell, kept ready so a stockout at the primary source does not stop shipments.
Payments and risk
Who the customer is actually paying, and what the card networks do about it.
- Merchant of record
- The merchant of record is the legal entity that sells to the end customer, appears on the card statement, and carries the refund and chargeback liability.
- Chargeback
- A chargeback is a card network's reversal of a completed payment after the cardholder disputes the charge with the bank that issued their card.
- High-risk payment processor
- A high-risk payment processor is an acquirer or payment facilitator that underwrites merchant categories mainstream processors decline.
- MATCH list
- The MATCH list is a Mastercard-operated database in which acquiring banks record merchants whose accounts were terminated for cause.
Per-vial pricing, no pack fees, shipped blind under your brand
Product at wholesale, $1 per vial to label it, postage at carrier cost, weekly invoicing on net-7. No setup fees, no monthly minimums, no minimum order quantities.
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