Mothership does not offer a vendor marketplace and typically does not provide match-making services. We do this because these kinds of partnerships can be very lucrative and we don’t want to facilitate competition directly between our customers. That said, many of our customers have found success identifying potential drop ship partners through the following search strategies.
Since Mothership has a number of prebuilt supplier integrations, it makes sense to start your search for suppliers or retailers that use one of those platforms. In doing so, you’ll make partnering with you substantially easier.
Go to Google and use the site search parameter in the form of site:domain search_term
examples:
site:myshopify.com wellness
site:squarespace.com coffee
site:bigcommerce.com fitness
This works really well for Shopify and Squarespace because their stores are all hosted on the same subdomain (*.myshopify.com & *.squarespace.com). You’ll need to dig a little more for BigCommerce. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work for WooCommerce as their is no single hosting service.
Since online stores are just webpages, we can leverage how each ecommerce platform structures their pages to glean information about the underlying platform. For example, WooCommerce stores will almost always include references to "wp-content” in their HTML source code.
Armed with this information, you can use a source code search tool like https://publicwww.com/ to find websites that contain the snipped of code you are looking for. Use the following search strategies on publicwww.com to identify
"wp-content" SEARCH_TERM_HERE "Add to cart" or "wp-content" SEARCH_TERM_HERE buy for WooCommerce stores. Since WooCommerce is built on top of WordPress, the Add to cart and buy search terms are used to help filter out non-ecommerce WordPress sites.bigcommerce SEARCH_TERM_HERE for BigCommerce stores.Unless you really nail your search terms, you’ll likely need to do some filtering of the results. Additionally, publicwww offers both a free and a paid version of the service. The paid version includes searching the full dataset and starts at 49.00 per month. We’ve used the paid version in the past and I would recommend trying it out if you don’t have luck with the other methods.