Powersports Support vs Spark Shipping

An Overview of Powersports Support

Powersports Support is a software platform designed to assist powersports eCommerce businesses with inventory management, marketplace integration, and online sales. The company offers tools to streamline product data management, manage orders, and connect with eBay. 

However, there are several limitations to using Powersports Support as your dropshipping automation solution, including:

• Limited vendors: Powersports Support has a predefined list of vendors for which it offers automation. If you want to work with a different vendor, you have to upload products and inventory manually.
• Limited marketplaces: PSS only integrates with eBay, rather than all major marketplaces. 
• Only one vendor per product listing: The solution links products to one vendor rather than allowing you to link one product to multiple vendors. This means you must have a product listing for each vendor.

• Inventory: Your inventory is based on one product per vendor rather than having multiple products with various vendors.
• Order automation: If you want to automate orders directly to distributors, this comes at an extra $200 a month cost.

• Order routing: This solution doesn’t allow for intelligent order routing, meaning orders aren’t automatically sent to, for example, the cheapest in stock vendor after they are placed in your online store.
• Electronic data exchange (EDI): EDI integrations are not available with Powersports Support, and orders aren’t automatically sent to vendors in the format they require.
• Integrations: Integrations are limited to what the app allows, and it doesn’t support custom integrations.
• Limited updates: PSS can be seen as a legacy platform, so although it has a strong foundation, the platform has not stayed up to date with the evolving eCommerce market.

An Overview of Spark Shipping

Spark Shipping is dropshipping and eCommerce software that integrates with your existing eCommerce store with ease. It automates uploading products, updating inventory, sending orders, and receiving product updates.

With Spark Shipping, as your orders come in, you can intelligently send them to the correct vendor with automated routing.

There are a number of ways our solution addresses the issues with Powersports Support:

• Vendors: Our solution has built in integration with leading automotive and powersports distributors, but also works with any vendor by using custom integrations. You aren’t limited to a predefined list of vendors, and you can work with any one of your choosing.
• Fitment support: We offer added fitment functionality for automotive distributors to reduce catalog and inventory errors, allowing your customers to browse based on year, make, and model.
• Marketplace integration: Spark Shipping integrates with all major marketplaces, including eBay, Amazon, Walmart and many more.
• Multiple vendors: Spark Shipping automatically links products to multiple vendors. This allows you to list a product in your store and have multiple vendors fulfill it without having to create multiple listings.

• Pricing: Our solutions allow for markups based on the lowest-cost stock vendor, boosting your profit margin.

• Inventory: Spark Shipping allows you to fully automate your inventory, ensuring you never have to tell a customer you can’t fulfill an order. If any of your vendors have stock, you can access the product.

• Order routing: You can automatically route orders according to your selected routing rule, for example to the vendor with the product in stock at the lowest cost!
• Electronic data exchange (EDI): Our product offers EDI integrations that allow you to automate order processing. Spark Shipping will intelligently send orders in the correct format to your suppliers.
• Integrations: We offer a wide variety of integrations, including DIY custom integrations.
• Continous development: Spark Shipping continously updates it's platform to adapt to changes in the eCommerce market.