Along with more and more private label clothing brands on Shopify and Amazon as well as eBay successfully making good profits, the private label clothing brand are more and more attractive to online ecommerce sellers no matter beginners or experienced dropshippers. The clothing market is one of the biggest in all the online platform thus there are lots of segments for you to explore with private label brand. For example, children clothing, men’s clothing, women’s clothing are very big category, we can choose baby clothing 0 to 36 months, XL size or trainning clothing, underwear for women clothing category, or streetwear especially focus on the youth hip pop people, golf clothing for leasure life people.

However, when we planning to start private label dropshipping business which doesnt mean we can run immediately unless you professional dropshipping experience with enough funds at the beginning. Thus it is very important to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of private label clothing dropshipping business.

Pros and cons of private label clothing dropshipping

When you customize clothing from Chinese clothing dropshipping suppliers and then put your logo on them before you sell, you have a private label. Doing business this way can lower product unit costs and lead to higher profit margins.

Another great upside of using a clothing dropshipping supplier or factory is that you can determine the quality and exact specifications of your clothing style. In some ways, this control leads to unmatched exclusivity. If you want to separate your clothing store from your competitors, creating a private label is one of the easiest ways to do so.

Assuming everything goes right with your clothing label, you can also build a strong customer base.

People become dedicated to clothing brands that provide the products they love. As long as you make the clothing store with helpful products that have sound quality, chances are customers will grow attached to your brand and repeat purchase in your store instead of your competitors.

Undoubtedly, one of the largest drawbacks of private labeling clothing is the moq clothing order quantities and quality as the dropshipping supplier will not help you private label the clothing for few quantities due to the cost concern, also if you do not have stable sales or didnt have good marketing strategy, there will be lots of stock inventory. You need to be sure that your clothing have stable sales daily or monthly and find a reliable clothing dropshipping factory or supplier to help you achieve your goals.

A lot of businesses trip up when the clothing dropshipping supplier becomes unreliable or fails to produce clothing meet your quality specs. Thus it is very important to find a trustworthy private label dropshipping agent when you dropshipping from China.

Private label clothing material list

When you decide to launch a private label clothing dropshipping business, it is necessory to know the material list, it not only includes label, size tag, hanging rope, logo tag, but also include packaging bags, logo sticker, coupon card as well as thank you card etc.

When you plan to do the private label clothing dropshipping you may need a full set of marketing design on the label, tag, packaging, sticker and thank you card to serve your marketing purpose, since they are all customized, the printing factory all has MOQ, you may not necessary to customize them all, just based on your budget to design them, determine the size for each of them for quote.

How to find Chinese private label clothing dropshipping supplier

How to find Chinese private label clothing dropshipping supplier might be a big headache for currently Aliexpress dropshippers. For one thing, Aliexpress sellers usually do not offer private label service, for another thing the clothing dropshipping suppliers all have high MOQ on private label clothing. Furthermore, private label clothing cost higher at the beginning. What should you do if you want to do the private label clothing dropshipping business from China? Find a fashion clothing dropshipping agent instead. After years of clothing dropshipping experience in biggest fashion clothing city Guangzhou, Elksourcing served hundreds of clothing dropshippers and accumulated reliable clothing factories resources, Elksourcing released private label clothing dropshipping service to help clothing dropshippers easily dropship private label clothing from China 1688 Taobao.

Elksourcing 1688 Taobao Private Label Clothing Dropshipping Service

Set up the private label clothing dropshipping service is easy but it is very hard to find reliable clothing factory with exactly the same design, material, size and quality with reasonable price to help you get enough profit margin. Elksourcing private label clothing dropshipping service include sourcing, purchasing, quality check, labeling, repacking, barcode, inventory warehousing, order printing, pick pack, international shipping and tracking upload as well as package tracking aftersale. If you have best seller clothing products, we can help you contact factory to customize private label clothing to meet your material quality, size and price requirements.

Store integration. To start our private label service, we will need admin access to integrate your store to update orders. Currently our ERP system supports Shopify, e

Sourcing. We mainly source and filter the clothing dropshipping supplier from 1688 Taobao based on your orders, and sourcing the printing factory for the label, tag, packaging, card for cheapest price and minimum MOQ;

Purchasing/Sample. Once we confirmed the clothing material, color, size and stock or delivery time with 1688 Taobao dropshipping suppliers, we will order them. If you have best seller clothing, then we will need to order sample before bulk wholesale orders;

Quality inspection. When the warehouse received the clothes, we will need to check the clothing material, workmanship, color, size, quantities to reduce aftersale issue and improve user experience. If the clothing from new supplier, the warehouse we need to measure the size to match the clothing size on your store. The clothing has flaws or stains cannot be removed will be returned for exchange or refund;

Labeling. If the 1688 Taobao clothing supplier do not help you label before ship to warehouse due to too less order quantities, Elksourcing warehouse could help you label after QC.

Repacking. After sewing label Elksourcing warehouse will help you repack with your packaging bags and stick size label.

Barcode. Elksourcing warehouse will print and stick barcode for each repacked clothing based on the SKU in shopify store, thus make sure each clothing style has unique SKU.

Inventory stock. During the barcode step, Elksourcing ERP system will add inventory for each clothing based on SKU above. After that we will put them on the warehouse shelf and mark shelf ID in the ERP system and update clothing inventory info. We can also help you create an account to check the real time inventory in our ERP system, you can easily check the items stock quantities, one the way to warehouse and out of stock.

Pick Pack. Once the warehouse people update the inventory information, the ERP system will show the orders complete for shipping, then warehouse people will pick up the orders complete, print order ID and receipt name as well as the order list, confirm barcode via PDA, take photos as evidence. During packing step if you ship sweater or coat which has big volume, we also could help you compress the volume to save shipping cost.

Consolidate service. After warehouse picked the orders and confirmed the SKU color, size and quantities in the order, then it will be consolidate packed to measure package weight and volume.

In order to provide faster and more stable service shipping from China to EU and USA, Elksourcing mainly ship via 4PX, Yunexpress and Yanwen for the small packages, usually 5 to 14 days during COVID19, stable and cost effective, we also offer courier service FedEx, DHL and UPS for 3 to 5 days delivery.

Tracking upload. In the pick pack step our ERP system will generate tracking number and print shipping label to stick on the package, then click fulfill to return tracking number to Shopify and other shoppingcart system.

You can also check Elksourcing dropshipping service procedure for more details.

How much does Elksourcing charge for private label clothing dropshipping service and how long time it takes to fulfill?

Unlike other Chinese order fulfillment agent, Elksourcing charge 15 yuan service fee per order which including nearly all the service listed above, then we charge 2 yuan/pcs label service fee, if you need to compress the package you will need to pay extra 2 yuan per bag for compression bags, and we have minimum 100 to 200 orders per month requirements due to the cost concern.

Thus if you want to start private label clothing dropshipping business, the total cost includes clothing price+domestic shipping from supplier to warehouse+label packaging material cost+service fee+label service fee+international shipping cost. please feel free to contact Elksourcing if you interested, we can help you estimate the total cost.

Since the whole private label clothing dropshipping service procedure has more than 10 steps, we usually take 1 to 2 days to fulfill orders once the clothing arrived our warehouse.

Does beginner qualified for private label clothing dropshipping business?

Elksourcing nearly received new Shopify clothing dropshipping inquiry every week with private label service requirements, frankly speaking we do not suggest beginners to try private label clothing unless they have stable sales and complete private label marketing strategy. Here we list 2 mainly conditions for you as a reference.

Firstly, although we could help you start private label dropshipping with 100 to 200 orders per month, you should at least have 10 to 20 orders per day or 400 to 600 orders per month, stable sales help you reduce the potencial stock inventory risk;

Secondly, the clothing in your store should be at least 25 usd or above or your avarage order value should be exceed 40 usd as the private label clothing cost is definitely more expensive than you dropship from Aliexpress at the beginning. You should have enough profit margin to private label the clothing. Currently Elksourcing private label clothing clients average order value exceed 70 usd, some already exceed 150 usd thus they have very big space to private label clothing and get enough profits for their business.

Thirdly, for beginners no need to do private label clothing dropshipping only because other clothing brands make big money, we should make it as a target and divide into small targets move forward step by step, until you accumulated enough experience and clients with stable sales, you can plan the private label clothing brand with your own marketing strategy to maximize the private label clothing function on your store.

After the 3 steps you are welcome to inquire Elksourcing private label clothing dropshipping service, we can not only help you dropshipping from 1688 Taobao, but also help you customize best seller clothing from local clothing manufacturers to reduce the cost.