Zoro inventory integration: dropship purchase orders in, acknowledgment, ship notice, and invoice back through SPS
Zoro order management for dropship vendors — purchase orders from the Grainger-owned industrial retailer arriving through SPS Commerce, acknowledged, picked, shipped with the ship notice and invoice sent back automatically, and costed alongside your Amazon and Walmart orders in one Rilk inbox.
Zoro is Grainger's online arm for the tools, MRO, and industrial supplies a maintenance shop or a jobsite orders by the case — sold on zoro.com and shipped by the vendor to Zoro's customer. It's a dropship account with the discipline of an industrial buyer: every purchase order expects an acknowledgment, every shipment expects an advance ship notice and an invoice, and every one of those documents moves through SPS Commerce on a clock.
Sell on Zoro with Rilk. Already on SPS Commerce? Your Zoro orders flow in today, and for Zoro, Rilk sends the documents back too.
What you can do
Zoro purchase orders land in Rilk automatically
From your SPS Commerce connection, each with the customer's address and every line.
Acknowledge the PO without touching a portal
Rilk sends Zoro the acknowledgment as the order comes in.
Pick and ship next to your other orders
On the carrier account your Zoro agreement calls for — third-party billed if that's how Zoro set you up.
Ship notice and invoice go back on their own
When the label prints, Rilk sends Zoro the advance ship notice with tracking, then the invoice — no re-keying.
Zoro's paperwork comes out of Rilk
The packing slip in the format Zoro requires, and the PO and order references Zoro asks for on the label.
One count behind the catalog
The unit a Zoro order takes comes off the same on-hand your marketplace listings sell from.
Margin per order
Cost basis and label cost on every line, and Zoro's remittance posted on the settlements screen.
What's supported
Frequently asked questions
Does Zoro send orders over EDI?
Yes. Zoro sends its purchase orders as EDI documents through SPS Commerce, and Rilk reads them out of your SPS mailbox. Zoro is the one account where Rilk also sends the paperwork back: the acknowledgment on receipt, then the ship notice and the invoice once the label prints.
Does Rilk send acknowledgments, ship notices, and invoices to Zoro?
Yes. For Zoro, Rilk sends the purchase-order acknowledgment when the order arrives, and the advance ship notice with tracking and the invoice when it ships — all through SPS Commerce, all automatic.
Do I need SPS Commerce to sell on Zoro through Rilk?
Yes. Zoro trades through SPS Commerce, and SPS sets your vendor connection up on its side. Rilk connects to that once provisioned.
Does Rilk push inventory to Zoro?
Not today. Zoro purchase orders come in and the documents go back; the units those orders consume are kept in the same count as your other listings, but Rilk doesn't send Zoro an inventory feed.
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