Wayfair is closer to a wholesale account than a marketplace, and it approves suppliers through an account review. The customer is shopping a room, not a product, and the return rate on a badly dimensioned listing will eat a season’s margin. If your cost cannot carry both a wholesale price and a furniture return rate, this is the wrong channel.
- Partner Home onboarding, the drop-ship agreement and inventory feed, and catalogue mapping down to classification, materials, product and carton dimensions, weight and care.
- CastleGate and drop-ship economics modelled side by side, then a wholesale cost per SKU that carries shipping, damage and returns.
- Sponsored Products and Sponsored Shops, and Wayfair’s promotional events planned ahead, with spend judged against wholesale margin rather than a retail price you do not set.
- Fill rate, on-time shipping against the must-ship-by date and incident rate reviewed weekly, with returns read by SKU so the dimension data behind them is corrected.