| iPaaS & Custom Builds | Legacy OMS | Pipe17 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Native API-First Connectivity | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Pre-Configured Commerce Connectors | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Custom Integration Mappings | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Advanced Order Orchestration | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Exception Management & Alerts | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Unified Inventory Management | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Rapid to Implement & Go-Live | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Easy to Add / Swap Channels & Flows | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
DSCO retailers sell from the same available count as your storefront and marketplaces, and Pipe17's per-channel buffer holds back the units you reserve for DTC.
Pipe17 routes each DSCO order by the rules your other channels use, and splits a multi-line order across locations when one cannot ship it all.
Pipe17 posts acknowledgments, tracking numbers, line cancellations, and invoices to DSCO for each order your warehouses work. Nobody keys them into a retailer portal.
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DSCO is Rithum's dropship platform, which retailers use to send dropship orders to the brands that supply them. Pipe17 connects to DSCO as the supplier through its CommerceHub DSCO integration. Pipe17 pulls each retailer's orders over the DSCO API and routes each one to the location that ships it: a warehouse, 3PL, or store. Pipe17 posts acknowledgments, tracking, invoices, cancellations, inventory, and product updates back to DSCO.
DSCO is a dropship platform, not a company. CommerceHub bought it in 2020, and CommerceHub became Rithum in 2023 after combining with ChannelAdvisor, which is why the same platform now appears as Rithum DSCO. Pipe17's CommerceHub integration, listed as CommerceHub DSCO, serves retailer dropship programs, and a separate Rithum (formerly ChannelAdvisor) integration serves marketplace listings and orders, each with its own setup and data flows.
Nordstrom runs its dropship supplier program on DSCO, and DSW runs its dropship network on the same Rithum platform. A brand selling to a retailer on DSCO connects over the DSCO API, with no EDI mapping for that program. Retailers that run CommerceHub OrderStream, or keep a legacy EDI program, connect through Pipe17's managed EDI instead.
DSCO connects to Shopify, NetSuite, or a 3PL through connectors Pipe17 maintains, with no point-to-point build. Orders pulled from DSCO route to a 3PL such as Radial or ShipBob, or to your own warehouse. The same orders post to NetSuite or another ERP with their fulfillments, and they draw on the inventory your Shopify store or other storefront sells.
Yes, a 3PL on Pipe17 sets up each client's DSCO program as a connection inside that brand's own Pipe17 organization, and the dropship orders route to the 3PL's warehouse like the brand's DTC orders. Tracking posts back to DSCO from the warehouse's shipments, and the brand's inventory at the 3PL feeds the retailer. The 3PL runs one process for retailer dropship and DTC.
Pipe17 allocates inventory to a DSCO retailer from one available count per SKU across your warehouses, 3PLs, and stores, minus the buffer you set for that channel, sent to DSCO per warehouse or as one total. Inventory Buffers, a per-SKU reserve per channel, hold back units you keep for DTC, so a retailer sells only what you can ship. Every order from any channel lowers the count DSCO sees next.
Cancel the line in Pipe17, the cancellation posts to DSCO, and the other lines ship as planned. DSCO scopes whole-order cancellation to the retailer and line cancellation to the supplier, and Pipe17 works within that, canceling line by line from your supplier account, and every line at once when nothing can ship. When the retailer cancels first in DSCO, Pipe17 closes the matching order.
Yes, Pipe17 sends DSCO an invoice for each dropship order your warehouses and 3PLs ship, alongside the acknowledgment and tracking it already posts for that order. Most retailers on DSCO pay their suppliers through its Invoice Workflow, and the invoice reaches the retailer there with the order it covers, whichever location filled it.
Pipe17 is an order management system (OMS) that treats each DSCO retailer as one more order source beside your storefront, marketplaces, and EDI retailers, with a single stock count and the same routing rules behind all of them. Dropship orders post to your ERP with their fulfillments, beside every other channel's orders.