SaleHoo vs. Wholesale2b

Intro

SaleHoo and Wholesale2b have been around since the mid-2000s, so they are both well established. Wholesale2b largely serves dropshippers, and while SaleHoo also serves dropshippers as a significant part of their business model, they also have a strong focus on other types of online sellers who wish to buy wholesale or have their products custom manufactured.

When doing your own research, it can be hard to differentiate these two platforms usefully, to boil them down to the key features you really need, which is what we’ve aimed to do here. Some of the key research questions we have asked are: Which platform has the most useful features for dropshippers? Which platform is best for wholesalers? Does SaleHoo or Wholesale2b have the best customer support?

Check out our general comparison table for some of the key differences between the two:

Platform Comparison		Wholesale2b
BBB Rating	4.5	2
Better Business Bureau Accreditation
Vetted Suppliers & Products
Dropship Tool
Directory Tool
100% Satisfaction or Your Money Back
24/7 Personalized Customer Service

It’s apparent that both platforms offer dropship and directory tools, featuring vetted suppliers and products, but we will take a closer look at these in the following sections to understand exactly what features are associated with each.

To guide our discussion we have searched the internet to find what customers are saying about these features, as this is likely to provide the most insight into the actual experience that customers are having using each.

Dropship Tool

To start, we took a look around each platform’s dropship tool.

Both feature a modern, user-friendly interface, which is a good foot to start off on. It is straightforward to search for products and both offer a range of filters to narrow down your options, such as ‘shipping from’ to ‘product price’. All suppliers that are able to list products on each platform have been vetted to ensure that what they are offering is high quality and so you won’t end up with customers harassing you wanting to return products they’re not happy with.

Two search filters that SaleHoo provides but Wholesale2b does not are a ‘delivery estimate’ filter and a ‘number of orders’ filter. These can help you find products with fast shipping times and sellers who have a lot of dropshipping experience to give you more confidence working with them.

Both dropshipping tools are easy to set up and offer a simple product import method to your chosen online store or marketplace. Each product’s associated information will upload automatically once you import it. But, if you wish, you can easily edit product information and change images, to give your product a unique feel for your business. This import process can be a great timesaver for dropshippers and make it easier than ever to get your product listings live and start generating income. Each platform allows you to import 500 products into your store, which is generally considered a generous number and means you can trial a large range of products and remove those that are underperforming.

SaleHoo’s dropship tool features product prices that are competitive. “It's been stated by many other people looking to start their own home business in online and brick and mortar sales that the best place for a beginner or an advanced seller, looking for products to sell, is SaleHoo.com,” Curtis, a reviewer on Trustpilot stated, “And I for one agree.”

Wholesale2b customers have also commented on their experience with finding products on the platform. Anyatka said, in their Trustpilot review, “It simplifies the process and the platform does many steps for you.”

However, that’s where the similarities end. With Wholesale2b, you have the option to import products to one platform per membership. So if you have your own store built on WooCommerce, but also want to sell on Amazon, then you need to pay for two memberships. The monthly membership for importing to online store platforms (i.e. Shopify, WooCommerce, Ecwid) is $29.99 per month, whereas if you want to import to online marketplaces (i.e. Amazon, eBay, Etsy) it is $39.99 per month. If you want to import to both your WooCommerce store and Amazon, then you’re up for a total monthly cost of $69.98.

SaleHoo also offers a 60 days money back guarantee for their customers so that they can enjoy a risk-free membership. If the product isn’t right for them, then customer service can promptly arrange for your membership fee to be returned to you. Wholesale2b doesn’t currently offer a guarantee of this sort.

Dropship Tool Comparison		Wholesale2b
Easy to set up
Pricing Change
Variant Change
Product Information Change
Image Selection
Shipping Options Selection
Vetted Suppliers & Products
Import 500 Products
24/7 Personalised Customer Service (Email and Chat)
100% Satisfaction Guarantee of Your Money Back

Below are current screenshots of both the SaleHoo Dropship tool and the Wholesale2b Dropship tool so you can have a sneak peak of what they look like inside once you’re a member.

Screenshots of SaleHoo

Screenshots of Wholesale2b

Directory Tool

Both SaleHoo and Wholesale2b offer vetted supplier directories so that you can search for suitable suppliers in one place. This tool differs the most between the two platforms.

SaleHoo offers an extensive directory of 8,000+ vetted suppliers from across the globe to help you identify suitable suppliers of the products you want to sell. This tool can be particularly useful for sellers who may wish to do more than dropship with their online store, such as finding a wholesale supplier or manufacturer, or choosing one exclusive supplier to work with to dropship all their products.

You can find wholesale suppliers to send you inventory at a steeper discount than dropshipping suppliers, which you can then distribute to customers yourself. You can use manufacturers to produce your own custom products to sell. You can use liquidators to buy trusted brand products that people already love, at steep discounts, to then resell. The SaleHoo directory allows you to filter by location, minimum order quantity and by shipping location. The Directory has been a long-time favorite for all types of online sellers, from newbies to veterans. A reviewer, CVerdon, on the Better Business Bureau site mentioned that “Saleshoo is by far the best research tool and supplier directory available online.” An example of how the SaleHoo directory might be useful to you as an online seller follows. Let’s say you want to open an activewear online store. You might wish to use the SaleHoo directory to find the best supplier who can manufacture your own custom designs, instead of just dropshipping existing activewear pieces.

Additionally, SaleHoo’s directory comes with a research tool called SaleHoo Labs, which you can use to identify popular products. With Labs, you can identify which items are selling well on Amazon and eBay and how much competition products have. Ideally, you will want to select a product that is trending with low competition - then you won’t have to contend with lots of other sellers.

Wholesale2b offers a directory, which currently lists 91 suppliers. These suppliers are primarily based in China or the US (99.98%) and there are no search filter options to help you find the right ones for your needs.

Directory Tool		Wholesale2b
8,000+ Vetted Suppliers
Dropshippers
Manufacturers
Liquidators
Search Filters
100% Satisfaction Guarantee or Your Money Back