Quick answer: The orosy Wholesale app puts a Japanese wholesale catalog inside your Shopify admin, where you search it, import the products you pick as Shopify products with your markup on each variant, publish them, order stock, and add what arrives to your Shopify inventory. There is no API key to issue and no external tool to configure. What it does not change is the wholesale itself: order units, delivery-group minimums, business review before your first order, and a card before a real order all still apply.
Key takeaways
- The app removes setup, not the wholesale rules. An order placed from the Shopify admin runs on the same terms as an order placed anywhere else on orosy.
- Installing is free. There are no in-app purchases and no paid plans, and ordered stock is billed by orosy separately from your Shopify invoice, in USD.
- Import writes a Shopify product with your markup on each variant. Title, description, brand, variants, barcode (JAN) and the wholesale amount per variant carry over; the title and description come over in Japanese, because that is how the catalog is written.
- What you can source depends on the destination. For shipping to the US it is stationery, over 50,000 products (measured 2026-10-14).
- The claim is narrow: the app changes where the work happens. Holding supplier accounts in Japan and getting goods out of the country are still the hard parts, and they are the parts orosy carries.
The hard part of Japanese wholesale was never the storefront
Ask a Shopify merchant why the Japanese products they want are not in their store yet, and the answer is almost never about Shopify. The store works; adding a product is routine.
The two walls sit earlier, and neither is software.
The first is the account. Japanese suppliers sell to buyers they have an account with, and an account has usually meant a Japanese company registration, a Japanese bank account, a conversation in Japanese, and a delivery address in the country. None of that is anyone being difficult. It is what happens when a distribution system is built for the market it grew up in: the buyer it was designed around is a shop with a Japanese registration and a stockroom down the road, and a store in Ohio was never a case it had to handle.
The second is getting the goods out. Even with an account, you are arranging export from Japan, a shipment to your country, and clearance at the far end. That is why the common workaround has been a forwarder and a receiving address in Japan, which solves it by adding a company to the chain.
That matters for judging what an app can and cannot do: a Shopify app cannot give you a supplier relationship, and it cannot put goods on a plane. If you are weighing which route into Japanese supply suits you, the map is in how to source Japanese products wholesale.
What orosy does is stand in that gap: it holds the supplier accounts, puts many suppliers behind one catalog and one cart, and arranges shipping to your country. That part is identical whichever way you order, and there are three other ways, covered in three ways to place a wholesale order.
The Shopify app is a fourth door, and the useful way to think about it is as a place rather than a capability. It does not shorten review, it does not waive order units, and it does not make clearance someone else's problem. It moves the ordering work to the admin tab you already have open.
What the orosy Wholesale app does inside the Shopify admin
The app has five jobs, and they line up with the actual sequence of buying.
| Step | What happens in the admin |
|---|---|
| Find | Search Japanese wholesale products by keyword, category, budget and stock. |
| Import | Import the products you pick as Shopify products, with your markup on each variant. Title, description, brand, variants, barcode (JAN) and the wholesale amount on each variant carry over. |
| Publish | Publish imported products one at a time or in bulk, from the Imported page. |
| Order | Check order units and delivery-group minimums in the cart before you order. |
| Receive | Add received stock to Shopify inventory in one click, from the order page. |
Two of those five do more than they look like they do.
Import writes real Shopify products. This is the difference between an app and a catalog you browse in another tab. The product lands in your own product list, with your markup already applied per variant, so the rest of your store treats it like anything else you sell. The barcode field carries the JAN, the Japanese article number, which lets you match the same item later against a packing slip or a second order.
Receiving is one click, in the direction that usually goes wrong. Stock that physically arrives has to become stock Shopify believes in, and in most hand-run setups that step is a spreadsheet and a Tuesday evening. Doing it from the order page means the number in Shopify traces back to a specific order rather than to someone's memory.
A few listing facts are worth knowing before you install. The app is free to install, with no in-app purchases and no paid plans; ordered stock is billed by orosy, separately from your Shopify invoice, and charges are billed in USD. It works with Shopify Admin and Shopify POS, and has been on the Shopify App Store since September 25, 2026: the orosy Wholesale listing. The app asks for your store owner details and for permission to edit products, inventory and collections, and to edit locations and sales-channel publications, which is what the five jobs above require.
One thing to plan for rather than be surprised by: the title and description that carry over are the ones in the catalog, and the catalog is written in Japanese. Because import creates a Shopify product in your own admin, that is where you write your storefront copy, and publishing being a separate step from importing is what gives you room to do it. Treat import as getting the data in, not as getting the listing finished.
What the app does not change: the wholesale rules
This is the section to read twice, because it is where expectations set by consumer-facing import apps do the most damage. Those apps let you add one unit of anything and sell it before you own it. Wholesale does not work that way, and the app does not hide it. What it does instead is show you the terms in the cart, while you are deciding, rather than at the end.
| The rule | What it means when you order from the admin |
|---|---|
| Order unit | Each product is sold in a set quantity. You order in multiples of it, from the app exactly as from anywhere else. |
| Delivery-group minimum | A delivery group is orosy's unit for products that ship together from the same source. Shipping fees inside Japan, including any threshold that removes them, and the minimum order amount are set per delivery group, and a cart below the minimum cannot be ordered. |
| Business review | Catalog and wholesale prices are not shown before approval. Your first order comes after your business has been reviewed. |
| A card on file | Registration is free and takes no card. A card is needed before you place a real order. |
| Where goods go | Delivery is to your business address. Direct delivery to your customer is not offered. |
| A tax number, for some destinations | For the UK and EU countries an EORI or VAT number is required before the order will go through, and for South Korea a business registration number. It is held against your orosy account rather than entered in the app. For the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand it is not required. |
Read together, those five say one thing: the app is a surface over a wholesale account, and a wholesale account has conditions. The vocabulary behind them, including order units, pack quantities and how a Japanese price sheet is laid out, is unpacked in Japanese wholesale terms explained.
The last row has a consequence merchants ask about constantly. You can list products before you hold stock: you list first and order after a sale comes in. The goods are delivered to your business address, and you pack and ship them to your customer yourself. What that does not do is let you buy a single unit because a single customer bought one. The order unit and the delivery-group minimum still hold, so your first order is sized around the order unit and the first sale triggers a restock.
What you can source depends on where you are shipping
The catalog is not one catalog. Your destination country is already in place when you install, taken from your store's address, and you change it in the app's settings or in the cart. The catalog you browse is filtered to what can ship there. Two readers of this article will see different assortments, and the gap is wide enough to matter before you plan your range.
| Destination | What is offered | Products (measured 2026-10-14) |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Stationery | over 50,000 |
| UK, EU countries, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, the UAE, Mexico, China, Vietnam, Indonesia | Stationery, plus adult apparel and kitchen & dining | over 90,000 |
| Other destinations | Stationery | over 50,000 |
Behind those rows is a catalog of 200,000+ products inside Japan. orosy also runs a wholesale marketplace in Japan with 5,000+ brands, and those brands join this catalog over time, so not all of them are buyable the day you look. The country-by-country detail, including why a product visible to one buyer is absent for another, is in what ships to your country.
For a US store, then, this is a stationery proposition: small, light, often bought as gifts, and reordered often. The category guide is Japanese stationery wholesale.
Three facts about searching belong together, because each alone would mislead you:
- Search works with English search terms. They are matched to Japanese search terms before the catalog is searched, so you do not need the Japanese word to begin.
- Product names and descriptions come back in Japanese. The catalog is Japanese product data. The search box speaks English; the results do not.
- Not every word maps over. When an English term returns nothing useful, the fix is to try the Japanese word for the category or the material rather than to conclude the product is absent.
From installing the app to a first order
Run it in this order and you spend the least time waiting.
- Install the app. It is free, and nothing about installing it commits you to an order.
- Get your orosy business account approved. This is the step with a queue in it, so start it early. Sign-up asks for eight things: email address, password, company name, business website URL, a description of what your business does, the country your business is in, your main delivery destination country, and agreement to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. The website URL is mandatory by design, because review is based on it.
- Wait for review, which is usually short. Most accounts are approved within about 10 minutes if the sign-up email domain matches the business website or the email is listed on it; otherwise normally within 12 hours.
- Browse, and import your first batch. Catalog and wholesale prices open after approval. Import with your markup set per variant, then rewrite the copy on the Shopify products before you publish them.
- Build a cart and read the conditions in it. The order units and the delivery-group minimums are shown there. A card is needed before you place a real order, so add one early rather than at the last step. If you are in the UK, an EU country or South Korea, your tax number has to be on file by this point too.
- Receive, then add the stock. When the goods arrive, add received stock to Shopify inventory in one click from the order page.
On shipping, stated plainly, because it is the part people most often get wrong: orosy arranges international shipping to your country. You do not need a forwarder or a receiving point in Japan. Before you order, the cart shows a reference figure for international shipping, for your information only. The actual shipping cost is calculated later and billed to you, and it can differ from that figure. Customs clearance in your country, import duties, and taxes at import are your responsibility. They are not part of the cost billed by orosy. Delivery to a receiving point inside Japan also remains available.
That is the honest boundary: shipping is arranged for you, and clearance and duties stay with you. That is the normal shape of a cross-border wholesale purchase rather than a gap in the service.
Where the app sits next to the other three ways to order
The app is one of four doors into the same transaction. The other three are the portal screen, an MCP-capable AI client, and a direct API integration, and all four run on the same business account, the same review, and the same wholesale terms.
What sets the app apart is not a feature but a location. It runs inside the Shopify admin, and the import writes Shopify products directly, so the catalog and the store you are stocking sit in the same place. That is the right trade for a merchant whose working day already lives in that tab.
The trade runs the other way too. If you want an assistant to assemble carts from a brief in words, or your own system to pull product data on a schedule, you want the key-based routes, which you can add later on the same account without a second registration. An AI client can connect if it supports MCP and lets you set an Authorization header, which Claude Code does; that route is covered in ordering Japanese wholesale with an AI assistant over MCP.
Pick the door that matches where your buying decisions get made. For a Shopify merchant deciding what to stock while looking at their own catalog, that door is the admin, and the app is on the Shopify App Store.
FAQ
Do I need an API key to use the orosy Wholesale app?
No. The point of the app is that there is no API key to issue and no external tool to configure: you install it and work inside the Shopify admin. What you do still need is an approved orosy business account, because catalog and wholesale prices are not shown before approval, and a card, because registration is free and takes no card but a card is needed before you place a real order. The API key route still exists if you later want your own system to call the catalog directly, but the app does not ask for one.
What carries over when I import a product into my store?
Title, description, brand, variants, barcode (JAN) and the wholesale amount on each variant, with your markup applied per variant. The title and description carry over as they sit in the catalog, which is written in Japanese, so the product record in your admin is where you write your own storefront copy before you publish. Import and publish are separate actions: you publish imported products one at a time or in bulk from the Imported page, which leaves room to edit first.
Can I order any quantity I want through the app?
No, and this is the part that surprises merchants who have used consumer-facing import apps. Each product has an order unit, the quantity it is sold in, and a delivery group has a minimum order amount, where a delivery group is orosy's unit for products that ship together from the same source. The app shows both the order units and the delivery-group minimums in the cart before you order, so you see the real terms while you are deciding rather than at checkout. Meet those two conditions and you can order in small quantities.
What can I source if my store ships to the US?
Stationery, which was over 50,000 products for shipping to the US when we measured it on 2026-10-14. The range differs by destination country: for the UK, EU countries, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, adult apparel and kitchen & dining products are offered as well as stationery, which came to over 90,000 products on the same date. Other destinations are stationery, which was also over 50,000 products on that date. Setting your destination shows only the products that can ship there, so the catalog you browse is already filtered to what can actually reach you.
What does the app cost?
The app is free to install and has no in-app purchases and no paid plans. Ordered stock is billed by orosy, separately from your Shopify invoice, and charges are billed in USD. What you pay for is the goods and the shipping. orosy arranges international shipping to your country, and before you order the cart shows a reference figure for international shipping, for your information only; the actual shipping cost is calculated later and billed to you, and it can differ from that figure. Customs clearance in your country, import duties, and taxes at import are your responsibility. They are not part of the cost billed by orosy.
Can I list products before I hold stock?
Yes. You list first and order after a sale comes in. The goods are delivered to your business address, and you pack and ship them to your customer yourself. Wholesale conditions still apply to that order, so you cannot go below a product's order unit or under a delivery group's minimum order amount just because a single customer bought one piece. In practice you size the first order around the order unit, and the first sale triggers a restock.