# What does AI recommend for wholesale marketplaces (online stores)? Checked 2026-10-24 ## In short On 2026-10-24, Claude (Anthropic) with web search was asked "best wholesale marketplaces for online stores". It named 11 brands; the first six, in order, were Faire, Shopify, Handshake, Abound, Tundra and Ankorstore. | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Question | best wholesale marketplaces for online stores | | Asked on | 2026-10-24 | | Engine | Claude (Anthropic) with web search | | Model | claude-opus-5 | | Brands named | 11 | | Sources cited | 18 | | Audience | online stores | | Coverage | Coverage: Claude (Anthropic) with web search. Other engines not included. | | Last verified | 2026-10-24 | Page: https://bikoosh.com/answers/q/wholesale-marketplaces/online-stores Coverage: Claude (Anthropic) with web search. Other engines not included. ## The answer, as recorded Asked on 2026-10-24 through Claude (Anthropic) with web search (model claude-opus-5). > # Best wholesale marketplaces for online stores > > Here's what I'd actually recommend, roughly in the order I'd try them. The right one depends mostly on *what* you sell - curated/boutique goods vs. cheap high-volume inventory are two completely different ecosystems. > > ## If you sell boutique, home, gift, apparel, beauty, baby > > **1. [Faire](https://www.faire.com) - the default. Start here.** > It's the dominant independent-brand wholesale marketplace (100,000+ brands), free for retailers to join, and Shopify made a strategic investment in it after killing its own Handshake marketplace - so it's now effectively the official wholesale channel for Shopify merchants, with native apps in the App Store. For retailers the big draws are **net-60 payment terms** (buy now, pay after you've sold it), **free returns on first orders from any brand** (60-day window), and free shipping on first orders. That risk-free-first-order structure is genuinely the best thing about it: you can test a brand with almost no downside. The Faire Insider membership adds free shipping across thousands of brands above a minimum order. > > **2. [Abound](https://helloabound.com) - the best second account to open.** > ~40,000 ## Brands named, in the order the engine gave | Position | Brand | How it was named | |---|---|---| | 1 | Faire | mentioned | | 2 | Shopify | mentioned | | 3 | Handshake | mentioned | | 4 | Abound | mentioned | | 5 | Tundra | mentioned | | 6 | Ankorstore | mentioned | | 7 | UK | mentioned | | 8 | Creoate | mentioned | | 9 | Alibaba | mentioned | | 10 | DHgate | mentioned | | 11 | Alibaba/DHgate | mentioned | ## Sources the engine cited - https://www.faire.com (vendor) - https://helloabound.com (other) - https://www.ankorstore.com (vendor) - https://www.creoate.com (vendor) - https://www.orderchamp.com (other) - https://indieme.com (other) - https://www.alibaba.com (vendor) - https://www.dhgate.com (other) - https://meetanshi.com/blog/online-wholesale-suppliers/ (other) - https://wholesalehelper.io/blog/7-best-wholesale-marketplaces/ (other) - https://craftybase.com/blog/difference-faire-tundra-wholesale-marketplaces (other) - https://craftybase.com/blog/faire-wholesale-alternatives (other) - https://www.faire.com/en/support/articles/29090131049371 (vendor) - https://brandboom.com/article/finding-a-handshake-replacement (other) - https://trustradius.com/compare-products/shopify-handshake-b2b-commerce (review) - https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/09/ankorstore-reaches-2-billion-valuation-two-years-after-launching-its-wholesale-marketplace (other) - https://www.cbinsights.com/compare/ankorstore-vs-handshake-corp (other) - https://programminginsider.com/best-wholesale-ecommerce-platforms-2026-a-practical-comparison-guide-including-dhgate/ (other) Permanent address of this answer: https://bikoosh.com/answers/s/wholesale-marketplaces-online-stores-2026-10-24 ## Sources cited across the 22 recorded answers to this question Alphabetical; 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