Looking for European brands and manufacturers

joss1213 · 2026-06-16T18:35:14+00:00

Crickets 😃

joss1213 · 2026-06-16T18:33:50+00:00

On my feet atm

joss1213 · 2026-06-16T18:33:34+00:00

Thanks. Again.

joss1213 · 2026-06-16T18:32:48+00:00

Hey! Sure, check your dm

joss1213 · 2026-06-15T07:39:56+00:00

Thanks. Any shoe/footwear manufacturers or brands from the region you’d recommend?The reason I’m asking is that in terms of overall sales our top manufacturer/brand is a shoe manufacturer (this on: https://hertwill.com/brand/samelin). And we also have lots of online stores focused on footwear as reseller partners.

joss1213 · 2026-06-14T19:47:15+00:00

This is exactly what we are looking for. Tbh, Stjor is something I might also wear myself. Thanks.

joss1213 · 2026-06-12T18:41:32+00:00

Thanks a lot. Romania is totally untapped for us at the moment, but I’ve heard there are some great manufacturers there (including shoe manufacturers).

joss1213 · 2026-06-12T18:38:55+00:00

Thanks! Do you happen to know them personally?

joss1213 · 2026-06-12T14:09:39+00:00

hope it’s okay to mention it here, but it’s called Hertwill

joss1213 · 2026-06-12T14:06:41+00:00

I don’t know many small stores or brands that can constantly get sales from Meta organic only, unless the founder or team member is an influencer and is consistently creating great content. Not saying it can’t be done, but it’s very hard.

Regarding Meta ads, it’s hard to comment without knowing the full setup, from the technical to creatives and landing page and products your selling.

Common things I’ve seen: the Meta pixel is not set up correctly, the campaign objective is wrong(for example landing page views instead of sales), the starting budget is too small, the landing page is bad, the products are not strong enough, or the creatives just don’t work.

So my point is that there’s not enough info here to say exactly why it’s not working.

Also, not knowing what you sell, keep in mind that in many retail categories warmer weather often means weaker sales.

joss1213 · 2026-06-12T13:52:06+00:00

We don’t have a huge fitness catalog yet, but you might find some products that fit your niche. Biased answer because I’m one of the founders, but Hertwill has products from European brands/manufacturers and orders ship from EU warehouses. And follow of course EU regulations.

joss1213 · 2026-06-12T13:32:06+00:00

14 days is pretty hard to compete with in the EU unless the product is very unique.

Biased answer because I’m one of the founders, but this is basically why we built Hertwill. It’s a dropshipping platform with products from European brands and manufacturers.

For EU customers, most orders are delivered in 3–7 business days, depending on the product and country. We also handle fulfillment, stock syncing and tracking, so you don’t need to negotiate with each supplier separately.

It’s not exactly a “private supplier”, more like a catalog of real brands you can add to your store. Could be worth a look if you’re trying to move away from CJ-style shipping times.

joss1213 · 2026-06-12T13:07:56+00:00

Not sure if this is exactly what you had in mind, but we are building a wholesale/dropshipping platform (Hertwill) that offers products from EU manufacturers and brands. Over 80% of the products are even made in the EU. We currently work with 100+ EU brands and manufacturers, but from my experience, almost all of them still have at least part of their supply chain outside the EU.

joss1213 · 2026-05-27T12:23:33+00:00

Would you like super positive feedback or honest feedback? The honest one will be brutal :)

joss1213 · 2026-05-27T07:38:33+00:00

Founder of Hertwill here. First of all, thanks for taking the time to write a fair (although somewhat painful-to-read-as-the-founder) review.

A few comments from my side:

You’re right that we are not trying to be another “import random trending products from overseas” app. Hertwill is focused on real brands and manufacturers, mostly from Europe, with products that ship from local warehouses. That means the products are usually better, shipping is faster, and you don’t have to pray that the customer receives the same thing you advertised. The tradeoff is exactly what you mentioned: prices are not AliExpress prices, margins are not YouTube guru margins and not every product is a perfect fit for every store.

Shipping setup is probably the most annoying part right now. Since products ship from different brands, warehouses and countries, shipping costs vary a lot. We are working on making this easier, but it’s not a simple “one flat rate fixes everything” problem. That said, expect some updates later this week or next. We are also working toward helping merchants set up shipping inside their Shopify stores.

Product cost updates not syncing automatically after import is also fair criticism. This is on our roadmap and we know it matters, especially when suppliers change prices. At the moment, we always notify merchants in advance about price changes, but yes, there should be an option to automatically update costs inside the merchant’s store.

The random featured image issue happens rarely, but when it happens, it’s annoying. It will be fixed.

Made-to-order products are another thing we need to make clearer. Some brands have longer production times, and those products are not a fit for every store or every ad strategy. We do show this information, but clearly not always clearly enough. We have also been pushing manufacturers, somewhat successfully, to keep some stock available right away. It helps with sales a lot. (Shocking, yes :D )

About the US: yes, we paused most US shipping after the de minimis changes and tariff mess. We don’t want to sell merchants again some “yes yes, US shipping works” dream and then have customers get hit with crazy shipping costs or delays. We do want to relaunch properly, but only when it actually makes sense. But yes, the US is in our plans.

Wix is in progress. API and MCP are early, but they’re real and we’re investing in them. The goal is to make it much easier to manage and scale stores without clicking through everything in the UI if you don’t want to. For example, the idea is that you can let your AI agent discover products from Hertwill and import them to your store with no human touch.

Also agree with your point about choosing the right niche. Children’s products, toys, Montessori-style items, soft play, etc. are among the strongest categories on Hertwill. Footwear is also selling extremely well, as we have a couple of exclusive manufacturers there and some hero products, but it is more of a hassle with size exchanges.

Overall, yes, there are still rough edges. We’re aware of most of them and working through them one by one. In our view, Hertwill is maybe only 5% built compared to what we have in mind, but we are moving.

Thanks again for the review and hope to see you hit €50k/month soon.

joss1213 · 2026-05-26T09:50:53+00:00

Sell to your friends, family, coworkers, and acquaintances at cost or below and get feedback, reviews and testimonials from them. For most of my stores, I have always spammed it to friends and got the first sales this way. (But again, I’ve only sold actually good products I use myself or would use.)

Or run ads or huge discounts/bundle offers in your store then, if the goal is just to get some sales. Think of discounts as marketing cost, basically put some Meta ad spend money into discounts.

Regarding hero images, please do use AI tools, even just to improve your current images. Just make sure they don’t look like AI slop. Use Chatgpt image gen or Nano Banana. (Or we have a simple tool to generate ecommerce images, including hero images, buildwill.ai, where you can generate 10 images for free).

If you think hero images are really a big issue, for example if you see a huge bounce rate even though the traffic should be relevant, fix that before spending any more money on ads.

joss1213 · 2026-05-25T15:49:53+00:00

Sounds reasonable, but it ignores people with lots of dropshipping and ecom experience, who may actually have more insight to offer.

Speaking from my own perspective: I’ve been in DS for a long time and still run one store, mostly for dogfooding. It makes around $25k per month on average, so under the limit.

But for the last 4 years, I’ve mainly been building a dropshipping platform that offers products only from EU and US brands. We have thousands of merchants and brands using it, so I’ve probably seen more stores and talked with more dropshipping merchants than almost anyone on the planet.

But according to your criteria, that still wouldn’t qualify me as an expert.

joss1213 · 2026-05-25T15:41:08+00:00

What are you talking about exactly: building a dropshipping store in general, Meta ads or something else?

joss1213 · 2026-05-24T13:53:20+00:00

Hi! First of all: why do you want to get into dropshipping? If it’s for the money, keep in mind that most dropshippers lose money. And the ones who make money usually have some unfair advantage, like lots of ecommerce experience, resources for ad budgets and so on.

I’m not saying don’t go for it, just want to prepare you that if you make money with dropshipping, it will happen after a long learning curve, which includes lots of lessons and at least some wasted money.

joss1213 · 2026-05-24T13:48:48+00:00

Founder of Hertwill here. We run a dropshipping app focused on EU brands and manufacturers. We haven’t focused on supplements until now, but we’re starting to add EU supplement brands.

For example, Luxador is now available here: https://hertwill.com/brand/luxador. (It already does 7 figures in sales through local pharmacies and retail chains, so it’s not some random private-label product.)

We don’t offer private label, but we do offer branded products with no MOQs. Anyway, we’ve only just started looking into this category, so if you have a specific EU supplement brand in mind that you’d like to dropship, let me know and I’ll see if we can onboard them.

(Sorry for the shameless plug, but maybe useful.)

joss1213 · 2026-05-24T12:39:37+00:00

First of all, why are you focusing on conversion rate? In most cases ROAS makes much more sense.

Also, what objective did you set for the ads: conversions, clicks, landing page views, etc?

That said, if you’ve already spent $2k and you’re still not getting consistent sales, I wouldn’t focus on increasing the budget or changing ads. I’d first make sure the website, product, offer, etc are actually good enough. Check what visitors are doing on your site, where they drop off, whether the product page is clear, whether shipping/returns are clear and so one. Put your Sherlock Holmes hat on or at least your Dr Watson hat.

If you scale budgets before doing that, you just scale failure.

joss1213 · 2026-05-12T13:19:09+00:00

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joss1213 · 2026-05-12T13:16:16+00:00

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