 AliExpress dropshipping a full tutorial for beginners. If you're thinking about starting to dropship and AliExpress is on your mind as one of your first suppliers do not miss this video because here I'm going to tell you guys step by step hand in hand as I show you how you can start, run and manage a profitable dropshipping business when you're dropshipping from AliExpress no matter what selling channel you are using. So quick intro and let's go. How do we start dropshipping from AliExpress with over 100 million products to choose from in pretty much any category that you guys can think of and with several selling channels to choose from the selling channels is our online store where we're actually selling our products that we found from AliExpress. So how do we wrap our heads around all this information and actually create a successful dropshipping business. So let's take it from the top. What is AliExpress and dropshipping. So for those who don't know AliExpress is a huge online marketplace they've been around for a while they've got warehouses all around the world not just in China anymore and they've got the cheapest prices from pretty much any other supplier that you guys will check. So with all of these advantages plus them being a super dropshipping friendly supplier what do we have to lose when dropshipping from AliExpress not too much all we need is the right information. So those are some of AliExpress's main features and benefits. Now what exactly is dropshipping and how do we combine it together. Dropshipping is a business model which means that we can actually sell products without holding them in stock which means we don't have the burden of the expenses of inventory. Now we combine suppliers like AliExpress and dropshipping using any selling channel that we want. Now some of the best selling channels that we have today are eBay, Shopify, Facebook marketplace for US citizens and Wix. Now there are more in marketplaces but these are my personal favorites. So what we're actually doing is we're grabbing products that we have on AliExpress and we're listing them on our dropshipping stores on our selling channels. Soon we're going to go over all of that information and what selling channels are the best and how to really dropshipping successfully when you're using suppliers like AliExpress but right now all that you need to know is who is AliExpress and what is the dropshipping business model which once again means that we're listing products without holding them in stock and we only pay once we get paid. So a customer places an order on our store, we go to AliExpress and fulfill that order and we'll talk about order fulfillment automation soon. We go to AliExpress, we fulfill that order and we ship it directly to the end customer. We keep the profit between the price that we paid AliExpress and whatever price the customer paid us on our online store. That is the dropshipping business model, it comes with a very low startup investment and that is why it is a very good choice for many people around the world plus the fact that all that you really need is a computer and internet connection and the right knowledge and tools which I will be passing on to you in this video. So we understand what AliExpress dropshipping is, let's go to the next question and by the way guys everything that I'm showing you guys in this video, it's all written in the blog article which I'll leave a link to right below this video but do stay tuned because I'm adding a lot of more bonus content into this video. So are we allowed to dropship from AliExpress? The answer is definitely a yes and AliExpress is also a dropshipping friendly supplier which means they support dropshippers and they're waiting for dropshippers like you and I to go to their platform and resell more and more of their products. Now AliExpress is not just one seller, it's actually a huge marketplace with hundreds of thousands of online sellers from China mostly and what they do is they're simply sourcing products from other Chinese websites that are not translated to English or any other language so we don't understand Chinese we cannot go to those websites and buy from them and they also don't support our currencies and so forth so what AliExpress is is simply a marketplace where you have other Chinese dropshippers who are dropshipping the products that they have on their stores in AliExpress from other Chinese websites. This whole world is one big dropshipping method just so you guys know but in any case that's how it works on AliExpress so you've got thousands and thousands of sellers and you need to find great sellers with trending products that you can resell on your stores. How do we go about doing that? Let's continue with this video. So you're definitely allowed to dropship from AliExpress but you do want to avoid things like selling copyrighted products or knockoffs so if it's any company that you've heard of avoid importing those products to your store as well as other things like tobacco, firearms, alcohol, medicines, supplements, vitamins and things like that but with so many categories that you can dropship on it's really not going to be any problem at all. If you do want to understand what other products you can not dropship you can once again read the article below this video and here we have a link to eBay's VeroList and Facebook's commerce policies so no matter what selling channel you're selling on even on Shopify the same rules apply to there it'll just give you a good idea of things that you can and cannot sell when running an e-commerce business. So what are the advantages and disadvantages of dropshipping from AliExpress before we dive deep into the action so we already know that that AliExpress is going to give you access to millions and millions of products that you can resell. They also offer global shipping which means they can ship to pretty much any other country in the world and on top of that they offer dropshipping oriented services like the dropshipping center which i will show you soon when we get to the product research phase they also offer great buyer protection so if there was ever any problem with one of your orders you can open a case with your seller and if you and if you can't make it work out with the seller you can always ask AliExpress to step in. The same standards we have today on huge marketplaces like eBay we can also see them happening on AliExpress because it really is helping solve cases between buyers and sellers so if you have any problem with one of your customers you can simply pass that on to AliExpress and they'll find the solution for you. On top of that you can also pay on AliExpress using various credit cards and also PayPal which a lot of people prefer. Some of the disadvantages of dropshipping from AliExpress is that you have long shipping times from products that are being sourced from China so we all know that any delivery from China to the US or to the UK or anywhere else around the world can take anywhere from one week to one month and sometimes even more in extreme cases. Now most buyers want to get their items in up to one week and I'm going to show you some neat tricks on how to do that using AliExpress but that's one of the disadvantages if you don't know how to work around that. Also you've got the language barrier. Some sellers on AliExpress don't really speak English too well. They were able to get a translated store up and running in English but that doesn't mean that if you reach out to them they'll be able to help you with whatever you need because some of them simply do not know English well. So we need to be communicated with our sellers on AliExpress and make sure that they are answering on time and in a professional manner and of course understand our language. Another disadvantage that we have from AliExpress is that we cannot bundle orders together so if on your store you have several variations in one product page or even if you have separate variations for each product and one of your buyers adds a few products at once to their cart and they check out. Most buyers are actually expecting it to come in one package because they bought from the same store but you're buying from different suppliers on AliExpress that means that the products are not going to be bundled together which can inevitably increase our shipping costs. So the way to work around some of these issues is simply by going to sellers that have high ratings in AliExpress but we're really going to get to all of that soon. Let's continue with the introductions before we dive straight into the action. Another question that I find many beginners asking is will buyers know that my items are coming from AliExpress so someone buys something from my store I purchased it from AliExpress I ship it directly to the buyer. Will the buyers see that the package is coming from AliExpress? The answer to that is in some cases they will but in most cases they simply will not care. Now if you've been dropshipping for a while you know exactly what I mean when a buyer gets their package they're happy about getting their package and that they got it on time and of course that the product is as described on your listing that's all that they really care about it doesn't matter if they're going to see an AliExpress logo an amazon logo or anything else. Now you can still avoid having the buyer know where the package came from depending on what shipping carrier you choose when you drop shipping from AliExpress when you're purchasing the product and selecting your shipping company. AliExpress shipping standard or AliExpress standard shipping usually has AliExpress's logo on the package so if you have another shipping option which isn't too expensive and it's not AliExpress standard you can go ahead and choose that one as long as it's not going to take too long to reach the buyer of course and that way the buyer also won't know that it's coming from AliExpress but either way it doesn't matter go with whatever shipping option gives you tracking information and with whatever of course shipping option will arrive to your buyers on time and that doesn't cost you too much money so you can make that extra profit. Does AliExpress offer worldwide global shipping? Now I already answered that one they definitely do and all that you need to do on the top right on AliExpress is choose your ship too so here you have a screenshot explaining it but I can also show it to you so here's AliExpress's website and here you've got the American flag I'm going to click on that and this is my ship too so I can change my ship too to any other country around the world and then I'll only see countries that can ship to that country so if for example I'm targeting the United Kingdom then I'll just write United Kingdom here on the search and here we go I can choose the United Kingdom and whatever currency I want to see in this case they change it automatically to Great Britain Pound of course that makes sense for the UK so this just comes to show you that AliExpress can ship items to any countries that you want around the world all you need to do is simply search for your product and change your ship too and that way you'll get the results for whatever can ship to that specific country. Another question that many people ask before they get started is should I open a general store or a niche store and this is a great question. When you're a beginner and you're not sure what niche is going to sell well you're better off not starting a niche store and that's just because if that niche is not going to work too well doesn't matter how much hours you put into it and how much you worked on product research and how long it took you to get your store up and running and even how much time and money you spent on it you're not going to make that much sales not enough to profit because you did not check out other niches first so what you should do in the beginning is create a general store. Once again guys it doesn't matter if you want a drop ship on ebay shopify wix facebook marketplace the same applies to all you want to start with a general store and from there you want to check out general categories different categories and see which ones start to sell. Now you want to check out enough products in under each category to be able to really analyze and test the market well. Once you will see that items will start to sell under a certain category you should start to multiply that success by looking for more products from that category and adding them to your store and once you have a category that's actually selling really well then you can go ahead and open a niche store under that category. That is what some of the biggest dropshippers today have done when they got started and that is still a wonderful and perfect strategy to practice today when you're starting a new dropshipping store so definitely start with a general store find that good niche that's selling and then expand into that niche. Now we went over the main questions that people usually ask before getting started. Now let's go ahead and get started on how to start dropshipping on AliExpress. The first step that you want to take to have a successful dropshipping business when dropshipping from AliExpress is to find a winning product. Now this is really really important it's product research and it's all about product research the more you work hard on product research the better results you're going to get. A few hours of work is simply not going to cut it. You have to research products for a long time you have to test out products see what's selling see what's not remove those slow movers and add more trending products and more products similar to those that are already selling for you in order to multiply your profits while always continuing to test new products in new categories. So how do we go about product research I will show you guys that in just about a minute. The second step is to choose a selling channel so you found a winning product or you found some winning products now you need to know what selling channel you want to sell them on do I want to sell them on Facebook do I want to sell them on Shopify do I want to sell them on Facebook on Wix we'll go over the pros and cons of each selling channel soon. So we found a good product and we chose what selling channel we want to sell it on. The third step is to choose an automation software. Why do we need automation softwares because we simply cannot do everything ourselves. If we do all of our work manually there will never be enough time in a day to really be able to grow and scale our dropshipping businesses and make significant profits. We can sell we can make profits when doing everything manually but once again everything will be limited and there will be a certain cap to how much we can do and how much we can profit at the end of the day and at the end of the month. So we found a winning product to sell we chose what selling channel we want to sell it on. We chose the right automation software to help us scale and automate our dropshipping business. The next step is to import our products to our store which I will show you guys how to do it and the last step is to fulfill your orders once they start to come in. It's not that hard when we listed in just five steps now let's walk through each step step by step. So how do we find winning products on AliExpress? Now there are a few ways to find winning products and one of my favorite ways is the AliExpress dropshipping center. So I'm going to click on the AliExpress dropshipping center using the link that I have in the article right below this video and that will take you directly to the dropshipping center on AliExpress and here it is right here. What I'm going to do is click on find products to sell and of course AliExpress created this tool only for dropshippers. As I mentioned AliExpress is a very dropshipping friendly supplier and they'll do anything to help you the dropshipper sell more and succeed. That's one of the reasons why they're one of the best dropshipping suppliers we have today. What I did right now on the dropshipping center is I click on find products to sell and right now you can see a full list of products that I have right here in this chart starting with the product's name then we've got the product's price then we've got how many orders this product has how many of those orders are dropshipping orders what is the overall product rating the sales performance for this product and of course you can also analyze it and see the selling history how much it's sold in the past and how much it's selling right now. So let's start with the first product that we have right here a 5D do-it-yourself diamond painting flowers vases roses cross stitch set. So I can see this product is being sold for only three dollars and 81 cents and it has 38 orders with a rating of 4.9 that's not a bad start but let's see what other options we have here you can search for whatever product you're looking for so if so if you want to test a certain niche you can simply search for it right here and slash or you can choose a different you can choose a specific product category so if you want to test out a certain category just choose it right there now here you can also change your ship from as well as your ship too so if for example you're targeting the US audience you want to make sure that your ship too is to the United States because I want to see what products can ship to the US and your ship from you can change to whatever country if you have a specific country or warehouse location in mind you can change that right here or for example if you want to ship quickly to the Italian audience because you're dropshipping to Italy you can see what's shipping from Italy and then change your ship to to Italy and then you'll get fast domestic shipping times so that's another idea that you can have in order to increase your shipping times and get better shipping times to your end customers i'm just going to leave this blank the next filter you have here is the delivery time so you can see whatever products can ship in under 10 days under 20 days 30 days 40 days and so forth price range and if you want to have products that have e-packet shipping or free shipping or products that have videos inside of them and you have more filters over here so this is a great way to start off and see what is selling well for example let's say i want to tap into the pet's niche and i want to see how dog colors are selling so i'm just going to search for dog color and as you can see here i have a whole bunch of dog colors that have a lot of cells as well as dog harnesses and other pet accessories that are related to colors and there are about 250 pages of results here some of these orders have a lot of orders like this cat dog ID here with 265 with a 4.8 average so i will definitely go and see what's special about this product and look for more products that are like that in my selling channel to see how well that is going let's take one item that we would want to check like let's say this pet control harness over here 25 orders not too low not too high maybe we can catch on to this trend so i'm going to click on this product to see what it is and of course like i mentioned you can also analyze it here on the right to see it selling history but right now i want to check this product on ollie express and see what all the fuss is about okay so here is the product i've got my ship to configured on the united states now i've got all of these different colors in different variations in different sizes so i can choose whatever i want or i can of course add them all to my store at once and here we've got the shipping options so right now we know that we're looking for whatever can ship to the united states and this product at just two and a half dollars has free shipping from china to the united states now if i click on the shipping here i can choose different shipping options and see what other options we have here i'm going to click on more options now here are the shipping methods first i've got free shipping from china to the us via not sure how to pronounce this signau super economy economy global and the estimated delivery will be on april 16th today is february 14th while i'm recording this video so two months without any tracking information that's not that good if you ask me let's move on to the next option using signau super economy estimated delivery pretty much the same date and also no no tracking available and this one will set me back two dollars and thirty cents instead of free what i would always suggest to do is always look for something that has tracking information available so no matter where you're selling when the buyer wants to know where his package is you'll always be able to track the events and even have the buyer track the events which means they won't even have to reach out to you in the first place they'll have all the answers set out in front of them so even if that costs a little bit extra money that's fine we always want to offer tracking information to our buyers if the buyer opens up a case and says hey i didn't receive this item and you don't have any tracking information you don't have anything to back up and prove that the product did arrive and this way you're either going to have to send a refund or repurchase the product to the buyer and end up losing money so we'll pay a little bit extra for tracking and that way we'll avoid all kinds of mistakes in the future that will end up costing us even more so now i've got another shipping option here for four dollars and eighty cents from china to the united states using aliexpress standard shipping estimated delivery march 15th which is just one month away now i'm not saying just as if it's a small amount of time one month is still a long time and this is just one quick product that i found using the aliexpress drop shipping center but of course as i mentioned to you guys you have to spend hours and hours of product on product research but you will find results the more that you test it and then you will start to get addicted to the whole drop shipping business model so four dollars and eighty cents it'll arrive it'll arrive in one month and i've got tracking information available that's the shipping option that i'm going to use so overall i'm gonna have to pay four dollars and eighty cents and another two and a half dollars for this product you then you're going to choose your variation and of course you can buy it or add it to cart and send it directly to your buyer as soon as you get orders but that's not what we're here to talk about yet let's go back so we're talking about product research and the aliexpress drop shipping center is one of the best places to start to get yourself familiar with what products are trending and what products are selling right now another method is to use the product research tool that's already integrated inside the auto ds system so if you're using auto ds this is a free tool for you for you to use i'm just going to click right here on the top left and i'm going to change from the platform to the product research platform and here inside the system you have a lot of products that are selling really well that are trending and you can filter it in so many ways for example you can choose a different product category what warehouses you want the products to ship from what suppliers you want to use the item cost retail price the product rating how long it takes to reach the buyer when it was updated and how many reviews it has now if i click on any of these products i'm going to see the full product information inside along with the product specifications and the amount of reviews it has and if we look here on the left side we can always browse through popular products and that's automatically going to open up a filter with products that have a greater than 4.5 rating as you can see here with more than 100 product reviews and as you can see here the products loaded up all of these products are selling really well you can see of course the product's thumbnail image the title the supplier how long it takes to reach the buyer in this example it's six business days the item cost and the suggested retail price and of course if you want to import any of these products to your store all you have to do is click right here import product and just like that it will import to your store where you can continue optimizing it and of course it will go up for sale and anyone can go ahead and buy it also you've got new products holiday products which are always updating according to the next holiday that you have coming up so you can always prepare your store in advance and get an edge over your competition then you've also got us suppliers and china suppliers and we're soon also going to add wholesale suppliers and private suppliers that only you can work with when of course working with auto ds that is another product research method that i highly suggest you guys to try and implement and take advantage of now if you're selling on ebay and you want to know if the product is trending well on ebay the only thing that you need to do is search for that product on ebay search engine so for example let's say that i want to check out this adjustable pet control harness that we were just on earlier so what i'm going to do is take the product's title or at least the main part of it and i'll simply paste it right here on ebay search so here you can see that a lot of people are selling similar products to that harness that we just saw in different variations in different forms so it's hard to find the exact same one and that's another advantage that you'll have as a drop shipper you won't be like the next competitor in line now you can see the prices here range from anywhere between six dollars to fourteen dollars and even more but how do we know which of these listings are actually selling what you want to do is here click on sold items and then unclick on completed items which will click in automatically because completed items is only showing me products that are not in stock anymore and right now it's only going to show me pet harnesses that have sold and they're still in stock so there's a high chance that these are drop shippers and i'll be able to see if this product is even trending if this product is even in demand if i should even be taking a look at it now as you can see this one sold on February 9th this one on December 1st this one on January 25th this one on February 13th so all of these products have sold anytime within the last month or two at most February 12th February 12th February 12th February 13th today is the 14th by the way so as you can see this product is trending it is in demand people are looking for dog harnesses so i will definitely check out that niche look for certain features look for certain variations and test out a whole bunch before seeing if this product is a good seller or not and that was just after two minutes of doing this product research method with you guys now if you want to drop ship on Shopify how can you tell if this product is going to sell well for you so what you want to do is search google for pet stores or pet shops and open up a whole bunch of links that you have a whole bunch of e-commerce stores and also on the other hand download and install an extension called the koala inspector which is free to try and what you're going to do with this tool is buy on other Shopify competitor stores so what you're going to do is open up a whole bunch of stores in the pet's niche and you're going to enable this extension on all of those stores the extension will first of all tell you if this is a Shopify store or not and if it is you'll be able to see what products are selling what products are actually successful in selling their hot sellers what themes they are using what apps they are using and other secret tools that this certain website this certain dropshipper is using and what you can do is gather this information and use those practices on your website or similar things and this way you'll have a much higher edge over your competitors that are just testing out products without knowing what is selling you're going to start off with a store with proven products that are in demand and that are selling so this is a great tool to use if you're dropshipping on Shopify and if you're dropshipping on wix koala inspector will soon support that too and if you're dropshipping on facebook marketplace you can just pretty much go ahead and sell any product that is trending without having to search anything anywhere else because the competition on the facebook marketplace is extremely low there's not a lot of dropshippers on there but the dropshippers that are utilizing the facebook marketplace for dropshipping are making substantial profits and if you don't believe me check out my personal case study with my facebook marketplace dropshipping account on our youtube channel there is a full facebook marketplace live case study that will show you guys how to start, run and manage a successful dropshipping business on the facebook marketplace so that's a little bit about product research there are many many more methods for product research but i can make this video go on for hours just on that subject so stay tuned on our youtube channel at youtube.com slash autodesk stay tuned on our blog page at autodesk.com slash blog and we've got so many product finding and product research methods that were always popping out and always sharing more and more information and valuable information at that so that's the first step find trending products on aliexpress and when you find that trending product you also want to check out that seller make sure that that the seller has good history with aliexpress make sure that they've been around for a while make sure that they've got a positive feedback so how do we do that this is the product that i wanted to check out what i'm going to do is i'm going to hover over the seller right here and i can see that he's been around since december 12th 2019 item has described communication and shipping speed is anywhere between 4.6 to 4.7 even if you see it as a below average 4.6 is still fine that should be your limit anything 4.5 or below will not be too good and you also want a seller that's been active on aliexpress for over one year because new sellers oftentimes they don't turn out to be successful sellers and they close down their stores and then you want to return an item or you want to reach out to them and they're not there anymore so usually sellers with high ratings that have been around for at least one year are here to stay the next thing that you want to do is click the contact now button and actually contact the supplier and check out their communication speed and of course if they have good english so that you can actually communicate with them those are the two things that you always want to make sure that you have on aliexpress before importing products from these sellers okay so we did our product research we found a winning product the next step is to choose what selling channel is good for us where we actually want to sell these products on so the main options that i talked about in this video because these are the most popular options for dropshippers is ebay, Shopify, Facebook marketplace and of course wix which is similar to Shopify now let's break down each selling channel and see the pros and cons of each one so that you can make the right choice on whichever one best suits your style so the first choice that you have is ebay ebay is a huge marketplace with many advantages but also some disadvantages for dropshippers ebay's biggest advantages is that they have millions and millions of customers which means that you don't need to promote your products and you don't need to market your products in order to get sales ebay will make sure that you'll get free organic traffic to your store the only thing that really matters is your product's title well it's not the only thing that really matters but a big factor in whether you're going to get traffic to your store or not is how well you optimize your product's title on ebay it is also important in other marketplaces like Shopify but it doesn't have the same strength as as it does on ebay because ebay's seo the search engine optimization the way to rank well is to simply have a good product title and of course to sell something that people are looking to buy so when someone opens up ebay right now and they search for something you want your product title to be as close to that search as possible while of course being relevant to the product that you're selling so see what product titles your competitors are using take the strong keywords that they have and also add some of your own from your product so what you want to do here is really test out product titles and work really hard on that that's how people are going to get to your store so you're going to get a lot of free organic traffic on ebay another thing is that it's actually very easy to start dropshipping there all you need to do is create a seller's account ebay is going to give you free listings right from the start so you have zero expenses start listing those items start selling them increase your ebay selling limits and the more selling limits you'll have the more you'll be able to list and sell now the disadvantages to dropshipping on ebay is that well you have those selling limits and if it's a new seller account ebay is going to limit you to five to ten items and you have to slowly work your way up and open up your ebay selling limits so that you can really be able to sell and profit so you won't be making substantial profits from day one it is a business that you are going to start building slowly then you've got Shopify Shopify is a fully customizable website where you're going to get your own domain name www.yourstore.com everything is fully customizable and you can import thousands of products from day one because no one is telling you what to do with your store and how many selling limits you have it's your store and you can do whatever you want with it now the thing is with Shopify is that it requires a lot more work to get your store up and running when compared to ebay for example where all you have to do is sign up and list your first product and everything is self-explanatory from there but on Shopify you have to create your whole store you need to create your home page your legal pages everything needs to simply be recreated from the ground up even if you have no technical skills you can still get it done because it has a pretty friendly user interface but it takes a lot more time to get your store up and running and once your store goes live you'll have to start paying Shopify a monthly subscription of $29 even before you made any sales and on top of that you also have to market your products because you're not getting any free organic traffic from google unless your store has been around for a while and you really worked hard on SEO to bring it to the front page but you're not going to be making any organic traffic at least not at the start and you have to market your products so that buyers will know that your store even exists and of course if you're targeting the wrong products or the right product to the wrong audience then you're just going to be wasting a whole bunch of money in the beginning before you start seeing sales and success so it's harder to succeed on Shopify but once you do succeed it's it's much more scalable than eBay then you've got the Facebook marketplace which I already mentioned it's very easy to get started the only thing that you need is to be a US citizen with a US IP address otherwise you will not have shipping options when importing listings when you're creating your listings on Facebook which means the 50 states in the US will not see your product they won't be able to see it they won't be able to buy it and you won't be making much sales on a Facebook marketplace if you don't meet those requirements so if you have that I definitely suggest to try out the Facebook marketplace and of course you've also got Wix just like Shopify is super customizable but you're not getting any organic traffic which means we need to have a budget for marketing in order to bring traffic to our store using all kinds of methods like influencer marketing platforms Facebook ads Google ads email marketing campaigns and so much more so once you do build a good email list you know a good email subscriber list you will be able to send emails to those buyers without having to spend much but it takes time to get that email list going so those are some of the examples and by the way guys if you want to have a free A to Z Shopify dropshipping course on how to get started and scale and succeed and market and do everything the right way on Shopify it's a full course about 40 lessons there I'm going to leave a link to it right below this video and of course same goes for eBay we've got a full eBay course how to dropship for beginners a full tutorial step by step guide once again links right below this video we really want to help you guys out with as much information with as much value as we can provide in order to have you guys succeed with your dropshipping businesses so once you choose the right selling channel for you after you after you thought about all the pros and all the cons you can even of course test out different selling channels and see what's best for you instead of sticking to one until it works or doesn't work out before switching to the other it all depends on the amount of time and the amount of effort that you can put into it so we found the product we did the product research we found the product that we want to sell or the niche or the products that we want to sell and we chose where we want to sell it what selling channel we're going to use now we need to combine all of this with a dropshipping tool that will synchronize and automate between everything and once again why do we need dropshipping tools well it's going to help us automate our dropshipping businesses and not limit ourselves as i explained earlier with great features like price and stock monitoring automatic order fulfillment quick product importing a great product research tool that i showed you guys just a few minutes ago and so much more you guys have to use automation tools and of course i'm going to recommend none other than auto ds which has all of these features built in inside with over 25 suppliers that you guys can automate your businesses with even though here we're talking about AliExpress but just so you know you've got that much more suppliers that you can work with and so much more features going on see all of the features that you have there see why it's the number one automated dropshipping tool out there and once you make that decision come back here and let's continue so once you signed up for auto ds and you're ready to get started the next step is to import your first product now once again if you want to do it manually that's completely fine but understand that you'll need to copy and paste everything from your suppliers page to your store and if you want to add 10 products or 100 products or a thousand products it's going to take you so much time that you could have invested in product research and in scaling and growing your dropshipping business so how are you going to import your product for the first time the first thing that i recommend to do is download and install the chrome auto ds dropshipping helper because this way you'll be able to import a lot of products at once once you have that instantian installed the process is actually very very simple let's see how we import a product using dropshipping automation so let's go back to that safety harness tool and let's say that that's the product that we want to add to our stores so first on auto ds i'm going to leave the product research center and go back to the platform and then i'm going to click here on add products on the left side here i have a few choices one i can import a single product two i can import multiple products to multiple stores and three i can use the auto ds finder which i'm not using at this instant so in this case let's see the multiple products just in case we wanted to use that option now here i can choose what store or what stores i want to publish these products on and here i can simply add the url's or the product id's for the products that i want to import to my stores so in this case for example i can take the url for this product up here so i'm just going to copy the url and paste it right inside this text box and i can add multiple products by making a line break and simply adding more product id's or more product url's and i can continue with this process so that's one way to add multiple products to your store in just a few seconds here we've got the supplier's source so the system can already identify that the supplier is aliexpress and that the region is china but of course we can change it if it's not correct now another way is to upload a csv file and this is if you really want to add tens to hundreds to thousands of products at once without copying urls and id's so what you're going to do in this case is go back to the search that you had on aliexpress let's say you have a certain niche or a certain product category that's selling really well for you and what you want to do is simply take a whole search page and add all of those products so here for example let's search once again for um let's go with dog colors again and for this feature i also need the autodesk chrome dropshipping helper extension which i talked about a couple minutes ago by the way i talked about having a full guide to ebay in a full dropshipping course on Shopify for those of you who are thinking about facebook marketplace do not worry we also have a full tutorial guide on that i'll leave the link of course right below this video all right so we've got all of the dog colors here and let's see that this niche has been exploding for you recently and you want to add all of the dog colors that you see on this page so how are you going to go about doing that once again download and install that the autodesk chrome dropshipping helper extension it's completely free to use and once you have that extension installed you're going to notice a little autodesk circle on your supplier's pages when you're searching for products and what that circle means is well i'll show you so here we are once again on the dog color search page here i've got the autodesk circle i'm simply going to click on it and as you see all of the products on this page what i'm going to do next is click here on extract and what happened was all of the 60 products that i have on this page right here all the product IDs got extracted into this little exporter then i'm going to click on export as csv and as you see an aliexpress export csv file was just created on my computer the next step is probably self-explanatory but i'm going to head back to the autodesk platform and in the add multiple products upload csv column i'm going to drag and drop that csv file right here and that's how easy it is to import all of the products from that csv file or from that supplier search page on to autodesk or onto your selling channel so i can simply click on it to open up my browser window or simply drag and drop it from my computer into this little drop csv file box that i have right here give that just a couple of seconds and the file is uploaded then all i have to do is click right here at us draft and all of those 60 products whether they're 60 products or 100 or a thousand or 10,000 that's how simple it is to get them all to the drafts page now once the product is in the drafts page you can easily optimize it the product's title the description the variance the pricing the automation settings item specifications and so much more optimize your product to look great and then you will be able to import it to your store which then it will move to the product selection and that means it's live on your store and anyone can go see it and buy it so that's one way to add products and a quicker way if you just want to do one single product if you want to import only one this is the way to do it so click on add products and single product then choose what store you want to add it on so i'm going to add one product to one store to my ebay usa store then it's going to ask you for the product id or the url so once again i'm going to go to that product copy the url and paste it right over here next i'll click on edit now quick what's happening now in the background is autodesk is grabbing all of the products information from aliexpress and it's creating a draft for me to add to my stores so while i just said that sentence that's all the time that it took for this import process to get started here's the product now on my drafts page as i mentioned we can update and optimize all of the following fields the product's title what category belongs to what shipping methods what shipping methods we want to use what tags we want to have for this product autodesk already took product tags from its own recommendation we can always add more what policies we want to use for this product the country location of course products coming from china you want to use a chinese item location i'm going to talk a little bit more into detail soon when we get into order automation but right now this is these are the things that you need to know and of course what you want to monitor the price monitoring stock monitoring automatic ordering then you've got the product description so everything that's written on the aliexpress product page will of course be written inside your product description and you can click to open up the item description editor with all of the text editing fields that you see right here so it makes it really really user-friendly and of course you've got the template so you can use whatever template you want to use you can create new templates you can import new templates and you can of course use autodesk's free product templates so your products will look much better you look like a professional store and people will want to buy from you rather than those who are not using templates and simply do not look like a professional business then you've got the products variants so these are all the different variations and we can edit each variant separately if we wanted which has the product's price the item dimensions the weight and so forth so here you can see all of them are in stock so as soon as i import them to my store the the buyer will be able to choose any variant that we want different colors and the different sizes everything that we had available on aliexpress and we've got 40 different variations just for this product so if i can so if i continue scrolling you can see all the different sizes and colors and of course that everything is in stock next you've got the product's images and the item specifications so continue optimizing your product and once you're done click on save and import and as i mentioned it will move from drafts to products that way you'll know that it's now live on your store and anyone can go ahead and see the product and of course purchase it so that's how simple it is to use drop shipping automation to import products to your store whether it's one product or a hundred products or a thousand products so we've got a few different ways to import products use whatever method is good for you now let's talk about order automation because up until now we know how to research our products we chose the right selling channel for us and we imported our products to our stores using automation tools that help us save a lot of time now of course you can do that for ebay Shopify and the facebook marketplace all of the guides for that once again in the links below this video so once we have all of that ready we've got the products we chose what stores we want to sell those products on and we imported those products to our stores now we're making sales now how do we start fulfilling those orders and by the way let's just take it back a sec now we're making sales on marketplaces like ebay and facebook marketplace but for Shopify and wix you guys still need to market your products you guys need to learn about how to market your products and that is why i highly suggest to check out our free Shopify course which also goes through all of the marketing methods and how to actually go about what's the daily budget how to target your audience and how to create a successful ad on facebook which is one of the best marketplaces today for marketing okay so let's go back to where we were how do we fulfill our orders once they came in now as i mentioned there's always the manual method of going to aliexpress adding the product to your cart and using your bias shipping details to ship the product directly from aliexpress to your buyer and you are just simply going to keep the profit in the middle so that's one way to do it the manual method then you've got once again order automation and this you want it for scaling because if you're gonna have 50 orders per day and you're gonna have 50 orders per day once you put enough work on it and you know guys 50 orders is not enough the biggest dropchippers the big dropchippers will also tell you that but let's say today you have 50 orders per day so you're already making some good profit at 50 orders per day but now you're spending all day fulfilling your orders and making sure that the addresses are correct and making sure that aliexpress didn't make any mistakes while fulfilling the orders and making sure that you've got tracking information that no orders are running late and the whole process of manually fulfilling each order one by one once you get 50 orders per day you'll soon find out that that that is all that you're doing now you're not growing your business anymore you're not adding more products you're not putting any more time into product research and growing your store you're simply fulfilling your orders day and night so yeah you're finally making some profit but that is how much that that is as much as you're going to make you're not going to be able to scale it any more than that and that is exactly why you need order automation now what is order automation you've got two types of order automation with autods the first type is semi-automatic orders and what that means is autods can use your buyer account your information which you set up on autods i will show you how to do that so here on autods you're just going to click on settings and in the settings up here you've got the buyer accounts column now here you can see that i created a buyer account for my amazon us account and this buyer account is currently active i can create another buyer account and this time in the supplier instead of amazon i'll choose aliexpress then i'm going to fill in my details for my aliexpress account then what happens next is once i have my buyer account up and ready i'm going to go back to the settings i'll click on store settings and here in orders i will enable just the automatic orders which requires a buyer account but i will not enable fulfilled by autods because that is not what we're talking about here so now that automatic orders is filled in all of my orders will be fulfilled automatically as soon as they come in on the orders page using my buyer account on aliexpress and whatever payment methods settings i have set there the next order fulfillment method is the fulfilled by autods service and this one is much much better simply because of the fact that you won't be needing your own buyer account and your own payment method autods has their own buyer account which they will use to process your orders you just obviously need to pay for those orders so the way to pay for your orders is by simply loading your balance onto the autods system and the autods will use that balance to fulfill your orders so if you have a balance of a hundred dollars and the order costs 30 dollars then your balance will be updated to 70 dollars and that order will be processed automatically now when we talk about semi-automatic or automatic orders your tracking numbers are also going to be updated automatically on autods and on your selling channel and also on top of that you can also convert your tracking numbers to aquiline from aliexpress meaning all of your tracking numbers from aliexpress if you're going to use a tracking number that if you're going to use a shipping carrier that's for example not supported by ebay like aliexpress standard shipping then you can automatically get it converted to a ups tracking number and of course you're also going to get zip code masquerade with aquiline which means your item location whatever item location you have set in your listing if you're dropped shipping on ebay that is the item location that that aquiline is going to use on the tracking events so if you drop shipping on ebay you will not be breaching their item location policy by saying that you're listing from a certain zip code but at the end they see that it gets shipped from a different zip code from the tracking events so check out aquiline for more information on that we have a video on it on our youtube channel so search for aquiline autods and learn on how to work with that so once you opt into the fulfilled by autods service all you need to do is enable it in your settings and then all of your orders will be processed automatically as soon as they come in along of course with tracking number updates and you'll also have easy one-click returns you have a full explanation on that once again on our youtube channel and on our blog page and of course on our fulfilled by autods feature page as you can see right here in front of me along with a step-by-step explanation on how to get started using the fulfilled by autods service but in general it's actually very very simple for both methods whether it's the semi-automatic or the fulfilled by autods service you want to first and make sure that the orders processor is enabled in your plans and add-ons on the settings then for the semi-automatic you're going to add the buyer account for the fulfilled by autods service you really do not need that just go back to the store settings and under the orders tab of course you want to click on the right supplier and on the right store here on the left side so here i'm going to click on aliexpress china and let's say i'll stick with ebay usa as a selling channel then here i'm going to click in process orders using the fulfilled by autods service and the automatic orders which requires the buyer account or the fulfilled by autods service management what that means is as soon as an order comes in it'll process out automatically and if i don't have it checked in if i have only the process orders using the fulfilled by autods service then when an order comes in it'll be in pending status and i'll have to switch it manually from pending to send to auto-order and then the system will process the order automatically here is the order screen and how it looks and here are the order statuses so we have orders that are in ordered status which means they have been ordered by the system and i'm just waiting for a tracking number to be available once it's available the system will update it automatically and the status will change to shipped once it gets delivered to our buyer the status will change to delivered now we can open a return request if the if the buyer wants to return the product as i mentioned it just takes one click to switch the status to start a return request and if the return is approved by the supplier if you're under the right policies then you'll have a return label attached right next to the order right here where you can simply click and download that return label send it to your buyer and as soon as they send the product back you have tracking information which you can track from the return label then you'll be able to send a refund to the buyer while also getting a refund yourself from the fulfilled by autodesk system if you are not eligible for a return if too much time has passed or for any other reason you'll have a return failed option as you can see right here but besides that everything works pretty smooth as soon as the orders come in they get fulfilled even while you travel even while you sleep and this is simply amazing especially once you have a few orders per day which is already wasting your time and once again your buyers are going to be really happy when let's say you went to sleep at night you don't have any orders you woke up in the morning your order is not only ordered but it's also shipped your buyers are going to get their products that much faster they're going to be very happy with the service that you can provide when you're using automated services like these and of course you'll have a higher chance of getting returning customers this way so scalability returning customers these are the two points that you really want to take advantage of when dropshipping so we went over order automation i hope it wasn't too confusing for you once again you guys have full guides to everything that you need and of course if you do not understand anything if you have any questions that you want to ask just drop them down right here below and if you've seen our other videos we always love commenting and helping out in the comment section below so go ahead and feel free so we talked about how to also handle returns on aliexpress but what about customer service so i already mentioned that you want to work with suppliers that are highly responsive you want to work with suppliers that have a high rating on aliexpress that have been around for a while and then you also want to send them a message so when you're sending them a message you're actually testing out their response speed and if they're english and if they understand english which of course is very very important and when a buyer reaches out to you for anything that they may need you want to reply to your buyers as fast as possible with the best answers and value that you can give if the buyer wants to know what's going on with his order check with your supplier or get the information really quick and reply back as soon as possible if the buyer has any certain problem like the item isn't as described or the product didn't arrive on time or he's simply not happy with the product take all this information share it with your seller on aliexpress and see what solutions they can provide you that you can provide back to your buyer the main thing here is always check out your buyer's messages even if they have problems help them out in every way possible because customer service is worth much more than that sell you made from that customer work hard on customer service take your business seriously so we went over all of the important steps of how to start a successful dropshipping business from Shopify now i want to go over some of the best aliexpress extensions that you can use when dropshipping from aliexpress now we do have a top aliexpress extensions article once again it's linked in the blog right below this video but my favorite picks from that bunch first of all is the aliexpress free invoice generator and this simply helps you create free invoices from your orders on aliexpress so if you're processing your orders manually on aliexpress and you need an invoice from one of yourselves let's say your accountant needs it it's very easy to use this extension and then and simply go to your order on aliexpress you'll have a little icon a little logo next to your order as soon as you click on that it'll create a free invoice and this is something that a lot of people have been asking for why do we not have invoices on aliexpress this will solve that problem for you then you've got aliexpress save this is one of the most popular extensions for aliexpress dropshippers what this does is it allows you to save the images and videos that you have inside your product listings on aliexpress now even though the dropshipping tool like auto-ds will take these images anyway and import them to your store anyway there are images that dropshipping tools cannot get a hold of and that's exactly what i'm showing you here is when you scroll further down below in the product listing on aliexpress you cannot save these images because if you can see here it's actually just one big long image and if i save it it's just going to save a web page it's not going to save the images one by one and this is one of those things at the extension this is one of the problems that this extension can solve so with aliexpress save you can easily save all of the images and all of the videos that you have on your listings on aliexpress besides what the dropshipping tool was able to grab for you next you've got aliexpress search by image so if there's ever a product that you're seeing on one of your computer's websites and you're wondering where he's getting it from or if that same product is being sold on aliexpress with this extension you can simply get any image that you see on the web and search for that product to see if it's being sold on aliexpress that's actually very very useful and i know a lot of dropshippers who are using it next you've got the up assistant up assistant is a great extension that can help you out with many things especially when you're doing your product research it can help you find lots of other sellers that are selling a specific a particular product with lower prices better images better reviews and it helps you conduct easy supplier research when trying to find the best suppliers to work with on aliexpress so definitely use up assistant then you've got aliexpress parcels my orders what this does and it's especially useful once you have a lot of orders per day and you're still processing them manually instead of having to go and open each order one by one and seeing the tracking details with aliexpress parcels my orders you can see all of your tracking details in just one click all in one screen so it'll make it that much easier for you and save you a lot of time instead of once again having to open up each order one by one and seeing the tracking details there now let's go over how we can increase our profits when we're dropshipping on aliexpress because now we've already got everything up and running and we're already making sales but now it's time to maximize make more profits from what we already have so we know that the more products we have the more that they're in demand the more sales we're going to make so of course you know we're gonna have to work very hard on product research which i already mentioned in this video but then again you've also got other things that can help you make an extra buck on every sale things like having cashback so how would you like on every order that you're processing manually to get some cashback from that you have a lot of tools that help you get cashback from your aliexpress orders one of the most popular ones is the giving assistant button chrome extension once again the link to that in the blog article below this video check that out get coupons and get cashback when you're processing your orders manually another way to increase your dropshipping profits is once you make a sale you want to search other sellers for a cheaper product now one of the extensions above are already doing that but the aliexpress shopping assistant does a much better job when it comes to product research and supplier seller research when you're product researching on aliexpress so use the aliexpress shopping assistant tool to be able to find lower prices for products that you are just about to buy that pretty much wraps up this video of how to dropship from aliexpress no matter what selling channel you want to dropship on now of course there's so much information and so much more value that we can share with you guys but there's always a limit to how much we can on each and every piece of content so if there's any content that was left unanswered please let me know in the comments below and of course check out our blog page check on our youtube channel subscribe of course if you haven't done so yet because this is the type of value that we deliver along with so much more once again i'll be leaving links below this video to help you guys out as much as possible along with the free Shopify dropshipping course full tutorial of how to dropship on facebook marketplace and a full tutorial of how to dropship on ebay and we've got so much more content coming up guys so let us know what you're looking for let me know if anything went unanswered thank you for watching good luck with your aliexpress dropshipping business and of course i will see you in the future videos