 Hey dropshippers, welcome back to our YouTube channel. I'm Lara, the social media manager at AutoDS. And in today's video, we're going to be discussing the 14 best dropshipping website builders in order to create a professional online store. So hit that subscribe button, stay tuned and let's get straight into it. So before I discuss the top website builders with you, let's first understand what a website builder is and why it is so essential for us as dropshippers. So a website builder is a tool that helps us to create a website using various templates and features. And don't worry, there's no need to know how to design or to write code. That's truly the beauty of website builders. It is pre-made for us and we get to choose how to brand our websites. This means that we can adjust fonts, colors, ad images or customers other features. So why do we need these dropshipping website builders? Well, for one, creating our own online store is better for long-term success. We have full control over branding and marketing. There's better potential to build a loyal customer base and dropshipping tools helps us to test, analyze and optimize our dropshipping stores. So essentially a dropshipping website builder assists you in scaling your online business which then leads to an increase in sales. So now that we have the basics out the way, let's dive straight into the 14 best dropshipping website builders. So first up we have Shopify which is one of the largest dropshipping website builders in the market. They have a complete online store package and multiple integration tools for dropshipping. Let's now take a look at Shopify's dropshipping website builder features. Shopify provides you with over 70 professional templates to choose from. This helps you to find the perfect template which is in a line with your brand. If you do not want to pay for a website theme, do not worry. Shopify offers multiple free online store templates. Also, Shopify has over 100 payment gateways. This means that we can provide our customers with multiple payment methods once they've reached the checkout stage. Because most of the templates or themes have been pre-made for us, we have complete control over customization. This means that we can create unique standout designs which will attract customers to our online stores. Another thing with using Shopify as a dropshipping website builder is that you're not restricted to solely selling through Shopify. Shopify actually allows us to sell across multiple channels such as Facebook and Amazon which means that we can expand our reach and increase our brand awareness. On the flip side though, Shopify is not the easiest website builder to use. The editor is not ideal for complete beginners but Shopify does have an excellent customer support team who is always there to help or answer any questions you may have whilst you're designing your online store. Don't forget that you can also gain valuable information by watching our AutoDeer Shopify course which is uploaded to our YouTube channel. I will also pin the link to this course in the comment section below. But basically this course outlines a step-by-step guide needed to build a store on Shopify. So Shopify has fewer built-in features which can make the website builder quite pricey due to the additional costs of third-party apps and transaction fees. However, on the other hand, we have a great amount of dropshipping apps that we're able to integrate into our websites. So let's have a look at Shopify's platform traffic. Unfortunately, Shopify does not receive any organic traffic so we'll have to set aside a budget for marketing. We'll have to optimize these marketing tools to effectively attract customers to our dropshipping stores. Just in general, investing in various marketing methods is always worthwhile. It only benefits you and your online store in the end because you're scaling and increasing your brand awareness. Our next website-balling solution is Wix which is an all-in-one and easy-to-use interface which makes it perfect for beginners. So let's take a look at Wix's features. Just like Shopify, Wix offers a wide variety of templates which is super easy to customize. Wix also offers a function which is a drag and drop editor. This means that we can add components to our websites by simply dragging and dropping them. With this function, we can easily edit headings, image backgrounds, color schemes and much more. Because there are already integrated tools within Wix, we're able to utilize the Wix app market. These apps are like plugins that we can use in order to optimize our websites. So for example, we can install a chat app plugin which essentially allows our customers to communicate live with us if they're wanting to find out additional information about a product that they've seen on your online store. The Wix website-boulder is great for dropshippers because not only is it low-cost, but there are no solid limits which means that we can start listing products in our stores from the get-go. On the other hand, of using Wix as a dropshipping website-boulder is that although it is free to create a Wix account, it is not ideal for our branding strategy. If you choose not to opt in for one of Wix's paid plans, then unfortunately, your website will have integrated Wix branding which is not ideal. This can cause confusion for customers. If your customer had to choose between an online store that has integrated Wix branding versus an online store that does not have integrated Wix branding, they'll most probably lean towards the second option because it just seems more reliable and trustworthy than a store that has integrated Wix branding. The only way to remove Wix branding is by choosing a paid plan. So choose a paid plan. Just like Shopify, Wix does not generate organic traffic. With the various apps, additional marketing tools, and the Autodesk Wix guard, you can definitely drive the traffic you need to your online stores. Next up, we have Autodesk. While Shopify and Wix provide website building solutions, Autodesk synchronizes with our website builders and adds business automation. Automating our tasks has never been easier and utilizing automated dropshipping tools saves us time, which means that we can focus more on marketing, customer service, and scaling our online stores. Let's take a look at what Autodesk's features has to offer for us. Autodesk helps us build a converting website with free or customizable product templates. There's also a text editor, an advanced image editor, and so much more. Combining these templates and editors will help us scale our business to new heights. For example, the image editor allows us to customize product images that differentiate us from our competition, which essentially means we have competitive edge. If you'd also like to convert your leads into buyers, business automation is the way to go. Instead of manually handling orders, pricing, and product imports, we can just automate all these tasks to ensure both speed and accuracy. At the end of the day, our goal is to stay ahead of our competition and we can achieve that goal by manually fulfilling tasks because it just simply takes too long and we'll also miss out on great sales opportunities. And this is why we should automate our tasks such as product importing, automatic order fulfillment, tracking updates, price and stock monitoring, and automatic price optimization. Next up we have Weebly, which is primarily known as a web host, but it's also among the top ranked website builders. Weebly has an easy to use interface with quick building solutions, which makes it great for creating drop shipping websites. Let's have a look at what features Weebly has to offer us. Weebly provides us with a variety of templates to choose from and they also offer you the opportunity to import your own theme. Weebly also offers a drag and drop editor which makes this great for beginners. We can also utilize the Weebly mobile app and create our websites directly from our phones. How convenient is that? Another thing about Weebly is that they have an app center where you can integrate various tools in order to boost website traffic, spike your sales, and increase your brand awareness via multiple social media platforms. In contrast to Shopify, Weebly has very limited blogging tools and is restricted to basic photo editing. However, we can still create our website using Weebly and we can just utilize AutoDS's advanced image editor to combat this problem. Another thing to note about Weebly is that you will not have access to complete customer support unless you're paying for a plan. There are forums and live chats, but it is not enough and the free plan really limits us to accessing complete customer support which we may need in case we struggle to build our websites along the way. It's too late. Next up, we have GetResponse which is a highly popular email marketing tool but it's also a very popular drop shipping website builder. Pretty cool, right? It's perfect for those of us that's looking to optimize email marketing and to create an online store. So, let's have a look at their features. The most unique feature of GetResponse is the use of the cutting edge AI, artificial intelligence. This technology prompts us with a few questions about our business and based on our answers that we provide, we have a fully personalized website in a matter of minutes. If you'd like to customize the website further which is most likely, you can utilize their other integrated tools. Not only that, GetResponse also provides us with insightful performance analytics which allows us to track key metrics. These key metrics include website traffic, click tracking, as well as which devices our customers are primarily using. GetResponse offers extensive marketing tools too which means that you can utilize this in order to stay ahead of your competition. Although we have access to some really great features, GetResponse is still in a beta launch phase. So, you should be prepared to encounter some bugs when you're in the process of building your online store. Also, the only free plan that is offered to us is the free trial which means after the free trial we would have to start paying in order to use the site builder. Keep in mind that majority of the website builders that I've spoken about thus far or that I'm about to speak about require us to pay some sort of fee for a subscription plan. So essentially, it's all up to you and what options and customization features you are looking for. Next up we have Syro which is another easy to use drop shipping website builder and these are the features that they have to offer us. They have a drag and drop editor which makes this platform perfect for beginners. They also have designer templates that are catered towards e-commerce stores and the best feature of them all is that if you do not have time to write content for your websites you can utilize Syro's AI writer which generates automatic text. Just keep in mind though that the written content is generic and it may need to be altered. Although Syro offers different app integrations like Google Analytics it still lacks a variety of apps for drop shipping. Along with that, the drag and drop editor only has five components that we can customize. So if you are looking at a broad setup of custom tools you may want to look at another website builder. Lastly, their customer support team is not the most responsive which can be a challenge to those of us who are new to website building. Next up we have Solce and if you do not have any design experience Solce is a great tool for you to create your drop shipping websites. So what does Solce have to offer us? Solce has a drag and drop editor that we can use to customize our websites and in case we run into any problems we can contact the customer support team for valuable and quick solutions. We can also use Solce to expand our audience with the ability to sell on social media platforms like Instagram. And don't worry instead of manually tracking and analyzing our sales Solce provides us with real time sales analytics. And the best feature of Solce is that they offer multiple languages and currencies which means that we're able to sell to people all over the world. Despite the great features Solce does fall behind other website builders in certain ways. For example Solce charges higher transaction fees than most website builders. And if you are looking to expand your business in the future Solce isn't the best platform to do so. Next up we have Fiverr which is an online marketplace where we can hire a freelancer to design our websites. If you don't have the time to invest in building a website yourself Fiverr is the way to go. So let's take a look at what are the features Fiverr has to offer us. In contrast to other website builders Fiverr provides us with various experts showcasing their designs. We can choose the designer that best suits our needs and budgets from their list. Let me give you a brief breakdown of how it works. First you share information about your business then you take your pick of templates that Fiverr provides you with and after that you're matched with a recommended expert website designer. You can work close with the expert designer to customize the website according to your liking. From content to brand colors you can alter the look of your site to ensure that it attracts customers. Although hiring an expert saves us time from having to build the website ourselves it also means that we have less control over the website creation process. With that being said Fiverr is not ideal for drop shipping beginners. If we don't have any hands-on experience or a larger budget it would be best to opt for another website builder. Next up we have Squarespace which started as a website builder for creatives but has now transformed into one of the largest website builders for e-commerce businesses. Here are some of the advanced e-commerce features that we can look forward to when working with Squarespace. They offer a free domain name registration for the first year. There are over a hundred designer made templates to choose from. You're able to edit and personalize your online store. They have an advanced blog section which means that you can optimize your website for SEO and we can always contact their responsive customer support team if we run into any issues when creating our drop shipping websites. Unfortunately, Squarespace does not offer any free plan options which means that if we use them as a website builder we'd have to set aside an initial budget. Squarespace also has a limited app store which means that there are fewer drop shipping apps that will help us to boost our sales. However, if you opt in for their premium plan you'll be able to gain access to advanced e-commerce tools. Next up we have WooCommerce which is an open source e-commerce platform that is built on WordPress and it is completely customizable. Before we get into the features let's first discuss what open source and WordPress are. An open source platform is a freely available software for those using it. However, if we'd like to add additional plugins to our WooCommerce website we'd have to pay for them. And as for WordPress it is an enhanced website builder. So let's dive straight into those features. There are no product restrictions which means that we can list as many products as we like. WooCommerce provides conversion orientated templates. WooCommerce has e-commerce specific tools for optimization. An example of this would be sales reports or coupons. WooCommerce also offers plugins that allows us to import products from various suppliers. One of their most popular plugins is the AliExpress plugin due to the low cost and wide scale product categories. WooCommerce also has features to help us manage orders and to communicate effectively with customers. Although WooCommerce has its perks for dropshipping businesses there are still some drawbacks. For example, if we don't use WordPress we cannot use WooCommerce. It is also not the easiest option for beginners and you'd have to set aside a budget depending on which premium plugin you'd like to add to your websites. Next up we have website builder and yes, that is the name of this dropshipping website builder. Uncanny, isn't it? So what can we expect when working with this dropshipping website builder? So starting off we can use their intelligent builder feature which creates our entire website for us within minutes. Afterward, we can use the editor to alter the designs around according to what we prefer to see on our websites. Also similar to Fiverr we can hire a designer to create a custom website for us if we choose not to invest our time in website creation. Website builder provides us with a great set of e-commerce tools that we can utilize to optimize our online stores. These e-commerce tools will help us to handle sales tax, product categories, shipping and order fulfillment. Lastly, website builder also automatically generates statistics about our websites. This helps us to analyze our customers behavior in order to increase our sales. However, suppose that we're looking for advanced customization options we'll have to opt in for another option because website builder is not open source and therefore it does not give us complete control like how WooCommerce does. Website builder, unfortunately, has limited drop shipping apps. So if we're looking for multiple drop shipping apps to add to our online stores Wix or Weebly may be the better options. And last but not least to finish off our list we have drumroll please eBay. Drop shipping from eBay to our online stores means that we have access to a variety of products to sell. With that being said let's take a look at the benefits and features of eBay for drop shippers. With millions of products available we can choose from multiple product categories or stick to a specific niche when drop shipping from eBay. eBay has bias seller protection enabled which means that we can ensure security for our store. This means that our customers orders are fulfilled and sent out to them on time. We can also see how many sellers are selling the same products as us and how many sales they are generating. All we simply have to do is just search for the product and all the information pops up. And since eBay grants us free organic traffic we don't have to worry about any initial investments and we can start selling for free. eBay doesn't require you to have a website in order to start drop shipping products. And the best part of it all is that you're able to sell anywhere in the world. On the other hand eBay has low starting seller limits only enabling us to list the maximum of 10 products up to $500. Along with that we don't get an option to create our own domain. We also can't utilize email marketing for our products because we don't gain access to our customers email information. There is also massive competition on the eBay platform which can make it very challenging for us to stay ahead of the competition and to find trending products to sell. And we're not able to customize our stores like how we would if we had our own websites. And lastly because eBay is an open marketplace there are a variety of sellers with various policies. So make sure to carefully pay attention to each one's shipping and return policies. And there we have the drop shippers. These are the 14 best drop shipping website builders that you should utilize if you're looking to build a drop shipping website. Let me know in the comments section below which website builder you'll be going with and why. Remember if you are seeking more information apart from the information that I've supplied in this video make sure to click the blog link in the description of this video. You'll find a variety of tips, resources and step-by-step guides that will assist you in scaling your drop shipping business. If you enjoyed this short guide make sure to leave me a thumbs up and I shall see you guys in the next video. Until then drop shippers thank you for tuning in make sure to hit that subscribe button and I'll see you next time. Bye for now.