Hi ,
thanks for this wonderful post!
was just wondering how much do you set your ads price point for 1st trial before a major one?
I usually start testing ads with $20/day but you can get started with as low as $10/day and scale up from there.
I've been thinking this for a really long time but as a Non-American, this seems a bit difficult. I got no Paypal account, no tax number etc. (I have SSN, tho)
Can we only accept payments with Payoneer? How effective would it be without Paypal gateway?
I mentioned both in the starting thread. They don't really bother with tax number and stuff but since I saw a lot of people being worried about it I will make another thread in a bit showing how people outside US can get an EIN number. And yes Payoneer's payment service works fine and you can only use only Paypal if you want.
Wow great guide and everything is step by step. I'm going to give this a go in my country since there is low competition. Right now I'm looking through aliexpress and selecting some cheap products. My girlfriend orders a lot on aliexpress and it takes up to a month for some of the products to get here. Do you get complaints/refunds on a daily basis? Can you do refunds directly through shopify or do you have to handle that with your bank?
One more question if you don't mind. I'm going to be doing key chains but in my country no one is going to pay $10 for shipping as shipping is fairly cheap in my country. Lets say I find a key chain for $1 and sell it for $2 on my store, do you think I will see a return since I still have to pay to run facebooks ads? I haven't really used facebook ads before so I don't know what the costs are to run an ad.
I only use USA, Canada to promote my stores reason being it's very common for shipping to be this high in America, even higher. But yes of course you can use this method in your own country as long as it's cost effective meaning it will all depend on how much you have to spend on FB ads. If it's too cheap then go ahead. And for refunds you will get a few here and there just like any business. You will get queries though as to why it takes so long for shipping. Tell them their items are being shipped from your international warehouse and you will be fine.
Payoneer is no longer an option as far as I can tell. I am setting up amazon payments, I hope that is okay?
Payoneer works perfectly with stripe.
Thanks OP for this beautiful detailed guide. I want to ask you some questions?!
1- how do you increase your budget in FB ad campaigns! do you increase the same ad or do you copy the ad with higher budget?
2- about accepting payments with payoneer.. do you mean I'll insert a payoneer Credit card number and when they pay me with what ever CC or visa they use the money will transfer to my payoneer account?!
I have done a lot of research in shopify and dropshiping and I'm willing to start my own store soon .. Throughout my learning process I have found that shopify apps are the gold mine if the right compination of different apps used together.
Best wishes,
Hazez
1. You can do both actually.
2. No, you will enter you payoneer global payment details in stripe and your card will be loaded directly when someone orders.
Great guide but just be aware -
promoting trademarked stuff will get your facbook ads account banned and/or sued by the company
Yes, you can set up weights in the shopify platform, which will help you with this

Im sure theres a tutorial on youtube/interwebs for this.
I have never had any issues with my ad account for selling generic stuff but yes replicas and stuff like that on the hand is a different story.
so i need to buy product and resell them high ?
That's how dropshipping works mate.
Very nice guide.
But what if the dropshipper sends his company card from China to the customer? Can you please tell me how to prevent that?
And isn't it more reliable to sell at lets say 10 cents or 30 cents instead of free?
How to prevent that from happening mate?
Cheers
When you are fulfilling an order on aliexpress, write "do not include invoice in the package" in the notes section as mentioned by Screwman works fine.
I think i understand what you mean but still,
even if you make 50 rules for 50 weight ranges, what if the person orders more than that?
I think the easiest way to work around this is to define some rule, example (shipping price*number of items).
But i can't find a way to do that..
You can create more ranges yes and remember you decide what the weight of a certain item is so if you put 0.1 of a 0.9 product Shopify still won't bother. Just calculate profits and you are good.
Hello and thanks for this great method, however did they approved your application for Shopify payment because they ask for last digits of SSN number ?
They don't check SSN numbers but wait a bit I am posting another thread regarding this.
How do you know if an item is unbranded/branded?
Did you experiment with shirts/action figures that goes for 30$ in ali?
If an item is being sold on AliExpress and has a shit ton of sales, you can resell it. That's a rough way to sum it up.
What payment gateways do you use on your store?
Stripe for CCs and Paypal express checkout.
This is actually a pretty badass method, definitly going to try it. I do have a question, do people ever complain or is it a problem that the shipping is 10$? I guess if they are buying then obviously not, but just wondering what your thought is on that, because thats where we make our money.
Actually it's very common for shipping to be $10 or much higher in the US and think of it like the original product is $40 let's say and you are really passionate about that niche the product is in and you can get it for $9.99 would you take it or not? But the real money is in the upsells because you can literally upsell a buyer on anything in the category they bought in.
And to everyone else you are most welcome guys.
And anyone who is concerned about TAX ID follow this thread -
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/method-how-to-get-an-ein-number-tax-id-for-non-usa-members.896023/