I am not sure when I can release a dropshipping version of the plugin. There are a lot of things needed to be optimized before pushing it to the market. It searches and imports products well from AliExpress but there is still much manual work need to be done in order to build such dropshipping store
I would recommend that you check this thread to learn about a dropshipping plugin http://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/my-aliexpress-dropshipping-journey.776532/Good to see some movement on this. Selling a $1 product for $20 is the main reason why I didn't go with AliPlugin, there wasn't enough profit with affiliate-only. However dropshipping + affiliate is the ultimate combination. Some Questions for you:
1. Will this plugin autofill out the AliExpress order form? Or will it still require a human to take the completed order from dropshipping site and order manually on AlieExpress?
2. Will it handle variable products? (Products that come in Green, Yellow, Red, Blue, etc etc), or multiple-variable (Small, Medium, Large, + Mens or Womens, + Green, Yellow, Red, Blue)....
3. Off Topic, but can you share how much (or # or orders) your world of harry website generates monthly?
Thanks and good luck!
I am using Oberlo and it is only Aliexpress Drop Ship plugin which has some great features but it is bit expensive and subscription based.
I have uploaded, deleted around 1000 products to my store and fulfilled one order with Oberlo it was easy as you don't have to enter any details manually all customer details are imported via Chrome extension to Aliexpress.
If you have demo store and if you like me to test uploading product and test features please let me know i will be happy to assist. I can upload, change title, fix description of 200 products in a day easily.
I've also tried Oberlo. I hate that you have to pay for it monthly, although it's easy to import thousands of products at a time. Compared to Alidropship plugin, Oberlo offers more speed, but not the ability to customize as much as you want.
I beta-tested Alidropship plugin and I can say it's better than Oberlo. Like Oberlo, OP's plugin can import through the dashboard and Chrome extension. Both have pricing rules and the ability to edit products before publishing to the store.
More features from Alidropship that's not in Oberlo:
- The ability to set shipping methods for each product you import.
- Import reviews from Aliexpress. (Reviews = more search engine visibility + marketing boost)
- Import original price to your dashboard so you can easily see your income margin without going to the product page in Aliexpress. (I was looking for this while using Oberlo because I can't stop comparing original price to my store's price)
- Intelligent sale computation. The plugin will automatically put your items on sale without going below the income margin that you have set in the pricing rules. I think there's a way to stop the plugin from doing this, I just didn't bother because I love looking at sale prices.
Choosing one over the other depends on which platform you are used to. I personally like Alidropship better because I'm not very comfortable with Shopify. I feel like Wordpress is a lot simpler.
Beta-testing now, will be released soon.
You are welcome here: https://alidropship.com/plugin/I didn't had chance to beta test but i will try as soon its available for selling. I think one of the best feature of Alidropship is importing review which oberlo will never be able to implement.
I decided to create dropshipping websites to work with AliExpress. When a user buys from my site directly, I order the same item at AliExpress with the shipping details of my customer, keeping the difference between my and seller's price. AliExpress sends the item directly to my customer. So, it is another project that does not deal with AliExpress affiliate program. However, since my dropshipping sites are using the platform of AliPlugin, I can order necessary products on AliExpress (to send to my customers) using my affiliate links to get commission as an additional bonus to my dropshipping income.
I suppose this possibility will not be long, but for this moment you can buy using your affiliate link. There are many extensions in google chrome for this purpose and there are such offers by some networks (like EPN) that officially work with AliExpress.Ok, i got how this works but for me it sounds like a serious violation of the aliexpress affiliate and aliexpress dropshipping TOS?
I havent read them tbh but i cant imagine this is allowed, i mean amazon affiliate will even ban you for buying an product via your affiliate link, for example..
Greetings
Select products with epacket shipping option only - it is free or cheap, always offers tracking and it takes 10-20 days to deliver.One Question to ask,
Can i short the shipping date of the products, like i would like to import products which will have less shipping/expedited shipping time (15-20 Days)
Is this Possible.