Alidropship Review 2023: Pricing, Features, Competitors, Pros/Cons

Alidropship is an automated solution, which offers profitable solutions with Aliexpress, this can be achieved using the AliDropship plugin, or the AliDropship customer store. In this writeup, I review AliDropship, the AliDropship custom store and AliDropship Plugin, AliDropship pricing, AliDropship add ons, its usability, and all other features.

 

What is Dropshipping?

Out of the several business models we have out there, why go for dropshipping?

Dropshipping is a form of eCommerce business in which products are shipped directly to the customer from the supplier without any form of physical handling by the seller. This simply means that you can own a business where you sell physical products without having a warehouse or taking any stock inventory.

What does that mean?

It means that with a dropshipping business, you can generate revenue faster and boost sales. There is no cost of setting up a physical store and all other overhead expenses. All you just have to do is to channel your efforts into setting up an eCommerce website that will serve as your online store. There, you display your product catalogs and every other transaction will take place from there. Asides from this, with dropshipping, you can sell a wider range of products to increase your revenue.

Dropshipping allows you to focus on bigger pictures like selecting products, marketing and driving traffic to your eCommerce website

Summarily, here is how dropshipping works

• Create an eCommerce website or lookout for an online store
• You research on the products you intend selling
• Find a supplier who has the products
• Advertise the products on your website
• On having a demand, the customer pays to you (not the supplier)
• You send the supplier’s asking price and keep your profits
• The supplier ships down the products directly to the customer

Deal Sealed!

When we talk about suppliers, we are referring to the big shipping companies like Amazon, AliExpress, and other online stores that you know about. AliExpress is mostly used because of the way it allows sellers or individuals to buy in smaller bits at a price that is almost close to the wholesale price.

Now that you understand the business of dropshipping and how it works, you should really consider it especially if you are just starting out on business.

However, when you look closely at the processes you need to go through as you start out your dropshipping business, you will see that it is not all that easy. Having to set up your website, go through all the catalogs of an online store, select yours, add them to your websites, monitor sales, drive traffics, and a whole lot that you might have to do.

Even though there is no physical work, it might be brain-tasking, most especially if you are new to its operation.

Because, as you begin the dropshipping business, you need to take note of the following

• Choose products that can are not limited to time and season, that is, can be sold throughout the year.
• Choose products that you can add at least a 20 percent profit margin. This means that you should not go for products that the prices become outrageous when you add a 20 percent profit.
• Choose Products that can be easily returned such as clothing, accessories, or electronic gadgets.
• Choose Products that are popular on the dropshipping store you want to use. For example, if you would be using AliExpress, choose products that are popular on AliExpress.

This is why there have been several dropshipping plugins that help in the product selection and importing them to your website. One of the plugins that topped the list is AliDropship Plugins.

 

What is AliDropship?

AliDropship is an eCommerce platform for a dropshipping business. What makes it different from other eCommerce platforms is that AliDropship operates on WordPress and WooCommerce. In essence, AliDropship connects with your WordPress store and allows you to import products seamlessly from AliExpress.  It is more effective for those using AliExpress for their dropshipping. What it does is that it helps you automate the processes of choosing the products, importing them to your site, organizing them, and even to managing orders.

 

Dropshipping with AliDropship

Let’s look at what you stand to gain when you dropship with AliDropship.

When it comes to Dropshipping with AliDropship, there are two packages- AliDropship Plugin and AliDropship Custom Store.

Website Creation

To begin your Dropshipping business, you need to have your eCommerce website first. That is where the products will be imported to. However, because there are people who either do not know how to set up a website or do not have the luxury of time to set it up, AliDropship has made provision for that.

Dropshipping with AliDropship has been made easier because, with the AliDropship plugin, you can set up your eCommerce website or a custom-made dropshipping store. One of the advantages of getting the custom-made store from the AliDropship plugin is that it sets up correctly in such a way that it will generate more traffic.

Just like earlier mentioned, the most rated products are brought to you. Then, you import them. You do not have to go through the rigor of setting up the product’s details like title, description, downloading, and uploading the images on your site. They are automatically set up. This, however, does not mean that you cannot make your own changes to those details.

The Built-in editor feature gives the product images more appealing and attractive.

To make your dropshipping store more unique, there is a Built-In search function that helps you locate products that might not be visible to other dropshipping business owners. It’s a competitive market world, therefore, you should do and leverage everything possible to stand out.

Alidropship Pricing

AliDropship Plugin and Alidropship Custom Store help you regulate your prices. It can be quite tasking having to manually monitor and edit the prices of the products. With Alidropship, you only have to set up your price mark-up. Once you do that, it automatically takes effect on all the products in your store. For example, if you have already set your mark up to 20 percent, and you import a product that costs $40, it automatically sets your price at $48.

Now that the store is set up, you want to begin the marketing process of your store.

Marketing

In marketing, one of the things that make people trust your business and boost sales is testimonials and reviews. Reviews show that previous customers enjoyed using your products. This will eliminate every form of doubt from your prospective clients.

For you that is just starting out on your dropshipping business, you definitely would not have any review yet. This is another stage AliDropship Plugin or custom store comes in handy. With the AliDropship Plugin or Alidropship custom store, you can import products reviews from the AliExpress store directly to yours.

There is also an opportunity to run promotions in your store. During the promos, you can add incentives for those that buy your products within a certain period of time. The shorter the promotion time, the better the conversion. Your own promo could be a price slash or free shipping for certain products.

While people visit your website to buy certain products, it is wise to collate their details so that when you have new stocks or related products, you can send them emails. Another category of people you need to monitor is those that abandon their carts. They started the purchasing process but could not complete it for one reason. You need to send them reminders for them to complete it. It might have been abandoned due to network failure or an error that occurred while they were on it.

With the AliDropship plugin or Alidropship custom store, email lists of everyone that comes into your store are generated and automated emails are sent to them.

Sales

Whenever you have purchase orders, it is a common act to have to fill out the customer information one after the order on the order form. This can really take up a lot of time, especially if you have several orders. With AliDropship, the customers’ orders are automatically filled in. One other important reason why you should allow the Alidropship store to handle the order form is to avoid errors. Any error might lead to sending the wrong products to the right address or the right products to the wrong address. By clicking the Order button, everything is done.

Asides from that, there are several payment options for your customers. With this, customers will not be frustrated out of your store as a result of the payment process.

In the process of shipping the products to your customers, tracking is made easy. Right from your website, you can monitor the product’s journey and also generate a code for your customer to track the movement.

AliDropship Plugin Vs. AliDropship Custom Store

You might have been confused about which of the AliDropship options to go for since they both belong to the same platform. We will analyse the two options and draw our inferences from there.

What is AliDropship Plugin?

AliDropship Plugin is a Dropshipping plugin that you integrate into your WordPress site that helps you import products from AliExpress directly to your store. This means there has to be an existing WordPress site to connect with.

The AliDropship plugin comes in two different versions – The WordPress version and the WooCommerce.

The WordPress version is recommended if you are just starting out in dropshipping business.

If you are already an experienced dropshipper and you want to customize your website to an optimized length, you should consider going for WooCommerce.

Advantages of AliDropship Plugin

• Customize your dropshipping store to your own taste.
• It is easy to use if you have prior experience with WordPress

Disadvantages of AliDropship Plugin

• Writing and editing product description for several products can be quite tasking.
• You must have prior knowledge of the use of WordPress

AliDropship Custom Store

AliDropship Custom store which is also known as the Turnkey dropshipping store is online for your AliDropship business. You already know by now that having a store is crucial to your dropshipping business. Setting up a store includes building the store, selecting an attractive theme, choosing your niche, selecting products, and setting up social media accounts to run your promotions. These all sound like a herculean task. However, with the AliDropship custom store, all that is catered for. It is a ready-made store

Advantages of AliDropship Custom Store

• You do not need any background experience in dropshipping or the use of WordPress
• Selects Product niche without stress
• Writes a SEO product description for your products.
• Saves time

Disadvantages of AliDropship Custom Store

• High cost compared to AliDropship Plugin

AliDropship Plugin Vs. AliDropship Custom Store

In AliDropship plugin, you have the following features

• Import products directly from WordPress
• Price and order fulfillment automation
• Automatic tracking of orders
• Built-in themes and image editor
• Import and sales of unlimited products
• Marketing tools and live statistics to monitor traffic
• Several payment options to make transactions easier
• Live support and latest updates from AliExpress

In the AliDropship Custom Store package, you have Everything in the AliDropship plugin including-

• Fully Optimized website for search engines with free domain name
• Professional outlook on Website
• Customized Social Media connected to your dropshipping store
• Social Media automated tools
• Product research
• Promo automated tools
• Promo Video

Therefore, if you are already familiar with the dropshipping business with prior knowledge on WordPress, you can go for the AliDropship Plugin. But, if you are a newbie in dropshipping with little or no experience on the use of WordPress, it is safer to go for the AliDropship Store which will be custom-built for you.

AliDropship Plugin and Custom Store Pricing

The cost of purchasing the AliDropship Plugin is $89.

For the AliDropship custom store, there are different package plans

• Basic Plan- $299

In this plan, you are accessible to all the features of the custom store except for the social media automated tools and the promotional video.

• You can only connect Facebook to the custom store
• Only 50 products can be imported from the AliExpress store
• The store is ready within 10-13 working days
• Advanced Plan – $499

This plan also comes with all the custom store features except for the social media automated tools and the promotional video.

• You can integrate Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and G+ to your store.
• 100 products can be imported from the AliExpress store
• The store is ready within 13-18 working days
• Ultimate Plan – $899

This plan includes all the features of AliDropship Custom store

• 200 products can be imported from the AliExpress store
• The store is ready within 18-23 working days

AliDropship Woo Plugin

Earlier on, I made mentioned of two versions of the AliDropship plugin – the WordPress Version and the WooCommerce Version. Here, we want to give a detailed analysis on the WooCommerce Version, that is, the AliDropship Woo Plugin.

Unlike the AliDropship WordPress Version (Original Plugin) that is only limited to WordPress, the Woo plugin can be used both on WordPress and on WooCommerce.

The major advantage that the AliDropship Plugin has over the Woo Plugin is that you can have about 10,000 products in your store, whereas the Woo Plugin only accommodates 500 products.

After you have automatically imported 50 products from AliExpress, you can manually add the rest.

AliDropship Add-Ons

The AliDropship add-ons are available if you have a special function you want your dropshipping store to perform. These add-ons are not always in the plugin package.

• Countdown Timer – $19

This feature schedules and sets up your products for a limited time. This will in turn create a sense of urgency on the products. When customers notice that they have a short time to buy a product, the fear of missing out will make them take decisions as quickly as possible. This drives in more sales.

 

Features

• Set timers on a specific category of products
• Restart the timer once the initial time ends
• Put the timer on or off at will
• It is supported by AliDropship WooCommerce

 

Recent Sales Pop-up ($29)

With this feature, your store is kept engaged. Sales made in your store will keep popping up which will encourage new customers to buy what other customers have been buying. When your store looks busy like that, it will increase the trust prospective clients have in your store which will in turn drive in more sales. Most importantly, since sales of products will keep popping up, the categories of products you have in your store will be discovered easily.

Features

• Decide the products you want people to see in the pop-up notification
• Decide the customer’s name to be shown
• Time display to give it a real-life feeling
• It is also supported by the AliDropship WooCommerce Plugin

 

• Facebook Business ($27)

This add-on feature integrates your store with your Facebook Product Catalogue.

Features

• People can easily locate your store as ads from your stores will be shown to them
• Set up a personalized recommendation to your target audience.

Also Read: SHOPIFY REVIEW – Shopify Pricing and lot more

AliDropship Vs. DropshipMe

DropshipMe is a WordPress Plugin that is used majorly for sourcing products from the AliExpress dropshipping store.

The difference between DropshipMe and AliDropship is that, Unlike AliDropship which has a lot of features to set up your dropshipping business, DropshipMe focuses mainly on Product Inventory. It handles everything that has to do with your product items such as

• Selecting products that are more profitable and higher in demands
• Selecting products with better quality from trusted suppliers

In essence, DropshipMe saves you the stress of trying to look for the best products and trusted suppliers.

Read more on (DropshipMe Vs. AliDropship)

 

AliDropship Vs. Competitors

 

Remember that I said earlier that there are different dropshipping platforms, of which AliDropship is one.

In this section, let us take a quick glance at some of the dropshipping platforms that are

competing with AliDropship.

 

AliDropship Vs. Shopify

Both of them serve the same purpose- they are both eCommerce platforms.

However, there are still a few differences between the two

• AliDropship can only be used for online store while Shopify has tools for both online and offline businesses. An example of the offline business is POS (Point of Sale)
• A non-tech-savvy person might not be able to handle AliDropship properly, especially the plugins, however with Shopify, either you have tech knowledge or not, you are good to go.
• Setting up the AliDropship plugin and Custom store takes a number of days depending on the plans (minimum is 10 working days) whereas, Shopify only takes a few seconds to get set. Once you click on the “get started” icon, your store is created.
• With AliDropship, products, images, and product descriptions can be imported directly from AliExpress, while with Shopify, products can be imported from any online store.
• On AliDropship, you can localize the currency whereas, in Shopify, you would need to purchase an add-on to be able to use that feature.

 

AliDropship Vs. Oberlo

Oberlo is also a tool for an e-commerce platform. Both of them have major functions you need for your dropshipping business like product search, automated response to orders, following up on sales, and so on. A few differences between them include-

• Alidropship functions on WordPress and WooCommerce whereas Oberlo functions on the Shopify store
• AliDropship offers a one-time subscription plan, while Oberlo is on a monthly basis thus making AliDropship cheaper compared to Oberlo.
• AliDropship offers an unlimited number of products while Oberlo has a limited number of products.
• AliDropship offers cashback policy without installing any plugin while in Oberlo, you will need to install a plugin to enjoy that.

 

AliDropship Vs. EasyShip

• While AliDropship offers debit card and prepaid support, Easyship does not
• AliDropship does not offer a free trial, Easyship offers.
• AliDropship offers one-time payment while Easyship makes provisions for monthly payments.
• Plus- $29/month with 3 users
• Premium – $49/month with 5 users
• Enterprise – Customized

AliDropship Customers Review

• ADG, California

“A BIG THANK YOU to Yaros and the entire AliDropship team! I have two stores created by ADS team and I am extremely happy with the amount of dedication and professionalism they have extended towards making my stores. Special shout-outs to Elena Baranova for being extremely helpful guiding me in the entire process of my first store creation, and Vlad and Egor from customer support for helping me with Plugin update issues. It is very exciting indeed to launch your very own e-commerce business with the support of ADS team, who is always there if you need to fall back for any hiccups. Keep up the good work team and I look forward to many more awesome product releases from you”

• Efi, Isreal

“I purchased a custom store from AliDropship and I really liked the procedure and the way they helped me to open the store. We were connecting on Skype, answering every day, really fast, to all the questions that I had, all the things I wanted to know about. I don’t know a lot about building a website, and the price was very good!”

• Glendalee Gurne

“I am now a DropShipper

Yes, i am now a certified dropshipper! My dream to be one made it a reality by AliDropship Team headed by my Personal Manager Andrei Kazancev. I am so happy i found them who helped to do all the hard work for me. I just need to spend my time in my marketing…”

 

Popular Stores Using AliDropship

• Sensitty – An Online store for women’s fashion products
• Borjuz- An Online store that majors in wares and Jewelleries
• Aakang Official store – store for women and men’s shoes

 

This brings us to the end of the Alidropshipping review, Alidropshipping pricing, and its comparison with competitors. I hope this is helpful. Want to give Alidropship a try? Click on the button below.

 

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