AliDropship tutorial, how to use WordPress as a Dropshipping website

My friends who are in contact with foreign trade must have heard of the Dropshipping model. Today, my father will introduce it to you How to use WordPress and AliDropship to build a consignment sales website 。 Low cost operation. Now let's follow suit.

Terminology

What is Dropshipping?

come from Baidu Encyclopedia Drop shipping, a foreign trade term, is a method of supply chain management. Retailers do not need to stock goods, but send customer orders and shipping details to suppliers, who send goods directly to the final customer. Retailers earn the difference between wholesale and retail prices.

If you are working in Alibaba, there should be a lot of people who ask for one piece of consignment in your inquiry, and there will be an increasing trend. Because the difficulty of starting one piece of consignment is really low. Many people use Shopify to do it. In fact, WordPress can also do it, with lower cost and higher flexibility.

What is WordPress?

WordPress is a set of open source content management system. You can see the website of "Daddy's Notes". The program he uses is WordPress. Many foreign enterprise websites and e-commerce websites also use WordPress.

WordPress is the best Foreign trade station construction More than 39% of the websites in the world are driven by WordPress. You can create almost all kinds of websites through WordPress. For foreign trade website building, the effect of using WordPress as a 2B website is much better than Shopify, WIX and other platforms; WordPress can also be used as a 2C online sales e-commerce website, but it is more difficult to get started than Shopify, but it is better to set the rules by yourself and not worry about closing the store.

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1. Shopify vs WordPress: which is better for e-commerce platform
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What is AliDropship?

AliDropship is the most famous Drop Shipping plug-in on WordPress. A group of daddies saw that some foreign traders were discussing this plug-in in April, and some of them also used pirated AliDropship to conduct business, so this plug-in is a peer verified project with high feasibility.

AliDropship can help you automatically handle all sales related content during consignment, such as automatically fetching goods to your website database, automatically modifying prices, automatically placing orders with AliDropship, and automatically obtaining logistics information. Basically, you just need to build a website and then promote it.

The key is that AliDropship is cheap. It is a one-time payment. The normal price is only 89 dollars.

AliDropship version and price

AliDropship is divided into Plugin, Custom Store and Premium Dropshipping Store.

AliDropship Plugin

AliDropship plug-ins can be divided into two types: pure AliDropship plug-ins and WooCommerce plug-ins. The two plug-ins are packaged and sold for a lifetime of $89.

1. AliDropship plugin for WordPress (only need to install WP and AliDropship plug-ins)
2. AliDropship plugin for WooCommerce (WP+WooCommerce+AliDropship plugin needs to be installed)

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How to select AliDropship plug-in and AliDropship WooCommerce plug-in?

First of all, these two plug-ins are based on the WordPress website. If you don't have a WordPress website, please refer to WordPress Tutorial One article, to build a WordPress website.

AliDropship plugin for WordPress is just a WordPress plug-in. You don't need to install WooCommerce separately to realize online Dropshipping products.

AliDropship plugin for WooCommerce is designed to help you implement Dropshipping for WooCommerce when you are familiar with WooCommerce or you have installed WooCommerce, an e-commerce plug-in.

Another difference is that when AliDropship plugin for WordPress is installed, the website theme can only choose to support AliDropship specific themes. If you install AliDropship plugin for WooCommerce, you can choose any theme that supports WooCommerce.

It is easy for everyone to understand and not so complicated, In this article, the father will take AliDropship plugin for WordPress as an example to introduce how to build a Dropshipping website.

AliDropship Custom Store (recommended)

AliDropship Custom Store is a package that dads recommend to novice friends. In short, it is a cost saving package. The minimum package is $299. If there is no server, you can choose their server, which is $48/year.

In other words, you can buy a built AliDropship website for 299 (Custom Store)+48 (server)=347 dollars.

The official staff of AliDropship will contact you to learn about the products you operate, help you select 50 high-quality products to upload to the website, and then tell you the website account password. It is similar to the feeling that you can open the door and open the door to check in.

AliDropship Custom Store costs only about 1000 yuan more than the plug-in version of your own website, which is really a good choice for novices or friends with valuable time.

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Premium Dropshipping Store

This Premium Dropshipping Store package is more suitable for rich and powerful bosses.

AliDropship officially provides nine websites that have been officially launched and have a fixed income every month. You can spend money to buy a website that is exactly the same as theirs. Except for the website logo, name, contact information, and payment method, other content is exactly the same as the website you choose.

However, this kind of website looks good, but it also means that the users who buy this package are the same as your choices, which increases the difficulty of competition. Daddy recommends choosing a custom store, and then he selects his own products and asks them to send you some. He will continue to update them later, which will have a higher cost performance ratio.

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AliDropship tutorial

AliDropship Custom Store Tutorial

AliDropship Custom Store is a package for friends who don't want to build their own website. It saves time. The price is less than 2500 yuan, and the cost performance ratio is really high. You should follow the tutorial to get familiar with it. Most people should spend more than a week, but there is not necessarily an official website that can do well.

First, click the button below to enter the purchase link.

Click to purchase AliDropship Custom Store (discount code GETSTORE15)

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Click the View Package button.

As you can see, the default package supports three levels: $299, $499, and $899.

If you haven't purchased a server, you can also directly add a $48 server (Add hosting – $48/year). If you have already bought a server, you can tell the customer service about the server management website, account and password when the time comes.

The biggest difference between the three service packages is that the number of products imported to your store is different by default. There are only 50 BASIC packages, but you can import them yourself later, which is not a big problem.

Then there are the contents of SEO and social platforms. Although the father didn't buy their package, considering the underlying code or WordPress, these contents can be done by himself in the later stage, without extra cost.

So, Buy the BASIC package for $299 directly That's all right.

Enter your email address, fill in your credit card, and then select whether to purchase a host computer. Enter GETSTORE15 , and then pay.

After the payment is successful, an email will be sent to your mailbox, and you will be instructed how to contact the customer, providing your domain name, server, options and other content.

It will take 12-15 working days from the time of placing an order to the time when the website is finally handed over to you. During this period, you can think about how to promote the website after it is built and make some preliminary preparations.

AliDropship plugin tutorial

Buy Plug ins

AliDropship plugin is cheaper. It is applicable to friends who have purchased a host and domain name, have some knowledge of WordPress, or are not so weak in self-study.

Click to purchase AliDropship plug-in (discount code GETPLUGIN25)

have access to GETPLUGIN25 Get 25% off.

Click BUY NOW FOR ONLY $89 button to enter the purchase page.

Enter email, credit card, and discount code GETPLUGIN25 Then check out.

As for the server, you can consider it according to your own situation. If you have already bought a server, you don't need to buy it. If you haven't bought a server, you can buy one by the way. The price of 48 dollars a year is reasonable.

If you want to buy a server from another company, you can do it yourself. For example SiteGrond 、 GreenGeeks 、 Hostinger , or VPS .

In addition to the server, you also need a domain name. If you don't have a domain name, you can go to namesilo Buy one.

 

Download plug-ins and themes

After payment, you will receive the plug-in information sent to you by AliDropship in your email.

Save the key yourself, and then download the AliDropship Plugin locally. AliDropship WOO Plugin is used by WooCommerce websites. Since we started from scratch, we recommend installing the version of WooCommerce instead of WooCommerce, which is simpler and has higher performance. (If you want more customized functions, please install the WooCommerce version)

Then go AliDropship and WOO Themes Download a free theme template. (You can also buy paid ones)

Because we are going to use AliDropship Plugin, the theme should be under AliDropship Original Plugin. Otherwise, it cannot be used.

Install themes and plug-ins

Enter the background of our WordPress website. If you don't have a WordPress website, please refer to WordPress Tutorial Go and install one.

Select Appearance – Themes – Add New in the background menu

Then upload the theme file we downloaded earlier for installation.

Activate the theme after installation.

Then continue to click Plugins – Add New in the menu to upload the AliDropship Plugin plug-in file we downloaded.

Activate the plug-in after installation.

If AliDropship plugin alert: Error! ionCube Loader Loader not found. Alidropship plugin can’t be activated. Please check instructions .

The reason is that your server does not install the ionCube component. If you want to use the virtual host, please contact the service provider for processing. If you want to use your own VPS, you can install it yourself.

If your VPS uses Pagoda panel The installation environment, you can enter the app store, find the settings after you install the php version, and then choose to install the extension.

Install the ionCube.

After installation, refresh the WordPress plug-in page again, and no error will appear.

AliDropship Plug in Settings

Before setting the AliDropship plug-in, we need to activate the authorization of the plug-in.

In the upper left corner, you can see the plug-in setting menu of AliDropship.

Enter the License menu and enter your activation code to activate.

After activation, enter the Settings menu, open each setting interface, and modify what needs to be modified.

The main settings here are:

1. Pricing， To set the price of goods in the store, you can set a formula that automatically sets the price of 2 times, 3 times or user-defined times according to the price of AliExpress products;
2. Payments， If you don't know how to set the payment method, there is a help link of How it works in the upper right corner of the setting;
3. Shipping， Country and mode of transport;

Finally, don't forget to set a product category for the product.

Import AliExpress products

After the plug-in settings are completed, you can start to import goods. To import goods, we need to use the AliDropship Chrome plug-in.

Open Chrome browser and click https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/alidropship/jlnhdnbbikjkdejminhdpmejldiapdgn Install the plug-in.

After installation, click the plug-in icon in the upper right corner to add your website URL.

After adding the website, click Log in to authorize, as shown in the following figure.

Click Authorize to authorize.

Then enter AliExpress website , search for the goods you want to sell, select the appropriate supplier, click the AliDropship icon on the product image, as shown below:

When the plus sign on the icon turns into a tick, it means that the import is complete, and we enter the background of the WordPress website.

Enter Products, All Items, you can see the goods just imported, and click Edit to edit.

Select commodity classification on the right.

The following Featured image can be replaced if you are not satisfied with it.

You can edit the product title, website, and details for the second time.

The Product Options at the bottom has also been set for you. If you are not satisfied, you can also set it yourself.

After all modifications are completed, click the Publish button.

Click the product website, we can see the front page of the product, as shown below:

Click the purchase button and go through the whole process yourself to see if there are any mistakes.

After payment, AliDropship will automatically help you place an order with AliExpress, and the order placement address will automatically leave the address filled in by the customer on your website, and then AliExpress merchants will deliver goods to the customer address, and synchronously output logistics information to your website.

In this way, the whole process of Dropshipping runs through.

Import commodity method 2

If you think it is too troublesome to import manually with plug-ins, you can also directly import in batch in the background of AliDropship, as follows:

In the Import Products interface, you can search the products in the product library officially organized by AliDropship, and then select batch import.

After importing, you can also enter the commodity list for editing and publishing.

Import commodity evaluation

The bare product introduction page is a bit monotonous. Adding reviews is good looking and helpful for conversion. Enter the AliDropship menu, find Import, select Import Reviews, and import.

After importing, you can see the effect in the foreground of the website.

If you think some of these comments are not suitable for display, you can also enter the product editing interface to modify the comments.

Modify website logo

After installing the theme, we haven't customized the theme, so the default website logo is still provided with the theme. We can modify it by the following method.

In the WordPress background, under the Customization menu, find the Header, and you can see the location of the modified lOGO.

Other setting options can also be adjusted as needed, which is not covered here.

Modify navigation menu

Select Appearance in the background menu of WordPress, and then select Menus to create a new menu.

Then add the menu content according to the needs of your website, check the location of Display location as Main Menu, and save the menu.

Add About Us and other pages

E-commerce websites usually contain about us, Refunds&Returns Policy, Payment Methods, Shipping&Delivery, Terms&Conditions, Privacy Policy and other pages, which we need to create by ourselves. The method is as follows:

WordPress background menu, select Pages, and then Add New.

These pages usually do not need to be specially designed. They can be typeset directly as Word does.

After the page is created, remember to add it to the website navigation menu or footer menu.

Add blog post

If you want to do it yourself SEO , then blog posts are an indispensable part.

Select Posts in the WP background, and then Add New.

Categories are article categories that can be planned by yourself.

AliDropship FAQ

Q: Does AliDropship choose WordPress or WooCommerce?

Answer: AliDropship plugin for WordPress is a version that is directly installed on WordPress. AliDropship plugin for WooCommerce is a version that needs to be installed after WordPress is installed.

The separate WordPress version is simpler and more direct, but can only use AliDropship specific themes; The customization of WooCommerce version is higher, and the theme can be used freely, but the system resources and complexity are higher. Novice recommends installing WordPress version directly.

Q: How many products can be imported to the website using AliDropship?

Answer: If you use the original AliDropship plug-in without using WooCommerce, you can add up to 10000 products to your site. If you use the WooCommerce version of AliDropship, it is recommended that you do not use more than 500, or the website may slow down.

Q: Can I add my own products?

A: You can add your own products. It is not necessary to capture the products of AliExpress for sale.

Q: How many websites can a serial number be used for?

A: After purchasing the AliDropship plug-in, you will get your own personal license key, which is valid for a website/domain name. The child domain is treated as a separate domain. If you decide to create another online store in the future and use the plug-in in another domain, we can deactivate the license in the current store and activate the license in another store for free.

Article summary

Through this article AliDropship Tutorial It can be seen that it is very simple to use WordPress to cooperate with AliDropship to do the Dropshipping consignment business. You only need to be responsible for the selection and promotion of products. AliDropship will help you with a series of processes such as sales and delivery.

AliDropship plug-in is 89 dollars, server is 60 dollars a year, domain name is 8 dollars, total 89+60+8=157 dollars, × 7=1099 yuan.

You can start your own foreign trade consignment business with only 1000 yuan of start-up capital. What projects have lower start-up capital and investment risk than this?

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