How do I do it so when they put in there shipping information it gives it to Ali express to deliver it or do I need to do the shipping myself
Hi @Josephkennedy ,
That’s an excellent question. I’d love to help you.
In short, dropshipping is a business model that you can use to run your store without ever holding any inventory. Once you’ve made a sale on Shopify, you will enter the customer’s information in AliExpress checkout and place the order with the supplier. Then, your supplier will ship your products from their warehouse straight to your doorstep.
The customer pays the retail price you set, you pay the suppliers’ wholesale price, and the rest is profit. So you never have to handle products or invest in inventory.
That said, you’ll have to consider some start-up costs like domain, Shopify subscription, marketing etc. Here is an excellent Oberlo guide on dropshipping start-up costs. Check it out here.
You can learn more about dropshipping in this guide here. It will take you through the order fulfilment process step by step.
Also, make sure to check out this complete playbook on dropshipping in 2022. Let me know if that helps.
Have you thought about what kind of products you would like to sell?