How to move from AutoDS to Dsers without losing all my product and supplier mapping?

Shopify Discussion

Topic summary

A Shopify store owner with 9,000 product variants wants to migrate from AutoDS to Dsers due to persistent issues—primarily AutoDS automatically overwriting custom product titles and descriptions with supplier defaults.

Migration Challenge:

  • Dsers requires a CSV export containing: Product ID, AliExpress URL, Product Variant ID, and AliExpress SKUs
  • AutoDS is refusing to provide this complete export, offering only limited fields
  • Without this data, the store would need to manually remap all variants to suppliers—a process taking months with the shop offline

Proposed Workarounds (from AutoDS representative):

  • Use AutoDS’s partial export tools and cross-reference with AliExpress data
  • Employ third-party scripts to merge exports with supplier information
  • Keep the store live on AutoDS during transition to avoid downtime
  • Utilize AutoDS’s bulk edit features more carefully to prevent reverts

Current Status:
The discussion remains unresolved. One commenter expressed interest in the opposite migration (Dsers to AutoDS) and confirmed concerns about AutoDS reverting product edits. The store owner feels their data is being held hostage to prevent platform switching.

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This is both a question and a warning about AutoDS. I use AutoDS to automate my Shopify store. Our primary supplier is AliExpress. AutoDS is terrible on almost every level (including their system constantly wiping out all our product edits and reverting back to the supplier’s product titles and descriptions) and we want to move all our products to Dsers. Dsers said just ask AutoDS for the appropriate export CSV file and it would be easy for them to do. When I asked for it, AutoDS started by asking why we want it, then said they cannot produce it. They are refusing, saying they can only provide the product title and another field I can’t remember. They CAN do what I asked but they are holding our store hostage so we dont leave.

Dsers says if we cannot get our product and supplier info from AutoDS then once we switchbover to Dsers we will have to manually map all 9,000 of our variants back to the suppliers, which would take us months while our shop was down mcosting moneybinstead of making money. Here is what we need in our CSV spreadsheet:

  1. Product ID

  2. Aliexpress URL

  3. Product variant ID

  4. Aliexpress SKU’s.

Does anyone know how we can get this info in bulk and smoothly switch from AutoDS to Dsers?

Thanks in advance.

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I am doing the opposite, trying to switch to auto ds for full automation. DSer is great but with tons of orders I was hoping auto ds would be able to automate. You said auto ds had issues where it changed your actual Shopify product title and description back to the supplier defaults??

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Hi, first, we’re really sorry to hear about your frustrating experience. We understand how critical your product data is, and we never want our users to feel “stuck.”

Regarding the CSV export, AutoDS doesn’t currently offer a direct bulk export of every field (like variant IDs or Aliexpress SKUs) in one file, and we know that can be inconvenient for large migrations. Here are some options:
Use AutoDS product bulk export tools – You can export your product list with as much data as the system allows (titles, URLs, SKUs, variants). Even if not complete, it gives you a starting point.

Combine with your supplier feeds – Since your products are from AliExpress, you can cross-reference the exported data with AliExpress directly to get variant IDs, SKUs, and URLs.

Automation assistance – AutoDS itself can still help during the transition: you can keep the store live and synced while preparing the CSV, which avoids downtime and reduces order errors during migration.

Third-party CSV tools/scripts—Some sellers use simple scripts to merge AutoDS exports with supplier data to produce the full CSV DSers needs.

That said, there are ways to manage your store efficiently without leaving AutoDS

Keep your store synced and automated – AutoDS continues to handle stock updates, price changes, and order fulfillment automatically, which prevents downtime and lost sales.
Bulk edits within AutoDS – While the product edits sometimes revert to supplier defaults, using our bulk edit and optimization tools carefully allows you to standardize titles, descriptions, and pricing across thousands of variants more efficiently than manual mapping in another platform.
Support workflow – Our team can guide you step by step on exporting the data AutoDS does allow and combining it with AliExpress product IDs when necessary, so you can restructure or backup your data without leaving AutoDS.

We genuinely believe that for high-volume dropshipping, AutoDS is still the most reliable and scalable solution. Leaving the platform often creates more challenges than it solves, especially with automation, multiple supplier management, and ongoing product updates.