AliDropship Review: One-Click AliExpress Store on WordPress

In this article, I’ll review the AliDropship WordPress plugin, its ease of use, price, and features—as well as explain how to use it to create a successful dropshipping online store.

Quick overview of the WordPress plugin

AliDropship is a WordPress plugin that allows you to create a dropshipping online store within your WordPress site. It is an excellent solution for users to add e-commerce functionality to their WP websites.

However, the AliDropship plugin has much more to offer—it can also be used as an integration for people who already have an online store hosted with WooCommerce.

So, whether you are a beginner and want to start dropshipping, or you already have an e-commerce business and want to integrate this business model into your online store, this plugin is ideal.

Before you start, you first need to find the right manufacturers and suppliers.
Don’t worry! AliDropship takes care of that too. With just one click, you can import products from an unlimited number of AliExpress options to your site.

Essentially, the plugin helps you create an online store that allows you to sell from AliExpress’s massive inventory.

The plugin also allows you to automate many tasks related to product import—a time-saver that many business owners will appreciate.

The bottom line: the price of AliDropship

The first thing that stands out about AliDropship’s pricing is that it does not offer a free or trial version. This can be discouraging, given that the plugin requires a one-time initial payment of $89.

If you want to get things up and running quickly and easily, the platform allows you to create a custom e-commerce site or a ready-to-use Premium store.

A custom store is built by a team based on the specific requirements you communicate with your personal manager. You can choose between a basic package for $299, an advanced package for $499, and an ultimate package for $899.

Is AliDropship easy to use?

Compared to the AliDropship Woo plugin, regular AliDropship has a much easier-to-use and beginner-friendly interface. For users who are well-versed in the WordPress system, this will not be a problem.

The plugin is really simple to install. You can choose to do so by downloading it as a standalone WordPress plugin or directly from the creator’s website.

In both cases, you will need a license key, which is provided immediately by email after purchase.

Support

You can contact the AliDropship support team either via live chat or email. For faster responses, the smart choice is to opt for live chat.

If you encounter a problem, the first resource to consult is the knowledge base. It’s truly amazing how detailed, illustrative, and helpful the articles and instructions in this help center are.

You can also check out their online forum where any user can participate in discussions focused on dropshipping with AliExpress.

Although you can easily get quick answers to simple and straightforward issues on live chat, complex technical questions are best handled via email.

Order automation

Imagine you have a large online store (or already have one) and you have to manually process every order you receive.

With AliDropship, with just one click, you can automatically send all your order data directly to the supplier on AliExpress and complete the order.

Along with this, you can enable the setting to mark the order as processed and shipped once the order has been placed on AliExpress and received a tracking ID, respectively.

Image Editor

AliDropship’s built-in image editor is the kind of feature you’ll hardly find in anything the competition has to offer.

Instead of editing your images before importing them into the plugin, you can also make all the necessary changes within the platform.

Built-in themes

The appearance of any website greatly contributes to how users interact with its content. AliDropship offers several professionally designed themes. There are a few free ones that you can choose directly from the WordPress dashboard.

However, if you are looking for more flexibility, you should consider the other themes available on the official AliDropship themes page.

Each of them is specially designed to suit dropshipping stores offering different types of products.

Importing products

Importing products into your AliDropship e-commerce store is a simple and straightforward process. First, locate the import function in the dashboard and select a product category and/or subcategory from the drop-down menu.

Using the advanced search, you can sort products by popularity, price, and other important filters. The search results in the catalog are then displayed with detailed product information.

Before importing the selected AliExpress products, you can always make some adjustments to the information you want to display.

In addition to this, you can also remove specific details such as material, style, and brand name.

Automatic price margin

Each product you import into your store reflects the original price from the AliExpress supplier. To make a corresponding profit, you will need to set a specific margin that applies to certain products.

Doing this manually for each product will certainly take a long time. Fortunately, the plugin allows you to automate this process by setting a pricing formula.

Not only can you add a price markup formula, but you can also apply different rules to different product categories.

If some pricing rules are more important than others, you can organize them in a separate priority order that the system recognizes immediately.

Marketing with AliDropship

AliDropship has excellent marketing tools available in its dashboard.

These essentials include tools such as:

• Google Analytics
• Product reviews
• Social Rabbit Plugin

All these features provide many well-developed functionalities to manage your dropshipping store.

Recovery of abandoned shopping carts

AliDropship has a premium feature that all e-commerce stores should take advantage of: abandoned cart recovery.

It allows you to generate an email that will be sent to your customer’s email address to inform them of the purchase they abandoned.

You can generate as many templates as you want and also set a specific time period that must elapse after the cart is abandoned to avoid instantly spamming your customers.

To conclude

It is clear that AliDropShip is a feature-rich, easy-to-use, all-in-one retail solution.

However, for those who are not ready to commit right away, they may need to look elsewhere as there is no free or trial version.

On the other hand, the one-time payment option works as an excellent long-term investment because it is not too expensive and AliDropship offers you tons of premium features.