Start a Dropshipping Business with only a Few Clicks
Oberlo is a
popular app for the hosted eCommerce platform Shopify. The Oberlo service lets
you import products directly from the Chinese super store AliExpress. The
service is a drop shipper’s dream. Within a few minutes you can import
thousands of targeted products to your Shopify store and then sell items
directly to your customer.
Oberlo
drastically reduces the time required to add new products to your Shopify
store.
What
is Drop Shipping?
Drop shipping has always been around, but over the last
few years it has become commonplace in eCommerce. Marketplaces such as eBay and
Amazon are full of drop shippers selling items direct from China and there are
hundreds of thousands of stand alone stores. The concept of drop shipping is
simple. In a drop shipping business model, the store does not keep any items in
stock. Instead, items are shipped directly from the manufacturer or a
wholesaler. Since no stock is being held, a drop shipper can operate their
business from anywhere in the world. All they need is a laptop to manage their
business. Drop shipping has proved to be a popular entry point into the world
of eCommerce because there is next to no overhead to get started so there is
relatively no risk in trying to setup a store. The ability to scale a business
up easily is also an attractive proposition. There are, of course, some
drawbacks to drop shipping. One of the benefits of drop shipping is that
another company takes responsibility of stock and shipping the items to the
customer. Whilst this saves you a huge amount of time and means you avoid many
stock management issues, it also means that you are relying on another company
for the success of your company. Therefore, if the distributor messes up the
delivery of an item or sends a broken product, you are the one that has to deal
with the problem. That is why it is vital to select a reliable supplier.
Shopify is a hosted eCommerce platform that is incredibly popular with drop
shippers. Their basic plan starts at only $29 per month and their credit card rates
start from only 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction.
Setting
Up Oberlo
Oberlo is a drop shipping solution that greatly reduces
the time it takes to add products from AliExpress into your online store. On
the Shopify app marketplace Oberlo boasts over three hundred positive reviews
and the service is currently being used on over 6,500 Shopify stores to
generate 36 million US dollars in sales. Those of you who have not did any
research into drop shipping may be wondering why Oberlo works exclusively with
AliExpress and does not work with any other stores. A quick look at the stats
about AliExpress’s parent company AliBaba explains how much of a behemoth the
company is online. The statistics portal website Statista reports that Alibaba
is the leading eCommerce provider in Asia by far. As of the third quarter of
2015 the group had generated sales of 713 billion Chinese yuan. As I write this
article today that amount equates to a whopping 106 billion US dollars.
You can sign up via the official Oberlo website here
After
filling out a short sign-up form, you will be redirected to your account’s main
page, where you can have a sneak peak of Oberlo main features. Get more
familiar with Oberlo app by having a look at some of the products that we offer
on our Oberlo Supply Marketplace. You can use all of them for your dropshipping
business you just need to import them into your store.
How To
Connect Oberlo Account To Your Shopify Store
To take
advantage of Oberlo App, you need a Shopify store — it is essential for storing
imported products and managing orders. You can connect your Shopify store to
Oberlo from our Settings Page — select the "Connected Shops" tab and
click on "Connect A Shop". The "Connect A Shop" pop-up
window allows you to connect your existing Shopify store to Oberlo, or create a
new one.
Note : Once you connect Oberlo to a Shopify
Store, you will not be able to switch to another one. It means that only one
Oberlo account is available per Shopify Store.
Once you
have entered your Shopify store URL, you will be redirected to your Shopify
store and asked to install Oberlo.
When the
installation process is completed, you are ready to start importing products
and building your dropshipping venture!
IMPORTANT. When Oberlo is added to your Shopify account, make
sure you select “Do not automatically fulfill any of the order's line items” in
Shopify admin > Checkout settings.
You need to
choose manual fulfillment in your Shopify settings because the fulfillment
processes would be overridden by Oberlo App. When an order is fulfilled in
Oberlo, the order status is automatically changed from "Unfulfilled"
to "Fulfilled" in your Shopify store.
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