Let’s begin with the best Shopify apps to have for your
dropshipping store when you’re just beginning. Of course, these apps are also
awesome if you have already started your dropshipping store!
I will give you a free option and a paid option with most of
these apps below.
I highly suggest you start with the free Shopify app options
when you’re just beginning with dropshipping.
This way you will have the best free apps first, and then
after you get some sales or when your budget allows it, you could add more paid
apps.
These paid apps could help you get more sales or help you in
other areas, such as increasing the average order value!
Also, if you have a paid Shopify theme, then take a look to
see if your theme already has that feature available for you. Some themes, like
the Booster Theme, has a lot of these apps below included inside the theme
already.
But don’t worry, you don’t need a paid theme when you’re
just beginning with dropshipping. I just wanted to be clear that if you do have
a theme that includes one or more of these features, then you obviously don’t
need a Shopify app for that!
One more thing before I begin, I will also add a link to a
related article of mine if you want to learn more about the topic that the
Shopify app helps you with.
Processing dropshipping orders
To start off this list, you need to have an app that
processes your dropshipping orders.
You can do this without any app, but ask yourself if you
would want to manually enter your customer’s information each time you get a
new order.
There are apps out there that will help you automate most of
this. You can press the order bottom, and then the app will automatically fill
in all the information from your customer.
The only thing then left for you to do is to press on ‘Pay’,
and even that can be automated later on if you want to!
Are you dropshipping with AliExpress?
If you’re currently dropshipping with AliExpress, or if you
want to do that, then I recommend the Shopify apps below.
The best free Shopify app for this
The free Shopify app that most people start with is Oberlo.
Oberlo helps you connect your Shopify store to AliExpress.
Oberlo is free to use, and it doesn’t matter how many orders
you have per month! Before, you could only have 50 orders maximum per month,
and then you had to switch to a paid plan:
I won’t give multiple suggestions everywhere, but I just had
to mention DSers here. They have a great free plan as well, and their main
selling point is that they are ‘Faster than Faster’.
This means that you can order your dropshipping orders way
faster. They do this by offering you the option to place bulk orders. No more
ordering one order at a time!
Plus, they are an official AliExpress partner.
The best paid Shopify app for this
If you’re dropshipping with AliExpress, then Dropified is a
great choice if you’re looking for a paid Shopify app.
But, as you can see above, Oberlo also has a paid plan as
well. There are a lot of comparison guides between these two apps online, for
example:
·
Oberlo vs Dropified: Which Is Better for Your
Business? by Oberlo
·
Oberlo vs Dropified: Trying to choose between
Oberlo vs Dropified? by Dropified
·
Dropified vs Oberlo: The Battle of The
Dropshipping Plugins by ecommerce Platforms
The thing is, these apps are almost the same, and it will
come down to personal preference. That’s why it’s great that Oberlo has a free
version available and Dropified a 14 days free trial.
Plus, don’t forget to compare their pricing so you can see
which one fits with your current budget.
Sales notifications
A great way to boost the trust of your visitors is to have
sales notifications popping up. These notifications have, for example,
information about past sales on them.
The theory behind these apps is that your visitors will have
more trust in your store if they see that other people are purchasing your
products. For example:
Some apps even allow you to have “fake past orders.” This
way, you can still use the app even if you didn’t have any sales yet.
Although, before you decide to use sales notifications, you
need to decide if you like it or not. Some people find it quite annoying when
stuff keeps popping up on their screen.
If you really don’t know if you should add it to your store
or not, you could always split test and see if people are staying longer on
your store with or without these notifications.