You want to start your new eCommerce business and you realize that alidropship can be a great option for new business but then wondering how much does alidropship costs?

So let us tell you which all plans of Alidropship are there (without wasting much of your time) and which plan you should start with? If you don’t already know what dropshipping is than please read this first. 

Ok, there are 3 types of stores and a plugin you can use to start an eCommerce dropshipping store with alidropship.

• Custom Stores
• Established Stores
• Premium Stores
• Alidropship Plugin

Let’s now discuss all these options one by one and see what is the right fit for you.

Custom Dropshipping Store

As the name suggests, this is a store that alidropship creates based on the input received from the customer. In this store, the alidropship team chooses the niche and builds a website around that particular niche.

A customer also gets a personal manager who does every task as described by the customer. These kinds of stores are good for people who want to create a store from scratch.

Now let’s see how much money you need to get a custom alidropship store. There are three main plans as below.

Features 

Every plan has an option to add hosting @$48/year with free SSL but that is optional, but only if you don’t already have hosting anywhere else. $4 a month is not a big deal otherwise.

Now every plan comes with other different options. Obviously, the basic plan is not having all the tools whereas the ultimate plan is fully loaded with all the tools required to run this business. But I will tell you which plan you should choose to start and why later. Let’s discuss the features that come with these plans.

The only difference these plans are having is in promotions and the total number of products that you get with your store.

With the basic ($299) plan you don’t get promotional videos and social media promotional tools and gets only one social media page on Facebook with 50 products added while in the advanced ($499) plan, you get 100 products and an additional social page on Twitter and Instagram and with the ultimate plan ($899), you get 200 products added and social media pages on all the four social media platforms along with promotional videos and social media promotional tools.

Pros & Cons

Pros:

• You get a personal manager.
• You get a unique store based on the niche you select.
• No hard work at your end.
• 100% ownership of the store
• You get all the visuals like logos, banners, etc.
• Option to choose plugin (Alidropship original or Alidropship woocommerce)
• Option to choose a store based on different plans.
• Can upgrade package later. For example from $299 to $899.

Cons:

• Takes 12-15 days to get a store

Now, let’s take a look at the premium store and if they are good to start with.

Premium Dropshipping Stores

The difference between custom and premium store is, in custom store, everything is built from scratch based on the niche you and your manager select whereas, in the premium store, it is like a plug and play kind of thing. You buy your premium store which is a copy of +already successfully running store and just start your business from the very next day. The only thing you need is hosting and domain.

The good thing is that any store you choose has a single price tag of $300.

What you get in the premium dropshipping store

• Alidropship Plugin
• Banners
• Product Catalogue
• Theme
• Products Reviews
• 3 addons (Facebook + Abandoned Card + GA enhanced eCommerce)

Pros & Cons

Pros:

• You get your store as soon as you make payment. No waiting
• Everything is pre-installed.
• Can start promotions immediately.
• Single price for all the stores. Quite Affordable.
• No hard work of selecting the niche
• 100% ownership of the store

Cons:

• It is a copy of an already running store with the same niche.
• You just get the files, installation to be done by either you or pay an additional amount to alidropship team to install the same.
• No option to choose a plugin

Established Dropshipping Store

These stores are already running online and generating profit. Actually, these stores are created by the alidropship eCommerce team and once the store start generating some profit, they list the store on their website to sell it to others who are looking to start their eCommerce business.

These are well-researched and well-promoted stores by the team on various social media platforms. They make different businesses available time to time. You can find more about available businesses here

Pros & Cons

Pros:

• Already running and generating profits.
• No need to buy a domain and hosting as the same is included in the package.
• One month post-sales support by alidropship expert team.

Cons:

• As the stores are already generating profits so the price could be on a higher side and each website has a price based on the sales it generates.
• No customization
• Customers cannot choose the design, niche, or anything else.

Alidropship Plugin

Apart from custom, premium, and established stores, there is another option for people who don’t want to spend much on the store. With the alidropship plugin, one can easily import products from aliexpress but I don’t suggest buying this plugin if you are not a technical person and don’t know how to create an eCommerce store on your own.

There is a lot of hard work involved if you plan to go with just a plugin like building a WordPress site, installing required plugins, and also setting up an alidropship plugin. Once installed, importing of products to be done based on the niche you selected and also setting up of images is another task to complete.

Where to start from?

This is the last but not the least question to answer. After reading the complete article, either you have decided or you still thinking about which one to choose.

I will try to make it simple for you …

• People who are technically sound and have ample time, should go with Alidropship Plugin and do everything on their own and save some bucks for advertising.
• People who want to start from scratch and build their own brand and want everything customized, should go with a custom store but choose the basic plan because creating a social media page is not hard but if you can’t even create that, then there are people who can do it for you at affordable price. You can also hire people who can design ads for you and create promotional videos and it won’t cost you $600 whereas if you go with an ultimate plan, it would cost you an additional $600 …
• Premium stores are for those, who want everything instantly without waiting. There is no harm in choosing the primary store and if you think that you may find a competition due to multiple stores as yours then let me tell you one thing, you can do much better than others with better advertisement.

There are two main things in dropshipping. 

1. Advertising
2. After Sale Service (Customer Care)

If you can manage both in a better way, you have great chances to earn big. So go ahead and select your store and start promotions and make sure to setup perfect customer care to answer each and every query of your clients.

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