If you are planning on starting a dropshipping business, it’s good to consider using a dropshipping tool to support your order fulfillment process and dropshipping task.
These types of tools usually automate the order fulfillment process so you’re not manually placing orders on behalf of your customers every time you make a sale.
For Shopify users, Oberlo, a Shopify app, used to be the go-to solution. However, since its shut-down in 2022, some alternatives have become popular.
Although there are many platforms out there, today we want to focus on one of the main ones: AutoDS. We’ll cover its key features, pricing and pros and cons.
AutoDS
AutoDS is an automated dropshipping tool for your store. Besides helping you automate drop-shipping, it also finds you best-selling products to sell, explore private suppliers and more.
It offers multiple integrations including Amazon, eBay, Shopify and Facebook.
AutoDS has locations worldwide, from America to Asia and Africa.
Key features
Selling platforms
If you are selling online, chances are AutoDS integrates with your selling platform. AutoDS supports eBay, Shopify, Amazon, Facebook, WooCommerce, Etsy and Wix. Almost all features are available for all platforms, except the AI store generator which is designed for Shopify.
Product research
The Product Research Tool helps your dropshipping business discover, source, research and import dropshipping products in no time. Inside the Winning Products Hub, you’ll find trending items with high ratings and a large number of reviews and rake in more sales.
Thanks to its Smart Filter System, you can also filter products by price, shipping, supplier, warehouse and more.
Another way of finding products is through the TikTok Ads Spy tool. This trend discovery tool shows you popular product-related TikTok ads and videos. You can find your proven products based on engagement and conversion data.
You also have multiple filtering options such as likes, impressions, interaction rate, CTA button text and keywords.
AI Shopify Store
When choosing to connect a Shopify store to your AutoDS account, you will get the option to choose whether you want to connect an existing Shopify store, create one by yourself or use an AI prebuilt Shopify store.
AutoDS is kind enough to save you time and money with this store builder that you can use for free inside any of the Shopify plans.
Simply choose a specific niche to create an optimized Shopify store and let the AI do everything. It will even give you a selection of high-converting products that are ready to sell, so you instantly boost your store potential.
AI Assistant
AutoDS also automates your writing thanks to its AI writing assistant which generates product titles and descriptions.
You can adjust your product title’s and description’s tone and temperature. Set the tone to be funnier, more professional, sellable, etc. The temperature can be more creative, precise, or balanced.
Automatic Price Automation
This particular feature is music to the ears of anyone living in a region with high levels of inflation. God knows how tiring it is to always have to check which is the ideal price for an item.
However, this feature is truly great regardless of your macroeconomic context.
With Automatic Price Automation, AutoDS maximizes your profit by raising your prices automatically for best-selling products and reducing them with discounts for products that don’t sell.
You can set up multiple automations to account for different scenarios and products. All the automations will run simultaneously and automatically within the set parameters.
Print on Demand
The Print on Demand is a new feature that almost anyone doing business online can benefit from. You can create and sell custom-designed products directly through AutoDS.
They have a wide POD product range which is being updated monthly. The product range includes apparel, numerous accessories, countless decorations, footwear and much more.
Products Importing
AutoDS has multiple methods to import products to your dropshipping stores, including single, bulk and scheduled importers. To import products, simply use the product’s URL or Item ID and AutoDS will automatically import all the product’s information.
You can also choose whether to import your products right away or if you want to schedule them for a later date and time of your choosing.
AutoDS has a long list of supported suppliers that you can import products from and sell, including Amazon, Aliexpress, Banggood, Walmart, Homedepot, Wayfair, Costco, Overstock, Costway and Lowes.
And if you want to get a competitive edge, you can work with unique private suppliers.
Note that AutoDS is always open to more suppliers so you can join as a supplier or submit a request for more suppliers.
Product Sourcing
AutoDS has established its own warehouse to inspect products and quality before they are shipped from China. The warehouse also plays a role in shipping and delivery times.
The Product Sourcing feature also reduces the usually long Chinese supplier shipping and processing times since it processes the request within 24-48 hours.
Moreover, you’ll also be able to send messages directly to suppliers to resolve issues.and thus ensuring better communication.
Add-ons
Although AutoDS’ plans are quite complete, some useful juicy features require an extra payment.
For starters, the Auto Ordering System, which allows you to enable automatic orders, is $9.90 per month. This is actually one of the most crucial features of a dropshipping platform. With it, the system will handle orders automatically from your supplier to your buyer.
Another add-on is the Product Finding hub which we mentioned earlier. It costs $14.97 per month.
Finally, if you want to give your team access to streamline your work, you’ll need to subscribe to the VA Access add-on for $14.97 per month. This add-on allows you to control store access and privileges.
Chrome extension
The Chrome extension is free for everyone and it allows you to find trustworthy vendors in your region as well as automate your order fulfillment process.
Simply select regions, suppliers and the product you want and done.
Here I searched for “face masks” in Amazon US. Then you click “Extract” and “Export as a CSV” and AutoDS will give you a list with all the product results.
Support and resources
AutoDS has multiple learning resources: a blog, e-books, a podcast and courses. Its YouTube channel is updated pretty much daily.
It also offers a mentor program for users for $39.97 per month. You’ll often have live availability to your mentor but, if they are offline, you can leave them a ticket when you have a question to ask.
You can contact the support team by submitting a ticket and they will get back to you in 24 hours. There’s also a Community on Discord you can join for free.
Pricing
AutoDS offers three plans for each selling platform. Although there’s no free plan or trial, you can try any plan’s features for 14 days for $1. These are the prices for Shopify:
- Import 200: $19.90 per month. Import 200 products from all over the world and access the Smart Filter System.
- Starter 500: $29.90 per month. Import 500 products and access the AI writing assistant.
- Advanced 1K: $49.90 per month. Import 1K products and run all AutoDS automation tools in multiple stores.
If you need to import more products, you can customize your plan. For more than 100K, you’ll have to contact sales.
Pros and Cons
Pros
AutoDS offers plenty of cool features and it starts at a very accessible rate. Moreover, it has a trial period of only $1 so you don’t have to commit right away.
Thanks to its multiple learning resources and support channels, you’ll never feel lost or alone. Getting started with AutoDS will be a piece of cake.
And AutoDS is constantly adding new features, supporting more marketplaces and generally updating, so you can trust they will keep evolving for the better.
Cons
Although plans are relatively accessible, many features are included in the add-ons. If you need to subscribe to them, you might end up paying the double you intended in the first place.
Verdict
If you are in need of a dropshipping platform, I hope you already realized you don’t have to look any further. AutoDS is a tool that will give you all that you need, from finding the perfect product and writing the perfect description to manage product sourcing.
The only con we found is how much it relies on add-ons, however, all in all, I think it’s still worth it.
What about you?
What do you think of AutoDS?
Tell us in the comments!
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