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My Dropshipping Journey with AliExpress

Discussion in 'eCommerce' started by yaros, Jul 22, 2015.

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    #641
    Haha, well keep us updated with your journey in the meantime
     
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    #642
    Hey Yaros!
    Just wondering if you know if it's okay to sell knives online.. Do you need a license or can you freely sell worldwide?
    Thanks a lot! Keep doing great work!
     
    roiseeker, Sep 2, 2016 IP
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    #643
    Hi Yaros,
    Firstly, It is a very nice plugin, so far I am very pleased I purchased it and happy to have come across this thread. Thank you for sharing all the information about your journey, you inspired me to get mine going! I am having a great time setting up my webstore with Alidropship, it is very easy to use and the shop looks great. I have 2 questions..
    1) how may I change the default category menu on the left to reflect my product categories?
    2) Is there a way to import products with the status set to 'Pending Review'?

    (My apologies if this is not the right place for such questions, let me know if I must PM you)
    Sharoni
     
    sharoni, Sep 3, 2016 IP
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    loljanka Greenhorn

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    #644
    hey yaros, i was wondering if there will be an affiliater program for your ali plugin as i would love to promote it on my blog :)
     
    loljanka, Sep 4, 2016 IP
  5. yaros

    yaros Well-Known Member

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    #645
    You can see updates on your WP dashboard.

    I think it is not a problem to sell knives, also thinking about such niche.
    :)

    1. You can check this article: https://alidropship.com/codex/how-to-add-and-edit-categories/
    2. There is no such status on the plugin now. All products come to your Import List first and then you can publish them.
     
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    yaros, Sep 4, 2016 IP
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    #646
    Hi Yaros.

    It was a great Plugin and I am still playing around it. Just like to ask something...

    1. Will you be considering doing a order management for the customers?
    2. Saw the post regarding the status to 'pending review' I think what he meant was products imported was straight away posted even though we did not select publish. Maybe if it were to be directed to 'pendind review' so that we can review the post before publish.
    3. Will we be able to use other themes for the site?
     
    henryteo, Sep 6, 2016 IP
  7. yaros

    yaros Well-Known Member

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    #647
    1. Yes, I am going to add a membership area with order management system.
    2. I think it is just an old version of the Plugin.
    3. Two new themes are coming and I will add WOO themes support as well.

    Continuing the Instagram shoutouts strategy I decided to improve it and now moving to Video Instagram Shoutouts and they work really cool! I will share this strategy in details a bit later when collect enough stats.

    Here is an example of such shoutout I have launched recently:



    [​IMG]

    And one more example:

     
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  8. sharoni

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    #648
    Great, thanks
     
    sharoni, Sep 6, 2016 IP
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    #649
    Hi everyone, i'm just startin towith affiliate program and intedn to start a dropshiping soon.
    I have a question about the aliexpress affiliate. i have been part of the program for 2 months now. I have confirmed orders at around 40$, but at the Withdraw page it shows "Account Balance: 0$. Does anyone know how long does it take for the system to update?
    Thank you
     
    arditi011, Sep 6, 2016 IP
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    Kai2810 Active Member

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    #650
    Hi Yaros,

    Thanks for posting this journey, learned alot from you! May I know if the review scraping and auto-order features of your plugin is working now?

    I checked through the discussion pages, the last mention about your review scraping was in Feb. Just like to check if your built-in scraper is still working.

    Thanks!
     
    Kai2810, Sep 6, 2016 IP
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    #651
    Hi Yaros,
    I just wanted to ask if this plugin would work with PrestaShop themes? I know you've mentioned many times that this won't work with WooCommerce but only with WooCommerce themes, so I would like to know if you've tried this with a PrestaShop theme or if not, do you think this would work with Prestahop themes?
     
    MArki, Sep 7, 2016 IP
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    yaros Well-Known Member

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    #652
    The Plugin works with built-in themes only and does not support Prestashop themes.

    Reviews importing option works fine and auto-order feature will be available soon.
     
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    yaros, Sep 7, 2016 IP
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    #653
    Thanks for replying.

    I read in your knowledge base to select PHP 5.6 for setup. Is your plugin / theme compatible with PHP 7?
    I'm also concerned with the Zend Guard...is IonCube compatibility coming soon?
     
    Kai2810, Sep 7, 2016 IP
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    yaros Well-Known Member

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    #654
    Yes, it works with 7.0 but I would not recommend using PHP 7.0 - it is not stable with WordPress for this moment. Now considering IonCube as well but I don't see big advantages here.
     
    yaros, Sep 7, 2016 IP
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    #655
    That is the option at DO I am looking as well. How is the response time?

    I don't think I fully understand how the plugin/theme handles incoming emails. For instance, if I want to use Sparkpost as the sending agent I do not see any documents for handling incoming/reply to messages by Sparkpost.

    When someone use the "Contact us" form where do you view those messages, or if customers reply to your order notification messages, where would you go to check those messages?

    These questions are entirely if I intend to manage my own server (as shared hosting already have mail servers install).

    Hello Yaros - can you add a guide on Sparkpost as well to the knowledge database.
     
    ziggy27, Sep 8, 2016 IP
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    yaros Well-Known Member

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    Yes, I will add the guide. And now integrating another good mailing service.
     
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    Hi Yaros, I went trough the whole thread searching for one answer only (it was close but not enough :)),everything else is clear. When a customer buys something you get payed on paypal. How do you then buy from aliexpress if they use alipay? Do you transfer the money from paypal to a bank and then from a bank to alipay or is there some less complicated process?
     
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    Hey Yaros,

    Love you work - I have been considering building a drop shipping site for a while now, quite serendipitous that i found this post and you're plugin so quickly.

    I have read through your guide.pfd and searched this forum but could not find an answer to my question so forgive me if you have already addressed this.
    My question: What are the legal requirements surrounding the drop shipping sale of trade marked products? For instance - I imagine Harry Potter products are heavily trade marked, but i haven't seen any mention of you purchasing a licence for the sale of Harry Potter branded merchandise and products. Could you please explain to me the finer details of this, and also how it relates to other heavily trademarked brands as i have a niche in mind but i want to ensure its all above board.

    Thanks!
     
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    #659
    Hey Yaros,

    How do you deal with the sizing on your apparel? I was looking at your products and noticed with the T-Shirts that I would actually have to order an 3XL when Im normally a L. Does this through people off? Does this lead to a lot of exchanges and questions?

    Thanks in advance for your reply
     
    d2bot2, Sep 12, 2016 IP
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    yaros Well-Known Member

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    I am just using my regular credit card to place orders. This card is connecting to my PayPal account to withdraw money from PayPal.
     
    yaros, Sep 12, 2016 IP