Asking questions drives us to grow in almost every area. Work is no exception, especially if you are planning to start a new business model. Starting a dropshipping business raises many questions, and we aim to help you through our blog and features to automate processes. This guide will review some of the most frequently asked questions about how AutoDS works.
By automating some meticulous processes required in dropshipping, we gain time to plan new strategies or focus on priority aspects of our business. AutoDS offers vital resources to ensure everything runs smoothly, allowing you to establish a functional dropshipping store that generates income.
Let’s dive into it!
AutoDS is an all-in-one dropshipping solution that automates various aspects of the dropshipping process, such as finding and importing products, monitoring prices and stock 24/7, processing orders automatically, and more. By automating these and other routine tasks, AutoDS aims to help you gain time, allowing you to focus on growing your business and developing new strategies.
AutoDS provides different pricing plans tailored to different needs and integrates with various selling platforms, such as Shopify, eBay, Facebook, Amazon, Wix, WooCommerce, and Etsy. It offers specific plans for each platform with features like product importers, order managers, smart filter systems, and more.
Due to its global reach and integration with various e-commerce platforms, AutoDS works in several regions and countries, including the USA, China, the United Kingdom,Germany France, Australia, Spain, Canada, Italy, Russia, Belgium, Poland, and the Czech Republic.
If you have an e-commerce store on platforms like Shopify, eBay, Wix, WooCommerce, Amazon, Etsy, or Facebook Marketplace, you’re ready to start with AutoDS! The first step is to connect your existing store to the AutoDS platform. This integration allows you to import products seamlessly into your store with just a few clicks.
Once registered, you can access the dashboard to manage your dropshipping account. It is a very intuitive and functional site full of features that can undoubtedly help you start a dropshipping business or grow your current business.
Yes, with our Product Research system, you can easily compare over 8 million trending products from global suppliers that you can import to your store with a single click. We continuously monitor your products’ prices and stock levels around the clock to ensure real-time updates.
Through AutoDS, you also can leverage on:
The AutoDS Marketplace feature is designed to simplify product research, discovery, and importing better. The marketplace’s user-friendly interface makes navigating countless options easy. It’s a never-ending marketplace filled with diverse products sourced from private suppliers in every corner of the globe. This expansive network ensures that you have access to various items, from everyday essentials to unique, niche products that can set your store apart from the competition.
Additionally, when you’re ready to import, you can do it directly from the AutoDS platform with just a click of a button. By leveraging the AutoDS Marketplace’s features, you can efficiently discover, research, and import winning dropshipping products to your store, saving time and effort in finding profitable items to sell.
The AutoDS Hand-picked Products Hub is a curated selection of top best-selling products carefully chosen by the AutoDS team to facilitate your sales. This feature ensures that you can access proven products likely to appeal to diverse audiences and niches.
The Hand-picked Products Hub offers a diverse range of products from various suppliers, reaching customers on an international scale. Each product is carefully selected following specific criteria such as metrics, engagement, and valuable information.
The items in AutoDS’s Hand-Picked Products Hub are updated regularly to ensure you have access to new and trending items.
Through our TikTok Ads Spy, you can access a great collection of constantly updated TikTok ads and videos. This way, you can gain valuable insights and inspiration for marketing your products and generating new ideas.
Spy Tools are valuable since they allow us to track specific data about a publication to know what strategies can lead you to effective marketing strategies and what you should avoid doing. You can personalize the result you want to get from the TikTok ad through the wide variety of filters that this feature offers.
Yes, through AutoDS, you can automatically fulfill customer orders on your behalf. This has several benefits, such as an automatic update of the tracking number and order statuses.
The following features allow you to optimize your time and focus on other tasks while your orders run:
Our AutoDS Dropshipping Product Importer feature allows you to import products individually or in bulk in simple steps. This bulk importing feature saves significant time compared to manual uploads. Also, since AutoDS allows you to import products from a wide range of suppliers, including Amazon, AliExpress, Walmart, and many others, you can source products from multiple channels.
With the Fulfilled By AutoDS Service, all your orders are taken care of automatically. This means you won’t have to manage orders on the source site, deal with cancellations and returns, or worry about your source account being restricted.
Load your balance to your AutoDS account, and we’ll handle everything. If necessary, we’ll place the order, update tracking, and even process a return label throughout the entire order venture. Forget about account locks, order cancellations, or worrying about your credit card limits.
All orders will be automatically processed. Plus, returning items is easier with our one-click process. Just change the order status to ‘Ask to cancel,’ and our Fulfilled By AutoDS Service team will handle the rest, providing you with the return label to download.
Of course! AutoDS Print On Demand feature allows you to create custom products like apparel, accessories, and homeware without needing inventory. The platform offers tools and features for designing, customizing, and importing POD products to your store easily.
Also, AutoDS collaborates with reliable Print On Demand suppliers to streamline the entire process, providing an efficient way for users to bring their unique designs to life and offer personalized products to their customers.
You can source safely from China by shipping your products through the AutoDS warehouse, where we inspect product quality, resolve communication issues with Chinese suppliers, and improve delivery times.
The AutoDS Sourcing service provides more control over the product, better shipping times, and pre-shipment inspections. With AutoDS sourcing, you can fulfill products from China using our agents instead of other suppliers.
With the Product Sourcing feature, you can address common problems like long shipping times, quality issues, and customer support challenges.
Leveraging our Inventory Management feature, you can handle your stock in a really practical way. This feature is designed to streamline this kind of process. You can use it to edit products individually or in bulk, view and manage products from multiple stores, and find out if there is a variation on hold or out of stock in a matter of seconds.
Moreover, products not tracked by AutoDS will appear in the “untracked products” section. Even if you receive orders for these untracked products, they will still show up on your orders page, without the source product ID. This ensures you stay informed about all your orders and can manage your inventory seamlessly.
AutoDS’ Price & Stock Monitoring feature is designed to keep your product listings automatically updated. It continuously monitors the prices and stock levels of your products from your suppliers to update your listings when something changes.
AutoDS helps you avoid selling items out of stock by ensuring your product listings are always current. This minimizes the risk of disappointing customers and helps maintain your store’s reputation.
Also, If a supplier changes the price of a product, AutoDS will adjust the price in your store accordingly. This ensures that you always stay competitive and maintain your profit margins.
Our system can automatically update tracking numbers for some suppliers. However, you’ll need to update the tracking numbers manually for other suppliers.
The Fulfilled By AutoDS Service automatically handles 100% of your orders (with supported suppliers). This means you no longer have to manage orders on the source site, handle cancellations and returns, or worry about your source account being restricted. Additionally, we automatically update your tracking numbers!
Yes, AutoDS works with AI to provide more solutions. For instance, we offer you advanced AI tools like the Product Title & Description Generator, which significantly simplifies the process of optimizing product titles and descriptions for your stores.
This AI tool generates optimized titles with relevant keywords to increase conversion rates and descriptions that boost your sales by providing essential product information.
Also, AutoDS offers an AI Prebuilt Shopify Store service that allows you to create a Shopify store with AI assistance in less than 2 minutes.
To connect your Shopify store to AutoDS, complete your store settings in the first place. Once you have done that, you will see a button for connecting the store in your dashboard. Then a pop-up will ask you for the store URL, and after that, you will be directed to your Shopify admin to log in. Once you log into your account, your store will be added to our supplier’s platform, and you will see the AutoDS app in your menu.
Also, you can log in on AutoDS and then click on the “Add Store” section on your dashboard to connect it with your Shopify Store.
Of course! In fact, connecting your Facebook store to AutoDS is really easy. From the AutoDS platform, click on ‘Add Store’ from the left menu. Then, from the store type options, click on ‘Facebook Store.’ Next, between the two selling channel types, select ‘Facebook Shops’.
Certainly, all you have to do is go to the main menu on your dashboard and click on “Add Store”. Once you select the “Etsy” option, you will be directed to the site to authorize AutoDS access to your account. And that’s it!
Yes, AutoDS does integrate with WooCommerce. With this integration, you can manage your WooCommerce store, including listing management, price and stock monitoring, order processing, and more, directly from the AutoDS platform. This integration streamlines your tasks and helps you efficiently manage your dropshipping business.
Yes, with AutoDS, sellers can streamline their operations and optimize their eBay stores for improved efficiency and profitability. Keep in mind that your eBay store is regularly connected to AutoDS via API. This means AutoDS has third-party app permissions on eBay to manage your account effectively, which is the most recommended method.
Absolutely! AutoDS automates your product listings, prices, customer orders, and price and stock monitoring, allowing you to dedicate your time to expanding your Amazon business. You also gain access to dynamic pricing, an advanced filters system, a full business dashboard, and much more!
Yes, connecting your Wix Store to AutoDS can definitely increase efficiency and save time and money. Automate several aspects of your operations and leverage resources like the product research tool, Draft Product Listing, Easy Product Importing, and Fulfilling your orders.
We work with different types of suppliers:
Multiple Retail Suppliers: AutoDS supports numerous reliable global dropshipping suppliers, allowing you to source and import products from prominent suppliers like AliExpress, Amazon, Walmart, and more.
Private Suppliers: You can gain a competitive edge by working with unique private suppliers available exclusively on AutoDS. These private suppliers offer proven products with better quality or faster shipping times.
AutoDS Private Suppliers: AutoDS also acts as a dropshipping supplier, simplifying user sourcing processes. With a warehouse in China, AutoDS offers faster shipping times and improved product quality, making sourcing easier and safer for dropshippers
Yes, we do support worldwide shipping, as long as the supplier we are working with delivers in that part of the world. AutoDS primarily facilitates dropshipping operations for suppliers and does not directly handle the shipping to end customers. The platform supports suppliers in managing their shipping policies and processes. Also, our Fulfilled By AutoDS service supports international shipments with Hipshipper!
Shipping times depend on the supplier responsible for fulfilling the order. For example, if you work with an Amazon store, you can access the fastest domestic shipping service, which is 1-2 day delivery.
A return request can only be initiated on the supplier site once the order has been delivered. Each user is assigned a return rating value, calculated as the percentage of returns compared to the total number of orders (lifetime order history). In AutoDS, this limit is set at 5%.
Of course, we have different options for you to choose from that are according to your needs. Currently, we offer the following plans:
Our trial period lasts 14 days, which costs $1. With these two weeks of trial, you can thoroughly explore our features and dashboard to convince yourself that AutoDS can greatly help your business.
Technological advancements now allow automation to give us a huge helping hand in managing time, organization, and investments. These are some of the most common questions that individuals and companies working with us often have.
These were general queries, and each one can be explored further by seeking more information on our blog or contacting our support service.
You may have already known the answer to some, or perhaps the size of the list overwhelms you, but we don’t want to scare you. AutoDS is an intuitive tool, easy to use, and above all, it benefits the growth of your dropshipping business. To keep learning about dropshipping, consider the next articles:
