Dropship world: 5 tips to avoid money-losing mistakes while Fulfillment

Joey W.
Joey W.
Jul 20, 2017 · 4 min read

Fulfilling is not simply “copy and paste” story. The more orders (and revenue) you get, the better you have to control your ordering process.

You can easily get hundreds of customers’ complains just by slow ordering, keeping a bad supplier or (simply) sending products without English instructions. To be worse, many dropshipping sellers have lost millions of dollars when customers keep opening cases through payment gates as Paypal.

Here are 5 tips for you to have better control on your ordering:

Tip 1: Verify your AliExpress account as quick as possible

Why AliExpress requests to verify account?

After you fulfill a couple of first orders on AliExpress, one or many of your orders will be cancelled and they will ask you to verify your credit card and prove your identity by appealing and uploading some documents. This verification is normal to all dropshipping sellers. However, the closing orders can be a big problem to your fulfillment, especially to newbie. In a blink, all your 100 orders can be closed and can not be delivered to customers.

What to do: Buy an AliExpress Pocket value over $100 to avoid AliExpress’ closing orders in bulk.

The trick here is to request AliExpress to appeal your payment methods in advance. Buy an AliExpress Pocket, value over $100, AliExpress will naturally appeal your payment method through your purchasing.
Usually it takes about 3–5 days for AliExpress to appeal. Then you can pay with your payment methods as normal.

Tip 1. Buy an Alipocket value over $100 to get AliExpress appeal your account.

Tip 2: Re-order immediately if AliExpress have closed your orders in bulk.

Even when your payment method is already verified, AliExpress still won’t open all your closed orders. So you will still have to re-order.

I’ve tried some fulfilling tool which can notify orders with status “Closed” and allow re-ordering. And for Shopify stores I am using Upinus. Here’s how to re-order with Upinus.

  • 1. Search for “Done” orders in Upinus. See photo 2 below. Closed orders will be labeled as “Done”.
  • 2. To reset order status, change from “Done” to “To order”. See photo 3 below.
Photo 2. Find closed order with Upinus
Photo 3. Mark as “To order” to reset order status

After resetting successfully, you can start re-ordering to AliExpress.

Tip 3: Change suppliers when necessary:

Even when your suppliers have been carefully chosen, you can easily get these troubles: late delivery, slow processing, (suddenly) high prices, no Epacket to different countries… That’s when you need to change to a better supplier! (Next time, I will share how to find a better seller in AliExpress)

With all dropshipping app like Upinus, seller can easily add a different supplier then apply to orders.

Photo 4. Change suppliers immediately when neccessary

There are 3 modes for sellers to change suppliers: to ALL orders, to orders with same shipping country or to this single order only.

Photo 3. Three modes of changing suppliers

Tip 4: Use an override phone number to fulfill faster.

AliExpress always requires phone number to order. But sometimes, customers might not leave their phone numbers. To solve this, you can add any fake phone number by going to “Setting” and submit any random numbers. See photo 4.

Tip 5: Don’t forget the “dropshipping note” before paying.

“Dropshipping note” is to remind suppliers that your business is dropshipping business.

Without this note, your supplier may not recognize this is dropshipping business and send products together with original price and instructions in Chinese to your customers. This might make your customers uncomfortable and to be worse, open cases in Paypal.

Normally, if you use fulfilling tool, you can simply set a custom note. The tool will auto fill these message while ordering to AliExpress.

Photo 13. How to add “Override phone number” and “Dropshipping note”

With these steps and tips, I believe every dropshipping sellers can save time and reduce mistakes caused by slow or wrong and manual ordering. Ordering to AliExpress has never been easier, even to ordering in high quantity.

Though I’ve used Upinus as the examples for fulfilling tool, I strongly recommend sellers to test both 3 stronggest dropshipping app: Upinus, Dropify and Orbelo (quite familiar, huh?).

See you guys in other article. Any comments are welcomed ❤ ❤ ❤

Good luck!

Joey

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Joey W.

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Joey W.

Dropshipping seller & writer. Fulfilllment supporter. Advertising digger.

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