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Automate your ebay dropshipping business
 

I noticed a few threads on here members asking about automating their dropship business. I am not going to pretend to be a client like a spammer, I am just going to tell you upfront, I developed this tool but I didn't develop it to make money, I didn't even develop it to release. I developed it for my own business and decided to share it with other dropshippers.

So I am sure you are wondering what it does. Well it semi-automates processing of orders. It allows you to copy and paste a buyers address from eBay, Inkfrog, Amazon (and others) into over 80 suppliers checkout including Walmart, Wayfair, Aliexpress, Amazon etc.

This saves my team incredible amount of time processing orders and frees them up to list more items and do more sales a day.

You can check it out at www.dropshipnpaste.com

I welcome any comments, questions or suggestions. I am also willing to make it work with whatever service/s you use if I am able to do so. I goes so frustrated with the wasted time of manually copying and pasting addresses by hand that I wanted to share this with other dropshippers.

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Dang, I kinda wish this thing worked with my invoicing software right now lol.

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That's pretty cool. I applaud your effort on a not-for-direct-profit project. Really cool how you've made notes about your software's interaction with each e-commerce platform. I don't dropship but I've been trying to get my wife to give it a try. I think I'll download just to have the software.

Just out of curiosity, what language did you write this in?

Oh wait, is this just a Chrome plugin? Sorry for the noob question but I can't seem to get a download going on FF.

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Am I right in saying that there are already dropshipping tools available which automate the entire process, or at least most of it? From automatically adding listings, to auto repricing, to auto ordering?

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Shoot me a message and we can see if it is feasible to get it setup to work with your invoice software. Is it actual software on your computer or a web app?

Thank you! I do want to get it working with Firefox but they are completely different platforms and it would require a complete rewrite and I am not sure if there is the interest there yet. If there was I would definitely consider that.

To be the most accurate we found Chrome was the way to go - at least with our experience.

There are and actually recently a number of ones have cropped up. As far as automatically listing goes there are some really good ones available such as Hydra Lister.

Before we made this tool I actually signed up for all the automated services I could find. There are several flaws I noticed which prevented me from being comfortable using them and I will list them:

#1. Very limited - Almost all of the automated services only order from Amazon and only work with eBay orders. My dropship company actually sources from 32 different suppliers. So using a automated service would only cover 1 of those suppliers. And I wanted something that would be able to work with every supplier we used. And from there we added 50+ that we don't use but I know a lot of other dropshippers do. My goal is to offer support for whatever is needed.
#2. Pricey - Most of these automated services charge a monthly fee plus per order auto-ordered. The lowest price I have seen is $.20 a order and some are as high as $.50 a order. If your margins are $1-2 as many dropshippers are this is a HUGE cut into profits especially when again they are covering a very small part of the market.
#3. Bots make mistakes - While I will be the first to admit no tool is perfect (mine isn't) the fact of completely automating insists that there be a level of perfection. With one of the services we used it fulfilled 25 orders through Amazon, 3 of them were shipped to the wrong address, 1 had part of another address left in the secondary street field. Another service we tried had fail-safes to help mitigate errors which resulted in a large percentage of orders being flagged to do manually. The plus side is we saw no mistakes in ordering but a large portion of orders we were still doing manually.

I am not just knocking these services because it is a fairly new field and I think in time they will get to the point where I would actually feel comfortable using them but I don't right now. And when our orders are fulfilled I want somebody checking to make sure it is correct.

My goal, again, is to fill a need I saw. There are other tools in this niche, but none as accurate or that work with so many suppliers and order management software. The owner of Skugrid told me he is planning to release a auto-order feature at the end of this year. So it is possible in time DropshipNPaste will become obsolete but I feel right now it fills a very much needed hole in the market. That's my opinion anyways lol

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Thanks for your contribution. Few newbie questions
1) How do I know it doesn't send you information about my suppliers, how can I be 100% sure it's not a malware or spyware or whatever the name of those malicious codes.

2) Can you recommend other safe software for dropshippers? from uploading listings faster to editing etc

3) Did the Hydra lister and similar programs got you linked? if yes, did you try to mix the things you sell to avoid that?

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It's not possible to know the truth unless you can read the code...

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Nobody except the developer knows the code? if anyone can see the code then I guess I can pay a programmer to take a look and if it's clean I can buy it but then again, the developer can always add something to the code right?
Is there a way to find out? i'm pretty sure google wouldn't allow a malicious code to be sold?

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Its nice to hear you regarding the dropshipping business software. Its great opportunity to newbie whose look to run an online dropshipping business.

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Great, perfect.

I will test this :-) I use only software for automation out of stock, repricing.... etc.

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DropshipNPaste , Thanks for the great tool. I was wondering which of the listed order management platforms is more useful for running a lot of stealth account without linking them ? Thanks :)

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Why the state percentage of Ali express less than 100 ? ( 95% Support ). Is it still under

construction ?

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Sorry for the late reply, I didn't get your message until now.

Honestly, there aren't really any good services I know of that cater to this market necessarily. I have found Appath to be the most useful but I would not necessarily say they have any advantage as far as stealth or using multiple accounts without linking. Basically all Amazon is going to see is that the same developer account (number associated with a particular service) requested order reports for multiple accounts. This is not suspicious in and of itself and this alone should not "link" anything because it is normal for a service to request order reports for hundreds if not thousands of Amazon accounts.

As far as eBay goes eBay actually seems to be better at linking accounts through order management because of how their APIs work differently. Sorry I can't be of more help there.


Aliexpress is actually 100% supported for all US addresses and military addresses. Support is not yet available for international but it is in the works. It is a difficult process working with Chrome to release international. They are not being cooperative. But it is 100% working at this time for all USA addresses.

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It's not going to work in this thread either bud. :focus:

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Looks nice, and is surely smoother than letting iMacros handle it.
Some things I am missing though:
Would love to see support for Paypal order form, as well as print-on-demand suppliers such as lulu and thebookpatch.
Is it possible to add one's own supplier order forms to the config instead of asking you to do it?

Also: the price is about 50% too high IMHO. At half the price it would be quite worth it.