How to make a DROPSHIPPING WEBSITE with WordPress and Woocommerce - Beginners Tutorial #Best Education Page #Online Earning

- In this video, I'm gonna be showing you how you can create

your very own dropshipping website, using WordPress.

The website we're going to be creating looks just like this.

It's running WooCommerce and the free storefront theme

to give it its look and feel.

It's also using a really cool premium plug-in that enables

us to very easily import products straight from AliExpress,

add our own margin, so that we make some profit,

and add them to our website.

It's also got some great functionality when it comes

to fulfilling orders, so when you get an order on your

website, with a click of a button, you can place that order

over AliExpress without having to fill in

too many forms, or any of that stuff.

Now, I'm going to be taking you through the entire process

from start to finish in a step-by-step fashion.

You're gonna be looking over my shoulder while I build that

website, so if you've never built a website before, don't

worry, I'm here for you, I'm gonna hold your hand,

and we're gonna be fine, and it's gonna be fun.

So, let's get started.

(gentle piano music)

Hello, it's Alex here from WP eagle, I hope you're all well.

So in this quite long video, we're gonna be

creating our very own dropshipping website.

Now, if you're familiar with Shopify and the Oberlo plug-in,

well maybe you are, may you aren't.

If you're not, basically Shopify has been the platform

that a lot of dropshippers have been using,

and Oberlo allows you to import products and fulfil orders

pretty much the same as what I'm gonna be showing you today.

Now the advantages of using WordPress over Shopify

is that you have access to way more plug-ins and themes,

so if you wanna add extra functionality or change the

look and feel, there's lots of choice out there.

WordPress also keeps the ongoing costs to a minimum,

with Shopify you have to pay every month, and for plug-ins,

and other things, you also have to pay for them,

generally on a month by month basis.

With WordPress the only costs you're gonna have is for the

premium plug-in, and for your website hosting, which,

I'm gonna try and keep to a minimum today, I've got a

great vouch code on the hosting, so we're gonna

try and keep costs as small as we possibly can.

Now, if you're new to dropshipping, I should

probably explain how dropshipping works.

Basically, with dropshipping, you go over to a site like

AliExpress, where you can see loads and loads of products,

and you're able to buy them directly from

the manufacturers or from the wholesalers.

Generally they're from China, or places like that.

And it allows you to get these

products at a really good price.

By becoming a dropshipper, you promote these products on

your own website, which is an e-commerce website, you take

orders and you take payment, you do, of course, add a margin

to the products so that you make some profit, and then when

you get an order on your website and you've collected

the money, you then place an order for the product over at

AliExpress, and you get the manufacturer to ship it straight

from China, or wherever, straight to your customer.

So you don't actually have to handle any products, or hold

any inventory, or any of that kind of stuff,

all you've gotta do is sell the products,

and once you've done that you've then gotta order

the product and get it shipped to your customer.

Now in this video, I'm just gonna be showing you how to

actually create the website, I'm not gonna be going into

how to get traffic or how to choose products, or how to

choose a niche, or any of that kind of stuff.

There's tonnes of good videos on YouTube, not on my channel

but on other channels, all around dropshipping

and choosing products, and all that kind of stuff,

so be sure to check them out.

I am going to be adding some more videos as we go forward

around optimising the site and promoting it,

and getting traffic, and maybe adding some

extra features, that kind of thing.

So be sure to subscribe, if you're not already subscribed

you'll find a button down there somewhere, give it a click,

and click on the bell and you'll be notified, then,

when I do upload those videos.

So before we get started, let me just take you through

the costs, I think we need to be clear in terms of

how much you are gonna need to spend today.

There's three things you're gonna need, a domain name,

some hosting, and the Ali dropshipping premium plug-in.

So, let's just go through what those cost.

So on the first is a domain name, and if you've already got

one, that's great, if you haven't, I'm gonna be showing you

how to register one in a few moments.

But generally the cost for a

domain name is around $15 a year.

I'll put the prices up there so you can see them.

The next thin you're gonna need is some website hosting.

Now hosting is basically where your website lives,

you hire a little bit of a server for a company

and they keep your website online.

I'm gonna secure a great deal for you guys

with Host Gator, I've got a voucher code

which I'm gonna give you in a few moments.

And with that, you're looking at

around $100 for the entire year.

So, that's less than 10 bucks a month.

There are other plans available, so if you wanna just go

for a rolling kind of one month package, that's fine,

although it will cost a little bit more.

But if you go for a 12 month package, you're looking at

around $100 for your hosting.

And then finally, we need that plug-in which does all the

cool stuff in terms of bringing products into our site,

and allowing us to fulfil our orders really easily,

and the cost for that plug-in is just a one off fee of $89.

So there's your costs, there up there somewhere,

I'll put a total, that's a total for the year so,

not a huge investment, and keep in mind

that all good businesses need a small

investment to get them up and running.

And as I say, I've tried to keep that as low as possible.

Well, I think that's enough introduction, I think we're

about ready to get on the computer and get started.

If you get stuck at any point, then do leave

a comment below, leave a question, and I'll

do my best to try and help you out.

I also run live streams, and they're generally every

Wednesday at 8:00 UK time, so be sure to check them out,

and I'm happy to answer questions on there,

and that kind of thing, we have a good chat about

internet marketing and websites, and all that kind of thing.

So it would be good to see you,

especially if you're new to the channel.

But anyway, that's enough looking at my face,

let's get on the computer, let's get this website set up.

So first thing we need to do is set up our hosting

and configure our domain name, domain name is a

dot com or dot co dot UK, dot net, dot whatever.

Those are dot extensions nowadays.

The company I'm gonna be recommending for our hosting

is HostGator, I'll put a link up on the screen now

and I'll also put a link in the description.

It is an affiliate link, so if you use it, thank you

very much, I will get a small commission.

But you don't have to use it.

I've also got a discount voucher that I will be sharing

with you in a moment which will get you a good discount

on the already excellent prices.

And that's one of the reasons that I go for HostGator,

they are really good value for money.

You get an excellent service, and it doesn't cost very much.

So if you just scroll down I'll just show you a few

of the other things that I like about HostGator.

They give you 24/7 365 support which you can

access via telephone, live chat, or email.

They've always helped me out very quickly and easily

whenever I've had a problem, not that I've had that many

problems, but whenever I have had one, they've helped

me out really quickly and it's not been any hassle.

They do offer a 45 day money back guarantee,

so if you've got any problems or you change your mind,

or whatever, you can just cancel it, get your

money back, walk away no problems.

They also promise a 99.9% uptime, which is obviously

a good thing, 'cause you want your website

to be available all of the time.

And they've also won some awards.

So, let's get signed up and get our hosting up and running.

And I'm gonna go for web hosting, and although we are gonna

be installing WordPress, we don't need the WordPress

hosting, the web hosting is just fine, does everything

we need, and it's slightly better value for money.

So now we have a choice of package.

Now I'm gonna go for the business package, and the reason

for that is I wanna use the SSL, and because we're running

a dropshipping site, it's gonna have a checkout

and give our customers a bit more confidence in

ordering with us, it's good to have that green padlock

and make it all nice and secure.

So I'm gonna be going for the business package today.

Now I have just recently put up another video where you can

get an SSL certificate for free by using a service

like Cloud Flair, so if you are really short on money

then you might be able to get away with the hatchling plan

and then add the SSL later using Cloud Flair,

so be sure to check out that video, I'll put a link

in the description so you can find it.

But if you want an easy life and you want it all in one

place and all that kind of stuff, then go for the business

which is what I'm gonna do now.

Gonna click buy now.

And we're on the order form.

The first question is around our domain name.

Now, if you've already got a domain name, that's fine,

I'm gonna show you how to set that up and re-point that.

If you don't have a domain name,

then now if your chance to register one.

Just simply start typing the domain name in here,

my new domain name for dropshipping, and then choose

whether you want a dot com, dot online, dot site,

dot store, dot website, dot whatever you like,

and I'll just go for dot com.

I'm old school like that,

I prefer a dot com if at all possible.

Then I do a little search and it will tell you

what domain names are available and you can just

tick the ones that you'd like.

Now, I've already got a domain registered, it's registered

over at GoDaddy, so I'm gonna go to I already own this

domain, I'm gonna start typing the domain in,

which is hot car products dot com.

So if you've got a domain over at GoDaddy or Name Cheap

or Name Store or any of those domain registrars,

you wanna go for the I already own this domain part.

And then it does suggest some other domains which are

available if you want them, just tick the boxes.

So let's scroll down.

The next is the package and the billing cycle

and all that kind of stuff, I've already chosen

the business package, as I say I want that one

because I want the SSL certificate,

and it offers a couple other

benefits over the other packages.

The next question is around the billing cycle.

Now you will get a much better deal if you can go for a

longer period, so 12 months, the price goes down quite

considerably, 24 months, 36 months, it goes down further.

I'd say go for 12 months if you can afford it.

I'm gonna give you a voucher as I say that will

give you a better discount than the 47.2%,

you'll get a little bit more off with my code.

So if you can't afford to go for 12 months, if you can't,

then yeah, go for the one month rolling.

My discount voucher will give you the first month

for a penny, which is pretty good.

But generally, websites and businesses take a little longer

than a month to really start working properly

and getting traffic and making money, so

I think you need to commit to at least 12 months

if you possibly can, which is what I'm gonna go for.

In here you'd enter a user name and your security pin.

I'm not gonna complete the whole form right now,

that would be a bit boring, you watching me fill in a form,

I'll do it in a few moments.

Next section is the billing info, standard sort of stuff,

your email, name, address, and your payment information

over here, whether you wanna pay with credit card or PayPal.

Section four is additional services, and we don't need

any of these, so just make sure that you un-tick them,

that will bring the price down.

I've got some videos on the channel which

I will put in the description, again,

which will show you how to protect yourself from hackers

and speed up your site and back up your work, and all

this kind of stuff that they're trying to sell you here.

You can do it without that for free.

Section five is very important, it's the coupon code.

Now there may already be a coupon code in the box,

but my coupon will give you a better discount

than what's already shown, so in a moment

I will get you a discount here of $96.

Put my code in, and my code is Eagle 30, Eagle 3-0.

Click validate.

You see that the discount has

increased further, which is all good.

Now this coupon is an affiliate coupon, so if you use it

I will earn a small commission, thank you very much if you

do, I really do appreciate it, really helps me out

and allows me to carry on making videos like this.

And that's it, we're pretty much done, we just need to tick

the box that says we have read and agree to the terms of

service, cancellation policy, and privacy policy,

which of course I have read through thoroughly,

I'm sure you'll do the same.

Then you just click check out now.

So, let me go through this form and fill it in for myself

and get my hosting account set up, and then

we'll crack on getting this website ready.

Okay, I've ordered my hosting, it all went

through fine, didn't take too long.

I've now received this email, hopefully you've received one

that's very similar, too, it includes all the information

you need to use your new hosting account with HostGator.

It's got a login for the billing system

and a login for your control panel, and some information

around the name servers and your server IP.

So, lots of important information,

make sure you keep the email safe.

So what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna re-point

my domain name, which as I said is over at GoDaddy.

So if you've already got a domain name,

you will need to do this step.

Don't worry if you're not with GoDaddy,

you should be able to figure it out, hopefully,

with whatever domain name registrar you're using.

If you just registered a new domain name with HostGator,

then you can skip this step, but you might need to wait

a few hours just for your new domain to be registered

and set up and working, you'll know it's working

when you visit it in your web browser,

and you see the HostGator page.

So just give that a couple of hours,

it may be quicker, it may be longer.

You won't need to do this step, as I've said, so what I'll

do is I'll put a time up on the screen now, if you skip the

video forward to that time, you're ready to carry on and

instal WordPress, and we'll see you in a second.

For those of you that do have a domain name,

let's get going and let's re-point it.

So I'm gonna head over to GoDaddy.

Not God.

GoDaddy, there we go.

And then I'm gonna go to

manage domains, I'm already logged in.

So if you're registered with someone else, the setting

you're looking is the DNS settings, or the DNS servers,

or the name servers, so look for that setting,

that's what you wanna change.

I'm gonna find the domain that we're doing today

which is hot car products, even.

I've got quite a few domains in there, as you can see.

I'm then gonna click manage DNS,

and then I'm gonna scroll down and find the bit

that's got name servers in it, which is here.

Gonna click change.

Gonna switch that to custom.

And then it gives me two boxes.

What I'm gonna do is go back to the email,

I'm gonna copy and paste.

So I'm just adding that to my clipboard by pressing command

C on my keyboard, or control C if it was a PC.

And just pasted it in with a

control V or a command V on a Mac.

And then get the second one,

paste that in,

click save, we're all done.

So now that domain is pointing at HostGator.

Now the update is gonna take a few moments to process.

I'll know it's working when I visit the domain name

and I see the HostGator screen.

And then I'm ready to start installing WordPress

and cracking on getting the website up and running.

So I'm gonna do another quick edit while I wait

for that to work, then we'll carry on.

Here we go then, it didn't take too long, only about

half an hour or so for the change to take effect.

And now, when I visit my domain name, I can see this

HostGator page, so that means that the hosting is up,

that it's working, and the domain name is

up and working as well and pointing at the right place.

So we're now ready to instal WordPress.

And then from there we can then start configuring

our website, and get everything and running.

So, the first thing we need to do is log into our

HostGator control panel, so I wanna go back to

the email, and we got this link here which takes us

to our control panel, so I'm gonna give that a click.

And then I need to put the username and password in

so I go back, the username is there,

actually I think it's already populated it, it has.

I did a sneaky little test earlier.

And here's the password, so just gonna copy

that into clipboard, and paste it in here.

Get the browser to save your password if you like.

Okay, so here is our control panel, do everything

we want in here to do with our web hosting.

Just gonna close this little message

at the top, we don't need that.

Now it might look quite overwhelming, there's quite a lot

of buttons and stuff in here to play around with.

But don't worry, we're not gonna be using hardly any of it,

the one thing you might wanna check out in the future

is this email accounts area, where you can create

email accounts that you can use on your domain,

and that kind of thing, but I won't be

going through that today in this video.

All we're gonna be doing is installing WordPress.

And there's this link here, build a new WordPress

site, so let's give that a click.

Then we've just got a very simple wizard that we need

to get through, so we need to select the domain.

Probably only have the one in there,

we're gonna leave the directory blank,

and then we're gonna click next.

You're gonna give it a name.

Thought that was a good name.

Gonna create an admin user, so this is the username

that we're gonna use to log into WordPress,

it's different to your HostGator usernames.

Let's go with WP eagle, first name WP, last name Eagle.

And then we need to put an email address in here.

And it's important that you get this email address correct,

because it's the email address that the site is gonna use

to send you important information, so yeah,

make sure you put a good email address in there.

We wanna keep that ticked, the

automatically create a new database.

And then we need to just tick the terms of service agreement

too, and then we're done, let's click instal.

That's gonna take a few moments.

And then we're all done.

So it's generated a password,

I'm gonna copy that to my clipboard.

I'll show you how to change it in a second to something

that you might be able to remember a little bit easier.

And then let's click login.

So this is gonna take us over to our website.

The login screen, so you see we're

over at my domain name, now.

At the login screen.

The username was WP eagle, the password is in my

clipboard, I'm gonna paste that in, click login.

And then we're in.

Again, you can get the browser to

save your password if you like.

So the first thing I'm gonna do actually is

change that password to something I can remember,

so to do that I'm gonna go up to top right, here,

hover over my name, gonna edit my profile.

Gonna scroll down.

Click generate password and then I'm actually gonna

enter my own, something that I can remember.

It thinks it's a weak password but, eh, it's not too bad.

I'm gonna tick that box, and then click update profile.

So, this is our WordPress dashboard,

this is where we can do anything we need to do

with regards to setting up the site.

It's how we add content, it's how we configure the design,

basically, everything is in here.

If I click up here and go visit site, we can

have a look at what the site looks like.

It's brought up the HostGator page, but if I do a refresh,

I think that's just my browser cache.

So if I do a refresh, we can see that we've got

what looks like a bit of a website.

And this is the default WordPress instal and the

default theme, so that's all up and running perfectly.

Going forward, if you need to login to your site,

you simply go up here and it's slash WP hyphen admin.

And that brings you back in here, and if

you're not logged in you'll need to log in.

So that's WordPress installed.

What I'm gonna do next is I'm just gonna

tidy up some of this stuff, 'cause

the instal from HostGator tends to instal a few plug-ins

and bits and bobs that we're not gonna be needing,

so I'm gonna clean all them out.

And then what we'll do is start installing

the plug-ins that we do need, so that will be

WooCommerce, which is our e-commerce plug-in,

and also our dropshipping plug in, too.

Okay, so let's tidy up this area, there's all the banners

and things that are making the place look untidy.

I'm gonna close that one at the top first.

Next one says, please configure your Google Analytics

settings, what we'll do is we'll do that

towards the end of the video.

Google Analytics allows you to track

how many people have come to your website,

where they come from, how many pages they look at,

all sorts of data that's really useful for

measuring how well your site's performing.

Says we're currently displaying a coming soon page, once

you're ready to launch the site, click here, that's fine.

And then there's some WP forms, let's close that,

and we can close that, as well.

So, I'm gonna go into plug-ins and I'm gonna

remove a few that we don't need.

So, we'll leave Google Analytics.

We'll leave Akismet, you might wanna turn that on

in the future, it's good for preventing spam, blog spam,

so if you start getting some blog spam, you'll want that.

We can delete Hello Dolly, that's just a bit of fun.

Jetpack I don't need, so we'll deactivate that.

Once I've deactivated it, I can delete it.

So a plug-in if you're not aware is an extra bit of software

that you plug-in, as the name suggests, into WordPress,

and it gives you extra functionality and extra features,

and there's a huge amount of free plug-ins, and there's also

a load of premium plug-ins so pretty much anything you wanna

do with your website, you'd better do it with a plug-in.

So let me just deactivate MOJO marketplace, too.

And then delete.

I'm gonna deactivate OptinMoster as well, and delete.

And I'm gonna deactivate WP Forms lite, and it's asking

me some questions, I'm just gonna press other,

and submit and deactivate.

And then delete.

So that's looking a lot tidier now.

There we go.

So, we're now ready to start making this WordPress instal,

turn it into a dropshipping website.

So the first plug-in we're gonna need is WooCommerce.

Now WooCommerce is a free e-commerce platform for WordPress.

On its own, it allows you to sell products, normal products

rather than dropship products, and it's got a checkout,

it's got lots of different payment gateways

so you can use PayPal and all sorts of different ones

depending on what your requirements are.

So we're gonna instal WooCommerce, and then

on top of that we'll instal our dropship plug-in

which is what we'll do next.

So, let's instal WooCommerce, so to do that

I'm gonna go to plug-ins and add new.

Do a search.

So I'm gonna type in WooCommerce.

There you go, it's the first one that

comes up, gonna click instal now.

So it's in here where you can add different plug-ins,

you can see it's pretty straightforwards, just search

in that box and it will show you which plug-ins

are available, and you press the button.

That's installed, let's click activate.

Okay, so now we gotta answer a few

questions to get our store all set up.

The first thing is where is your store based,

and you need to put an address in here, as well.

Type in address.

Okay, put me address in.

Choose your currency that you're gonna be using,

whether it be pounds or dollars or whatever.

And you decide what type of products you plan to sell,

we're gonna just be doing physical.

Then you can decide whether you're gonna

send them some diagnostic information.

Let's click let's go.

So here we can decide what sort of payment methods

we're gonna be using, you can use Stripe

to accept credit and debit cards.

If you tick that box it will...

Set up the Stripe account for you.

I'm not gonna use Stripe today,

I may add it later, but for now I'm just gonna

be using PayPal, so I'm gonna tick PayPal.

And then the final option is offline payment, so you can

decide whether you want to do check payments or whatever,

it's unlikely you're gonna use them.

So, just gonna stick with PayPal for now.

Let's click continue.

Now here we've got our shipping methods.

I'm gonna leave this for now, I'm probably gonna

come back to it once we started importing products

and I've got an idea on the shipping costs from

AliExpress and that kind of thing.

So we'll come back and set up some shipping stuff later.

So I'm just gonna click continue.

It wants a cost, let's just put 10.

And that one, 10.

So we'll set that up later.

The next is the recommended extras, we're gonna instal the

storefront theme, that's a free theme that gives us the

look and feel of our site, it works well with WooCommerce.

And as I say, it's free.

So, let's go for that so we're gonna leave that ticked.

It says we should connect our store to Jetpack to enable

extra features, I'm not gonna do that right now,

so I'm gonna go down to the bottom, skip this step.

It says we're now ready to start selling!

Which is great, so let's just go down to the bottom

and go return to the dashboard.

If we go back and have a look at the site now,

we can see that it's changed, that's because

we've installed the new theme.

And, yeah, it's now ready to start

being configured, and we can add a logo,

that kind of stuff, and start bringing

in some products from AliExpress.

So the next step is to instal

our AliExpress dropshipping plug-in.

So the plug-in we're gonna be using is this one,

it's called AliDropship, and one of the reasons

that I chose this plug-in is because unlike some

of the others that are available for WordPress,

this one just has a one-off fee.

A lot of the others kind of have a

monthly subscription type fee setup.

So I wanna keep your ongoing costs to a minimum,

and this plug-in ticks all the boxes in terms of

features and what it does, and it's just

a one-off cost, and that one-off cost is $89.

I'll put a link on the screen now so you can find this site,

I'll also put a link in the description.

It is an affiliate link, so thanks very much if you use it.

If you've watched any of my other videos, you'll know that

I only recommend products and services I've used myself,

so I use this plug in, and I think it's really good,

that's why I'm recommending it.

If we scroll down we can see that here are some of the

features, so you can do a search and import

to find the products on AliExpress,

it's got some themes that are built in,

although we're gonna be using storefront.

It's got pricing automation so

that you can easily mark up prices,

auto updating, keeps your product info fresh,

it's got WooCommerce support, and it places orders

automatically, as well as a whole host of other stuff.

So, you come over here and click buy plug-in.

Oop, and then click that button maybe, yeah.

You don't need the hosting, just need to fill in your

details and make the payment.

So I've already done that, I've got this email here.

So the plug-in we want is the WOO plug-in,

so I'm gonna click download WOO plug-in.

And download that to there.

So it's done, it's downloaded a zip file onto my computer.

We can close that now, so we go back to my site,

I'm already logged in still, gonna go to dashboard.

plug-ins, and then add new.

And then scroll down, we've got this big box

at the top, so we'll come back to that in a second.

So the kind of add new plug-ins bit has moved down a bit,

but anyway we wanna go at the top here

'cause we want this upload plug-in.

And then scroll down, and then choose file.

Find the right folder,

there it is.

Click open, then click instal now.

So that's done, down here with got this

little bit of text that tells us what's happened,

it's been installed successfully

so now we can click to activate the plug-in.

That's all done, so AliDropship is installed.

So we can carry on now and set up our store.

So I think the next thing we need to do is get

rid of this big box 'cause it's a bit annoying,

so we're gonna un-tick the add example products

and we're gonna leave that tick so it does create

a nice homepage for us, let's click let's go.

So we're now in the customizer, it'll take you

for a little tour if you want, I'm gonna click

no thanks, I'll skip the tour for now.

And it's created this nice homepage for us

which we'll come back and edit in a bit.

But I'm just gonna click publish for now.

That's done, and I click this little cross.

So it says our setup is complete.

Let's go and have a look at the site.

And here we go, so we've got this very simple homepage.

But what we'll do is we're gonna add a nice image and

we'll add some products and stuff once we've added them.

So I think that would be a good thing to do next,

now we've got our AliDropship plug-in installed.

What we'll do is we'll bring in some products from

AliExpress, and mark up the prices and all that

kind of thing, we'll check out the shipping

as well, and get that all configured.

And then once we've got a few products on,

and everything's set up, we can then kind of

finish off the look and feel of the site.

So, let's get some car products.

Not just normal car products but

let's get some hot car products

from AliExpress and get them added to the site.

So let's go back into dashboard, the first thing

we need to do is register the plug-in that we just

installed, the AliDropship one.

So let's go down here, you see it's added a new thing

at the bottom of our admin area.

We can see that it's asking for our licence key,

we can find it in the email, the e-auto confirmation email

that you would've got when you purchased the plug-in.

So, here's mine.

I'll probably blur it out,

just so that it can't be nicked.

However, I think you can only use it on one site anyway.

Paste that in, click activate.

It says licence code is valid, please go to dashboard.

Okay.

Dashboard.

And let's go back into AliDropship.

It says, okay, to start searching and adding products

to your store, please instal the AliDropship extension.

So you're gonna need the Google Chrome browser if you

haven't got it already in order to use this extension.

Chrome is a free browser available for PC and Mac.

So here it is, I'm gonna click add to Chrome, add extension.

And it's added this nice little button thing up here.

So that means that we can now

easily add stuff from AliExpress.

So let's head over to AliExpress, at Ali Express dot com.

So here we are over at AliExpress.

Now if you've been here before,

if you've looked into this in terms of doing dropshipping,

or whatever, you'll know that there is a lot of products

on here, and it can be a little bit overwhelming

to find the good stuff.

So what I'm gonna do, really just for the purpose of this

demonstration, I'm not gonna spend too long going for

different products and trying to work out which ones

are gonna be the best one, that kind of stuff.

Ooh, look at that, that looks like a cool product.

It's just flashed up, let's have

a look at that, road trip time.

Oh, they're just kinda clocks for the car.

Which...

Yeah, it's fine, but most cars

I think have clocks, don't they?

Or is it just my car?

Wow, look at gold plated bitcoin car thing.

No, actually I'm not gonna go in there.

What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna scroll down

and then you get this kind of thing coming down the side,

I'm gonna click on automobiles.

And it kinda gives you a bit of an overview

in terms of what's good or what's not.

You've got some different categories here.

I think what I'm gonna start with is a dash cam

because they're kinda cool, they're an

in thing at the moment, dash cams.

Then, I'm looking for a product that has the e-packet

generally, 'cause it makes the

shipping and all that a bit easier.

That's only got three days processing

time, that's pretty good, three days.

Let's go for this one, looks okay.

Yeah, this product looks good.

It's 47 to 64, free shipping,

expected delivery time 20-40 days.

That's fine.

So I've got this message across the top from AliDropship

which is our plug-in that says, to start adding

products to store, please open another browse tab

with AliDropship plug-in importing section.

Okay.

So we're gonna go back to our site

and we're gonna click on import products.

Then if we go back to AliExpress

this is now changed, and it allows us to

choose the site, which is Hot Car Products,

it also allows us to choose the category.

And currently we don't have any categories, so let's set up

a few categories, that would be a good thing to do.

Well at least let's set up a dash cam category.

So we're gonna go back to the website.

You can also do an import here which we may try later,

but I think it's actually easier to use that Chrome

extension and just do it straight from AliExpress.

But we do need some categories, so let's just click main,

and then click on products,

or actually hover on products and then click on categories.

And then I'm just gonna...

Is dash cam, dash cam is two word I guess.

Dash cams.

New, there we go.

And then let's go back into our AliDropship.

And we're back into import products, which is fine.

So I'm just gonna refresh this AliExpress page.

Now, we can select dash cams.

Now you've got two options, you've got import or edit.

If you click import, it will just bring it in as it is

and then you can mess around with it in WordPress.

If you click edit, you can makes some changes

on the fly before you import.

I'm just gonna import for now, just gonna click import.

And it's just doing it, it says uploading images.

It says the image upload has been complete,

so I'm guessing it's all done.

Let's go back to our website and have a look.

I'm gonna click on main and then

I'm gonna click on products.

And there it is, look.

When we click view we can see

what it looks like on our website.

There it is.

Now one thing you'll notice is that the prices,

'cause I'm selling in pounds,

it's just brought them in straight as they kind of are.

So 47.69, this is a dollar price,

but it's put it in as a pound price.

I guess I could get 'round that if

I change the currency up here to pounds.

Then it would import it as the pound price.

I'm not too worried actually, because that

kinda gives me a little bit of margin.

But going forward I'll leave it on pounds.

So, let's have a look what it's done,

it's put in the different options,

so you can order it with DVR only,

whatever it shows is the number in stock.

We'll do a test order in a bit once we've

set up all our PayPal and what-not.

It's brought in a description and all the images, and

yeah, basically all that stuff, so you can decide

whether you want to keep it as it is, or rewrite it.

I would rewrite it, personally, I would

make it your own, rather than just

taking exactly what there is on AliExpress.

So you wanted to make an edit,

you go in and click edit product.

And then you've got this text that was here,

you can just simply start changing and typing away.

Adding images, you can add an

image by clicking on add media.

It works very similar to Word

or kind of similar Word processors.

So, I'm not gonna do that now 'cause

that's a little bit boring to watch

but yeah, you can just go through

and change the products as you see fit.

And as I say, I would recommend

that you do change them a little bit.

I'll probably do a little bit of tidying up in a minute.

Down at the bottom you've got your product data,

and the only thing you're probably gonna wanna

mess around with in here is the pricing,

if you want to add a markup, that kind of thing.

Which I guess you do, because you

want to make some money, don't you?

So, if we go to variations, 'cause

a variable product, you know, it's got the different

memory options, this product.

We can expand it down

and there's our price there, 59.84, that one is.

5489 that one is.

And that one's 47.69.

So you've got the regular price, you've got the sale price,

so you know I can mark it up, I could put this at 54.99.

Even though, to be fair, it is already marked up because

it's turned the dollar price into pound prices

and the pound is worth a little bit more than a dollar.

For this example I'll show you how to change the prices.

Like that, and then when you finish, you click publish.

And if we click on this link, we can take a look at it.

There we go.

So what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna

add just three or four more products

using exactly the same techniques as I've

just shown you, using the Chrome extension.

Yeah, add a few more products just to kind of

fill out the site so we've got an idea of

what it looks like with multiple products,

and then we'll carry on working on the site

just in the layout, adding a logo, that kind of thing.

And then of course we need to set up PayPal

and the shipping, and do a test order.

So, I finished adding some products,

I've added eight different products

across a few different categories,

I've got some heated seat things,

got some dash cams, got a mat that stops

your phone falling off your dashboard.

This gadget thing and that gadget thing,

and yeah, got a few products.

And if we click through, we can take a look at them.

I've not edited the descriptions or titles or anything yet,

although as I said I would recommend that you do that.

What I want to do is I wanna remove this sidebar,

I don't think, when it comes to having a site like this

that it needs a sidebar, because generally I think

you're gonna be seeing a lot of traffic from Facebook

and places like that, so you just want them to

look at the product and buy the product rather

than getting distracted with the sidebar.

So, that's what I'm gonna do next,

I'm gonna remove that sidebar.

It's gonna need a little bit of custom code, I'm afraid,

because with the free version of the storefront theme,

which is what we're running, there's no option to

turn it off, but I have got a little bit of code

that we can add to get rid of it.

Then, we will do a test order and whatnot,

and set up the shipping, and then I think

we'll finish off by just starting up

the site and getting it looking really nice.

And of course, making sure that everything's

secure and make sure our certificate

and all that kind of stuff is working.

So, let's get on with it.

So, first things first, let's remove this sidebar.

Now to remove the sidebar I've got a bit of code

which I'm borrowing off someone's blog,

the blog post is here, it's over at Nicola.blog,

did a quick search, found it,

so that's the easy thing to do.

I will put this bit of code on WP eagle, too,

can't put it in the YouTube comments I'm afraid,

I'm not allowed to post code.

But I'll put it into the post over at WP eagle.

So I'm gonna copy that to my clipboard,

go back to the site, I'm gonna then add

a plug-in, so that we can add the code easily.

So into plug-ins and add new.

This of course is optional, if you wanna keep the sidebar

you don't need to do this.

The plug-in we're gonna use is code snippets.

Saves messing around with, you know

editing the theme files, that kind of stuff.

So that's activated, and then we've got this new

little snippets thing here, then we go to add new.

Give it a title, hide sidebar.

Paste that in.

Save and activate.

Let's go and see what that's done.

It's gone.

Now we just need to make the page full width,

so to do that I need to add some custom CSS which

handily is here, I'm gonna copy that.

I'll put a link to that blog post as well in

the description and on my blog so that you can find it and

I gave credit to Nicola, who's kindly provided this code.

So, I've got that CSS, I'm gonna add

that into appearance and customise.

Under additional CSS.

Paste that in, and publish.

Let's close that.

And then take a look.

There we go, nice and big.

The next thing we need to do is set up our shipping

and payment and check out, and all that kind of thing

so that we can do a test order.

So when I was editing the products, I was marking up the

prices, which of course you'll need to do, so you're gonna

take a look at how much stuff costs on AliExpress.

So I'm just gonna have a look at this product.

Oh, where's it gone?

There is it.

It's eight pounds to 16 pounds and I've got this on

11 pounds to 22 pounds, so I've just marked everything up

a little bit, you can obviously decide how much you wanna

mark stuff up, how much you think you can get away with

and make sort of a still good value.

But the other thing you need to be aware of is shipping.

So this has got free shipping to the UK.

And if I click on that little thing there I can take

a look at how much it costs to go to other places.

Brazil is free.

It's mostly free, for the China post thing

which is gonna take a little while.

And obviously you need to kind of say on your website

that stuff is gonna take a little while to get where it's,

Egypt is a bit more expensive.

So, I think what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna charge

a flat rate for shipping, a couple of pounds

to the main countries like the US and the UK

and Europe and stuff like that.

And for everything else, I'll charge a little bit more

to try and cover it, so let's set up our shipping.

So we're gonna go back into the dashboard.

Go into WooCommerce and settings.

Then if we go into shipping.

So we've got UK set up here, it's got

the flat rate, let's take a look.

We're gonna rename this to standard shipping.

I'm gonna add some more countries, North America,

Europe.

Actually, in theory, you shouldn't include UK

but I'll leave it there anyway.

And the kinda common countries where it's gonna be

free from AliExpress, all being well.

Let's save that.

Okay, then let's edit that flat rate.

It's currently set to 10, I'm gonna

put that to two, and save changes.

Okay, so that's all done, let's add another

shipping zone, so let's go back to shipping zones.

Add rest of world.

So, we're gonna be including places like Africa,

Russia,

Australia,

That should probably cover most places,

India is another one maybe,

China.

It's unlikely they'll be people all the way

from China, but you never know.

Let's add the shipping method just the flat rate

and we can edit that, I'm gonna put that to 4.50.

So yeah, that's our shipping set up.

Let's have a look at the - oop.

Is it saved?

Think so, save changes.

I can't click that one, never mind.

Maybe if I add one more country.

Iceland.

And save.

Okay, so let's set up the payment let's go to checkout,

seems to think I haven't saved but

I have, so, I'm gonna click leave.

Okay, so we've got a number of different payment methods,

there's check payments which is handy for doing tests,

but I'm gonna turn it off for now.

Save changes, and then there's two types of PayPal.

We've got PayPal standard and we've got PayPal Express.

For this example I'm gonna go for PayPal standard,

so I'm just gonna remove the PayPal Express plug-in,

in the plug-ins, it's just confusing having two in there.

PayPal standard I find is a bit easier to set up.

So, and let me just deactivate

that one, it's under plug-ins.

You can of course decide whichever one you want to use, but

yeah, personally I think PayPal standard is a bit easier.

So that's gone, so let's go back into WooCommerce

settings, should only be one PayPal now.

Oop, no, under checkout.

PayPal.

So, let's tick that box, let's

enter my PayPal email address.

I'm gonna enable the PayPal sandbox so we can do some tests.

And we'll get the other stuff here in a minute,

the API bits and bobs.

So, let's click on this button here to go over

to get our developer account.

Now I think I'm already signed up for this,

yeah, it looks like I am from previous projects,

so you'll need to make sure that you sign up

for a developer account, you can do it

with your normal PayPal details.

Let's go to the dashboard.

Then under sandbox here we've got a number of options.

If we go to accounts,

I've already got some set up here, actually.

What you need to do is create a new account,

you'll need to create two, a buyer account

and a seller account, so these are just basically

test accounts that we can play around with.

I noticed I've moved away from the website,

let me just open another tab

and get back to the website.

Gonna close AliExpress for now.

Let's go back into Woo-Commerce settings.

And checkout.

Always got loads of tabs on the go.

Okay, so back into PayPal.

So here we're gonna enable Sandbox, so

you need to create two accounts, once you done that

you can then just kinda click on them, go to profile

and you can get all the details and things that you need.

Like that.

Which is all very good.

And this is our personal one that we can use to

do a test order, which we'll do in two seconds.

So let's go back and just make sure

everything's set up for a test transaction.

We're gonna need this merchant Sandbox account thing,

so let's just copy the email ID,

let's go back to our PayPal settings.

Now where I entered that email address earlier my real email

address, actually we need to the Sandbox one, my mistake.

Let's just paste that in like that, also let's just

update this receiver email so that it matches.

We'll set them all back to the live

settings when we're ready to go live.

So there we go, that's done.

Let's go and do a test transaction right now.

So we're gonna open yet another tab, head over to the site,

go to the shop and add a product to the cart.

This heated seat thing will be fine, select a colour.

Add to cart.

Now let's review the cart.

Oh, we've still got a sidebar, I think there's still a

sidebar on the cart, and the checkout, and all that stuff

so we will remove that in a few moments once we've

just got this test order working and all that.

Let's proceed to checkout.

Need to fill in this form, mine's

been auto-populated by my browser,

and then we click proceed to PayPal.

And here we go, it's doing something.

Looks good.

So now we need to log in, and we're gonna log in

not with a real PayPal account but with one of

our Sandbox accounts, so let's go back here.

And it's this personal one that we need, so let's

just click on the profile to get the details.

Let's copy the email address.

You probably even know these, because you just set them up.

So type in the password that you created a few moments ago

when you were creating your Sandbox accounts.

Click log in.

And then we should be good to go.

Seems to be fine, let's click return to merchant.

The order's been received, there we go.

So now if we go back into our dashboard,

under WooCommerce we've got a new order, yippee.

There it is.

And we can click on the little eyeball to view it.

And all looks good, so this is the

order here, all the details, the customer's

details and all that kind of stuff.

So I guess now is a good time to show you how you would then

process this order, and all that kinda stuff,

you'd obviously wanna check that you've

got the money, it tells you down here,

IPM payment completed, that's all good.

PayPal's got the money.

So now we're ready to place our order on

AliExpress and get the stuff ordered and get

the merchant over there to send it straight to our customer.

Now our AliDropshipping plug-in makes it quite easy,

it's added this button up here, so we can

place order automatically if we click that.

Here's the details, you've got an additional

note which is filled in for you.

You can edit it in the general settings of the plug-in,

actually, it does need a little edit because

it's got a little typo in it, but, hey, never mind.

We can change that in a second.

It says to fulfil your order you need to log into

your AliExpress account, log in now, let's click that.

And let's just log in.

There we go, I've logged into AliExpress,

if I go back I can click continue.

And now the plug-in is gonna go off to AliExpress

and fill in all the forms and do all the stuff for me

and all I need to do is enter my payment details

making it nice and easy.

So here we go.

Doing some stuff.

Okay, because I just put in some kind of bogus stuff into

my checkout, it's not quite gone through properly, so

you'd have to...

Maybe possibly fill in a few things,

what is this, England, there we go.

City, whatever.

Mobile blah blah blah.

These should be numbers, obviously.

So, ideally if your customers enter

the correct address you'll be fine.

Didn't like the post code, hang on.

Let's just go AB 122DE.

Okay, then we can review our order here.

So obviously this would be your customer's address,

and then all you need to do is just confirm the payment

and click confirm and pay, I'm not gonna do it right now,

obviously, 'cause I don't want to get this stuff sent,

heated car seat sent to some random address that's not real.

But that's it, then you're done.

So once you've done that you can come back here and if you

click this get tracking button, what will happen is it will

get the tracking details out of AliExpress too, and

send that off to the client and all

that kind of stuff, so you're all done.

And it's as easy as that, and then your order's fulfilled

and you can go and do something else.

So, test order's all good, all working,

now we can switch to our live PayPal,

so I'm gonna go into settings again.

And I'm gonna go back into checkout.

And PayPal.

I'm gonna turn off the Sandbox, gonna put

this to my real PayPal email address.

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