One of my regrets early this year is that i had little or no knowledge about drop shipping. well the main issue is not about me not having the knowledge but thinking drop shipping is a get rich quick scheme and that was the core of my problem also was the beginning of my failure.
Drop shipping is a big man job not only drop shipping but E-commerce is not an easy business to venture in without researching and having a sufficient amount of information to make you know the cons and pros in drop shipping cos lack of knowledge is simply the beginning of failure. Am not here to teach you about drop shipping even i don’t have adequate knowledge to make a living on drop shipping i just want to dish out an advice and some financial management on drop shipping with my little experience.
I will be talking about woo-commerce and shopify here since both are the most commonly used plugin for starting an E-commerce store, i will be talking about their pros and cons in terms of monetary management and features and on what to choose for starters who want to rush into drop shipping.

SHOPIFY.
What is shopify?
is an all in one eCommerce solution, which allows you to set up an online store to sell your goods, and provides customers with a great user experience. It features customizable templates, organized storefront, ‘Buy Button’ functionality, which allows you to use Shopify as a Point of Sale (POS) option and let customers buy your goods anywhere online.
You can visit https://www.shopify.com/ for more info
They have 7 days free trial though.

Pros:
* Speed and security – Shopify is integrated with payment providers, and its built-in speed checkout allows customers to pay with minimal load time.
* Marketing – Shopify allows custom Title tags, meta descriptions on every category page for SEO purpose and also allows you to build customized landing pages for marketing purpose.
* Design – Shopify offers multiples free themes and numerous custom-built premium themes along with the option to customize and add features for Developers.
* App Store – Shopify App store has all the features that you need to run an online business. It provides various free and paid Apps and adds flexibility for the brands having an online presence all around the web.
Cons:
* Pricing – Shopify’s basic plan starts from $29 a month; the average plan is for $79 a month, and advanced Shopify is for $299 a month.
* Customization Hacking – Shopify uses a different set up to customize their themes rather than using PHP for their templates. It might be a problem for first timers on Shopify.
* Content Marketing – Shopify’s blogging platform is not as great as WordPress as it provides a basic layout for blogging.
* Lock-In feature – Lock-in features to delete your online store permanently. Shifting from Shopify to another online store may not be a very smooth journey.

WOO-COMMERCE
What is Woo- commerce?
WooCommerce is one of the popular e-commerce plugin for WordPress. It is used by most of the online store in the world. WooCommerce plugin is free of cost. So you can sell your product anywhere and make WordPress more affordable and accessible.

WooCommerce Pros
1. WooCommerce is free –
WooCommerce is open source free software. This is very effective to scale online business. You do not have to pay for it. You can also update for free.
2. Professional and customizable –
Many free plugins are available to customize the WooCommerce plugin. It professional and standard that can be customizable with many themes so it can be modified for color variety.
Customers and visitors are impressed by the professional outlook of your website. It is user-friendly and provides lots of features that could customize your website.
You can download extra plugins to further customize your website. Many apps are available in free on WordPress store.
3. Analytics –WooCommerce provides lots of analytic tools to make top choice of developers. With these tools, you can easily measure the sales and analysis according to date brand, statics of customer, calculate your daily and monthly sales, measure no. Of orders and many more tools are inbuilt in WooCommerce.
4. Security - Security is one of the most important factors in e-commerce. Customer needs to make sure that transactions are secure. Merchant of e-commerce site makes sure that they are providing security to their customers. WooCommerce is very secure because it's regular updates undergoes for security purpose.
5. Flexibility – WooCommerce provides lots of functionality. You can change all the content easily. As like price, image, category and all. You can sell any type of product as like Simple, variable, downloadable etc.

WooCommerce Cons
1. Frequently WooCommerce updates – Most of the customers are dissatisfied about the update of WooCommerce. Sometimes your WordPress plugin is up to date but WooCommerce doesn't meet with updates.
2. Can be costly- WordPress and WooCommerce are free of cost and also there are various themes and plugins are available but sometimes it does not meet your requirement. If you want to customize site according to your requirement then it takes the time to do that or by expanding money you can customize your website.
3. Effective knowledge to use- This plugin requires effective knowledge to use. Sometimes when you want to make changes in your website but it is difficult to do by yourself. So you have to know about the both WordPress and WooCommerce.

As you ve seen from the above articles about the pros and cos of both woo-commerce and shopify so which do you think is beginner friendly?Well in my opinion i will go for woo-commerce.
I will be talking about woo-commerce here since its less costly than shopify and both offer the platform which is to create your online store.

If you decide on going with shopify you can go to their site https://www.shopify.com/ and purchase their basic plan which costs 29$/mo thats about 340$/year (N110/Year) although u get 7days free trial.

If you decided on going with WOO-commerce you should purchase your woo-hosting plan from
https://balehosts.com/woo-hosting, since woo-commerce is a plugin that is installed on wordpress. You can purchase your plan form https://balehosts.com/woo-hosting ,their basic plan starts from 18k/Year (50$/yr) and they provide .
1. Free domain name(You will be saving 4k buying a domain name)
2. Unmetered SSD storage and bandwidth
3. Free ali2Woo plugin for importing your products from ali-express(You will be saving 40$ buying the plugin.
4. Free necessary plugin for a standard store.
5. They also provide free store setup.
SO when you purchase their basic plan or any plan they help you to install a professional woo-commerce theme,plugin and setup your store with necessary plugin installed so all you have to do is to search for your niche and import your products to your store.so i recommend https://balehosts.com/woo-hosting if you decided to go for woo-commerce.

Thanks for reading.you can drop your suggestions below ,nobody knows it all

Very informative.. Thanks a lot..please I'm new to this.. Can you put me through on how to do drop shipping.. I'm just a young school leaver looking for a means of survival. Please help.. My contact is. 08100326056

Thanks in a million... My problem is how to open stripe account!!

If you can help on this I will be glad...

olusegun2025:
Thanks in a million... My problem is how to open stripe account!!

If you can help on this I will be glad...

There are several payment gateway for Nigerians to use on their woo-commerce site but the main issue is trust. USA citizens trusts PayPal and stripe more than any payment gateway and when they go to your store and see you don't have PayPal or stripe as a mode of payment they simply lose interest thinking its scam. You can use PayPal Lesotho business account, gtpay, quickteller and so much more as a mode of payment. PayPal holds your cash for 21days or less until your customer receives his/her products, u can use skrill business account also but my advice is to register your store business name in Nigeria or UK for more trusts with PayPal or any payment gateway.i havent used stripe though since its not accepted in naija, i heard it costs around 500$ to open it outside the usa also u will need a payoneer account

hustlelegit:

There are several payment gateway for Nigerians to use on their woo-commerce site but the main issue is trust. USA citizens trusts PayPal and stripe more than any payment gateway and when they go to your store and see you don't have PayPal or stripe as a mode of payment they simply lose interest thinking its scam. You can use PayPal Lesotho business account, gtpay, quickteller and so much more as a mode of payment. PayPal holds your cash for 21days or less until your customer receives his/her products, u can use skrill business account also but my advice is to register your store business name in Nigeria or UK for more trusts with PayPal or any payment gateway.i havent used stripe though since its not accepted in naija, i heard it costs around 500$ to open it outside the usa also u will need a payoneer account

Thanks for your prompt reply, I read some tutorials online about it...

Please keep this thread alive by giving us how to pick winning product and such things..

Dropshipping the big men hustle

Balehost is cheap and affordable , but still contemplating if the free setup will include logo and look professional..

olusegun2025:
Balehost is cheap and affordable , but still contemplating if the free setup will include logo and look professional..

lol ask them if they provide free logo design na, am sure they will make your store look professional

hustle now oooo,no give up

hustlelegit:
hustle now oooo,no give up

.... Hustle, any trick on products research?

olusegun2025:


.... Hustle, any trick on products research?

Use amazon na ;Dthats the little trick, check the weeks top trending product on ali-express, Walmart and amazon, google is ur friend.
Also check the location or country in which the particular product is been highly ordered.

Nothing sweet pass money oooo, make we hustle

Best gateways to use for your dropshipping store.
Paystack

Paystack is a payment gateway in Nigeria which is perfect for small business with little start-up income. Paystack allows your customers to make payments online using card payment, Bank transfer, QR code or GTBank 737. Paystack is a favorite for most small business owners because they don’t charge a cent for integration. Additionally, integrating paystack to your online store is very easy and can be done in a few minutes without much technical knowledge.


Pricing
Setup Fee: Free
Local Transactional fees: 1.5% of transactional amount + 100 which is capped at a maximum of N2,000.
Foreign Transactional Fees: 3.9% of transactional amount + 100.

PayPal.


.VoguePay


Voguepay enables your customers to conveniently make payment on your website for your Goods and services through card payments and even bitcoin.

On voguepay, you can easily set up recurring bills or a one-time payment for customers. To get started with voguepay you must pay a merchant verification fee of ₦1,500 with Corporate Affairs Commission and ₦2,500 with Govt. issued Identity cards.

Pricing
Setup Fee: Free
merchant verification: ₦1,500 with CAC and ₦2,500 with Govt. ID card
Local transactional Fees: 1.5% + 30 naira
International transactional fees: 3.8% of the transactional amount
Funds withdrawal fees: 1% + 120 naira

Rave.
Rave is payment gateway provider in Nigeria which allows your customers to securely pay online for your goods or services from the comfort of their bedroom. Using Rave payment gateway system, you can easily get paid from your customers (both foreign & Local). Rave ensures that you get paid with 24hours.

Pricing
Setup fee: Free
Local Transactional fees: 1.4% + 50 naira
Foreign transactions: 3.5%

Cashenvoy
CashEnvoy is one of the payment gateways in Nigeria which allows you to securely and smartly accept payments for goods & services from your customers. Cashenvoy started in 2009 and is approved by the central bank of Nigeria to securely process online payments for merchant nationwide.

Business Account pricing:
Sending money: to business accounts only – free
Making payments: to business accounts only – free
withdraw funds: ₦120.00 fee for withdrawals of ₦4,000.00 or less
Receive local payments: 1.5% of transactional amount + 25 naira
Receive foreign payments: 3.9% of transactional amount + 12.6 naira

3 success Secrets you weren't told on dropshipping.




Everywhere you turn your head, another ‘guru’ is flashing their fancy car, exotic location or rooftop party.

It’s a lot more fun to talk about these things… rather than chargebacks, refunds or PayPal disputes!

This is the other side of dropshipping gurus tend to hide.

Though all of these issues have a workaround solution, in the eyes of a newbie, what seemed to be a perfect business is now another scam, because they ran headfirst into a myriad of unseen problems without warning.

Long story short: Because they don’t know how to deal with it, they give up!

While other dropshippers continue being crippled by sudden obstacles, I want to show you how to calmly wave away the exact same issues.

By the end of this article, you’ll have awareness of what’s coming BEFORE you know it, and have the confidence to tackle any of these three issues should they pop up.

Issue #1: Getting Banned on PayPal
You might have heard stories about PayPal freezing dropshippers accounts out of nowhere.

But the truth is PayPal doesn’t hate dropshippers; they hate shady business.

By ‘shady’ I mean being unclear about shipping times.

Shipping times take two to three weeks on average for items coming from China.

This is pretty long compared to average shipping times (like Amazon), so newbies assume customers won’t buy the item if they know beforehand how long delivery will be.

And so they hide shipping times or aren’t straight up about it. Meanwhile the customer is confused and thinks they’re being cheated.

This lack of transparency drives customer’s mad to the point where they open a dispute on PayPal…

…and it doesn’t take a genius to figure out what happens next: PayPal freeze the seller’s account.

Unwanted scenarios like this can easily be avoided by firstly realizing that customers don’t care about shipping times, then recognising the real problem: you not being honest about shipping times!

If you’re open about how long shipping will take, instead of scaring customers away, it will draw them closer to your store, and they’ll trust you even MORE for being transparent.

They don’t care how long their order will take to arrive, they just want to ensure they know where it is and how long it will take.

Be aware that customer’s could’ve had poor experiences with online stores in the past…

…so being up-front about shipping times makes them feel more secure about purchasing from you.

We actually recommend that you add a ‘shipping disclaimer’ on every product page and order confirmation email.

The disclaimer could phrased like ‘FREE SHIPPING: Due to high demand, please allow 2-4 weeks for shipping.’

And another thing: bold it! Make it clearly visible enough so they can read it before deciding to add item to cart.

This prevents customers from making claims that they either have no clue about delivery times or where their order is located.

And that saves you, well — A LOT of PayPal disputes and customer complaints.

Issue #2: Getting Chargebacks

Nobody talks much about chargebacks, but this is a hiccup we see several newbies complain about.

The reality is every business has to face chargebacks from customers. It’s simply out of your control. No matter how amazing your business is, there’s always going to be an unhappy customer.

Credit card companies let customers chargeback for a range of things.

Fraudulent transactions

Not recognizing your store’s bill on their statement

Unclear about shipping times

Essentially, whenever they feel cheated out of.

The solution to this isn’t different from the above: If you are honest about everything, and can provide proof for any claims against you, you’ll have less chargebacks to deal with.

You might say “Sarah, this is all great. But how can I avoid chargebacks from happening in the first place?” And to that question is a simple yet powerful answer…

Communication.

Encouraging communication between you and unhappy customers through email goes a long way in helping to avoid negative reviews.

Dealing with the issue promptly through email helps to settle any ‘customer rage’ and allows customers to trust you even more.

At the bottom of each email you send, always mention something like:

“And if you’re having problems, please email us before leaving a review. We care about each and every customer.”

It also doesn’t hurt to mention that their order is on the way and they should please be patient about it. This way, you talk to and calm any upset customers before they attempt to do a PayPal dispute or a chargeback.

Issue #3: Getting Refunds

Dealing with refunds is part of any business.

So what do you do about them? A strict refund policy.

We strongly recommend that you have a strict refund policy in place that only allows refunds for items that are faulty or broken. Do not allow refunds for people that have simply changed their minds.

In addition, protect yourself by creating a page that has your refund policy on it, and link to it in the store footer. That way, it will be on every page in your store so customers don’t have an excuse for not having read it.

Bottom Line

Even though these issues have simple solutions, people get super negative when things go wrong.

Remember: there are solutions to every challenge and every stumbling block. With research and common sense, you can overcome anything.

Successful, rich individuals see these challenges as opportunities.

What type of person will YOU choose to be seen as?

If you decided on going with WOO-commerce you should purchase your woo-hosting plan from
https://balehosts.com/woo-hosting, since woo-commerce is a plugin that is installed on wordpress. You can purchase your plan form https://balehosts.com/woo-hosting ,their basic plan starts from 18k/Year (50$/yr) and they provide .
1. Free domain name(You will be saving 4k buying a domain name)
2. Unmetered SSD storage and bandwidth
3. Free ali2Woo plugin for importing your products from ali-express(You will be saving 40$ buying the plugin.
4. Free necessary plugin for a standard store.
5. They also provide free store setup.
SO when you purchase their basic plan or any plan they help you to install a professional woo-commerce theme,plugin and setup your store with necessary plugin installed so all you have to do is to search for your niche and import your products to your store.so i recommend https://balehosts.com/woo-hosting if you decided to go for woo-commerce.

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