5 Good Reasons to Buy a Custom-Made Dropshipping Store

There are many reasons to buy a custom-made dropshipping store. In one of my blog posts, I wrote about the three different ways you can start a dropshipping business, and one of the ways I recommended is to buy one customized to your niche and taste. Today, I will expound further on why doing these benefits you.

Here are the five reasons we will talk about today:

You do not have to waste time and effort
You do not have to do market research
You do not have to upload each product manually
You do not have to experiment with web design
You do not have to worry about technical issues

Let us get started!

What is a custom-made dropshipping store?

All dropshipping stores are custom-made. Typically, a dropshipper signs up for an account on his platform of choice and then builds the store from scratch. The most popular dropshipping platforms are WooCommerce and Shopify.

A custom-made dropshipping store refers to a website store that someone made for you. You can either buy this service from Fiverr or you can buy from AliDropship. Sometimes, you can buy a ready-made store, but not custom-made, in website marketplaces.

There are two main types of people who buy custom-made dropshipping stores:

Those who have the capital and want to use their time wisely
Those who do not know how to build one

Regardless of who you are, buying a custom-made store only has one drawback: you do not build it yourself, so you may not understand the inner workings of your store.

The good thing is that builders of custom-made stores offer a support system. They will be available to answer your questions until you can operate your store independently.

But is it really worth it, and why?

5 Good Reasons to Buy a Custom-Made Dropshipping Store

Let us look at the top five reasons why you should buy a custom-made dropshipping store.

1. You do not have to waste time and effort

I know what it is like to build a Shopify and WooCommerce store. While many people make it sound so easy, I have to say that it really isn’t.

When they say it is easy, they simply mean that you do not need to learn how to code. This is true. You do not have to understand HTML, JavaScript, or CSS to build a website store.

Software web builders today feature a user-friendly system where all you have to do is to choose a template and upload your product photos and descriptions.

If you use a web builder like Elementor on WordPress, you can build your website with its drag-and-drop feature.

If you know how to use Facebook, then you can surely build a website. This, however, is an oversimplification. For one, you will encounter image sizing issues—some photos are blurry on some platforms, so now you have to research to fix the issue.

Building a store is easy because you do not need to code, but creating a store that looks coherent and beautiful is another thing. Branding alone can be a tough nut to crack. What colors will you use systematically all over your website? What photo sizes and fonts will you use?

As you can see, there is more to building a store than meets the eye. I spent weeks building a storefront that looked great to me. People like me and you are not web designers by profession. We can get it done, but it can take a while.

Building a store on your own is fun—I must say it is fulfilling. However, it requires grit to get it to fruition. If you easily give up because of failures, you may not see your store go live because you may give up as early as this stage in your dropshipping career.

2. You do not have to do market research

Many dropship store builders leave the market research to you. Some will do it, but you cannot really expect realistic statistics from store builders. They just do not have a reliable source of data.

What I can recommend is AliDropship. Here, you can buy a dropshipping store with products backed by market research.

Here is why:

AliDropship and AliExpress belong to one company
The people behind the AliDropship platform rely on the data from AliExpress
They use this to find what products sell like pancakes

At AliDropship, they will take care of the market research per niche. Try going to AliExpress, and you will see the different categories and subcategories in the marketplace. AliExpress naturally has data about every single item sold on the platform.

From this data, the AliDropship store builder (a person, not a robot) can pick specific products for you—these are not just generic products from a niche but actual products from specific sellers that have sold tens of thousands of them.

Here are some dropship store suppliers that I can recommend:

Spocket
SaleHoo
Dropified

Take note that these three companies may or may not have suppliers from the AliExpress universe. This means that their information is comprised of data from many vendors from different marketplaces.

Also, the AliDropship store is built on WooCommerce. If you look forward to a Shopify store, forget about AliDropship and focus on Spocket and Dropified. SaleHoo does not integrate with Shopify. Instead, you will have to use its online store platform.

3. You do not have to upload each product manually

This is one of those things that can take an eternity. While it is true that it is easy to import products from a dropship supplier tool to your store, choosing the products and editing them will take you a long while.

You have to standardize the appearance of all products in your store. If the background of one product is white, this should apply to all. This should apply to all if the size is 400 pixels by 400 pixels.

On top of this, you have to edit the product descriptions manually. As you know, the sellers in AliExpress are bulk sellers—they do not really put a lot of emphasis on how they write the product description.

As a dropshipper, you must appeal to a customer’s emotions to convince him to buy. This customer likely got to your store by luck, not because he intends to make a purchase, so you need to do some convincing.

If you want to learn more about how to write great product descriptions, read my blog post about it: 6 Tips on How to Write a Product Description That Sells.

4. You do not have to experiment with web design

While the technical process of building a store is easy, the design process can get messy. Sure, there are many themes to choose from, but the moment you start deleting these themes’ photos and replacing them with your own, you will realize how hard it is to make a coherent website.

Here are some things you have to think about:

Borders
Padding
Font style, size, color
Photos
Drop shadows
Image widths
Text widths
Sections
Collections
Menu

I get it—a theme is a theme. The problem is that a theme was made with a product in mind. Many people worked together to put together a theme, which is why they look awesome.

You, however, are a single person.

Here are some problems you may come across:

Your photos and product images may not have the same fonts as your theme.
You do not have enough data to replace what is on the theme, like reviews, photos, videos, hero banners, and so much more.
You do not have enough pages to make the menu section busy enough
Your logo and site icons do not seem to match the default theme colors

As you can see, you will encounter many design issues. Ultimately, you may have a Frankenstore—a hodgepodge of website elements that do not match.

Do not do this to your store. Do not do this to yourself. Just buy one.

5. You do not have to worry about technical issues.

Do you know what AMP means? How about making sure that your website is Google SEO-compliant? You cannot depend on Facebook advertising 100% of the time to drive traffic to your store. You must make sure that your website is Google-friendly so you can drive traffic to it.

With an AliDropship store built on the WooCommerce platform, what you get is an SEO-compliant dropshipping store, which is also mobile-friendly. This is one of the most difficult things to do—making your store transition into a mobile-friendly interface if your customer is browsing via a phone.

Where to Buy a Custom-Made Dropshipping Store

If you want to buy a store, you can only take two routes. The first one is to commission a web builder, and you can find freelancers like this on Fiverr. The thing with this is that you really have no guarantee about the person’s quality of work.

It is not unusual for Fiverr sellers to display websites in their portfolios even if they did not make those. There are several YouTube videos about guys who paid top dollar to a Fiverr store builder only to get a store that an amateur did.

The good thing about Fiverr is that you can choose the platform you want. You can find freelancers who can build a store on Shopify or WooCommerce.

In AliDropship, your store will come from the hands of a team of professionals, not just one person. If you buy your store from AliDropship, it will be built on WooCommerce.

Why is this? AliDropship is the competitor of Shopify—that is why.

The cost of an AliDropship store starts at $299. If you do not want this, you can buy the AliDropship plugin for $89 and install it on your WooCommerce website. $299 is not so bad. After all, you will get a store made by a team of professionals.

At this cost, you will get the following:

Niche research
Premium Domain name (.com)
Unique professional design
Mobile devices ready
AliDropship plugin
Choice of products

If you are interested in an AliDropship store, I can give you an exclusive discount of 15% of what they are charging. To use my discount code, click the button below and use the code GETSTORE15 upon checkout.

Summary

Building a store is a fun and fulfilling experience. However, some individuals have no time to get this done. Some will take some time to learn the ropes. Instead of building a store by trial and error, why not just commission a team of experts for you?

Again, the last thing you want is to produce a Frankenstore. Believe me; you do not want this. You will spend weeks or months building a store, and you may end up paying for the services of someone just to fix what you have done.