r/Dropshipping_Guide

Hey everyone,

I'm planning to start a dropshipping business, but I'm a complete beginner and would really appreciate some guidance.

Is there anyone here who has successfully built a dropshipping store and would be willing to personally guide or mentor me? Even a few tips about avoiding beginner mistakes would mean a lot.

Also, if you're currently doing dropshipping or have done it before, could you please share your experience in the comments? I'd love to hear about your results, challenges, what worked for you, and what you wish you had known when you started.

Hello everyone, I am using paystack as my payment provider, I already made an account on paystack and then connected it to shopify via payment provider. However when I go to checkout and try to pay (before even choosing the payment method) an error pops up saying that the payment method was rejected or something like that, does anyone knoe why?

Hi everyone,
this situation is honestly stressing me out.
We have traffic, add-to-carts, and daily UGC content, but very few purchases, which makes me think the issue is conversion rather than awareness.
I launched a women’s fashion brand about 3 months ago and invested heavily in inventory (around $400k). We have a professional website, run paid ads, and post UGC content every day, but we’re still struggling to generate consistent sales.
I’ve lowered prices, improved the website, and keep creating content, but I feel like I’m missing something fundamental.
If you were in my position, what would you do?
Focus more on influencers?
Push harder on paid ads?
Change the offer completely?
Just keep going and give it more time?
I’d really appreciate advice from founders who have been through this before. What was the turning point for your brand?

I'm looking to hire a Virtual Assistant as customer support agent and would love to know which platforms or communities have worked best for you.

Thanks.

I've hit a point where I'm genuinely wondering... when do you know it's time to give up on entrepreneurship?

I'm on my third failed business, and I'm starting to question whether I'm just not cut out for this.

I always tell myself I'll give every venture a real shot, so I commit at least 3 months before deciding whether to move on. My latest attempt was a Shopify store. I spent three months building it, testing products, learning Meta ads, and spending about $20/day on ads. After all that, I ended up with one sale.

The part that's frustrating is that I don't feel like I'm half-assing these businesses. I spend hours after work researching, watching videos, improving my site, testing creatives, and trying to learn from my mistakes. But every time, it feels like I'm missing something that everyone else seems to understand.

At what point do you stop calling it "persistence" and start calling it "wasting your time"?

For those of you who eventually found success, did you go through multiple failed businesses first? Looking back, what was the thing you were doing wrong that you didn't realize at the time?

I'm not looking for motivation or people telling me to "never give up." I genuinely want honest advice from people who've been where I am.

Hi everyone,
I recently spoke with a dropshipping expert who is offering to set up a CRM system for my store. According to them, the CRM will keep my store updated, automatically reach people who actually need my products (even internationally), and use automated flows to communicate with potential customers so I can get consistent sales.
They claim this is a newer strategy that’s helping store owners achieve much more consistent results.
I’m trying to figure out if this is a legitimate strategy or if it’s just a sales pitch.
Has anyone here used a CRM like this for dropshipping? Did it actually improve your sales? Are there any red flags I should watch out for before paying for this service?
I’d really appreciate any honest experiences or advice. Thanks!

To be short and direct; I have spent 5k on testing products over a long period of time; all products were net unprofitable some more some less (spending around 200 per product test (standard cbos) sometimes more spend sometimes less depending if it shows any sign of life.
I recently found one product which in a month gave back 10k profit so I’m net sitting around 5k overall from dropshipping. The issue is that it’s very hard to reverse engineer to realise how i did that, because I want to create a approximate blueprint how to test and find winners.
On the interesting side i spent 1k on that one winning product before getting and understanding a profitable campaign and a winning creative angle.

I really hope someone understands what I’m talking about here and my POV.

The point of this post is to just find some guys willing to connect and talk about their experiences, they don’t need to show me anything specific but I would just like to u know exchange ideas with some of guys who are in similar position if you get me to connect a bit.
I would just really appreciate it if you are in the women’s clothing niche or did women’s clothing and doing fb ads; because it’s really specific what niche and advertising platform u use.

Also, I have a good friend who had a 800k month revenue store (he doesn’t dropship anymore) and he told me he can’t give me any numbers from his online friends cause no one owes him anything to help me) - so i understand i can’t connect with some of u really experienced ones if those even read reddit🤣

Anyway if anyone is down to connect, it would be cool

Btw Sellers don’t even try to contact me or sell me anything

Hey so i decided to open a new store it’s focusing on 1 item I need feedback on it and yeah go check it out it’s called blend2go.store

It’s been taboo to blame the product and not what’s around it but I can’t figure out what else my store is missing. www.drift-sleepwear.com - social media is up, ads do good by most metrics, we have experimented with ai ads and they’ve worked, what are we missing, what should our advertising look like so it converts?

Currently in the process of building out a Shopify store and trying to decide which supplier to go with before launch.

I'm based in the US and my biggest priority isn't necessarily finding the absolute cheapest option. I'd rather work with a supplier that's beginner friendly, reliable and can help me avoid mistakes while I'm still learning.

Automation is another big thing for me. The more I can streamline fulfillment and backend operations early on, the less likely I am to mess something up as orders start coming in.

For those of you who've already been through the learning curve, which suppliers would you recommend and why? Ideally looking for something that works well for beginners but can also handle scaling later on without having to switch everything over.

I’ve seen a lot people saying selling one specific product is best for example a hairbrush then they one sell that hairbrush is that better than selling a hairbrush and a cupple things around that like a hair dryer

Here is a quick note I wanted to give regarding creating trust on product pages.
Initially, when I was running tests with my current product, I just followed the standard procedure, imported the product from the supplier, optimized prices and left the standard product description intact. While I got some clicks, the conversion rate was close to zero.

The reason for that was the product description. It was exactly the same poor and generic one you see on most scammy dropshipping websites. And the only way I found to make things right was spending close to 4 hours manually writing a decent copy that will include benefits and a good product structure. But it is not possible to do everything manually for each new product.

How do you guys approach the copywriting and presentation part when running multivariate tests on multiple products? Do you use writers or have any methods to come up with high converting copy that does not take you half a day to make?

Running a small store and the "where's my order?" emails are eating my time. Same handful of questions over and over

(where's my package, what's your return policy, when will it ship).

I looked at the big helpdesks (Gorgias, Tidio) but they charge per ticket / per AI resolution and the bills get scary

fast for a store my size. Feels built for big brands, not small ones.

So I'm curious how you all actually handle it:

- Just answer everything manually?

- Use a cheaper app? (which one?)

- A tracking page that deflects the WISMO questions?

Is there a genuinely affordable, predictable-price option out there, or does everyone just eat the emails? Trying to

figure out what's working for small stores. Thanks 🙏

In several videos, I've noticed that dropshippers usually build a brand new store for each product they want to test. across multiple niches and manage several stores at the same time – which made me wonder about a few things:

1. Regarding Stripe – when you set up your account, they asked for a store URL. Can I use the same Stripe account across multiple stores that I'll be opening, or will that cause issues with verification or account freezes?
2. Regarding Shopify Payments – can I use it with a single LLC for just one store, or is it possible to run multiple stores under the same LLC using Shopify Payments?

And one more thing: are there any legal or technical pitfalls I should be aware of before jumping in – especially since I plan to rotate between different products and niches?

Thanks so much for your time – I'm really looking forward to hearing from your real experiences! 🙌