How to start dropshipping for free

Created	June 21, 2022
Author	Jessica Jin, Product Owner, PriceYak.com

Introduction to dropshipping

Dropshipping is a scrappy way to earn extra income because you can start a store for free, sell products without paying for the items upfront, and make a profit without ever touching the inventory yourself. You have the option to build your own site or use eBay or Shopify to sell your products. The easiest way to get started is with PriceYak, which boasts the most generous free dropshipping software on the market: free monitoring and repricing for 100 listings and 300 free automatic orders every month. You can automatically list products on your store and fulfill orders from Amazon right into your customers' hands. Here's how it works:

Create an eBay, Shopify, or self-hosted store for dropshipping.

You can choose to start a dropshipping business on eBay, Shopify or your own website that you run on WooCommerce or Magento. Here are some pros and cons of each option:

eBay dropshipping Pros and Cons:
- There’s no upfront cost to sign up for a free account and you can set up your store in minutes.
- eBay has a built-in audience with regular traffic so eBay sellers are less dependent on figuring out how to sell their items through ads, which is a whole different ballgame.
- eBay has a global audience. PriceYak supports dropshipping to eBay US, eBay Canada, eBay UK, and eBay FR.
- While many dropshippers have been thriving on eBay for the better part of a decade, eBay can sometimes still be hostile to dropshippers. Mainly, you have to be careful eBay VeRO (rights owner) violations for the products you list in your store and upload valid tracking in a timely manner, PriceYak has robust tools to help avoid VeRO violations and get tracking up on time.
- New accounts have listing limits which may make it hard to stock large amounts of inventory without moving into paid plans.

Shopify dropshipping Pros and Cons:
- This is ideal if you want a unique and professional looking site with full-featured eCommerce capabilities. You'll have to pay for a domain, design your store, and figure out how to drive and keep traffic on your site yourself.

WooCommerce and Magento dropshipping:
- Full control over your store, especially great for people with some development experience, or technical teams.
- You can build all sorts of custom workflows.
- Not bogged down by Shopify store size limits and eBay dropshipping rules.

Choose items from Amazon to list on your dropshipping store.

Choose items from Amazon to list on your store

PriceYak also offers YakPal, a free dropshipping plugin that helps you quickly grab product IDs from Amazon so you can instantly create full-fledged listings by simply pasting them into the PriceYak lister.

With PriceYak, you can automatically source and dropship items from Amazon India, Amazon US, Amazon Canada, Amazon UK, and Amazon France.

Automatically create listings on eBay or Shopify or your self-hosted site for each product, including images, descriptions, and prices. No mind numbing copying and pasting. No hiring and managing mistake-prone VAs for dropshipping.

Because Amazon is the biggest ecommerce retailer in the world, it is an excellent and underrated source for dropshipping. It has the biggest catalog available on the internet, the most competitive prices often below retail, and the fastest shipping in the world.

Quickly add products, descriptions and prices to your store by using PriceYak's automatic dropshipping listing tool

With PriceYak's automatic listing tool, you can quickly add products to your store by importing data from Amazon.

For each product you'll get:

Automatic product listings with the correct titles, descriptions and prices.

Automatic price and availability updates to keep your store up-to-date to help prevent you from selling something you can't fulfill or might lose money on because of a source price increase.

Automated inventory management—as soon as a new order comes in your inventory will automatically be ordered immediately for timely delivery. This means there's no need for manual stock control or an expensive warehouse!

PriceYak will automatically process your dropshipping orders and fulfill them from Amazon.

PriceYak will automatically process your orders and fulfill them from Amazon. As soon as a customer places an order it will automatically be fulfilled without any manual intervention on your part! The whole process is managed by our smart software so once set up it runs itself without any human intervention. In PriceYak you'll be able to track every order with a dedicated order page that contains relevant information about that specific purchase: customer contact details (name & address), order status, amount paid, amount received, tracking info.

You can open a dropshipping store on Shopify right now for free and have it completely automated with PriceYak software which starts at $0 per month

If you're looking for an easy way to get started, dropshipping can be a great solution.

But you might be worried about the cost of starting something like this.

There are plenty of ways to get started for free or almost free:

Create your own website - You don't need to spend any money on a site if you know how to build one yourself! This tutorial will show you how to set up a simple dropshipping store using WordPress and WooCommerce, which is completely free.

Use PriceYak software - If building your own store sounds like too much work (or if it's not something that interests you), then there's another option available: using an automated repricing tool like PriceYak. With this software, all the hard work will be done by the program — all you'll need is some basic knowledge about what types of items sell best with different audiences in order for it work properly!

Conclusion

I hope this guide has been helpful for you and answered any questions you may have had about how to start dropshipping. If you enjoyed reading this, please share it with someone who might also find it useful! Gurus trying to sell courses will often prescribe a one-size-fits all method for getting rich quick, but the truth is that successful dropshippers have all experimented diligently to find methods best suited to their risk tolerance, time commitments. If all dropshippers were doing the same thing, no one would make any sales! You have to find what makes you unique. At PriceYak we understand that beginner dropshippers need breathing room to figure out what they’re doing. This is why the most generous free dropshipping software for beginner dropshippers on the market, so that new sellers don’t have to worry about crushing fees as they navigate their new businesses.