The first website that beginners use for product sourcing in order to start dropshipping on eBay is Ali Express. This guide will take you step by step through the technical setup of Ali Express as a product sourcing supplier for dropshipping using DSM Tool.

You can learn more about how to find products to sell and generally how to work with Ali Express as a dropshipping supplier in the Complete Guide to Ali Express to eBay Dropshipping

In this article, you will learn:

You can only set up business policies in DSM Tool if you first set them up on eBay. Read the guide on how to set up business policies for Ali Express dropshipping to learn how to do that.

Once the policies are set up in eBay go to the Lister Settings and scroll down to find the Business Policies section and click on the Refresh button

Then follow these 3 steps:

You should see Ali Express being added to the table Business Policies For a Specific Supplier

When you assign the policies to a specific supplier like the website Ali Express all of the products you will source from Ali Express using the Rapid Lister will be added to your store with these policies. Then, as your business grows, you could easily work with more websites as suppliers.

For example, if you learn how to work with CJ Dropshipping as a supplier you can setup eBay business policies for it, then assign them in DSM Tool to CJ Dropshipping. The Rapid Lister will assign automatically the right policies to the products according to where you source them from

Ali Express is a marketplace with millions of sellers. Different sellers offer different shipping methods at different shipping rates.

Tip: Click on the shipping section in every product page in Ali Express to see the shipping methods by country table

When you add a product to your store using DSM Tool the shipping rate is being added to the product cost during the selling price calculation.

Since there are many shipping options in Ali Express, the rapid lister choose the shipping options according to your preferences.

DSM Tool calculates the shipping according to the table of priority in the Monitor Settings under the Aliexpress.com settings.

In the example below the shipping method ePacket has higher priority than the shipping method AliExpress Standard Shipping

If you have a product that offers both ePacket and Ali Express Standard Shipping, the shipping rate will be calculated according to ePacket which has a higher priority.

Notice: If a product on Ali Express doesn't offer a shipping method that appears in the table then the shipping rate would not be added to the product cost when calculating the final selling price. You can manually add the shipping rate to the profit, but know that it will result in wrong profit calculations.

The break-even percentage is part of the final selling price calculation and it is used to cover the selling and payment processing fees you have to pay when you make a sale to eBay and PayPal (if you use PayPal to process payments from sales).

The break-even percentage depends on many parameters such as:

A good rule of thumb is to set up 14.5% as your break-even percentage, that should cover both the selling fees and the processing fees, there are no taxes when purchasing products on Ali Express.

Go to the Lister Settings and click on + Break-Even For a Specific Supplier

Then choose Ali Express from the dropdown , set the break-even percentage and click Save

The templates are used to customize the product description of your eBay store. It is recommended to set up a default template for your store.

When you import a new product to the Rapid Lister DSM Tool imports the information of the product and injects it into the template. The information is being injected into place holders which you can see and change when you edit a template

Since the template contains a written explanation about your shipping, return and payment policies you can set up what text will appear for Ali Express products in the Template Settings

DSM Tool comes by default with a text that fits most Ali Express sellers but it is recommended to review the text and adapt it according to your specific business policies.

Make changes to the texts in the Templates Settings and then click Save

The Chrome Extension of DSM Tool is used as your virtual assistant outside DSM Tool.

It help you dropship from Ali Express with the following features:

You can learn further about the DSM Tool Chrome Extension features in this section

Make sure you use the Google Chrome browser

Go to the Chrome Extension page in DSM Tool and click on Get DSM Chrome Extension

In the Chrome Web Store click on Add to Chrome

A window will pop up, click Add Extension