How to Create a Shopify Dropshipping Store in 2026 (STEP-BY-STEP TUTORIAL)

in this video I'll show you step by step how to create a branded Shopify Drop Shipping Store from complete scratch we're going to take this product that we can find on AliExpress for $8 and we're going to create a professional and branded Shopify Drop Shipping Store around that product so we can sell it for $30 and make a good profit this simple store setup is going to work for any dropshipping product so feel free to follow along with this video and build your own store for the product that you want to sell so let's get [Music] started the first thing we're going to do is get us a free trial for Shopify so head over to MX media.com Shopify or simply click on the first link Down Below in the video description this will take you to my special Shopify landing page where depending on when you watch this you'll be able to find special offers like an extended trial or a discount price for the first few months of using Shopify so just type in your email and click on start free trial then we're going to choose a password and a store name we're going to skip all the server questions to save some time that will take us into the Shopify dashboard the first thing I like to do is select a Shopify plan so let's click on select a plan here I'm going to select the monthly payment option and I'm going to go for the basic plan which has everything we need for this store then we need to add a payment method right here and once that's done we can click on Start Plan now we are still in the free trial so we will only get charged if we don't cancel our plan within the 14-day free trial period The Next Step we're going to do is choose a theme for our store so let's click on online store and go to themes here we can see that the current theme of our store is the dawn theme which is the default one when we scroll down we can also find different free themes that we can use personally I like to use the sense theme it looks very modern and clean which is perfect for our branded Drop Shipping Store so I'm going to add this one to my store once the new theme is installed we're going to click on publish which will activate this theme on our store the next step is to import our product from AliExpress we're going to use an app called teers to make this very quick and easy in the video description you'll find a link to deers and when you click on that link you'll end up on this page right here where we're going tolick click on try it free to create our account once logged in we're going to click on Shopify which will take us to the Shopify App Store here we're going to click on add app then click yes and then click install app to add ders to the Shopify store then here we're going to go with the free plan and click on get started then we need to connect deers to AliExpress as well so let's click on AliExpress and then here we can either log into our existing Alex Express account or simply create a new account once logged in we're going to click on let's start importing products we're going to skip this tutorial here and now there's one more step which is installing the dieser Chrome extension so let's go to home and click on Chrome extension add to Chrome and now we're going to pin this extension to our browser by clicking on the little puzzle icon and making sure the pin is blue and now we have the dieser Chrome extension right here so let's click on it and then click on deers that will take us back to their homepage where we're going to click on login and that will activate the Chrome extension now we are ready to import our product so we can go to AliExpress and find the product that we want to sell on our store we're going to click on this button that says add to ders now let's go back to our ders dashboard and go to import list which will show us our product before we add this product to our Shopify store we're going to click on edit product and then under variance we're going to make sure to only keep the variant that we actually want to sell on our store then we're going to click on Save and now we can click here to push this product to our Shopify store make sure this box is ticked and then click push to Shopify now when we go back to our Shopify dashboard and go to products we should be able to see our imported product so let's click on it and make some changes I'm going to first delete the product title and the descript description that was imported from AliExpress so now we need to come up with a brand name for this product and store I like to use a site called nam.com to get some inspiration for brand names and I always make sure to check if thec domain is available for my brand name using the site name checker.com for this product I've decided to go with the name my easy breeze so I'm going to set this name for the product title followed by mini cooling fan for the product description we want to spend some time creating a good copy including the main benefits of using this product and also including images or gifs showing this product in action I like to look at competitor stores and also at Amazon listings for this product to find out what the main selling points are the way I find competitor stores selling the same product is by doing a Google image search so I go to Google images and click on this icon here then I screenshot one of the product images from Alex Express drag and drop it here and then click on find image source that will show me all the online stores that are currently selling this product and I also make sure to read a lot of reviews on AliExpress and competitor stores to get a good idea of what customers are looking for if I can find a video of the product I like to use a site called easy gif.com to create gifs out of the video I put everything together in the description highlighting the main selling points and also adding visuals to these selling points then I make the headlines a heading three and also make sure they are centered and I'm also going to Center the JFS as well then we're going to move on to the images if the images that were imported from alexpress are high quality then we can keep them otherwise we want to search the web for more images of this product these are the images that I decided to use for the product page you can simply rearrange them however you like by just dragging them around like this this then under options I'm going to delete this one and I'm going to keep the color options then we have the variant for this product to make some adjustments here let's click on ADD variant we want to make sure that each variant is connected to the correct image so we can click here and select the Right image for this variant then under pricing we're going to set the price for this product to make a good profit we obviously have to sell at a higher price than what we can get this product for for on AliExpress so I'm setting the price to $29.99 and at a compare price of $59.99 so that on the product page it will show that this product is 50% off and I'm going to do that for all the other variants as well then we're going to go back and scroll all the way down to the search engine listing here I'm going to click on edit and make sure that the URL for our product looks nice and clean and then we're going to save the changes now let's go and see how our product page looks like on our actual store so we're going to go to online store and then click on customize this will take us to the Shopify store editor where we can make changes to our store design let's switch from the homepage to the product page right here and then let's switch from desktop view to mobile view most people will be visiting our store from a mobile phone which is why I like to edit the store on mobile view as well so here we can see exactly how our product page currently looks like the first thing I'm going to do here is delete everything we don't need on this page here on the left side I can simply select the section I want to delete and then click on remove section the only sections that I want on my product page for now are the announcement bar header product information product recommendations and the footer so let's start from the top and make some adjustments we can do that by just clicking on any element and then on the right side we can make changes for the announcement bar I'm going to change the textt to only today 50% off and free shipping then I'm going to scroll down and go to these drop- down menu items I like to use these for FAQs product information instructions return policy and so on so to edit these we just click on them and change the heading and also the icon here on the right side and then in the content field we just put the relevant information for this store I would add FAQs product information how to use instructions shipping information and the return policy then let's make sure our changes are saved and now the next very important thing to add to our product page are the product reviews what we're going to do is simply import Real reviews directly from the AliExpress product page and we're going to use an app called luks to import those reviews to our Shopify store you'll find the link to this app down below in the video description so click on that link and that will take you to this page here we're going to click on ADD app and then click on install app as you can see Luke is a paid app for Shopify but they do have a 14-day free trial which should be enough time to test the store and get our first sales I'm going to go with the growth plan because this will allow me to import up to 100 reviews from AliExpress then I'm going to click on approve let's get started then here we can change the language and star color of our reviews I'm just going to leave it as it is for now and click on continue then again continue and then skip on the top right and then let's click on import reviews here we're going to have to drag this button to The Bookmark section of our browser like this and then we're going to go to the AL Express product page and click on the import to looks bookmark that we have just added here we can select the product that we want to import the reviews to I'm going to scan 100 reviews and then I'm going to click on preview and import now I can go through each single review and decide if I want to import it to my product page if yes I'm going to click on import and if I don't want a specific review I just click on reject once finished we can go back to Shopify and now the reviews are visible on our product page now we also want to customize the theme colors for our store so we're going to go to theme settings on the bottom left and click on colors here I like to match the store color to the colors of the product to make sure everything looks very branded I use the Chrome extension colorzilla to get the color code of any pixel on my screen then we can just click on the color we want to change and paste in the color code once that's done for all the colors that we want to change we're also going to go to the checkout page and make sure that this button has the same color as well so let's go to theme settings then checkout and here we're also going to change it to our new color and now we also want to create a logo for our store I like to use a site called canva.com to create simple logos very easily and quickly they already have tons of logo templates that you can start with and then customize using drag and drop this is the logo I've quickly created for this store so I'm going to click on share and download it as a PNG as I only have the free version of Kenra I'm using a site called remove.bg to remove the background of the logo then I down download the logo with the transparent background on Shopify we can simply click on our header and then under logo image we can upload our logo here we can also adjust the size of our logo and then save the changes now on the bottom of our store in the footer we're going to need to add our store policies like the refund policy terms of service and so on so to add these policies we're going to go back to the Shopify dashboard and then click on settings on the bottom left here we're going to click on policies and now we can click on insert from template which will insert a general policy that would be applicable to most stores however we do have to go through the text to make sure we replace all the information in the brackets and also adjust anything that doesn't apply to our store we're going to do the same thing for the private policy and the terms of service and then for the shipping policy we're going to add our shipping terms manually then let's save the changes and close the settings now under online store we're going to go to navigation here we're going to click on footer menu click on ADD menu item and then under link we're going to go to policies and add each policy that we have just created before once that's done we're going to click on Save menu and now when we go back to the store editor and scroll all the way to the bottom we can see that now we have our policy pages in the footer menu up until now we've only been looking at the product page of our store this is the most important page because our ads on Facebook or Tik Tok will be sending people directly to the product page so 99% of people will never even visit our homepage nonetheless we do want to create a very basic homepage for this store so let's switch to our homepage here first I'll delete everything except the image with text section on the top for this section I'll just add a simple cover image and then add the product name here I'm going to change the heading size to small then I'm going to change the text here and I'm also going to change the button text to buy now then I also want to add the product to the homepage so I'm going to click on ADD section and look for the featured product section then here I'm going to select my product and now visitors can also purchase directly from the homepage then remember to save the changes now when we click on these three lines here at the top we can see the navigation menu and to make changes to this menu we're going to go back to the Shopify dashboard then under online store go to navigation here we're going to click on main menu then I'm going to delete the catalog page and I'm going to add a new menu item which is going to be our product page I'm going to move that right here click on Save menu and that's it for our navigation menu for the contact page I like to add a short paragraph about what customers can expect and to do that we're going to go to the Shopify dashboard and under online store click on pages select the contact page and then we can put our text here click on Save and now we have that paragraph on our contact page now we're also going to add a favicon to our store a favicon is just this small logo that people will see on their browser again I'm using cana.com and remove.bg to create a simple favicon with a transparent background then in the Shopify editor I'm going to go to theme settings and click on favicon and here we're going to upload our logo and now visitors will see our logo in their browser window this is how the URL of our store currently looks like which we obviously want to change to our own custom domain so the store looks legit and professional to add a domain we're going to go to the settings and then click on domains if you already have a domain you can click on connect existing domain and then follow the instructions but if you don't have a domain yet you can click on buy new domain then here we want to type in our brand name and buy the Doom domain once we click on bu domain and confirm our store will be automatically connected to this new domain and that's it for the front and setup of our store now we also need to set up our payment providers and shipping rates so let's get again go to the settings and click on payments here we want to make sure to activate Shopify payments so that customers can check out using a credit card or other methods like Apple pay or Google pay PayPal is activated by default on Shopify if Shopify payments is not available in your country you can also use third-party payment providers like stripe for example then let's go to shipping and delivery here we can set up our shipping rates so let's click on M manage and here the leete all of the default shipping rates then let's click on create shipping Zone which will Define the area where our shipping rate will apply too let's create one for the United States then we can add a shipping rate for the new shipping zone I'm going to Simply do free shipping for the US so I'm going to name it free shipping and set the shipping price to zero then when we click on done we've set up free shipping for the US now we can also create another shipping zone for international customers by selecting rest of the world and here I'm going to charge $8 for shipping internationally so let's click on Save and then go to store details here we want to make sure to enter our final store name also we want to check our address and contact information and make sure that the store currency is correct then we're going to close the settings now under online store go to to preferences here we're going to type in a homepage title and short description and then we're going to scroll down to password protection in order for our customers to visit our new store we'll need to remove the password so we're just going to untick this box and then click on Save and now our new online store is live and ready to launch when we get our first sale we're going to go to our dieser dashboard and click on open orders now to fulfill the order we would just have to click on fulfill order here on this page and make the payment to make sure the product will be sent directly to the customer if you found this video helpful make sure to give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel for more videos 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