How to Create a Shopify Dropshipping Store in 20 Minutes (Using AI)

In this video, I'll show you how to create a branded Shopify drop shipping store using AI. First, I'll find a product that I want to sell for a profit. Then, I'll copy and paste the product link into this brand new AI tool. And once I click generate, within seconds, I'll have a fully optimized and branded Shopify drop shipping store that's custommade for my product. And this actually works for any type of product that you want to sell. All you have to do is copy and paste the product link, and this AI tool will take care of the rest. Using the same AI tool, I can even generate highquality product photos to make my store look even more professional. And I can also create a bundle offer to boost the average order value and start driving even more sales. People who have used this AI store builder to build their drop shipping stores have already generated over $45 million in sales. And in this video, I'll show you how to use it to build your own drop shipping store step by step. So, the first thing we'll need to do is sign up for Shopify. Go ahead and click on the first link at the top of this video's description. That's going to make sure you're getting the best available deal when you sign up for Shopify. And right now, you'll get a three-day free trial and then three months for just a dollar per month. So, make sure to use that link down below to save yourself some money. And after you click on that link, you'll be brought to this page here. To claim your 3-day free trial, just go ahead and enter your email address right here and then click on start free trial. Then, to move on, click on continue with email. And here you'll need to enter your personal information and create a password. Then once you've done that, go down and click on create Shopify account. And then here you're able to input your payment information to actually claim your 3-day free trial and get the special $1 for 3 months offer. So to claim that deal and lock it in, go ahead and input your payment information here. Then once you've put in that information, go down and click on subscribe for $1. And here we'll need to go ahead and choose a plan. I recommend just going with the basic plan. It has enough features for anybody that's just starting out. So I'll click on try basic. And I'll enter my business address a little bit later on. So I'll click on add later. Let's go ahead and skip the onboarding setup. And there you go. You're now signed up and subscribed to Shopify. All right. Now that we set up our Shopify account, the next step is to install the AI store builder. that's going to generate our drop shipping store for us. So, go ahead and click on the second link in the video description and that's going to take you to this page here. Once you're here, click on try Atlas for free. Then to install the AI store builder, click on install on the lefth hand side. Then we'll click on install again. And now you'll see on the lefth hand side under apps we have the Atlas AI store builder installed. Go ahead and click on this pin icon here to pin it to your navigation. So that way it'll always be easy for you to access it. Next, let's go ahead and get started generating our store and finding the product that we want to sell. First, we'll click on start setup. And on this screen here, go ahead and click on next. And here's where we'll need to choose a product source. You'll see that there are four different options to choose from. If you're drop shipping, you'll either go with Alibaba or AliExpress. And in this video, I'll be using AliExpress. So, I'll make sure that this option is selected. AliExpress is a website where you can find tons of products at really low prices, and it's absolutely perfect for drop shipping. And the idea here is simple. We're just going to scroll through and find a product that we want to sell. And after scrolling through, I found this really cool moon lamp. It's already sold over 2,000 units. It has a solid four-star review, and the cost is just $7.33. And keep in mind, AliExpress sometimes shows you introductory prices. Like here it says 99, but the real price is what you'll pay right here. And this is the product that I'm going to use for the rest of this tutorial. Okay. And now back here on the AI store builder. Now that I found my products with AliExpress selected, I'm going to go down here and just simply paste in the product link from the AliExpress product page. Now I have that pasted in. I'm going to go to the bottom right and click on proceed. And just like that, after pasting in the product link, our fully branded Shopify drop shipping store is being generated by the AI store builder, and it'll be ready in just seconds. And before we can take a look at our generated store, we'll need to choose our product photos. These are just the default photos that were pulled straight from the AliExpress product page. And don't worry if you don't like these photos. Later on in the video, I'm going to show you how to generate high-quality product photos that look way better than these. So, for now, I'll just deselect a few of these that I don't like. And scrolling down here, you can also upload your own product photos if you have them available. I'm happy with what I have so far, so I'm going to go down here and click on continue. So, now that we've chosen our product photos, we can start customizing our store's content. First, let's pick a color scheme here. You can choose from a pre-made color preset, or you can choose your own custom colors down here. I like to go with a color preset that matches the vibe and look of the product. And as you can see here, we have a very warm orange looking product. So, I'll go up here and go with the soft citrus option. And then on the right hand side, you can see a live preview of our store. Let's go ahead and scroll through this and see how everything looks. So, up at the top here, we have our product photos nice and center. Scrolling down, we have our product title. We have a star rating for our product, the price of our product, and we even have it at a discount automatically with a save 50% tag. And then here we have a product description generated for us automatically. And what I really like about this AI store builder is that it actually studies the AliExpress product page that we pasted in earlier. And it customizes all of this text here around that specific product. And this will make the store feel handcrafted and not generic. And this goes for everything else on the page here. Like if I open up the description, all the text here is handcrafted around that specific product that I imported from AliExpress. And scrolling through, you can add, remove, or change out all of the sections that you see here. And a lot of these sections that you're seeing here are proven layouts that work really well for drop shipping stores. Normally, you need multiple plugins to set all of this up, but with this AI store builder, it's all built in for you automatically. Overall, this looks like a very professional store without any changes being made to it. Now, let's start customizing some of the content between the homepage and the product page. And you can start customizing that content over here on the lefth hand side. First, let's switch it to the homepage. And here you can update all of the text that's on your homepage. And just like before, you'll get a live preview of your homepage here on the right hand side. And you can see how everything looks. Most customers will spend their time on your product page. So I won't go too deep into the homepage here, but it's a good idea to clean up all of the text here and get everything to look exactly how you want. Let's move on to editing our product page. First, let's click on product information. Let's first adjust our product title and our product price. I'll go ahead and update the product title here to say Luna Lamp. That's the brand name that I'll be going with for this product. And a little bit later on in the Shopify theme editor, I'll also upload a logo that says Luna Lamp so it ties our whole drop shipping store together. And on the back end of the product title here, I'll add Moon Night Light. Next, let's adjust our product price. It's currently set at $25, but earlier we saw on AliExpress that the real cost for this product is about $7.33. So, we're going to mark up that price by about 2 1/2 times. And marking it up by about 2 and 1/2 times for any product on AliExpress will make sure that you're factoring in enough profit for yourself. So, that'll put us at about $24.99. Now, if I scroll down here on the right hand side, I can see that everything has been updated here. And just like before when we looked at the homepage, I'm able to scroll through the product page here and change out all of the text. So let's say for example, I wanted to open up the most common questions tab and then on the left hand side I can click on most common asked questions and I'm able to change out all of the different questions. Like for example here, question one, I can just change out the text and change it to read what I actually want it to say. And you're able to do this for every single section that exists on your product page. just open up the corresponding tab on the lefth hand side. For now, I'm happy with everything here. So, I'll scroll back up and go to the top right and click on continue to move on. And next, we'll need to choose a plan. But before you do so, make sure to enter the coupon code medics. Then, click apply. And that's going to save you 20% on your Atlas subscription. And here we have a few different plan options to choose from. And I would recommend going with the pro plan. This plan includes a few different features that are really going to help elevate your store. You'll get access to bundler incar upsells and most importantly AI product photo generation. This plan easily pays for itself with the extra revenue that these features can generate. And it's completely risk-f free with a 5-day free trial. So, I'll click on start your 5-day free trial and then I'll click on approve. And now with all of that done, your AI generated drop shipping store will be imported into your Shopify account as a theme. Next, to activate your store and start editing it in the Shopify theme editor, go ahead and click on publish your store. From here, scroll down to your theme library and find the Atlas theme. Go to the right hand side and click on publish. Let's click on publish again. Now, let's scroll up and here you'll see that our current theme is now the Atlas theme. To customize the store even further, let's go to the right hand side and click on customize. And here we are in the Shopify theme editor. The first thing I like to do here is go up to the top and switch the store into mobile view. That's because most customers will be viewing your store from their mobile device. Now to make our homepage look nice and clean, let's add an image into our image banner section here. To do that, simply click into it and then on the left hand side, click on select under first image. Now I'll drag and drop in my homepage image. Once that's uploaded, let's go to the bottom right and click on done. And you'll see that my homepage image has been uploaded here. You'll also see that we have some placeholder sections like this one here. If you don't plan on changing out the logos in this section, like for example here, this shouldn't say Atlas. It should be different magazine logos, you can remove the placeholder section simply by clicking on the blue popup and then clicking on the red trash can icon. Nice. I like how that looks so far. The next thing I want to do is add in my store's logo. To do that, let's go to the lefth hand side and find the gear icon. Let's click on this to open up our theme settings. Then click on logo. I'll click on select under logo. Then I'll drag and drop in my logo. Now that it's uploaded, I'll go to the bottom right and click on done. And as you can see here at the top of my store, my logo has now been uploaded. And if you want to make this a little bit bigger, just go to the lefth hand side here and you can increase the size. Next, I want to upload my favicon image. I'll click on select and I'll drag and drop in my favicon image. Once that's uploaded, I'll go to the bottom right and click on done. And if you don't know what a favicon image is, it's simply a little icon that appears in your customer's browser, just like Shopify's favicon here. And with both our logo and favicon uploaded, it's going to make our drop shipping store look nice, cohesive, branded, and professional. To save our changes so far, let's go to the top right and click on save. Next, to make our drop shipping store look even more professional, let's generate some highquality product photos. To do that, let's start by going to the top left and exiting the Shopify theme editor. Then go down and underneath apps, go ahead and click on Atlas AI store builder. Then click on the AI product photos tab. From here, click on start creating now. Here you'll see some training photo requirements. I would recommend taking some time to read through each of the training photo requirements and getting really familiar with the best type of photos to upload when you train your model. Let's go ahead and click on next to continue. Then click on train your AI model. Let's start by giving our model a name. I'll name this Luna lamp. Then if you'd like to, you can select the training photos for your model from your Shopify product page. So here I can click on select product. Click on my Luna lamp product and go to the bottom right and click on select. You'll see my product photos are uploaded here. Alternatively, you can upload your own photos. So here I'll drag and drop in my own product photos for the training. And with all of my photos uploaded, I'll go ahead and select the best photos to train my model with. I'm happy with these here. So I'll scroll down and let's select the training speed. You can choose between 30 minutes, 1 and 1/2 hours, and 3 hours. I would always recommend going with the 3-hour training. Selecting the 3-hour training will make sure you get the highest quality product photos possible. And with that done, let's go to the bottom here and click on start training your model. Click on start training model again. And as you can see here, our training status now says started. And now I'll go ahead and fast forward to when the model is done training. After waiting just about 3 hours, the training status has changed to succeeded. And that means we can start generating our AI product photos. To do that, let's click on the actions button here. Then you can either write your prompt from scratch or use the recommended AI generated prompt. I would just use the recommended option because it's going to make sure again that you get the highest quality results possible. So I'll click on this here. I'll give that a moment to load. Nice. And within just a few seconds, we have a fully written prompt. And if you want to, you can adjust any part of this prompt simply by highlighting the text and changing out any of the wording. I'm happy with the prompt as it is. So, I'll go down and click on generate now. Let's click on generate now again. Then I'll scroll down here and we can see our AI product photos being generated. Let's go ahead and give these a second to generate. Perfect. And just like that, we have four new product photos to choose from. If you want to expand any of these photos and see how they look, you can click on the eyeball button here. And now we can get a better look at our product photo. I'm happy with all of these here, so I'm going to click on save all images. Now those images are saved. To access them, let's scroll up to the top and click on saved images. Now let's select the photos that we want to download. Scroll up and click on download selected images. Now, these photos here are going to download to your device, most likely to your downloads folder. Now that we have our new product photos, we actually have to add them into our product page in Shopify. We can do that by going to the lefth hand side and clicking on the products tab. Then click into the product that you want to add your product photos to. Scroll down here and find our media. I'll start by removing all of the old product photos. Then I'll click on remove. Now I'll drag and drop in my new product photos. Awesome. I'm happy with those there. Let's go ahead and save these changes by going to the top and clicking on save. Now, let me teach you how to upsell your products and boost your average order value by using bundle offers. To add a bundle offer to your product page, start by going to the bottom left and clicking on atlas. Then click on bundle deals and click on create bundle. From here, you'll see four different templates that you can use. The most common one you'll use is the volume discount. So, I'll be going with this. Click on use this template. And to get everything set up nice and quickly, let's go to the AI wizard. I'll click on AI wizard here. Then let's select the product that we want the bundle offer to apply to. Click on select products. I'll click on my product here. Go to the bottom right and click on add. Then let's enter our cost of goods sold. This is the direct cost associated with producing your product. So in my case, and if you're drop shipping, it'll be similar to you. It's going to cost me just about $8 to buy and ship this product out from AliExpress. So I'll enter $8 here. For number of offers, I just leave this as three. Here you can change the colors for your bundle offer and you'll be able to see all of the changes reflect over here on the right hand side. Now let's scroll down and click on generate AI recommended offers. Give that a moment to load and we'll see that reflect over here on the right hand side. So here a customer can buy one, buy two and save or buy three. Now, with this on our product page, it's going to boost our average order value by upselling and having our customers buy multiple products all for the same shipping cost. The next thing we need to do is add it to our product page. So, let's go to the top here and click on save to finalize this bundle offer. And from here, go down and click on take me to my store. Let's go to the right hand side and click on customize. Then, we'll need to navigate to our product page. You can do that by going to the top here, clicking on your navigator, then going to products, and then your product page. To add your bundle offer to your product page, let's scroll down and right above your add to cart, we'll click on this blue plus icon. Then we'll click on apps and click on Atlas Bundler. Now, we can scroll down and we'll see our bundle offer here. To make sure everything is working properly, we also need to enable two more things. First, go to the lefth hand side here and click on app embeds. Then we'll toggle on both Atlas and the Atlas cart upsells. Perfect. Now everything is turned on and functioning. Now let's take care of the last few steps. Let's finalize some settings on the back end so that way we can launch our drop shipping store and start accepting orders. First, we need to activate payments so that way customers can pay for the product and we can accept the order. Let's save our progress so far by going to the top right and clicking on save. And then we'll exit the theme editor. Then click on home. We'll scroll down here and under setup Shopify payments, click on activate. And here click on activate Shopify payments. Now, click on complete account setup. And after you do that, you'll be prompted to fill out some personal information. Go ahead and do that. And once you're ready, click on submit for verification. Up here, you'll see pending payout setup and pending payment setup. This can take anywhere from a few hours to a couple days depending on when you submit the request to get your account set up for payments. So, give it a little bit of time and it'll update. Next, let's set up our shipping. While in your settings here, go to shipping and delivery on the lefth hand side. Then from here, open up your general shipping rates. Let's scroll down to our United States shipping zone. And I plan on offering free shipping for my drop shipping store. So I'll remove all of these other options here. So that way I can make one single rate for my US shipping. On your free shipping rate, click on the three dots to open up the settings. Click on edit rate. And I'll set the minimum price to $0. Then let's open up the shipping rate here. Then click on custom. For the rate name, I'll put free shipping. And for the delivery description, I'll put 12 to 20 business days, which will reflect AliExpress's standard shipping option. Now, you can customize this to be whatever you want. In my case, I plan on just offering free shipping for any order, but if you want it to only apply to, let's say, orders over $10, you could do that as well. With that done, let's go to the bottom right and click on done. And if you want to add international shipping zones, go to add shipping zone here. Click on add more countries, regions, and markets and click on create international market. And here you're able to create an international shipping zone for whatever markets you want to include. And next, we'll need to set up fulfillment. So that way when our customers purchase a product on our store, it actually gets fulfilled and sent out to them. And for that, we're going to use an app called the Essers. Go ahead and check out the description. And there you'll find a link that will bring you to this exact page. And once you're here, go to the top right and click on get started. Then you'll create an account with your email and then choose a password. Click on get started. Then for your platform, we'll be choosing Shopify. Then click on install. Go ahead and click on install again. and once more. Then here, click on confirm. We'll just be going with the basic option for now. So, under basic, click on get started. And here, we'll need to link our supplier. For this, you'll need to create an AliExpress account. So, if you don't have one, click on don't have an AliExpress account. And once you get that set up, click on the AliExpress card here. Go ahead and click on log in. Then click on access now. Then here find your Shopify product. Click on this mapping button. Then paste in your AliExpress product link here. With that done, click on okay. And then click on save. Go to the top right and close this popup. And here next to your Shopify product, you'll now see this small AliExpress icon here. And that means everything was done correctly. And now when a customer comes to our Shopify drop shipping store and orders a product, it's going to be fulfilled and shipped out from AliExpress. With those other steps done, let's go ahead and claim a super professional looking domain. To do that, go to the lefth hand side and click on domains. And from here, you can choose to either connect an existing domain or buy a new domain from Shopify. I would recommend just buying a domain from Shopify. If you do it that way, they'll handle all of the backend connection stuff for you and it can save you a bunch of time. So, to buy your domain, simply click on buy new domain and follow the steps there. With all of that done, it's time to publish our store and go live. I'll go to the top right and click on this X here. Then on the left hand side, I'll click on online store. Then let's go and click on remove password. And with that done, our store is now online and open to everyone, and we are ready to start selling our product. Don't forget to make sure you check the links at the top of the video description for the best deals available on both Shopify and the Atlas AI store builder. If you want to learn how to start creating video ads to promote your product and start driving real customers to your store, check out my Snapchat ads tutorial. It's linked down below in the pin comment and it's also in the video description. And if you want to dive deeper into customizing your Shopify store design, I've got a full step-by-step tutorial linked right here on screen. Just click on it and you can learn even more about how to customize your drop shipping store. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next