Shopify offers a wide range of paid and free apps to start a successful dropshipping business, but it takes hours to choose the right ones out of them for your store.
After reading this article you’d have saved at least half of those hours you would have been spending on app research.
Shopify’s app store has apps related to every other site functionality you are looking for your store, whether it is social media marketing, push notifications, apps for collecting customer reviews and so on..
So let’s not waste much of time and get going with the list you came looking for..
Free shopify apps to start a successful dropshipping business:
- Trust Badge
- Product Reviews
- Oberlo
- Kit
- Order Printer
- SEO Site Audit, Benchmark Hero
- Printful
- Klaviyo
- PushOwl
- Rewards and Referrals by Swell
- Compass
- Upsell and Cross-sell Products
- UserGems
- Sales Notification by MPS
- Tidio Live Chat
1. Trust Hero – Trust Badges
Before starting an online store the first thing that you should focus on is customer’s trust. And that builds up with additional security features & payment options that you offer to your customers on your website and promising them a secure transaction with a Trust Badge.
And the Trust Hero- Trust Badge can help you achieve that. What this app does is it will create and display payment badges on your product pages, so that your site visitors feel more assured that their information and transactions are well protected.
And this is the most basic thing that most of the dropshippers lack these days, as they are unaware of the fact that people can’t pay you for whatever you are selling until they trust you. Building trust and faith is the foremost principle of running a successful dropshipping shopify store.
2. Product Reviews
Product reviews are not the second step, but the second most important thing to keep in mind for running a successful dropshipping business on Shopify.
What most of the sellers and dropshippers don’t understand while selling stuffs online is.. people are buying online just looking at the product image, reading description and bit of trust on your site. But there’s one more thing that affects the buying pattern most is customer reviews on the product.
According to an eMarketer report around 98% potential customers or site users look at them and consider them before they make a buying decision.
Using this app you can encourage your buyers for a feedback which subsequently will help build more trust and prove usability of your product by adding customer reviews to your products.
3. Oberlo
Oberlo is the goldmine for the dropshippers. This single app will provide you with all the dropshipping suppliers to source the products you wanted to sell and when you get an order you can fulfill it directly through your supplier through Oberlo. Your suppliers will ship the product to your customers for you. There’s no need to worry about packaging or shipping it yourself.
Oberlo is the key to the success of any dropshipping store running on Shopify.
4. Kit
After starting a Shopify Store, what’s next thing to do is to bring in site visitors and convert them into valuable buyers. This is done mostly by digital marketing.
If you are a digital marketer fine! but if you are not you can not success without it.
This app is like a virtual digital marketer helping you run your Facebook ads, email marketing campaigns, and get performance updates. Powered by artificial intelligence, it will help you find potential buyers on Facebook and Instagram, and send them targeted “messaging and offers” at the right time. Kit even works while you sleep.
5. Order Printer
This app allows you to customize your invoices and helps you set and print it in bulk. Though it is not so much applicable to a dropshipping shopify store, but for shopify’s ecommerce stores. Though it can be helpful if you want to maintain your invoices and account books properly.
6. SEO Site Audit, Benchmark Hero
This app is basically your virtual SEO guy that tells you the stats of your website’s SEO, helps improve visibility on Google, and tells you about why and what pages are underperforming and why, so that you can fix them and make the SEO work for your conversions.
7. Printful
This app is like a sibling to Oberlo for print on demand products. What it does is, it syncs with your shopify store for t-shirts, mugs and other print on demand products and when an order comes, printful will print and fulfill it on your behalf to your customers,
Using this app you can start your print on demand dropshipping business, which is something different kinda dropshipping business and have higher chances of success too just because you will be doing something different.
8. Klaviyo
It is a marketing automation software that connects to your Shopify store, and builds automated email sequences, target campaigns based on buying behavior, and get rich customer data to boost your overall marketing strategy.
This app is must for your successful dropshipping shopify business for maintaining and boosting sales.
9. PushOwl
What it does is it recovers your abandoned carts by push messaging. And increases sales, when you have high number of visitors but less conversion rate.
Low conversion rates dues to cart abandoning is something which almost every other ecommerce business faces and using this app to increase your conversion rate can be quite helpful for increasing sales.
10. Rewards and Referrals by Swell
This app provides you an option to offer your loyal customer with reward points. It also provides options for referral reward points. Which can help you boost your sales by referral marketing.
11. Compass
Compass hels you analyze your ecommerce metrics for your shopify store and compares it against your potential competitors. Helps you give right marketing direction.
12. Upsell and Cross-sell Products
It is a great art to increase your cart size every time a buyer reaches your checkout page.
It basically offers customers related products to the one they are already buying so as to increase the no of products in the cart. It is used by every other successful ecommerce business worldwide.
13. UserGems
This app makes it easier for you to find influencers among your customer base who are actively promoting your brand and have an established, engaged audience.
This app will send you a notification about influential customers who are sharing about your brand, and you can kick off a deeper relationship from there.
If you are unaware of influencer marketing you must start reading about it because, majority of brands and even dropshippers these days are utilizing this domain to bring in brand reputation as well as repeating customers.
14. Sales Notification by MPS
This app uses social proof to show users which products others have bought. This helps widely to build trust with your brand to encourage sales by showing potential customers what past customers have purchased.
Remember what i said in this article before?? TRUST.. it is the key to every ecommerce businesses’ success.
15. Tidio Live Chat
Though I have listed it in the last, but this one is most important for every dropshipping and even every online store to connect directly with your customer in real time.
Live chat is one of the best ways to do that. Through this you are available to your customer’s query in real time and that quick answers build trust in customers’ mind. And this is what is needed to make huge sales.
Shopify’s app store have thousands of apps that you can explore as per your need. We have just tried to simplify your search and save your time.
If you have used some other apps and have proved to be part of your success, feel free to share it with us.
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Wishing you a great success in your venture. happy Selling! 🙂
