Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced dropshipper, there are a few essential apps you should have.
After testing over 346 different apps, we’ve chosen 10 that we deem necessary for dropshipping stores.
Feel free to check out our YouTube channel for more dropshipping and Facebook ads tutorials.
This being said, this is our top 10 best Shopify dropshipping apps.
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What Are Shopify Apps?
Shopify apps are one of the main reasons why Shopify is the best ecommerce platform for dropshipping.
These apps allow you to enhance your store in a numerous amount of ways.
Here are just a few ways Shopify apps can benefit you:
- Increase conversions & sales
- Improve store design & layout
- Boost functionality & user-experience
- and much more
To download Shopify apps, login to your Shopify account and click ‘Apps’ on the left hand side.
Next, click ‘Visit the Shopify App Store’ in the upper-right hand corner.
The Shopify app store will look like this:
As we go through our top 10 Shopify apps list, you can search and download them in the app store.
How Much Do Shopify Apps Cost?
Each Shopify app has its own pricing structure.
Depending on which app you choose to use, you can expect anywhere from $5 to upwards of $100 per month.
Furthermore, Shopify apps may have multiple plans offered at different price ranges.
However, many Shopify apps offer a free version as well as a free trial of the paid version.
This allows you to test different apps and see if they can benefit you before purchasing them.
Top 10 Shopify Dropshipping Apps
1) Oberlo
Oberlo is the most essential app when it comes to dropshipping on Shopify.
This versatile application lets you easily complete the necessary ecommerce tasks with just a few clicks.
Here’s everything Oberlo allows you to do:
- Add products to your store
- Edit product details
- Fulfill customer orders
- Integrates with Aliexpress
- Automatically update product inventory
- Automate your product pricing
- Track your sales
- and more
We like to describe Oberlo as an all-in-one ecommerce solution.
Each one of the hundreds of dropshipping stores we’ve created used Oberlo as the main product import and order fulfillment app.
Here’s what the main Oberlo dashboard looks like:
As you can see, the layout is easy to understand and navigate.
To properly setup Oberlo please refer to the ‘Oberlo Setup’ section of our Dropshipping Guide.
After installing Oberlo onto your dropshipping store, you will also need to download the Oberlo Chrome Extension.
The Oberlo extension allows you to import products from Aliexpress directly into your Shopify store.
Oberlo Pricing
Oberlo offers 3 different packages.
These include:
- Explorer (free)
- Boss ($29.90/month)
- Pro ($79.90/month)
The main difference between each package relates to how many products your allowed to have on your store.
However, the free Explorer Oberlo package is more than enough for beginners to open their dropshipping stores.
You are allowed up to 500 products on your store with this plan as well as unlimited monthly orders.
Oberlo Alternatives
If you are looking for something other than Oberlo, we recommend Dropified, Importify, or Spocket.
However, be sure to give Oberlo a shot before considering any alternatives. Oberlo has helped us immensely with out dropshipping stores because of all its features and constant updates.
2) Klaviyo
Klaviyo is an email marketing app that helps your store generate more sales.
Through customizable email flows, you can consistently engage with your audience.
If you’ve never done email marketing for your dropshipping store, this is the perfect time to get started.
What is email marketing?
Simply put, email marketing is when you collect emails from customers and then send them emails with the goal of getting more sales.
To build an email list, Klaviyo offers an email pop-up where store browsers can enter in their email to subscribe to your newsletter.
Furthermore, you can use the emails of customer’s who’ve already checked out or initiated a checkout on your dropshipping store.
Email marketing has evolved over the past few years to become extremely advanced.
You can personalize content within emails as well as build highly segmented audiences.
What are email campaigns and flows?
Email campaigns are different types of emails with unique goals.
For example, here are some types of flows Klaviyo allows you to create:
- Abandoned cart flows
- Post-purchase follow up emails
- Customer acquisition flows
- Welcome emails for new subscribers
- Product recommendation emails
The best part about Klaviyo is that all of these email flows are completely automated.
This means that based on the settings you input, Klaviyo will automatically send these emails to your email list.
Rather than manually sending massive email campaigns, Klaviyo does all the hard work for you.
Klaviyo Pricing
Klaviyo’s pricing strictly depends on how many customer emails you have.
However, there is a free option that is limited for up to 250 contacts and 500 monthly emails.
After that, the pricing is as follows:
- 300 Subscribers ($20/month)
- 1,500 Subscribers ($45/month)
- 3,000 Subscribers ($100/month)
- 15,000 Subscribers ($350/month)
- 30,000 Subscribers ($500/month)
- 150,000 Subscribers ($1,700/month)
Although Klaviyo isn’t free, email marketing is well worth your time to learn and master.
This form of marketing has been around for decades because its effective at generating sales.
So don’t hesitate to give Klaviyo a shot to boost your store’s revenue.
3) Loox
Loox is an application that allows customers to enter in product reviews with photos.
Most Shopify themes don’t come with a built-in product review option, so Loox is the best option to use.
Once customers leave a review on your product, your product page will update to look like this:
Furthermore, the stars will appear on your collection pages as well:
The reviews will then appear on the bottom of your product page like this:
Loox gives you the option to automatically send emails to customers who’ve already purchased products asking them to leave a review.
These user-generated pictures and reviews can make a big difference in buyer decision making.
Let’s talk about why.
Why are customer reviews important?
With the rise of Amazon and online shopping as a whole, consumers are used to seeing customer reviews.
For example, think of all the time’s that a 4.9/5 star review helped you make the decision to purchase something.
Product reviews bring trust and legitamacy to your products and brand.
Since you most likely own a new dropshipping store with no brand recognition, customers may have skepticism before buying anything.
Loox Pricing
Look offers a 14-day free trial.
But after that, here’s how the pricing works:
- 100 monthly review request emails ($9.99/month)
- 500 monthly review request emails ($29.99/month)
- 1,500 monthly review request emails ($59.99/month)
- 10,000 monthly review request emails ($99.99/month)
The only difference between each plan is how many emails you can send to customers asking them to review products.
Other than that, all the features are the exact same.
For this reason, the $9.99 per month plan works perfectly for most dropshippers.
4) Tracktor
Tracktor is an order tracking application that integrates right into your dropshipping website.
Rather than customers having to use a third-party website to track their orders, they can track them right on your store.
You can add an order tracking page into the navigation of your store:
And the order tracking page will look something like this:
We recommend that dropshippers use Tracktor so your customers can easily track their orders.
This can help avoid a lot of confusion and frustrated customer support emails because your products are most likely shipped from China.
Tracktor Pricing
Tracktor offers a 14-day free trial and then the pricing structure looks like this:
- Basic ($5.99/month )
- Professional ($14.99/month)
- Premium ($49.99/month)
- Enterprise ($119.99/month)
The more expensive packages offer more features such as product upsell recommendations, advanced reporting, and dedicated support.
However, the Basic package is perfectly okay for most dropshippers and what we recommend you start with.
5) Bulk Product Edit
Bulk Product Edit is a Shopify application that allows you to edit all your products at once.
For example, you can choose to edit all products in the same collection or with the same tag.
This makes is extremely convenient if you want to edit minor details of multiple products.
Here’s what the tool looks like and the details you can edit:
We’ve used the Bulk Product Edit hundreds of times to edit pricing, variants, and collections.
What would normally take hours upon hours of boring work is quickly taken care of with this application.
Furthermore, the app offers a fail-safe option with a 1-click to undo any changes you’ve made.
Bulk Product Edit Pricing
This app doesn’t have a free trial option, but they do 4 different plans with one of them being free.
However, the free plan doesn’t allow you to bulk edit your products. You’re only allowed to use their product SEO optimization tool.
Here’s how the pricing is broken down:
- Basic Plan ($9.99/month) – 10 bulk edits per month
- Professional Plan ($19.99/month) – 300 bulk edits per month
- Advanced Plan ($49.99/month) – unlimited bulk edits per month
The Bulk Product Edit app is useful only when you need to actually bulk edit your products.
If you don’t need this feature, this app won’t be necessary on your Shopify dropshipping store.
6) Image Optimizer
Image Optimizer is an application that automatically compresses images to minimal file sizes.
By reducing your image file sizes, your web pages and product pages will load much faster.
This is extremely important because slow loading times can turn away a lot of potential customers.
Furthermore, this application includes an SEO optimizer to improve google search rankings. The SEO tool is less useful because you are running paid traffic to your store through Facebook ads.
Image Optimizer Pricing
Image Optimizer has 4 different plans:
- Free – 50 images
- Basic ($4.99/month) – 1000 images per month
- Advanced ($9.99/month) – 2000 images per month
- Premium ($19.99/month) – 5000 images per month
This app is ideal for dropshipping store owners with a lot of products.
We recommend that you estimate how many images you have on your website and buy the plan accordingly.
You can then compress all of your images at once and then cancel your subscription.
7) OneClickUpsell
OneClickUpsell is an upsell application that helps increase average order volume and overall revenue.
Upselling is when you offer customers additional items after they’ve already made a purchase.
On average, OCU claims that Shopify users are able to increase sales by 15% immediately upon adding this application.
Based on our own experience using OneClickUpsell, this is definitely true.
This is how the app works:
- A customer completes their checkout
- The customer is redirected to the OneClickUpsell offer page
- They are offered additional products that you choose yourself
- The customer can add products to their order with a single click
Since the customer’s payment information is already entered, they just have click once to make an additional purchase.
Here’s an example of what the upsell page looks like:
You can customize what products you want to upsell as well the pricing for the items.
This app has single handedly generated us over 6 figures in revenue. For this reason, it’s extremely important to choose optimal items to upsell.
One-product dropshipping stores can upsell the same product at a discounted price.
Niche dropshipping stores can upsell items that are related to the the product the customer purchased.
OneClickUpsell Pricing
OneClickUpsell offers a 30 day free trial, then pricing structure is this:
- 0-100 orders ($24.99/month)
- 101-200 orders ($49.99/month)
- 201-500 orders ($79.99/month)
- 501-1000 orders ($99.99/month)
Although this application isn’t free, it’s well worth your time and investment.
The monthly fees can potentially be massively negated once you find the best upsell offer.
Furthermore, your average order volume can be greatly improved, increasing your overall profit margin.
Think about it like this.
The customer has already purchased an item from your store by seeing your ad.
By purchasing more items through OCU, it’s basically free revenue since the ad costs were already factored in from the first purchase.
8) Zipify
Zipify is an application that allows you to build customizable product pages.
If designed well, the product pages can drastically improve your store’s conversion rate and revenue.
Zipify comes with template pages from proven, 8-figure ecommerce stores.
This application is most useful for one-product dropshipping stores or stores with a few featured items.
Zipify Pricing
Zipify is not cheap by any means as its meant for more experienced dropshippers.
Here’s the pricing breakdown:
- Basic ($67/month)
- Plus ($97/month)
The Basic Zipify plan will give you templates, unlimited pages, countdown timers, mobile optimization, and more.
Plus gives you everything in Basic as well as split testing, scheduled page publishing, Shopify blog integration, and booster pages.
9) BEST Currency Converter
BEST Currency Converter does just what the name says.
It converts your store’s prices based on which country the shopper is located in.
This application is extremely helpful if you run advertisements around the world and not just the USA.
The paid version of the app automatically detects what country the user is in and changes all your prices to their native currency.
BEST Currency Converter Pricing
The BEST Currency Convertor comes in 2 different pricing models:
- Free – 5 Currencies
- Elite Plan ($9.95/month) – 160+ Currencies
Depending on how many countries you’re advertising to, the Elite Plan may be a good option for you.
It comes with a 30 day free trial so you can test its effectiveness before committing to the subscription.
10) Free Shipping Bar
Free Shipping Bar allows you to make a custom announcement bar promoting any free shipping or sale offers.
For example, it could say “Free shipping for all orders over $100” or “Free Shipping & Handling Worldwide”
Depending on your own shipping offers you can adjust the bar to suit your store.
Most Shopify themes have an announcement bar you can use, but Free Shipping Bar lets you create a more attractive one.
Furthermore, you can translate the Free Shipping bar into multiple languages and display different bars to different countries.
Free Shipping Bar Pricing
This application comes with 2 different price options:
- Basic Plan (free)
- Premium Plan ($9.99/month)
The free plan gives you a fully customizable banner, device targeting, page targeting, option to add link to bar, and emoji support.
Whereas the premium plan gives you everything in the basic plan plus unlimited active bars, geo/country targeting, auto currency conversion, and more.
Now It’s Your Turn
Now that we’ve gone over the best Shopify dropshipping apps in our top 10 list, it’s time for you to take action.
Try out each of these applications on your own dropshipping business and see what they can do for you.
We recommend taking advantage of the free-trials and starter plans.
If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment below and we will get back to you ASAP.
