How do I import AliExpress products to Shopify?

Connect your AliExpress and Shopify accounts to Build the Drop, open Product Search and search by keyword or paste a product URL. Click 'Add' to send the product to your Import List, review and edit it, then click 'Publish to Shopify'. The product appears as a draft in your Shopify admin.

Can I import a product from its AliExpress URL?

Yes. Paste the full AliExpress product URL into the search box and Build the Drop fetches that exact product by its ID, skipping keyword ranking. It is the quickest way to import a product you already found while browsing AliExpress.

What product data is imported?

The title, description, images, variants such as size and colour, and the supplier cost used to calculate your selling price. In the Import List you can edit the title, description, images, variants, tags and price rule before publishing. Reviews are imported too on Starter and higher plans.

Is the AliExpress importer free?

Yes, the Free plan includes product search and import with up to 50 products per space. Paid plans raise that limit to 300 on Starter, 1,000 on Pro and 2,000 on Business, and add features such as review import, more frequent sync and automatic price updates.

Which suppliers and stores are supported?

Today Build the Drop works with AliExpress as the supplier and Shopify as the store. Product search, import, price rules, review import, stock sync and order fulfilment all run on that combination. If you sell on Shopify and source from AliExpress, every feature described on this page applies to your store.

Import any product in one click

From AliExpress to Shopify in seconds — not hours

Stop wasting time copying product data manually. Build the Drop imports titles, descriptions, images, variants and pricing to your Shopify store in a single click — with your price rule already applied.

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An AliExpress importer built for Shopify sellers

Adding AliExpress products to Shopify by hand means copying titles, downloading images, recreating every size and colour variant and working out a price for each one. It takes long enough that testing new products becomes a chore, and small copy mistakes end up in your store: a missing variant, a blurry image, a price that ignores shipping. The slower importing is, the fewer products you can afford to test.

Build the Drop works as your AliExpress importer. Search AliExpress by keyword, or paste a product URL to fetch that exact item, and filter by category and price. Before adding products you can set tags and a price rule that are applied to every import in the session. Products land in your Import List, where you edit the title, description, images, variants, tags and price, then publish to Shopify. They arrive as drafts so you can give them a final check before making them active.

Product import works on every plan, including Free. Plans differ in how many products you can keep per space: 50 on Free, 300 on Starter, 1,000 on Pro and 2,000 on Business. Today Build the Drop connects AliExpress as the supplier and Shopify as the store, so every product you import comes from AliExpress and is published to your Shopify store.

What you get with 1-Click Product Import

All the tools you need, built into your dropshipping dashboard.

Full data import — titles, images, variants

Every product field comes across: main images, variant photos, size/color options, descriptions and supplier specifications. Nothing to fill in manually.

Instant price rule application

Your configured margin formula is applied automatically at import. The Shopify sale price is calculated from the AliExpress cost before the product even lands in your queue.

Import queue — review before publishing

Products land in a staging queue where you can review, edit titles, adjust descriptions and fine-tune before pushing live to Shopify.

Import by URL or keyword search

Find products by keyword inside Build the Drop's integrated AliExpress search, or paste any AliExpress product URL directly to import a specific item.

How it works

Search or paste a URL

Use the integrated AliExpress search inside Build the Drop or paste a direct product URL to import exactly what you found.

Click Import

One click pulls all product data — images, variants, descriptions, pricing — into your import queue with your price rule pre-applied.

Review and publish to Shopify

Check the product in the queue, make any edits, and push it live to your Shopify store. It appears as a fully configured product, ready to sell.

How sellers use the importer

Testing several products in one afternoon

You shortlist candidate products, add them to the Import List with a 'test' tag and your default price rule, tidy the titles and publish them as drafts in one session.

Importing a product you already found

You spotted a product on AliExpress or in a competitor's store. Paste its AliExpress URL into the search and import that exact item instead of scrolling through keyword results.

Preparing a seasonal collection

Before a campaign, you set an auto-add tag such as 'summer' and import a batch of products. They arrive already tagged, ready to group into a Shopify collection.

Frequently asked questions

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