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How To Start Dropshipping on TikTok Shop in 2025! (Full Course for Beginners!)

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in today's video I'm going to show you

how you can set up a fully automated

dropshipping store on Tik Tock shop Tik

Tock shop is all the rage right now it

has been a huge blessing for a lot of

e-commerce sellers because it is such an

incredible platform and I'm giving you a

full free course on this I'm going to

show you everything that you need to

know from start to finish and that means

that even if you are a complete beginner

you've never done an online business

with anything before you'll absolutely

be able to do this so in this course I'm

I'm going to show you exactly how to set

up a Tik Tok seller account I'm going to

show you what you can and cannot sell on

the Tik Tok platform how to find winning

products from reliable Drop Shipping

suppliers that are going to get your

products to your customers on time how

to import products onto your online

store how order fulfillment Works how we

can Market our products for free and

lastly optimize our store for success

and as I said this is a dropshipping

method but this is the simplest way to

do it because you're not going to have

to integrate a ton of different apps or

anything everything is all in one so

like I said in the beginning no matter

what you'll be able to do this as long

as you follow along till the end of the

video all right so first things first we

need to set up a Tik Tok seller account

so I'm going to show you how to do that

I'm going to jump right over to my

computer and we're going to sign up for

one together so this will be linked

below for you but this is how you're

going to set up your Tik Tok shop seller

account so you'll just enter the email

that you want to use okay and then it's

going to ask us for a verification code

and then a password

password now when you get to this screen

this is going to ask you how to register

for Tik Tok shop now this is a very very

highly asked question so pay attention

here if you don't understand exactly

what this is so you will most likely

fall under the first two categories for

opening your business on Tik Tok shop

basically the only difference between

these is if you have a registered

business or not so if you have a

registered business you can sign up

under a sole proprietorship so if you

have an LLC that's the way that you

would do that or if you are just an

individual and you do not have a

registered business you can sign up

under individual so most of you probably

are going to fall into that category for

me I do have an LLC that I run and

operate shops under but I know that

people just starting out most likely

don't so all you'll do is Click

whichever one applies to you and then

you'll follow through for the rest of

the steps so it's going to show you

right here as an individual seller

what's going to be required of you so

you are going to have to give Tik Tok

personal information this is in order

for them to verify that you are in fact

a real person and you are going to be

selling on their platform they're also

going to need your social security or

your individual tax number because you

are going to be receiving money and

you're going to have to pay taxes on

that so this is important stuff that

you're going to want to put all of the

correct and actual registered

information that you have so you'll see

here that it asks you to upload an ID so

once you've uploaded your ID it's going

to ask you for your address on here and

then you're going to have to enter as I

said that social security number after

that and you've submitted those the next

thing that's going to happen is you're

going to be brought into your Tik Tok

dashboard and at the top it is going to

say that verification is pending so

don't be alarmed by this at all this is

just Tik Tok making sure as I said that

all the information that you entered is

legit and they're just making sure that

everything is entered correctly so that

you can actually sell on their platform

now it does take a little bit of time

sometimes it takes a few hours it can

even take up to a day but I haven't

experienced that myself so just be in

and aware of your email that you Ed to

an email you don't check too often

definitely keep an eye on it because

that's going to let you know whether or

not you were approved now if for some

reason you do not get approved you can

just change your documents maybe you

misspelled something maybe you it

grabbed something wrong from your ID

number go ahead check it all over and

then resubmit it and you should be good

to go so under your orders tab that's

where all your orders are going to show

up and where you can manage all your

return and fulfillment settings so the

first and very most important thing that

we need to do because we're doing a Drop

Shipping method we're not shipping our

own stuff is we need to go to the

Fulfillment settings and we need to set

up our warehouse okay because there's

two different types of shipping when

don't you sell on Tik Tok there is

what's called Tik Tok shipping and then

there's seller shipping this is very

very important because we do not want to

use Tik Tok shipping we're not shipping

through Tik Tok we need to make sure

that they're seeing all of our orders

coming in and being shipped out so that

we can get paid so it's important that

we're going to select seller shipping

but you'll notice that you can't select

this yet until you set up a warehouse so

that's where we're going to go ahead and

we're going to go to fulfillment and

Warehouse settings and hit set up so

you're going to go and you're going to

click add warehouse and then this is

where you're going to type in what your

Warehouse setting is so what you can

name This Is Us warehouse or wherever it

is that you're located that you're going

to be selling from and then you're going

to have to put some contact information

in here now you can use a virtual

address if you'd like to or you can use

your own personal address and once

you've done that you're going to remove

two states on here it's going to be

Hawaii and Alaska that you're going to

want to remove on here it just has to do

with shipping times and through the

warehouses then we're going to hit save

and then our warehouse is going to pop

up and if you need to edit it you just

click edit and then you can do so here

next we're going to go over to se uh

shipping and delivery and like I said we

are going to need to select seller

shipping and we're going to need to do

what's called create a template for this

so what I'm going to do is hit create

template and then I'm going to do ships

from and then I'm going to select the

warehouse that I just made so Us

warehouse and then I'm going to do

weight based and then there 's going to

be a few different options here so

there's going to be What's called the

free economy shipping and then there's

going to be what's called standard

shipping and then express shipping so

express shipping and um free economy I

don't recommend I would use standard

because it needs to be delivered within

seven business days so that gives you a

little bit more like wiggle time when it

comes to drop shipping now if you want

to be really really safe and not be as

worried about when your products are

getting shipped you can do the free

economy but but that's up to 11 business

days so it can kind of deter someone

when they click your listing on Tik Tok

and they see that it takes 11 days

versus maybe seven so just something to

keep in mind but stay away from Express

because that's delivery within four

business days which is a little bit

difficult to do sometimes it's possible

but especially around like different

seasons and stuff I would play it safe

and just do standard shipping for the

flat rate I'm going to do $0 because I

want to offer free shipping and add the

cost of shipping into my actual product

cost because people are way more likely

to purchase an item when it has free

shipping then I'm just going to go ahead

and hit submit so now this is a shipping

template and a warehouse template that I

can use when I start importing products

onto my Tik Tok shop account as I said

this is very easy to use even for a

beginner because Tik to really does show

you everything so just a click little

tour here on the left hand side you'll

have your orders tab that's where all

your orders will pop up here is where

any returns that you receive will pop up

as well also the Fulfillment settings

that we did just go through and then the

shipping settings as well under products

that's where you're going to be able to

manage all the products that you upload

onto your store so no matter what

supplier you're using it's all going to

come here every product that you upload

onto Tik Tok and it'll tell you like

your listing quality as you can see here

your price and you'll be able to like

preview your listing here you're also

going to see your ratings for when you

start to get in orders the product

Optimizer which we will talk about your

stock all of that there is also a

marketing tab where you can run ads and

different campaigns and work with

influencers so that's something very

very important to check out once we are

up and going a little bit we want to

list products first but definitely are

going to have to get into that same

thing goes with the affiliate program

because that is how we're also going to

have creators promoting our products for

us which is a huge plus to Tik Tok shop

you'll also see your live videos here

which is just a lot of help so Tik Tok

makes money as you make money because

they are taking a fee which we'll talk

about but they make money as you make

money so they have so many different

things in here to help you build a

successful store so really really

utilize this don't just like start this

process I show you throw products on

there and then never touch it again like

actually utilize this platform because

there is money to be made trust me trust

me trust me you'll also have the live

selling tab which is when people go on

lives and sell products so there's a

whole guide on how to do that um and

even what I think is so cool about this

is they offer like incentives to win

money and coupons to boost traffic to

your actual store so definitely

something once you're up and going that

you want to utilize apps and services

we're going to be using in just a moment

because we do need to integrate into up

with our account and then for analytics

that's where you'll be able to see all

your views people coming to your store

if people are buying from you and then

you'll also be able to see your account

health so that's what I want to talk

about next account health so you want to

make sure that you are in good health on

your Tik Tok shop account because you do

not want to get banned when it comes to

selling on Tik Tok they are a little bit more

rulesyoutube link below for you of what

exactly their rules are CU there is

quite a bit of things that you do need

to be aware of but don't worry there's

tons of different products that you can

sell so don't feel like it's going to

knock you know options out of your way

but I just want you to be aware that

they do have some things that they don't

allow and you don't want to get your

account docked now what will happen is

if you start getting violations on Tik

Tok you will see that scale begin to

turn red and that is how you get banned

on Tik Tok but make sure that you do

just that little bit of research take

that little bit of time to check what is

and is not allowed so after you've

played around with your Tik Tok

dashboard let's talk about products how

we're going to pick the perfect product

to start selling on our Tik Tok shop

account now the formula for picking a

successful Drop Shipping product really

has not changed much over the years but

let's go over a few things that can help

you to pick a successful product so

number one that I really love to follow

is does it have that like wow factor if

you were to take a video of it because

we are going to be using video marketing

and we are selling on Tik Tok which is a

huge video marketplace right so is that

product something that you can take high

quality videos or photos of to use in

your marketing that is a way that I

really like to go about when I'm picking

a product now the second one is does it

solve a problem does it solve a problem

that you can show in a video right like

does it does it solve something does it

have a factor of like wow that's so cool

I need that like is it a cool type of

light one that went super viral years

ago was that Sunset lamp people liked it

because they're like oh my gosh that's

so cool I've never seen that before and

it went completely viral same with the

lucid dreaming mask there was a bunch of

different products that people were like

had that wow factor another example is

like the Galaxy lights and just other

different gadgets like that so does it

have that wow factor or does it solve a

problem there's different things like

diffusers that make places smell good

just all different types of products

that does it solve a problem now while

also keeping in mind that we do need to

make sure that selling within the

guidelines of Tik Tok you also want to

look for products that maybe are not

something that people can just like run

to Amazon and buy with that knowledge I

don't want that to stop you from picking

products but it's definitely something

to consider like if you're looking at

like The Scrub Daddy sponges or

something I I personally think like that

is something I wouldn't sell because

that's something that people just jump

over to Amazon to grab so more of like

does it have a wow factor does it have a

way that you can take cool videos of it

using the product in your marketing

strategy or if you want to hire someone

to do that we'll talk about that um but

really keep those things in mind we also

need to consider what is very very

important in our shipping settings and

that is that we are picking a supplier

that can get our product to us within

that amount of time so that we have a

happy customer we get a good review and

most importantly we don't get banned on

Tik Tok when we're picking a supplier

it's very easy to use a company called

autods they are the fastest Drop

Shipping supplier that's going to be

able to integrate directly with Tik Tok

which is what I said earlier about this

being a completely automated process so

this is not like you have to go to

AliExpress and enter your order every

single time like it used to be or

completely eliminating one to two steps

that how Drop Shipping used to work just

by using autods they have a ton of

different products I'm going to pull up

the website and show you how we'll do

the product research on there but a lot

of it is already done for us and it's

just extremely valuable and what I would

recommend to use and that's why I'm

using it in this course for you today so

autods will be linked below for this so

that you can also get that TR I'm

talking about and that's how you're

going to set up and then sync that so

setting up your autods account is very

very easy it's 14-day trial for $1 and

then you can go ahead and just put in

your information and it is a little Pro

tip there to actually use your um email

that you use with Tik Tok with also your

autods account so that nothing gets

confusing once you're logged in here's

what the autods platform is going to

look like as you can see we have

everything over here from products

there's tons of different things to

choose from but what we need to do first

is link our Tik Tok Shop store so that

we can actually import the products over

there so you're going to go up to the

top here where it shows your stores

you're going to hit add store and then

select Tik Tok

shop then we'll hit continue and you'll

select your

country and then because I'm already

logged in to my Tik Tok account on here

it's going to just go right over and

have me um add this in accept authorize

and we're just authorizing that autods

can you know bring products into our Tik

Tok shop and then going to hit continue

make sure that the correct store is

linked and then boom simple now our

store is linked so let's go into how we

would go about choosing some products so

autods has a few different things here

that are useful so they have What's

called the marketplace which is just the

normal way of spying on products then

there's the handpicked products trending

products and the ad spy so lots of

different ways here that you know we can

go about finding products now most

important thing that I want you to do

here and this is just because of

shipping time and through experience

doing this trust me what you're going to

want to do is go under supplier here and

you're going to want to select autods

supplier that means that these are

suppliers that are willing to work with

drop shippers they know they're working

with drop shippers because they're

partnered with autods so they're going

to get your orders out on time they're

not going to make a fuss about it

they're going to be um integrated so

that if prices change your price will

also change on your autods account so

you won't lose money there's just a lot

of benefits by going through these

suppliers because you can rely on them

and trust them so definitely something

to keep in mind here and then what we're

going to do is kind of search through

the different categories so obviously

keeping in mind what exactly it is that

we can and cannot sell my favorite thing

to sell to especially on Tik Tok shop

there's I mean there is all different

types of people on Tik Tok but I find

that I like to sell the more girly

products I don't know if that's just cuz

I'm a I'm a woman and I like to buy

certain things on there but as you can

see there's some pretty cool products

that come up here like some jewelry some

makeup bags and these are the autods

suppliers so this is a great way to just

like scroll through here and see if

there's something that catches your

eye so when you click on the product

just under the marketplace it'll show

you some things about it so the shipping

price and the processing time so two to

four days that's perfect um and you can

even message the the supplier if you'd

like to if you have questions about the

product and then once we go to handpick

products that's another cool um thing

that autods offers because these are

hand by their actual team seeing which

products are you know working and

selling the best so it's definitely

something that I like this is actually

my most used sourcing method and there's

a lot of things here as you can see so I

would really just scroll through here

until I find something that catches my

eye and then we can do a little bit of

research about what that product is so

these are kind of interesting I've

noticed this because I feel like this

could be something that you could take a

video with it's like funny socks so I

feel like this is something that

influencers would buy and promote and I

also feel like I could take some pretty

cool funky videos of this product so

what I'm going to do is click on it and

it's going to show me a lot of different

things about the product so it's showing

the potential profits around $20 which

looks good sells for around $22 and then

the engagement score so it's saying that

it's moderate engagement which is better

than mild or interactive that means that

people do engage with this it also is

going to give us a saturation score

which it does say that it's busy but

something I want you to keep keep in

mind about the saturation score is like

yeah there's thousands of people selling

lots of different products ideally it'

be better to get something that is

quieter but bus is not as bad as full

market so just keep that in mind don't

let that completely deter you it's also

going to tell you who would be

interested in the product and then the

age range the gender they recommend for

it and then what's cool about this is if

you scroll down you'll be able to see

other companies that are selling it you

can click on their websites here and see

exactly how they're selling the product

so right here is an ad that someone made

and you can click see original ad and

it'll pop up and show you the original

ad on Facebook and look how many people

interacted with this right so it's like

doing that little bit of research we can

take from someone else's ad and this has

a bunch of comments on it so I'm sure

people purchased it and went to the

website to buy it so it's just really

interesting being able to do that and

then there's these websites that sell it

too so I can click on this and see that

this seller is selling it for $15 it's

got good reviews see what kind of photos

they have so it's really just cool

because we're seeing other sellers that

are using this platform and selling the

product and we can learn from them to

choose something now also the price is

only $4 and it ships for only $2 now it

is 13 business days so that is a little

bit too long for my liking so I'm going

to keep looking but overall you can see

how I would go about just doing that

little bit of product um

research here's another product I'm

checking out so again mild engagement

pretty busy it's like these cool

slippers and then I can see some ads

with them see how the ad worked on Tik

Tok okay not that great of Engagement so

it's just a good way to gauge um how

videos did so that'll kind of tell you

what types of videos you can make and if

that marketing will work let's move over

to ad spy that's also kind of on what

I'm talking about here so ad spy is how

you can see what products did really

well with their ads so this is Sushi

socks you can see this person did really

really great on this one um it shows you

all the stats it shows you can play the

video here but it also shows you all the

stats for this which is insane So Sushi

socks might be something that you would

want to sell because you can see that if

you make a video like this that it

clearly does have that Viral potential

and the more people that see and engage

with their video the more number one

you're going to get sales but also

number two more and more influencers are

going to want to work with you if you're

giving them a commission to help you

sell your product now you can also go

into the trending products which this is

just added trending products daily same

type of thing here if you click on them

you're going to see you know more and

more about it um for if it's worth your

time selling it or not now before you go

ahead and start on a product I want you

to add a few uh you like like what you

can do is you can click this import

button so if you find one that you like

you hit import and then select your

store and then hit next and then you're

importing it and it's not going live

onto your store yet it's going to be a

draft in that moment but what you can do

is just add a bunch of them to your

drafts and then you can go through them

and you can message the supplier and

just make sure of one specific thing and

this is just to double check to make

sure again that we're within the

guidelines we need to make sure that

that supplier ships with a shipping

company that is in compliance with Tik

Tok shop now I know that seems like a

lot but most of them are I just want you

to be aware of this so they have like

the most popular ones it's FedEx UPS DHL

and I believe USPS so we just need to

make sure that the supplier ships

through those you can send them a quick

message or you can even find it on the

product Details page but it's just

something to keep in mind all right so

I've been scrolling for a bit keeping in

mind all the things we talked about and

I think I found a product that will work

so what I'm going to do is I'm going to

click on this product I found these like

cute be slippers I think this is perfect

because I clearly can take really fun

cute videos of these there's also a lot

of different colors to them as well

which I love and check this out the

shipping is $0 and the processing and

shipping time is 2 days this is fitting

really really well into our category

here now the price is $30 which is a

little bit high but what we're going to

do is a little hack and we're going to

see if this is already being sold and

about how much is being sold for and

that's going to really tell us whether

or not we can sell this product at a

competitive price so what I'm going to

do is I'm going to right click and I'm

going to hit save image as and I'm just

going to type like bear

image and I'm going to go to Google

image search and I'm going to drag and

drop the bear okay and then what's

popping up is these are all listings of

people that are selling similar items to

this right we can see it's on Walmart

it's on Amazon and is on Etsy and we can

see the prices so on Etsy it's selling

for $55 on on um I'm not sure what site

this is plushies Depot that's just

someone's store but the main ones we

want to look for is Amazon Etsy Walmart

so on um Amazon they're selling it for

$48.99 and then Walmart is selling it

for $60 so what that means is if I

charge less than the Amazon and the um

Walmart price or even one or the other I

can still price pretty competitively

when it comes to selling those product

so I'm going to go and I'm going to

click import

draft and then I'm going to go over to

the left side and go to drafts and then

it's going to pop up here now I also see

down here that there's dog version and

there's other ones that are cheaper so

these dog ones it's around the same

thing but the price is a little bit

cheaper and there's also a lot of

different animals that I could import so

I'm just going to import both of these

and then check them both out cuz

sometimes when we go to our draft there

may be some issues with the importing

and sometimes it takes a few seconds you

may have to refresh it so I've imported

a few products here so I can gain a

little bit more context on them so if I

click on the original one that I wanted

to do when I clicked it and went to

variance it said that it's out of stock

so I don't want to sell that product

that's why I said to enter multiple

things but I found these cute dog

slippers which also have like that cute

factor to them they're still affordable

they still ship fast and they are in

stock in different sizes as well so I'm

going to go ahead and import this

product and work with this one so

there's lots of photos and then there is

a description but not much is here so so

what I'm going to do is hit optimize

description with AI and then I'm going

to hit title and description make it more

sellable creative and then have it write

me the description and the title so this

AI thing is another feature that makes

um autod DS so great because it's going

to save you time through different SEO

and doing all the different descriptions

and it just does it all here for you so

I do recommend that because it

understands the Tik talk algorithm and

there certain keywords that are going to

be used in order to import this product

and once that's finished we can go ahead

and edit our price and then we can

upload this to our Tik Tok shop seller

account now it may take just a few

moments um but just know that it is

going to go over sometimes it'll go over

um and like some of the pictures won't

be there right away or like the

description that you just made so if

that happens just be aware of that but

let's go back over to our Tik Tok

account and go to products and when we

can do here is we can refresh it until

that pops up in here so I'm going to go

to edit and then here is all the photos

for the product so I can kind of go

through and delete the ones that I don't

want from here um like this one's a

little weird the cat one's a little

weird and then I can also get my own

photos if I do want to or make these

more interesting in an apple canva or

something but I think honestly what's

best is to wait for your sample to come

once you've ordered it and take your own

and then I have my title here and then

I'm going to make sure that my category

is correct so Tik Tok will automatically

put it under the category because it was

imported but if you do need to change it

that is where you would do so I do have

the brand so see this was all already

imported for me from autods which is

super super helpful all right so now my

description is updated my photos are

updated and then I can go down and just

make sure everything looks good I

updated my price to $40 because I know

that the product costs around

$25 and I need to take in account that

um there are going to be some fees

coming from Tik Tok so that's going to

be around 6% at the time I'm filming

this video that can fluctuate so make

sure that you go ahead and check that on

their website and I want to make sure

I'm still making a pretty good profit

and I always am want to charge like a

little bit more so that if I run a sale

or if I offer a commission to a creator

that way I'm still making a profit then

I'm going to go down and make sure

everything looks good and then I'm going

to hit

update okay congratulations we just

listed and then I'm just going to check

the status so it shows that it is live

here it also says that listing quality

is poor so what I would do is go back

and optimize that but before we do that

I'm going to go ahead and just preview it

and it's going to show me what a

customer would see when they come to my

listing so I want to make this look

better I want to add more photos I'm

going to order a sample so I can do that

but overall this is the process of

listing your products from autods onto

your Tik Tok Shop store now what happens

when you receive an order is that order

is going to go into Tik Tok shop and

it's going to automatically all the

customers information and all that zoom

over to autods where they're going to

grab all that information and ship the

product to that customer for you so this

is a very behindth scenes thing that's

how Drop Shipping works so you're not

actually physically holding this product

and sending it out every single time but

you can still make a lot of money

selling it and you're not holding the

inventory at all so it doesn't require

,000 up front and it's a really good

business model so you can continue to do

this and just list as many products as

you can on your store that are optimized

of course and that we make sure that the

products that you know we go through

what I said before do they meet the

criteria of what could be considered a

successful Drop Shipping product so now

that you know how to upload your

products the next thing that I want to

talk about is how you're going to get

traffic to your store and how are you

going to Market your product now I'm

going to talk to you about the free

method if you would like to see a video

about ads please leave a comment for me

down below make sure that it's something

that you guys want to see before I

create that but I know a lot of people

don't have the money UPF front and so

we're going to talk about the free way

to do this so what you're going to want

to do is order a sample of your product

you can order it from autods or if the

same product is available on Amazon for

quicker you can order it from there and

then you can start making videos for

your product now what you're going to do

with these videos is you are going to

create a Tik Tok account that is

specifically for your Tik Tock shop

seller account and why you're doing this

is that way this is going to be like the

account that you promote products from

and then people can go to your bio once

your Tik Tok shop is linked so it's a

really great method so what you do is

create that new Tik Tok account and then

with your videos you can start taking

pretty simple videos and photos even

like the photos slide content of your

product and start posting them to Tik

Tok with relevant hashtags you use a lot

of like the POV your significant other

buys you this or needs this there's a

lot of different trendy ways that you

can go about marketing and I'll leave a

helpful video in the description below

but when it comes to this the best way

if you're feeling like you don't know

how to make videos for it is to number

one utilize on auts that ads by and

number two just search for similar

products on Tik Tok or on Instagram and

see which videos are already being made

of that product and you can make your

own in your own way using your product

so like for mine it would be slippers so

I would take videos of the slippers on

cute photos of the slippers and use it

in like Photo slides and stuff and it

doesn't have to be that complicated it's

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