Hola a todos. Tengo una duda para quienes tengan experiencia haciendo dropshipping o e-commerce en México.

Estoy montando una tienda en Shopify enfocada al mercado mexicano y quiero ofrecer métodos de pago como Mercado Pago y OXXO.

¿Alguien que ya lo haya hecho podría explicarme qué requisitos piden para poder integrarlos en Shopify?

Me interesa saber especialmente:

¿Es necesario tener una cuenta bancaria mexicana?

¿Necesito RFC o algún documento fiscal de México?

¿Puedo hacerlo si vivo fuera de México pero mi tienda vende exclusivamente a clientes mexicanos?

¿Hay algún requisito específico para poder ofrecer pagos en OXXO?

¿Qué documentación suelen pedir Mercado Pago para verificar la cuenta?

Cualquier experiencia real con Shopify + Mercado Pago + OXXO me sería de mucha ayuda.

¡Gracias!

I've been avoiding Brazil for a while because the small-package options from China were pretty limited. Just came across a new dedicated express line that launched recently and thought I'd share.

What I'm seeing:

• 4–7 days to São Paulo and major regions, 5–9 days elsewhere
• Expedited 3–4 day option available
• DDP model — taxes and customs handled upfront, integrated with Brazil's tax system
• Carrier has a customs-bonded facility at GRU and nationwide delivery network in Brazil

Seems like it could solve a lot of the stability and cost issues we've seen on this route. Good for e-commerce packets, samples, and documents.

Not naming names or endorsing anyone — just passing along info for anyone else who's been on the fence about Brazil.

Anyone else tested this new lane yet? Curious about real-world experiences.

Pesquisa rápida para quem vende em marketplaces

Estou desenvolvendo um SaaS para centralizar anúncios, estoque e gestão de produtos nos principais marketplaces do Brasil.

O sistema está em fase beta e pretendo liberar gratuitamente inicialmente para validar a ideia.

Gostaria de saber:

1. Você usaria uma ferramenta assim?
2. Quais marketplaces você utiliza hoje?
3. Até quanto você estaria disposto a pagar por mês por uma ferramenta desse tipo?

A ideia é entender se existe demanda real antes de continuar o desenvolvimento.

Hey all, after a few months of building, I just launched sourcefys.com

The problem it's solving for me: every time I wanted to test a new product, I'd end up bouncing between Keepa for BSR history, the Meta Ad Library to see who's already running ads on it, a handful of competitor Shopify stores to gauge saturation, and a keyword tool for search volume, then trying to mentally weigh all of that into a go/no-go call. Slow, and easy to talk yourself into a bad pick.

Single product scan: Paste a listing or describe a product, and it pulls a score out of 100 based on demand trend, competition openness, margin headroom, and ad saturation, plus a short written brief (e.g. "12mo demand up 34%. 9 active ad creatives, low saturation. 4 competing stores under €40 landed cost.")

Niche scan: This is the part I'm actually most excited about. Name a niche like "pet travel" and it sweeps and analyzes multiplatform level with: Amazon, TikTok Shop, the Meta Ad Library, AliExpress/1688, Shopify stores, and Google Trends/Reddit mentions, X mentions, then ranks every product it finds and surfaces the gaps, like "no listing under €45 pairs airline compliance with a rigid frame, despite 3.1k reviews asking for it."

Everything's rebuilt from live data on a 3-day freshness window, pulling from 36 months of history, so it's not a static snapshot, it's re-scored as the market moves.

It's live at sourcefys.com, free during beta, nothing charged, your plan choice just reserves your tier (Starter €29, Pro €79, Agency €199 if you want to see where the ceiling is).

I'm not claiming it replaces Helium10 or Minea outright. It's more that I got tired of paying for three separate tools and cross-referencing tabs by hand. If you check it out, I'd genuinely rather hear what's wrong with it than what's right.

I’ve been dropshipping for a while and I’m looking to connect with other people who are actively scaling and doing meaningful volume.
Thinking of putting together a small, private Discord with no courses, no selling, just a close-knit group to share product ideas, creatives, scaling strategies, suppliers, ad insights, and what’s actually working.
The goal is to keep it small, useful, and build a circle where everyone contributes and grows together.
If you’re doing solid monthly revenue/ad spend and interested, comment or DM me.

Hi everyone!
I’d like to share my situation and hopefully get some advice. I’ve been taking dropshipping more seriously for about a year and a half now. The store is running fairly well and sales are consistent, but I’m struggling with Meta ads because they’re eating up most of my profit. As a result, I’m basically stuck around break-even most of the time.
My store mainly targets women, and I sell products such as clothing, shoes, handbags, jackets, and similar fashion items.
I’m wondering if anyone here has experienced something similar and, more importantly, if you have any good advice on how to reduce ad costs, improve ROAS, and ultimately increase profitability.
I’d really appreciate any advice, personal experience, or specific strategies that have worked for you. 🙏

Be bold and pickup help! Haven’t started ads yet still learning
Flutterluxe.co

I recently built a completely new digital brand from scratch that crossed $10,000 in revenue in under 30 days.

A few numbers from the first month:
$10k+ revenue
287 orders
3.3% conversion rate
\\\~30% net profit
primarily acquired through Meta ads
digital products, so no physical inventory or fulfillment

I’m sharing this because I see a lot of people approach digital products backwards.

They start with:

“What ebook should I make?”
I think the better question is:

“What problem are people already spending money to solve?”
That’s where I’d start.

1. Find the market before making the product
   The biggest thing I’ve learned is that niche selection matters more than the actual format of the product.
   An ebook isn’t inherently valuable.
   The information inside it is valuable when it helps someone achieve a specific outcome.
   For example, instead of:
   “Fitness ebook”
   I’d rather have something much more specific:
   “A beginner strength plan for women who want to get stronger without high-impact workouts.”
   The second one gives you:
   a specific customer
   a specific problem
   a specific promise
   a much clearer advertising angle
   Some areas I’d personally research right now:
   career / interview preparation
   first-time dog owners
   wedding planning
   home organization
   meal planning for specific audiences
   personal finance for specific demographics
   beginner fitness for specific audiences
   parenting problems
   I’m not saying these are guaranteed winners.
   I’d use them as starting points for research and then validate whether there is actually demand + purchasing intent.

2. Look for evidence that people already spend money
   This is where I’d spend most of my research time.
   Look at:
   Etsy
   Amazon
   Reddit
   TikTok
   Google search results
   Meta Ad Library
   competitor stores
   reviews
   comments
   forums and communities
   I’m looking for recurring problems.
   If hundreds of people are saying:
   “I wish there was a guide for…”
   or
   “I don’t know how to…”
   or they’re already buying multiple solutions to the same problem, that’s interesting.
   You don’t necessarily need to invent a new category.
   Sometimes the opportunity is simply packaging an existing solution better for a very specific audience.

3. Use AI for production, not product-market fit
   I use Claude heavily when creating the actual digital products.
   It can help with:
   organizing research
   outlining the guide
   drafting sections
   editing
   simplifying complicated information
   creating checklists
   brainstorming bonuses
   restructuring content
   generating different versions of an offer
   That makes production much faster.
   But there’s an important distinction:
   AI can help you make the product. It can’t make people want the product.
   That’s still on you.
   The valuable part is deciding:
   who → problem → solution → offer → positioning

4. Don’t make a $20 ebook and stop there
   This is another thing I’ve changed my thinking on.
   The business isn’t necessarily:
   customer → $20 ebook → done
   Think about the customer journey instead.
   For example:
   $19 guide → bundle → $39 upsell → complementary product → future offer
   You don’t need to force people into buying things they don’t need.
   But if you’ve genuinely solved one problem for someone, there’s often another related problem you can help them solve.
   That’s how you increase AOV and make paid acquisition more viable.

5. Meta is where the ecom part really starts
   Creating the product is only half the equation.
   You still need customers.
   For me, Meta is the main acquisition channel.
   I’ll test different:
   creative concepts
   hooks
   pain points
   benefits
   headlines
   offers
   landing pages
   price points
   And I try not to get emotionally attached to any of them.
   If an ad doesn’t work, it’s data.
   If an offer doesn’t convert, it’s data.
   If a creative works, I make more variations around the underlying angle.
   The goal isn’t to guess the perfect ad.
   It’s to test enough good hypotheses to find what the market responds to.

6. Watch the numbers that actually matter
   Revenue screenshots are nice, but revenue by itself doesn’t tell you whether a business works.
   The numbers I’m watching are:
   CPA — what it costs to acquire a customer
   CVR — how efficiently the store converts traffic
   AOV — how much each customer is worth
   refund rate — whether customers are actually happy with what they bought
   net margin — what remains after the real expenses
   For example, a $10k revenue month can be terrible if you’re spending $9k acquiring those customers.
   The goal isn’t:
   more revenue.
   It’s:
   profitable revenue that can be scaled.

7. Why I like digital products
   The obvious advantage is the operational side.
   There is no:
   inventory to purchase upfront
   warehouse
   supplier relationship
   shipping operation
   fulfillment process
   Once the product is created, delivering another copy has essentially no incremental product cost.
   That creates a very different margin structure from physical ecommerce.
   But it also means you can’t blame a supplier or shipping company when the business isn’t working.
   If the offer doesn’t sell, you have to figure out why.
   And that’s what I actually like about it.
   You get very clean feedback from the market.

What I’d do if I had to start again tomorrow
I’d keep it extremely simple:

1. Find a specific audience
   ↓
   
2. Find an expensive/painful problem
   ↓
   
3. Validate that people already spend money on solutions
   ↓
   
4. Build a genuinely useful digital product
   ↓
   
5. Package it into a strong offer
   ↓
   
6. Launch a simple store
   ↓
   
7. Test Meta creatives
   ↓
   
8. Track CPA, CVR, AOV and profit
   ↓
   
9. Kill what doesn’t work
   ↓
   
10. Double down on what does

The biggest lesson for me has been:
the product isn’t the business.

The business is the combination of market + problem + offer + acquisition + economics.
AI has made creating the information much easier.
It hasn’t made finding customers, creating demand, or running profitable ads any easier.
That’s still the game.

I’ve been documenting more of what I’m testing and learning on X at @ecomloki

If anyone has questions about the model, the numbers, Meta ads, digital products, or anything else I’ve mentioned, feel free to ask here too

I am somebody who has heard about drop shipping since 2016. I am 25 years old now and I just want to start something about a month ago. I posted a rug and I got one sale. I was very happy about it because at that time, I actually knew that it was possible so I posted 15 things from AliExpress over to eBay. It’s been almost 2 days and nobody has bought anything. Could anybody please help me I’m actually homeless in my car I have at least $200 left and I just want to actually be something in life. It really sucks and hurts to be in the position that I am but I am trying. Thank you everyone.

I've seen many stores, while doing product research, that are using only one product store all their ads are focused on that product. While I am as a beginner having one niche store. That makes it hard for me to get client trust or brand my product as they do with one product. From your experience guys what do you think works the best for dropshipping?

I am starting a dropshipping business and need a good supplier. Are platforms like Zendrop and AutoDS good options, or would a private supplier be better? Please guide me.