In order to do dropshipping, you need a plug-in from which you can get the items to sell and also fill orders. There are a lot of plug-ins or apps out there, and Modalyst and Dropified are two of the most fierce competitors.
What should you pick between these two? At the end of this tutorial, you’ll know how much each costs and what its benefits are, and you’ll have enough information to make a decision.
How does Dropified work?
Dropified is a program that you can add to your online store. After you build your Shopify dropshipping website, you need to add the app so you can find suppliers and show their products in your store.
You can find suppliers on both AliExpress and eBay with Dropified. The next step after a customer buys something from your store is to go to the Dropified dashboard and fulfill that order. The supplier will then be told, and he will send the item to your customer.
Here are the main things that Dropified has to offer:
- 14 days for free
- Easy to fit in
- There are thousands of items
- 80+ product catalogs
- Orders filled in a few seconds
- Solver Captcha
- Remove photo background
- Order tracking
- Notes on custom orders
- Works with eBay, AliExpress, and Zapier.
Dropified lets you do a lot of work with just one click, which can save you a lot of time. It has a lot of automation features, like automatic price changes, importing products with one click, and customizing products.
The tool also lets you set up flash sales, discounts, and changes to a lot of products at once. And because Dropified can find items on eBay, your store doesn’t have to only sell things from China.
You can find items in your country on eBay, so you can sell local items and get them to your customers faster.
With Dropified, you can look for YouTube videos that have something to do with your product. For example, you might be trying to sell a certain toy. You can put a YouTube video about that toy on your product page if there is one.
You could also put ads on that video. Your ad will be shown to anyone who is watching that video. If they want what they see on the video, they will click on your ad, which will take them to your store, where they will buy from you.
What Is Modalyst?
Modalyst is an app that you can add to your e-commerce store, just like Dropified. Modalyst lets you do business with either dropshipping or wholesale, so you can choose which one works best for you.
Also, it can work with Shopify. After this, you can go to the Modalyst dashboard to look for things to sell. When a customer buys something from your store, the “Brand” or supplier is told, but the items won’t be shipped until you pay for them.
On the dashboard, you have to pay for the order and the shipping. The supplier would then send the product to your customer.
Here are the most important things about Modalyst:
- Keeping track of stock
- Price conversion
- There are thousands of shops.
- Direct payment
- Manage orders
- 40+ product categories
- Known brands
- 650+ indie suppliers
- Dropshipping for private labels
- Free to set up
- Shipping is free.
- Numbers to follow
You can ask some of the suppliers on Modalyst to put your brand name on the items. This costs more, but it’s worth it if you want your store’s name on the products.
Pricing for Modalyst vs Dropified
Now, let’s look at the different prices for each of them. Each price point gives you new options, and you can see the app’s limits at each price point.
Plans for Modalyst
There are three different plans for Modalyst: Hobby, Start-up, and Pro.
- Hobby—it’s free to set up
- $35 per month to start up.
- Pro: It costs $90 a month
With the Hobby plan, you can add up items to your store through the app. You can handle as many orders as you want, and you can also use the private label suppliers. For every item you sell on the Hobby plan, you have to pay a 5% transaction fee.
If you pay your Start-up plan bill once a year, you can save money. If you choose to pay once a year instead of every month, you will only pay $30 each month instead of $35.
Like the Hobby plan, there is a 5% fee for each transaction. But the number of products you can upload has been raised to 250. You can also order as many products as you want. You can get in touch with private label companies, but you can’t get access to branded items.
If you pay $804 per year for the Pro plan, you can save money. With this annual plan, the price drops from $90 per month to $67 per month.
There is also a 5% fee for each transaction, but you can now add as many items as you want to your store. With this plan, you get everything the other two plans offer, plus you can buy branded items.
Dropified Plans
Dropified has four ideas. The company doesn’t give them away for free, but you can try them out for free for 14 days.
What’s planned:
- $7 per month for Builder
- Premier costs $127 a month
- Builder Annual: $39 a month for 12 months
- Premier Annual: $97 a month for 12 months
When you look more closely, the Builder plan and the Builder Annual have the same features. The Premier plan is the same. The price is the only thing that makes one plan different from another. If you pay once a year instead of every month, you will save a lot of money.
You can add up to 15,000 products to your store with the Builder plan. You can handle as many orders as you want, and you can add up to five users. These users are your employees or virtual assistants who can process orders and add products on your behalf.
This plan has a high level of automation, and both AliExpress and eBay can be used. You will also be able to use the function called “Dynamic Facebook Feed.”
On the Premier Plan, you can add up to 25 users and up to 50,000 products to your store. This works best for dropshippers who have a big business and get hundreds of orders every day.
In addition to what you get with the Builder plan, the Premiere plan gives you access to a lot of powerful features that would have cost you $150 if you had bought them separately.
Modalyst’s pros and cons
Pros
- plan that is free
- Any number of orders
- With a lot of features
- has suppliers who will ship for free
- Has rules about prices
- Tracking numbers can be matched up.
- Has a profit calculator
Cons
- In the free plan, you can only add 25 products.
- Only with the Pro plan can you get to the branded items.
- No matter what plan you buy, there is a 5% transaction fee.
In general, Modalyst has everything you need to run a dropshipping store. With Modalyst, you only have to deal with one dashboard. With this dashboard, you can manage all of the platform’s suppliers.
Dropified: Pros and Cons
Pro
- In the base plan, you can add up to 15,000 items.
- Has a 14-day free trial and unlimited orders
- No fees to do business
- You can add administrators
- Works with eBay and AliExpress
Cons
- No plan for free
- Use costs at least $47 per month
Dropified is great if you already have a lot of traffic and sales in your store. The good thing about it is that it is mostly made for medium businesses where you expect to make a lot of sales.
You save at least 20 hours of work a week by using the Dropified app. This is because it has automated processes.
Web Builders: Modalyst vs Dropified
Shopify, BigCommerce, and Wix can all work with Modalyst. This means that you don’t have to open your store only on Shopify.
If you have a medium-sized or large business, you probably want to use the Big Commerce platform. Wix is a great option if you are just starting out and don’t want to use Shopify.
There are two apps from Modalyst: one for Shopify and one for Wix. If you run your store on BigCommerce, you would need a computer programmer to make the two work together.
On the other hand, Dropified works with more than one platform. These include:
- Shopify
- WooCommerce
- CommerceHQ
- GrooveKart
As you can see, Dropified can be used on more platforms, so you can pretty much choose where you want to build your store.
Support for Modalyst and Dropified
The Help Center on Modalyst works like a search engine. Just type in your question, and the website will give you an answer.
If you can’t find the answer you need in the knowledge base, you can only email the team.
Right now, Modalyst doesn’t have a chat or a phone number for customer service. You can send the team an email. You can also get in touch with the CEO and co-founders.
Dropified’s website has a page for training and questions and answers. You can use these places to get answers to your questions. You can send an email to Dropified’s customer service team if you still need help.
You can also talk to them or use the Facebook group to get answers to your questions. Even if you have the Premiere plan, Dropified doesn’t have a phone number you can call for help.
Which is Better: Modalyst or Dropified?
Both Modalyst and Dropified were made for dropshipping, but not for the same people. Here are some of the things we think you should do.
Use Modalyst if:
- You don’t have a lot of money to spend on your dropshipping store.
- You don’t care if you only start with 25 products.
- You want to get in touch with private label suppliers.
- You don’t mind paying a 5% fee for each transaction.
- You’re willing to pay more to sell branded products.
If you want to:
- You run a medium-sized business and hope to make a lot of money.
- You are fine with paying a monthly fee. You want more features to help your marketing.
- You want to add many things to your store.
- Your business needs more people to use it.
Dropified is made for businesses that want to make money or have enough money to take a chance even if they are just starting out.
Modalyst is for people who are just getting started with dropshipping and don’t have a lot of money to start their store.
Conclusion
If you have enough money to start a dropshipping store, choose Dropified. If you use Dropified, you’ll have to pay a monthly fee on top of the cost of your website, even if you don’t make any sales.
Use Modalyst if you are just starting out and don’t have a lot of money because it has a free plan. You can get by with the 25 products and then reinvest your earnings to move up to a higher plan in the future.
Overall, Dropified has more features than Modalyst, but it is more expensive.
Modalyst is great for people who are just starting out and aren’t sure if their stores will do well. Dropified, on the other hand, is great for people who have already used dropshipping before and know what they are doing.
