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Reviews

Reviews of the dropshipping websites, for UK shops.

We review six websites you can run a dropshipping shop on, and seven supplier apps that bring the products in. Each review is written from the company's own website, with its prices and the date we checked them. We don't give star ratings.

Which one suits you?

Tell us where you're starting from, and we'll show you the ones that suit you.

Pick the one that describes you, and the websites that fit stay bright while the rest fade. We match them on facts you can check: who builds the shop, what it costs and what it runs on.

Mediatopia

Ours
£119 plus VATDropshipping website plan

Mediatopia designs and builds the shop for you. The price includes the connection to AliExpress, the hosting, your web address and your email.

Who builds it: We design and build it for you, around your products and your brand

Shopify

£25Basic plan

An online shop you rent by the month and build yourself. You add dropshipping with an app such as DSers or CJdropshipping.

Who builds it: You build it yourself, using one of its designs

WooCommerce

£0WooCommerce plan

Free software that adds a shop to a WordPress website. You pay for your own hosting, and you add dropshipping with DSers.

Who builds it: You build it yourself on WordPress, or pay someone to

Squarespace

£28.80 including VATCore plan

A website builder known for its designs, and every plan lets you sell. You add dropshipping with an app made by another company, such as Spocket, Syncee or DSers.

Who builds it: You build it yourself, using one of its designs

Wix

Not shown monthly

A website builder where you drag the pieces into place. Wix has its own dropshipping app called Modalyst, and DSers works with Wix too.

Who builds it: You build it yourself, by dragging and dropping

BigCommerce

$39Core plan

An online shop you rent by the month, aimed at shops already selling a lot. Its plans are priced by how much you sell in a year.

Who builds it: You build it yourself, using one of its designs

Supplier apps

Where your products come from.

Your shop website is where your customers buy. A supplier app is what brings the products into it and sends each order to the supplier. These are the seven apps we compare, with their starting prices from their own websites.

Compare the supplier apps
  • DSersFree plan, or $19.90 a month for the Advanced plan
  • CJ DropshippingFree to use. You pay for each product and its delivery
  • AvasamFrom £24.99 a month, plus VAT. Its free plan is for looking around
  • SynceeFrom $39.99 a month. Its free plan is for looking around
  • SpocketFrom $39.99 a month, with 7 days free
  • ZendropFrom $49 a month. Its free plan is for looking around
  • AutoDSFrom $26.90 a month, with a 3-day trial for $1
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Who owns this website

UK Dropshipper is owned by Mediatopia Solutions Limited, a UK web design company. Mediatopia also sells its own dropshipping website, so we include it in our comparisons and mark it Ours every time it appears.

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Where our prices come from

Every price is copied from the company's own pricing page, and we show the date we checked it. If a company only shows its prices in dollars, we show them in dollars and say so, and turn them into pounds where we add them up.

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How we decide what goes first

We go on facts you can check for yourself: who builds the shop, where the suppliers are, what it costs each month and which shop websites each supplier app works with. We don't give star ratings, and no company pays us to be listed.

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