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Include shipping price in AutoDS

Learn how to include shipping costs in product pricing and choose the best shipping method in AutoDS

Introduction

As a dropshipper, accurate product pricing is essential to protect your profits. Supplier price changes and shipping costs can directly impact your business. While AutoDS monitors price changes from suppliers, an often-overlooked factor is the shipping cost added to the source price of an item.

To ensure your pricing is correct, you need to configure both the shipping method and the Include Shipping Price option in AutoDS.

Benefits

  • Ensure accurate product prices that include shipping costs

  • Protect profit margins from supplier shipping changes

  • Choose between cheapest or fastest shipping options with valid tracking

  • Configure settings for each supplier individually for better control

 

 

Shipping methods

Choose the shipping method AutoDS should detect for your listings.

  1. Go to Settings → Supplier Settings → Lister → Shipping method.
    👉 Learn More: AutoDS Lister Settings: save time with default upload preferences

  2. Select one of the available options:

    • Cheapest – Selects the cheapest shipping method on the supplier site.

    • Cheapest with tracking – Selects the cheapest option with valid tracking.

    • Fastest with tracking – Selects the fastest option with valid tracking.


Example (AliExpress, product base price $5):

  • Cheapest (without tracking): $5 + $0.64 = $5.64

  • Cheapest with tracking: $5 + $1.72 = $6.72

  • Fastest with tracking: $5 + $6.90 = $11.90

 

 

 

Include shipping price configuration

To add shipping costs to your product’s source price:

  1. Go to Settings → Supplier Settings → Pricing.
    👉 Learn More:Pricing Settings: How to manage Price, Profit, and Fees

  2. Enable Include shipping price.

  3. Confirm that the pricing rule is applied to the chosen supplier.

 

⚠️ Important:

Configure pricing settings for each supplier individually. Review your suppliers and update their settings as needed.

 

 

Ship To region setting

Make sure your Ship To region is correct. Always confirm that the region selected in AutoDS matches the one on the supplier site. You can set this under Settings → Supplier Settings → General → Ship to Country.

Here’s how Deals appear on AliExpress and how to adjust the Ship to option to match the one you set in AutoDS:Pricing Settings - Why price differ-VEED

  • Matching the Ship To settings ensures accurate pricing, shipping times, and product availability when importing.

  • AutoDS monitors the shipping region set in your General Settings. Product price and shipping cost are calculated based on this region.

  • Worldwide Ship To:  If you set Worldwide as your “Ship to Region,” no shipping cost will be applied to your products.

    💡 Tip: To handle this, add the highest potential shipping cost as an additional profit margin under Settings → Supplier Settings → Pricing.