An affiliate store instead
A dropshipping alternative with no stock, no refunds and no suppliers.
An affiliate store looks like a dropshipping store, full of products in one niche. When a visitor buys, the merchant takes the payment, ships the order and handles refunds and complaints. You earn a commission. FreshStore builds and hosts the affiliate site for you.
Free for 7 days, nothing charged today. Then 30-day money back.
Building affiliate sites since 2010.
4.7/5 on Trustpilot, 80 reviews
What the merchant handles
Payment, shipping, refunds, complaints
The visitor clicks a product on your site and buys it on Amazon, eBay or another merchant. The merchant takes the money, ships the parcel, and deals with returns, refunds, complaints and sales tax. There is no supplier for you to chase.
What is yours
The site, and the visitors
Your affiliate ID goes on every link, and the merchant pays you the commission. Your part is choosing the niche, adding pages and helping people find the site. FreshStore builds it, hosts it and keeps the products current.
Side by side
The jobs you keep, and the jobs you drop
Both sites show products from other companies. The difference is who sells them.
A dropshipping store
- You take the payment and own the order
- You place each order with a supplier
- Late, lost and damaged parcels are yours to sort out
- Refunds and chargebacks come out of your account
- You answer the customer's emails
An affiliate store on FreshStore
- The visitor pays the merchant
- The merchant ships the order
- Delivery problems go to the merchant
- Refunds and returns are the merchant's
- The merchant answers the customer, and pays you
The honest trade
What you give up
A commission is a smaller share of each sale than a dropshipping margin, and the merchant sets the price. Visitors come mostly from search, and search traffic builds over weeks and months. Some sites are never found. Many people build several niches and keep the ones that get found.
- No stock to buy, store or write off
- No supplier to chase, no parcel to track
- No refunds or chargebacks to cover
Four steps
How to set it up
FreshStore is an affiliate site builder. It builds, hosts and fills the site, so you start with pages instead of a blank screen.
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Pick a niche
Start from a ready-made Instant Site, or type your own niche. The site goes live in about five minutes.
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The site fills with products
Amazon and eBay products from day one, with no API keys to apply for. Add Walmart, Etsy and AliExpress too.
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Paste in your affiliate IDs
Join each merchant's program for free. Paste your ID in once and every link carries it.
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Grow it
The built-in writer drafts buying guides and reviews. Keep Fresh checks prices and stock every day.
Hosting, SSL, backups and updates are done for you.
Every plan includes every feature. Plans differ only by the number of sites.
Free for 7 days, nothing charged today. Then 30-day money back.
Coming from a dropshipping tool?
AliDropship and Spocket make you the merchant. FreshStore makes you the referrer. Our side by side pages show where each one is the better pick.
Before you start
Dropshipping alternative questions
- Is an affiliate store like dropshipping?
- From the outside, yes. Both are sites full of products in one niche. The difference is who sells. In dropshipping you take the payment and own the order. On an affiliate site the visitor buys from the merchant, and the merchant pays you a commission.
- Who handles refunds, returns and complaints?
- The merchant. It ships the order and handles refunds, returns, complaints and sales tax. You never touch a parcel or speak to a supplier.
- Will I earn as much as I did dropshipping?
- We do not publish figures. A commission is a smaller share of each sale than a dropshipping margin. In return you hold no stock, pay no supplier and cover no refunds.
- How will people find my affiliate site?
- FreshStore builds every page for search. Connect Google once, and every new page is added to Google and Bing for you. The search engines decide what they rank, and traffic builds over time. Adding pages and sharing your site is your part.
- What about print on demand?
- With print on demand you are still the seller. The printer makes and ships the item, but refund requests and complaints still come to you. On an affiliate site they go to the merchant.
- What does FreshStore cost?
- The Single plan is $20 a month for one site, and Starter is $30 a month for three. Every plan includes every feature. 7 days free, then a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Rated 4.7 on Trustpilot
“I’ve been involved in affiliate marketing for over twenty years and have tried many affiliate store apps. FreshStore is the best affiliate store app that I have used. The app is intuitive and easy to use by anyone, regardless of their level of experience. And if help is needed, customer service is always available. But best of all, the store layout is beautiful and easy for customers to navigate. FreshStore provides everything needed for a successful store.”
“I've been building stores with FreshStore for nearly a year. They are simple to create (even for a senior) and powerful. Many features are available and the company keeps updating the back end based on users' votes. How cool is that?”
Build an affiliate store, and let the merchant ship.
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