The Best Free Supplier for Branded Dropshipping in 2026

[00:01] for your drop shipping business in 2026 and beyond, best of luck to you because to properly scale your business and see good profit margins like I saw here, did 40k in a couple weeks, just last week did right under 7k in pure profit with

[00:15] really good net margins. There's a couple different reasons why you need a beginner and I want to break that down in today's video. So before I get into why you will never want to use these different platforms ever again, let's

[00:27] The way it works is that in China, there are tons of different warehouses. In warehouses manufacturing different products every single day. Some warehouses are niche specific that only manufacture things like toys, like

[00:40] supplements, and like clothing, but most warehouses in China are considered general warehouses that produce hundreds of different products every single day. you see a lot of popular brands and stores use every single day. In fact,

[00:55] Gymshark started off as a drop shipping business manufacturing things in China and then fulfilling it to countries like the United Kingdom and of course the United States. So, with that being said, the question is what is a private

[01:09] supplier? A private supplier is just a person that is the middleman between the warehouses in China and you, the drop shipper, sending the products off to communicate with the warehouses and if they are a good private supplier,

[01:22] they'll negotiate and try to get you the best price with the best shipping speed customers as quickly as possible. So, your private supplier, you all you have product that I want to drop ship on my store." They are going to communicate

[01:36] they know, they have a network of different warehouses that produce different things, and then from there, they will be purchasing the products from the warehouses and then having it shipped to their personal warehouse. So,

[01:50] your private supplier will have its own warehouse that they will get the products to. This normally takes about two to three days for the private supplier to get the product from the actual warehouse to their warehouse and

[02:02] then send it to your customer. Now, this is important, right? This relationship want to be successful drop shipping because one, there's a lot of variables quality of the product. There are multiple warehouses that manufacture the

[02:16] same exact product. At the end of the day, it is competition. So, your private find the product, they need to know which warehouse actually manufactures is important because if you're drop shipping and you have a bad private

[02:31] that you're drop shipping, but it's going to be a shitty quality and they're going to want refunds, chargebacks, and you can get your payments withheld or even worse, have your entire Shopify account completely closed off. You don't

[02:43] your business. So, your private supplier needs to know that. Another variable at play is making sure your private supplier is getting a good quote for the product. Your private supplier does not manufacture these

[02:56] products. They're simply communicating with the warehouses that do. So, they're all right, which warehouse has the best quality but also is giving you the best price. You don't want to have high cost of goods, right? Cuz higher the cost of

[03:10] have to charge your customer and the more unlikely it is for them to buy. No one is going to spend 150 bucks on a basic leather wallet, you know, unless really premium marketing, which we talked about on the channel, but most

[03:24] cases, a really, really good premium wallet, let's even bump up the number a little bit more. No one's paying three to $400 for this this wallet, probably. a good cost of goods so your margins are easier.

[03:36] didn't just put this in front of you to flex, but this is important. Your net How much percentage of the money that you're generating

[03:48] are you actually taking home back into to personal pocket? Now, one cost of of expense here will be ads, but another big thing is your actual cost of goods itself. And the lower your cost of goods are, the easier it is to be a profitable

[04:02] to be. So, assuming you have a good quote, your products at a good price, they're going to ship it to their warehouse. Now, you warehouse just ship it straight to my customer? Why do I need a a middleman?

[04:16] that. They make the products, that's their one goal, that's their specialty, that's what they focus on. Second, if you get a good private supplier, send it to their warehouse. First, for one, they're going to communicate and

[04:30] get the best shipping lines. So, in China, there's about 10 plus different shipping speeds. The slower the shipping line is, right, cheaper it's going to be.

[04:44] shipping line, right, 6 to 10 days, it's going to cost you more money. Now, for for some time, here's a little little nugget for you. The best shipping line, in my honest opinion, from trying a ton of them, is YunExpress.

[04:58] This one has the best bang for your buck. It's not too expensive, really quickly. You cannot do drop shipping today and expect customers to be okay with 14-day delivery times. Okay? So, the biggest benefit in having

[05:13] products from their warehouse to your customer shipping speeds. Nowadays, when I'm drop shipping, this is my standard shipping arrive to my customers. Even on this higher end, it's, you know, it's fine,

[05:27] quickly, and they should get their own tracking numbers well, so the customers product should be arriving. So, not only are you getting really good shipping times, a good private supplier can get you better prices, plus better

[05:40] quotes. You can negotiate and use, um, and as you receive more daily orders, your cost of goods go down. So, this is a working relationship. They need to see that you are getting orders over time to give you

[05:52] a lower lower price. So, initially, let's say I was to use this example, the wallet again. Let's say I was getting a quote for this wallet for $7. If I'm a you do not need to be an experienced dropshipper doing a, you know, 10,000

[06:06] fact, I think it's the opposite, which we'll talk about in a moment. But, if know, you have no orders coming to your store or you're looking to get started, the best front-end price, which is normally like something like seven bucks

[06:20] dropship more, and they see that, "Hey, you're moving real weight." They're down to, you know, $5.50. And that might seem like, "Oh, you know, up over time. Over the span of a thousand orders, that's an extra $5,000

[06:36] in your pocket simply by doing one thing different. Right? And a good private obviously, you should still ask over time, but this is something that they will automatically do for you. And now, on top of that, right? We

[06:49] talked about branded dropshipping. The goal here with branded dropshipping is to actually be a brand, right? We don't want to just keep flipping and months because, you know, we're not building a

[07:02] actual branding. So, we might want to put a a logo on this wallet. We might want to um add a certain color, right? Maybe put a thank you card in the box you actually look and, you know, seem like a legitimate brand. Also, this

[07:17] undercut in the market and other competitors to come and compete with you. So, now that we're on the same page why these other alternatives are horrible options. I don't care if you're

[07:29] dropshipper, you should never be using any of these options or anything similar to this. And here's why. Well, for one, AliExpress, Alibaba, high long shipping times. The average shipping time on these stores, right?

[07:43] the average shipping times with these marketplaces is anywhere between 10 to 15 days. Now, they are now, you know, AliExpress has become aware of that and they do have certain, you know, products that do ship sooner than that, but now

[07:58] you're paying an insane cost for that product. So, the same wallet might be AliExpress in 8 days, but now it costs you, you know, 40 bucks for this wallet. So, we want that balance where we can

[08:12] of goods though. And again, that's why Private Label Supplier will help you with that. There's no branding, so, you know, you can't really brand anything here on these websites. Sometimes Alibaba allows you to. Same thing with

[08:25] running into these other issues. And then there's no customer support. Now, support. It's not the best in my honest opinion, but those are the the things you're up against. As a beginner, you do want some customer support. You need

[08:39] someone to make sure your orders are getting fulfilled. If you have an issue "Hey, my order says delivered, but it didn't I don't actually see it. What someone can track that back for you and

[08:53] back to the customer if something is missing. and ZenDrop, are horrible options as well. For one, yes, you can negotiate and it's a great platform where you can

[09:05] you're paying a monthly cost for this. This is This is ridiculous. When I first tools and I didn't know any better. And know, seen a ton of other guru videos telling you to sign up for AutoDS, sign

[09:18] up for ZenDrop, but it should not cost you money to get orders fulfilled and literally doesn't make any sense. You're getting paid for something that should be free. So, these monthly subscription tools,

[09:30] they're they're marketed as premium services that can do additional stuff, when in reality, there are platforms out there in one in specific that literally has the best of both worlds. You get a private supplier, customer support, you

[09:42] get the option to do branding, you get amazing shipping times, shipping speeds, you get quotes from different suppliers, and it doesn't cost you a single penny. tons of sales to get started with this. In fact, I believe it's the opposite.

[09:54] Like I was mentioning earlier, this is best for beginners. still learning the ins and outs of drop shipping and having to now pay an haven't even have a validated product

[10:07] times and then eventually have to deal with chargebacks, refunds. It's it you and that could be the death of your business. So, what I'm about to show you orders fulfilled automatically and I can't believe this, but people still in

[10:22] 2025 were getting orders on their Shopify store and manually going into these websites and punching them in and ordering them could not imagine doing that. I never did that. I'm glad I I didn't go that

[10:35] about to show you is fully automated. A customer will submit an order on your website through Shopify and your back end team will orders to you. You just have to make sure you have an account balance so they

[10:49] can debit the money from your account and pay to receive the cost of goods. never have to worry about you know, manually sending out orders or managing done for you. On top of that, you'll get a dedicated account manager to help you

[11:04] source and fulfill all your products so you're not having to worry about that and everything is 100% free. You only pay the cost of goods to send it to your dime. So, again, this is beginner

[11:16] beginner may be watching this and wondering, Alex, I haven't made any shipping. Um you know, now I got to go pay for the subscription fee here and then I got to go do that. No, it's 100% free. So, you

[11:28] account, connect your store, and when you start making orders, you only pay anything else. So, the platform in question is TeamDrop, and this is 100% free, and I have some additional perks and bonuses for you guys. So, in the

[11:42] like this platform, I'm going to break it down how to use it, how to sign up. description. You get some additional bonuses. But, this platform is 100% from you signing up cuz there's no monthly subscription. But, what I do

[11:56] want to do is talk about how great this is and how scalable, you know, once you a good product, how amazing and how scalable and how many great services they offer for, again, no additional price. So, first things first, you can

[12:10] go here and you'll see under the how it works section how this is easily one of to do is just connect this to your store. They have videos and tutorials do this. But, you're just going to literally connect this to your store,

[12:24] You're going to source a product, right? So, they're connected to literally all couldn't believe this initially until I had to go and double-check myself, but literally you see it here, 1688, which is like the Chinese version of Alibaba

[12:38] and AliExpress. Um they have pretty much every single They're really deep platform, and they've been processing thousands, hundreds of thousands of orders every single day for tons of different brands,

[12:51] Um they also allow you to just, once you source a product, you just set it up on orders coming in, they'll automatically sync and fulfill for you. So, it's about this is is that they allow you to pick different shipping lines based off

[13:07] show you guys that in an example in just a moment. But, basically, this is not flexibility for free, but you're getting amazing shipping, and it's fast quoting. Another thing and another problem I had with

[13:21] these other platforms, these platforms would charge you a monthly subscription fee and then also charge you additional for sourcing. And I've made videos on other platforms, too. Um and sourcing normally does cost some money, but it's

[13:34] understand if a free platform is charging you for sourcing. But a platform that is literally already paying a monthly subscription, and then you have to pay for sourcing on top of that, it's kind of crazy. Um so, I

[13:47] really really didn't like that at all. So, click the link in the description, everything you need to know about Team Drop so you can get started, get orders. First thing you need to do is connect your store once you sign up.

[13:59] Again, it's 100% free, so just put the email that you want to use. I recommend your Shopify store. You're going to click authorize store here. is just hit add store, and then follow the basic instructions. It's going to

[14:13] install a app on your Shopify dashboard, and then just click authorize, and it's going to set that all up for you. And then from there, go to settings once it the app is connected. Make sure you go to shipping and delivery.

[14:28] Hit this icon here. And then you just need to make sure your fulfillment Team Drop here. So, you're going to hit that, hit add. And now Shopify will recognize Team Drop. The app is connected, so you know,

[14:42] Team Drop will be able to see your your products and your orders come through, but it's important that Shopify also allows Team Drop to be a fulfillment location because if you set this up and you're going to add a store at it add to

[14:55] cart, right? Or you go to your store, and you connect Team Drop, and it says, "Hey, your order you know, your product is out of stock." Or you can't add to means your fulfillment location isn't set up properly. So, make sure you go to

[15:07] delivery. Make sure fulfillment location. Make sure you add Team Drop here as a location and then as an app, and then you should be good. Just save connected. That takes 2 seconds to do, right? So, pretty easy and

[15:20] Now from there, all you got to do is go into find products and this is where you can source and easily find products. Now, you can do this directly in the app, but you can also just contact your agent directly. So, on the right-hand

[15:33] button. Team Drop is connected through WhatsApp and the moment you sign up for no additional cost, they're going to you'll have a team member to help you source products, help you manage your

[15:46] back end and everything as soon as you sign up, which I don't know any other platform that's doing that. So, before we get into that, you can see here under, you know, winning products, they have different products that they

[15:58] skyrocket in demand. So, this can also help you as, you know, someone that's finding products, but obviously the best way to use Team Drop is for sourcing. an example of a product that I sourced, like for example this water flosser

[16:12] So, if I actually go here and view it, you can see that it gives me the exact breakdown, so the different colors that I can now sell on my store. But importantly, it shows right here, right? So, you're selling this on Shopify, but

[16:27] that you can ship this to and the different shipping speeds. So, if I go here and I want to ship this into the United States, it tells me that it's process. The estimated shipping time is 8 to 15 days. That's with this shipping

[16:42] line. If I want to change the shipping line to Yun here, which like I mentioned is my favorite cuz it is the fastest, I can get 5 to 8-day shipping for an additional $3, which does add into your cost of goods here, but if you have a

[16:55] good order, good bundling, good AOV, this is fine. But I can go here and you can see now the price changes and the total cost of goods now has increased. Now, obviously, like 5 to 8 days is a little bit overkill. You don't really

[17:09] need to get products to your customers that fast. I think 8 to 15 is is product and getting it to them in about a week is totally fine. Little over a week is fine, especially if you're just starting out. So, this oral irrigator is

[17:22] about $13 and you can get everything managed and shipped on the back end States. Now, let's say if we pick a country obviously closer to China, we can see here by switching this to United Kingdom, the cost of good drastically

[17:36] drops down, the shipping speed is way faster as well for no really added additional cost, and you can see here that we have now even better shipping obviously shipping to the United States all the way from China has always been

[17:50] the most expensive, but depending on how much you're charging, the product, the of course. I do a lot of my dropshipping to the US cuz it's the most powerful buying country for e-commerce products, at least one of them. So, definitely

[18:03] that's where my money a lot a lot of times go to. But, that's really it. Once buying a sample, which again, I've never seen this done in other platforms. So, you can buy a sample and you also just connect this directly to your store. Um

[18:16] Drop. You can also just simply create the product in your your store as well and then link it, but you can do that or you can literally just go list a store connected, you just pick your store ID, you type out this information. You can

[18:31] add the images here and everything that you want, and then once it's added to and change it all. It'll still be linked exactly the same, and there you go. pretty straightforward. The other option for sourcing, like I mentioned, is just

[18:45] WhatsApp. I believe everyone gets assigned different agents, so you can just simply go in there, message them, and then send them a picture of the ship, and if you have the AliExpress or Alibaba link as well, that can help them

[18:58] find it a little faster. Um but, just a picture alone is enough, and then they'll give you a quote, and then you can simply go ahead, add the product on your store, and then any products that are connected to your your team your

[19:10] Shopify store through Team Drop will automatically populate, and then all you have to do is just simply fulfill your orders and then add a balance to your account so they can actually pay to get your product shipped to your customers.

[19:23] So, like I mentioned, you will need to obviously pay for the cost of goods. So, to do this, you just click on the icon here, you hit top up, select the amount couple different options of how they want to receive their payment. It's

[19:35] going to be through a bank transfer. So, if I wanted to just add $100 to my account, I hit submit here, and then right here is the bank transfer information. So, you just need to copy this information and then just send them

[19:48] the bank information. Um or send them the payment rather can use that here. You can also use this other option here, but I believe the easiest one is Payoneer. You have all their bank information and you can pay

[20:01] them through wire directly. So, all you have to do, remember that you only pay them once you have orders coming to your store. So, that's the great thing about them when you have proof of concept, you have orders coming to your store, um cuz

[20:14] good. You're not paying any additional fees or costs, only cost of good. So, to ship the the product to your customer. So, that's it. Um so, that's Some other great features that I really love about TeamDrop are

[20:30] under packaging products right here on the left-hand side, you can pick the way customer. So, if you really want to start to customize this, obviously, I product that has proven to sell, you can actually start picking out different

[20:43] actually customize them as well, which is really cool. And then once you pick what you want, you just go to packaging connection, and then you can connect the product that you want to have this specific packaging connected to right

[20:57] then all your orders that are being processed will be right under the orders tab here that you can see under purchase orders. And it's pretty easy. So, there's going to be this awaiting payment. So, if you have enough of a

[21:11] do this for you. They normally do it within 24 hours. They'll process the everything will be managed here. Anything that's pending, right, will be under here. Awaiting collection means that they made the order from the main

[21:25] warehouses, and they're waiting for it to get to their warehouse. And then pretty self-explanatory here. And then completed is once everything is all said everything really easy. You'll have a nice dashboard to see where everything

[21:38] is going. Any canceled orders will fall under the cancel tab. you really need to do. So, there's not really much you have to manage. Just make sure that you have your account balance topped up, and then that's it.

[21:51] processed for you. Some additional bonuses as well, if you click the link get some free coupons automatically added to your account. So, on your first set of orders, you can get 5% off, 4% off, 2% off, and $10 off, which I think

[22:05] someone that's really trying to save on your cost of goods on a your first product test, you can use this to get cheaper costs of goods just simply by up with that. Last but not least, if you're someone trying to take your drop

[22:18] shipping journey seriously in 2026, I highly invite you to come up and sign up for Social Ranks Club 2.0, which is my online community that I've been creating shippers how to get started and scale profitably, right? Emphasis on

[22:32] Uh using some simple strategies that I've been able to develop and use over the last couple of months to really skyrocket my own business and see some really, really high profit margins. So, if you want help with picking a product,

[22:44] building a store, finding, and you know, everything that you need to get started um without having to spend five, six, or $7,000 for one-on-one mentorship, I growing this community slowly but surely. It's very tight-knit, and I do

[22:58] live trainings and update the course material pretty regularly. So, you do lot of guided help. So, it's an A-Z course. I host a weekly coaching call every single week. And then, of course, I give you 24/7 DM support. So, I get

[23:11] back to your messages within 24 hours pretty much every single day. So, if you link in the description. And I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Subscribe if you haven't already. I'll see you guys all in the next one. Take care.