Dropshipping product research tool
What Dropship Scout does as a product research tool: sample catalog, supplier import, and Stripe billing for Pro.
What you can do on the free plan
Create an account and open the dashboard. The built-in catalog is a curated sample you can filter by niche and season. Free accounts can save 10 products, keep 25 research-catalog products, build 10 products at a time, and push 3 research-catalog products to Shopify per calendar month. The public preview shows a slice of that sample catalog without an account.
Search, when an Anthropic key is configured on the deployment, suggests product ideas. Those suggestions are not measured sales. The sales field is stored as not verified. Use them to decide what to ask a supplier, not as a market report.
What Pro changes
Pro removes the saved-product, research-catalog, catalog-build, and research-catalog Shopify push caps. The live CJ discovery adapter is available on Pro when the deployment has a CJ token. Storefront import from CJ, Printful, and Printify uses the platform keys and is available to signed-in sellers on either plan.
You start Pro from the pricing page. A new visitor creates an account and is sent to Stripe Checkout. Someone who already has an account signs in and is sent to the same checkout. Settings uses checkout again if the subscription is not active, including after an abandoned checkout that already created a Stripe customer.
What this tool will not pretend to know
It will not show you another store's orders. It will not tell you that a product made a dollar amount last month. Supplier cost, ship time, and whether you can publish a price that clears fees are the facts it can help you collect. The hosted storefront, cart, and Stripe payout split are there when you are ready to sell, and Shopify or WooCommerce can be connected later.
Questions
Does Dropship Scout publish live sales numbers?
No. The public preview and the built-in catalog are sample records. Search ideas, when AI search is configured, are labeled the same way. A supplier quote is the number to use before you buy ads.
Do I need Shopify to use the research tool?
No. Research, the sample catalog, and the hosted storefront work without Shopify. Shopify is an optional place to push listings, with a monthly cap on the free plan.
Check this kind of idea with your own quote
This page is the research shortlist. How-to guide: Dropshipping product research checklist