I Tried Dropshipping for 48 Hours… Here's What Happened!

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Video summary

A content creator tests an Indian dropshipping challenge with a total budget of ₹ 1000 over 48 hours, detailing the steps of domain purchase, Shopify store setup, product research, Facebook ads management, and the final profit and loss calculation based on delivered orders and RTO rates.

Key points

• The challenge started with a strict budget of ₹ 1000, where ₹ 130 was spent on a domain and ₹ 20 on a Shopify plan, leaving ₹ 850 for Facebook ads.
• The creator performed winning product research focusing on problem-solving utility, profit margins, and video marketing potential.
• A clean, simple Shopify store was built quickly without unnecessary complications, featuring clear product images and a streamlined checkout process.
• Facebook ad campaigns were launched via Ads Manager utilizing conversion objectives, website pixels, and targeted audiences.
• Over 48 hours, the campaigns generated 32 orders with a total ad spend of around ₹ 713.
• Final profit calculations accounted for product costs, delivery charges, ad spend, miscellaneous expenses, and an RTO rate of approximately 45-47%, resulting in a net profit.

Topics

dropshipping challengeShopify store setupproduct researchFacebook adsIndian dropshippingRTO managementprofit and loss calculationecommerce logistics

About 3 min read · Video length: 23:18

Jump to

• Why this challenge is worth a look
• Our take at All The Gate (opinion, not fact)
• Checked against the source
• Platforms used in the video
• More dropshipping on All The Gate
• Over to you

The 30-second version

• A ₹1,000 budget covered a domain, a ₹20 Shopify plan and about ₹850 of Facebook ads.
• Ads brought 32 orders in 48 hours for roughly ₹713 in spend, GST included.
• Only 18 orders were delivered by the time of the final count, and the profit figure comes after product cost, shipping and returns.

Why this challenge is worth a look

Most dropshipping videos show sales screenshots and stop there. This one runs the numbers after delivery and returns, which is the part that actually decides whether a small store makes money.

Our take at All The Gate (opinion, not fact)

This is our reading, not a fact. The most honest part of the video is the rule that an order is not profit until it is delivered: with a return-to-origin rate in the mid-40s, almost half the orders cost money instead of making it. That gap is the real story of cash-on-delivery markets like India, and it applies anywhere buyers can refuse a parcel at the door. The small positive result after 48 hours is one creator's test, not a repeatable outcome, and the creator also sells a done-for-you dropshipping service, which is a conflict of interest worth keeping in mind. Free or paid: Shopify has a short free trial and then paid plans; Facebook ads are paid per spend.

Checked against the source

• Shopify India pricing page: after a 3-day free trial, most plans cost ₹20 per month for the first 3 months, which matches the ₹20 plan in the video.
• Same Shopify India page: the regular Basic plan is listed at ₹1,499 per month, with a 2% fee when you use third-party payment providers. (Checked on 01/11/2026 in INR; prices may have changed.)

Platforms used in the video

• Shopify (store builder used for the challenge)
• Meta Ads Manager (where the conversion campaign and pixel were set up)
• Dropship India, the supplier dashboard shown in the video to track delivered and returned orders

More dropshipping on All The Gate

• I Taught My Friend How to Start AI Dropshipping ($0 to $1,000 Challenge)
• The Complete AI Dropshipping Guide in 2026
• I Tried Building a Dropshipping Business With One AI Agent
• eBay Dropshipping: How to Get 1,000 Sales in 30 Days (Step-by-Step)

Over to you

In the video, 32 orders came in but only 18 had been delivered at the final count. Would you start a dropshipping store with cash on delivery knowing almost half the orders might come back? Tell us in the comments and share this with anyone planning their first store.

This summary was generated with AI assistance and reviewed by humans.

Video transcript

Transcript from available captions; it may contain errors.

If I told you that you could start your own dropshipping business with just ₹ 1000, would you believe me? Today, I am taking on an 84-hour Indian dropshipping challenge with a budget of just ₹ 1000. Within this budget, I need to get a Shopify store ready. Find a winning product. Run Facebook ads . And most importantly, see if I get orders within 48 hours. But there is a problem with this challenge. My budget is only ₹ 1000. If I choose the wrong product at the start or waste money on ads, I won't have a second chance. First, you need to understand my entire budget. I bought a domain for about ₹ 130 and spent ₹ 20 on a Shopify plan, so out of ₹ 1000, we are left with only ₹ 850, and we have to run ads with that. Meaning, after deducting all expenses, we only have ₹ 850 left to spend on ads . And I won't just show you sales to prove that I earned this much. Or that I made this much profit. At the end of the video, we will calculate the product cost, ad expenses, actual loss, and profit in full. There are some rules for this challenge. Rule number one: The total budget for this challenge is only ₹ 1000. Rule number two: I need to find a winning product that has a good margin between the product cost and selling price. Rule number three: I only have 48 hours. During this time, I will set up a store. Launch the product and track the results of my ads. And the most important rule: even if orders come in, I won't count it as direct profit because in Indian dropshipping, getting an order and getting it delivered are two different things. Before moving forward, I want to tell you something. A lot of people DM me asking, "Bro, how do I build a store?"" How to find a winning product?""How to run ads?""Where to find a vendor?" So guys, if you want to start a proper dropshipping business, you can take our service. We provide a ready-to-run dropshipping business where we handle everything. What are you going to get in this? First , a Shopify store ready to launch. Second, domain integration; third, complete website setup. Fourth, Meta ads management and ad setup. Fifth, a winning product—a product that brings in orders and is trusted as well. Sixth, we connect you with verified vendors, fast shipping, and low RTO suppliers. Seventh , order management support. We ensure every order goes to the right vendor. Eighth, low RTO strategy. With our smart delivery method, we bring you low RTO and fewer cancellations. Orders from day one. Our system is designed so that you start getting orders from the very first day. Customer support guidance. If you face any problems anywhere, we will provide you with the solution. So, start your dropshipping journey. If you want to start seriously, you will find the details in the description, and you can also contact us at this number. So, if you want to start, you can begin now. Now let’s move forward in the video, and the biggest question is, can we get even a single order with an ads budget of 850 ? Will I be able to recover my 1000 investment, or after 48 hours, will I only have a store and a failed experiment left? I am going to show you every important step of this challenge. From product research to store setup, Facebook ads, and the final result; if the ads fail, I will show you that too. If orders come in, I will explain the entire calculation behind them. So, without wasting any time, let’s start the challenge timer. First of all, I need to find a product that Indian customers want to buy, for which I can find a supplier, and from which we can make a good margin. Because I have no option to increase the budget. I have to give my best shot with these 1000 rupees. So let’s first find our winning product and then see if we get orders in the next 48 hours or not. So guys, the most important part of our challenge begins: winning product research. Because if we select the wrong product, no matter how good our website is or how good our ads are, getting sales can be difficult, and I don't have an unlimited budget to experiment; I only have an ads budget of 850. That’s why I cannot risk my money on any random product. I need to find a product that makes the customer feel, "Yes, this is useful for me and I should buy it." So let’s start the product research first. To do product research, I will check a few important things. First, whether the product solves a real problem or not. Whether this product is genuinely useful for the customer or not. Second, its selling price and supplier price should be such that we can save a good amount of profit from it. Third, I will check if we can easily create good videos for this product to upload on Facebook and Instagram. I am shortlisting a few products. I will compare these products against these criteria. Guys, after comparing these products, I found an option that is worth testing within my budget. But before selecting the product, I need to decide on the supplier price and the expected selling price. Because, let's assume a product sells for 59. That doesn't mean at all that we are making a net profit of 59. We have to subtract the product cost and advertisement cost from that. So guys, after a lot of research, I have finally selected a product for this 48- hour challenge. There is a reason behind selecting this product. It will solve a problem for people. And according to my research, its price and marketing angle are worth testing with my limited budget. It is not confirmed yet whether this product will sell or not. We will only know if we are getting orders after running the actual ads. But now I have a product, and the next step is to prepare a professional Shopify store for it. And now let's see how quickly I can build a good store for this product. Because the timer is already running and I have a full 48 hours. If I spend too much time on product research, I won't be able to complete this challenge. So let's go straight to getting the Shopify store ready. So guys, we have selected the product. Now we have to build a professional Shopify store for this product, and I don't want to waste time building the website. I want to create a store that looks professional. It should work well on mobile and the customer should have no problem understanding the product. So let's start working without wasting any time. First of all, I have arrived at the Shopify dashboard. Now I will complete the basic setup of my store here. I have connected the domain and everything else here. I will not make the website complicated at all. In this challenge, my entire focus is on building a clean and simple website. Where customers can easily check product details and place an order. Guys, while building the store, one thing is very important to keep in mind . Just looking good is not enough for a website. So now I am adding the product to my store. I have added clear images of the product and an attractive title here. So I have completed many of the setups. I won't show those in this video. Otherwise, it will get too lengthy. Finally guys, our store is ready. This is the store for our 48-hour challenge. I have added the product. I have completed the basic design of the website. Now it is time to test the website. But we haven't run a single ad yet. So it will be difficult to tell if this product will sell. The next step is the most important: Facebook ads. I have a total budget of 850. If I spend money without planning, my entire budget could hit zero before the challenge ends. So guys, we have completed all the setups so far. Only one task is left: setting up the ads. So let me show you how I design ad campaigns. First, we will come to Facebook Ad Manager. Then, after reaching Facebook Ads Manager, you have to click on create. After clicking create, you need to select the sales campaign and click continue. Then it will take you to the next page. After that, you can set the campaign name to whatever you like. It doesn't really matter. Then you can set your daily budget here, whatever it may be. After that, you just need to click next. After clicking next, a new tab will open . Here, you need to select the website as the conversion location. After that, keep the maximum number of conversions selected. Then, in the database, we will set our pixel. So we have set our pixel here. After that, you need to select 'purchase' in the conversion event. So I have selected it from here. After that, you need to scroll down. After scrolling down, you will see the audience section. You need to target your audience very carefully. If you target them well, you will get more orders than you can imagine. This is what determines how many orders you get and how much loss you might face. Because if you target the audience well , you will get a lot of orders. If you target the wrong audience, you will only face losses. I cannot reveal this here because it took me over 3 years to learn this. So I cannot share it just like that here . If you want our services or want to learn from us, you can contact us. So I will hide this here and create my audience. So we have created our audience here. After creating it, you just need to scroll down. Leave the placements as they are. After that, you have to click next. You will arrive here. After that, you need to scroll down. Keep it on single video or image. Let it remain on manual upload. After that, you need to scroll down. After scrolling down, paste the link of your website here. After pasting, you need to scroll down. After scrolling down, you will see ad creative. So, select this and then select your video. I will select one of my videos from here. After selecting the video, scroll down and add the primary text, headline, and description properly. I am adding them here. After adding the description etc., set the call to action to "Shop Now" because it gives better results. After setting it to "Shop Now, " your entire setup is normally complete . You just need to click on publish and your ad will go live. So now, I will publish this campaign. So guys, I have shown you how you can create your campaign. I have shown you, now I will create another campaign with full targeting. I just showed you that as an example. I am now going to create another campaign and publish it after finishing. So guys, it’s almost evening now. It’s 6:00 o'clock I think, and look at the view here. Wow, what a view! Come, let me take you to the laptop. Let's see how many orders and things have come in. Let's go. So guys, you can see our campaign now. Let me show you by refreshing it a bit. Wait . I will show you the results first. Then I will show you after refreshing. You can see that five orders have come in here. And 11 people have initiated checkout. And look, the performance is quite good right now. But the CPP is still a bit too high. Look, the CPP is 68, and you can see the budget. Our total spend has been 342. And let me show you by refreshing it once. Just a moment, friends. Done. And see, it is mine. Now let me take you to Shopify. See it there as well. So here too, you can see five orders have come in and 58 . sessions, and our total sales are 3474. It is. Should I refresh this one too and show you? There, I refreshed it. Look and check. Look, five orders have arrived, let’s see how many more we get. So guys, the results were very good last night, but I couldn’t record it, and today is the second day, and the results are great. So let me show you what kind of results are coming in right now. So guys, you can see how many orders have come in today so far. 12 orders have arrived and sales of nearly 7000 have been made. You can see 'Today' here and the results are coming in quite well right now. I will refresh it once to show you. Take a look after refreshing it once. See how many results are there. It is 12 right now. And let me show you here now . I will show you on Facebook Ads Manager what kind of results are coming there. So we are currently on the Facebook Ads Manager for today. You can see. You can see 'Today', and our results are that 10 orders have come in and our CPR , which is cost per result, is running at ₹ 34. We are getting one order for ₹ 34, and you can see the total spend is ₹ 334. So the results are coming in quite well right now. Now let's see how much total sales we get in the end. So guys, today we will see the total results all at once. How many orders we received on the first day and the second day. So let me show all the data at once. So we have arrived at the Facebook Ads Manager. We will check how many orders have come in right here. First, let's see the result of the first day, that is , yesterday. How many orders did we get that day? So I will select 'Yesterday'. After that, you can see how many orders came from our first campaign. So we got a total of 16 sales. So you can see here that 16 orders have come in . And you can see the initiated checkouts. 23 people have added to cart . But we only received 16 orders. And you can see here that we got a reach of around 3000. And you can see the CPP, guys. Our CPP is ₹ 26 per order. Very good. The result came yesterday. It started a bit high until five orders came, but after that, good results started coming in. So I will refresh it once to show you, so it doesn't look like I'm showing a screenshot. So guys, you can see yesterday is selected and 16 orders are still showing . And that's about it, and see, we are still getting one order for just ₹ 2. Our daily budget was 600, amount spent is 47, and we have received approximately 3600 impressions. And you can see the CPM, we are getting a CPM of 1000 for ₹ 114, which is very good. And you can see the total clicks are 89 , our CPC is about ₹ 4, and Nothing much else, landing page views are showing about 74. So now let's move to the shop. Let's see what kind of results we got there. So here, today is currently selected. I will select yesterday. So for this day, you can see we got 90 sessions. Meaning 90 people visited the website. And our total sale is 10,782. Meaning ₹ 10,782 and we received a total of 18 orders. Come on, get selected. Wait a minute. Let me refresh this and show it to you again. So I have refreshed the page. Status is selected and you can see sales of up to 10,000. Now let's go to Facebook. Let's check the results for today there. How many orders etc. have we received today? So guys, we have received 13 orders today. And how many people have added to cart? 27 people have added to cart. But only 13 people have completed the checkout. And you can see the CPR. So the cost per result is ₹ 22 per order, guys. We are getting very good results now and impressions are happening. You can see 3500 impressions, and today our CPM has gone very low. Our CPM is 84 and there's nothing else. Everything is just normal and you can see the landing page views are 83. Now let's go to the shop, select today, and apply. So guys, today is selected, 87 people visited the website, and our total sale is 8386. And we have received total orders, and we have received 14 orders, so I'll refresh this once for you to see. So guys, you can see that 14 orders are still showing. So guys, I will now take you to Facebook . I will select both days at once and show you. How many total orders we have received in both days. So here you can see how many total orders we have received. We have received 29 results. And you can see our CPP for both days. We received an order for approximately ₹ 24. So now I will take you to SH5. We will select both days there and see how many orders and the total sales we've had. So you can see we have received 32 orders and our total sale is ₹ 1168. And you can see the total spend. Our total spend is ₹ 713. For ₹ 713, we received about 32 orders. Which means our result has been very good. And the 700 you see also includes GST. Approximately 18%GST is also added to it. So we had added about ₹ 850. Out of which this much has been spent. So guys, now let's go to Dropship India . We'll see how many orders were delivered and how many were RTOs there. So let's go to Dropship India. So we have arrived at Dropship India. Here you can see, we have a total of 32 orders, and two orders are still in transit, which haven't been delivered yet, but might be delivered later. And you can see the delivery percentage here guys, it is 53%, out of which 18 orders have been delivered and our RTO is about 47% with 12 orders as RTO, which is average . It's not too much RTO, it's decent; the delivery rate was very good here. Right, and there is nothing else here. Let me take you to the wallet. You can see the payments have arrived there, and the rest of the payment is yet to come. So it was a good result. So guys, now let's calculate our profit and loss. How much profit and how much loss occurred. So, we have arrived at the profit and loss calculator. This is my own website. You can come to this link and calculate your dropshipping profit. So let me show you how it's done. So here you need to enter the selling price. Selling price means at what price we sold the product. So, we sold one product for 499, and how much was one product costing us? We were getting one product from Dropship India for ₹ 175. So you have to enter ₹ 175 here. And RTO per order (meaning how much we have to pay if one order becomes an RTO ), so for this product, we have to pay approximately ₹ 22 per RTO. Do not enter anything in other delivery charges. Expected order (expected order means what is your total number of orders, how many have come in), so we had 32 orders, so let's enter 32. After that RTO (meaning what percentage of your orders became RTO), so about what percentage was ours? Let's assume about two orders were in transit, so let's assume 45%of our orders became RTO, so let's consider 45 %RTO. Then we come down, here we have to enter Ad Cost per order (meaning for how many rupees we were getting one order), so ours was ₹ 24 and some paise. So let's assume it's ₹ 25 per order. After that, down here in other miscellaneous charges, we have about ₹ 150 other charges to pay. ₹ 20 for Shopify and about ₹ 130 or ₹ 25 was for the domain. So let's assume about 150 for that as well. So let's take 150 as other charges . After that, you don't have to enter anything else here, that's it. Now let's see how much net profit we have made. 376 of. So the net profit is this much, and let's see where everything happened. Scroll down and you will be able to see the breakdown of where everything happened. So our confirmed orders are 32 and delivered orders are 18, which was there as well, and about 14 orders became RTO and and let's look at the total ad spend here. So for the product, it was about 3000 and we had to pay ₹ 137 as RTO charges. You can see ₹ 72 here. ₹ 72 were charged per product and it was multiplied by 14. And you can see the ad spend here is 800 , and in other miscellaneous charges ₹ 150, and our total spend was 5000. And we made a net profit of ₹ 3716. This net profit is the result of only 48 hours, guys. So the results have been quite good. If you also want to achieve these kinds of results, you can contact us. We can bring you even better results than this. So that's all for this video, see you in a new video with a new topic. Until then, bye.

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