@ecomdiddy Small store here, 0 sales so far, and I can't tell if it's the ad or the page. What's your first check: add-to-cart rate or checkout drop-off?
My dashboard shows 1 completed checkout.
It's my own test order.
Lesson: filter yourself out of your numbers on day 1. Test orders, refunds, €0 orders. Otherwise you'll celebrate a sale that never happened.
@wpsuite Own returns and shipping pages is a good point, since many dropshipping templates ship with supplier wording. After the fix, how long the review usually take to come back?
@ZofloqDev Good checklist. Which one do you see trigger misrepresentation most often on new EU stores: name and address mismatch, or feed prices without VAT?
@NanoIPOfficial Yes, I ran test orders through to confirmation and they went through. What I haven't verified is how the shipping cost at checkout looks to a cold visitor. Is that the first thing you'd test next?
@richoffcampss Launched a new store late Sept, so I am testing right into Q4. When ATC moves first, what do you check before raising spend: checkout drop-off or the IC to purchase gap?
Every product photo in my store is AI-generated.
No samples. No photoshoot. No studio.
Just product references and prompts.
If you're starting a store with zero budget for visuals, this is the tool I use: Higgsfield (link below)
Google suspended my Merchant Center for "misrepresentation" a few weeks after launch.
Free Shopping listings: gone overnight.
What usually triggers it on new dropshipping stores:
- delivery times that don't match checkout
- vague return policy or no return address
- trust badges or reviews you can't back up
- prices that differ between feed and site
Fix your policies before you submit the feed. Not after.
The plan for the next 33 days:
- Meta ads, tested small, losers killed fast
- fastest-shipping products front and center
- every number posted here, including the bad ones
Follow along.
What broke:
- traffic: ~150 sessions/week at launch, ~35/week now
- Google Shopping listings suspended for "misrepresentation"
- 2 checkouts started last week, 0 finished
A store with no traffic engine is just a website.
@GlennNieuwenh Point 9 is underrated. For a backup supplier, do you pre-negotiate stock or just keep the listing ready to swap? Stockouts in Q4 seem to hurt more than the CPM spike.
@aalanazarr Too early to compare for us, the store launched late Sept. Curious whether you are seeing the lift in conversion rate or just in sessions, since those tell very different stories.
@codyschneider Fair point. The tricky bit is making the first-touch record survive Safari cookie limits and cross-device. Do you store it server-side keyed to the checkout email, or in localStorage?
@jforjacob Agreed. The risk with AI-generated visuals is copying a format without its native feel. How do you test whether a creative reads as organic or as an ad before spending on it?
@EcomSkii Product judgment feels like the one that caps the rest, since great hooks cannot rescue a weak offer. If you had to drill one of these first, which would it be?
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