Marketplace, open platform · Applied, in reviewAliExpress,
AliExpress,
where most of these goods start.
Where most of these goods start. Approval takes days.
vesim.shopAliExpressApplied, in review
What connecting unlocks
Flip it on, and every answer widens.
Nothing from AliExpress is in the index yet. Flip the switch to see what changes the day it connects.
Flip itThe same search, today and once AliExpress connects.
- Catalogues searched
- 2
- Products in reach
- 376 +their feed
- Prices from different stores, side by side
- Yes
- The first large set of cross-store matches, because the photos are most likely shared here
- The real spread on cheap goods, measured rather than guessed
- Better answers to “the same thing I saw online, cheaper”
What it adds
What AliExpress brings, and what it doesn’t.
The limits get the same space as the benefits, because a search you can trust says what it cannot see.
Adds
- Many of the same suppliers as CJ, so many of the same photographs
- The sharpest test of the whole idea: the same media pack at two very different prices
- A huge range of small, unbranded goods, the kind barcodes miss
Limits, honestly
- Approval is required and can be refused
- Two generations of its gateway are in use; the adapter implements both and the first real call decides which
- In the index today
- Nothing yet
- Kind
- Marketplace, open platform
- Status
- Applied, in review
- Steps done
- 1 of 5
How we reach it
The route in, and the money.
The route
The AliExpress Open Platform affiliate API, behind an application that takes days and may ask for a business licence.
Commission
The affiliate tracking id rides on the same call that returns products. Clean, and still never allowed to touch the order.
Affiliate disclosure →Applied, in review
Applied. When the app key arrives, the adapter is ready for both signing schemes.
Email me when it connects →Search it
Search what’s connected today.
376 products, matched by photo. When AliExpress connects, the same sentence reaches further.