The Dropshipping worksheets

Basics One product, a real cost, a store that doesn't leak

• The costing sheet — the full cost of one saleSpreadsheet XLSX

  chapter 3

  Landed product cost (duty included), shipping, processing, marketplace fee and a returns allowance, down to your contribution before advertising — and what that number lets you afford.

• The supplier comparisonDownload TXT

  chapter 4 · appendix C

  The four-question inquiry, word for word, a side-by-side for three suppliers — reply time is the fifth question — and the sample record that becomes your delivery promise.

• The checkout checklistDownload TXT

  chapter 5

  Five checks on your own phone before you send a single visitor: total cost shown early, guest checkout, the real delivery window, contact and returns, mobile.

• The post-purchase messagesDownload MD

  chapter 8 · appendix D

  The messages from order to delivery, written out to adapt — plus the referral ask, sent only once the buyer says it's fine.

• The platform fees the books use (dated)Download TXT

  appendix G

  The current US fees behind every worked example — Shopify, Stripe, PayPal, Etsy, TikTok Shop and import duty — with the date they were checked.

• The launch checklistDownload TXT

  appendix E

  Everything that must be true before you send a visitor — audience, product, supplier, numbers, store, page, and after the sale.

Intermediate Find the broken step, fix the offer, stop buying losses

• The funnel tableSpreadsheet XLSX

  chapters 1–2

  Five numbers, four gaps, split by source. It finds the gap furthest below its own ordinary range — not the smallest number — and names the chapter that fixes it.

• The offer builderDownload TXT

  chapter 3

  The four levers in order — price architecture, a reason to buy two, the shipping rule, risk reversal — ending in your five-line offer and the cart rate before and after.

• Break-even — the most you can pay for a customerSpreadsheet XLSX

  chapter 6

  Your contribution becomes your customer-cost ceiling and your break-even return; then it reads your last 30 days against it.

• The four email sequencesDownload MD

  chapter 7

  Abandoned cart, welcome, post-purchase and re-engagement, in build order — with the one sum that shows how much cheaper your traffic just got.

• The weekly review + recordDownload TXT

  chapter 11

  Fifteen minutes, five items, one change a week — and the one-row-a-week record that finds a broken checkout in seven days, not a month.

Advanced Find the constraint, measure what's real, build what lasts

• The constraint diagnosticDownload TXT

  chapter 1

  The five signatures, in dependency order — creative supply, measurement, margin, cash, customer value — and your written ceiling.

• The angle libraryDownload MD

  chapter 2

  One card per reason to want the product, plus the weekly production system — and the honest version for under ten hours a week.

• The blended efficiency sheetSpreadsheet XLSX

  chapter 3

  Your store's revenue over your bank's ad cost, beside what the dashboard claimed — and what spending more actually keeps per day.

• The holdout experiment plannerDownload TXT

  chapter 4

  The prediction and decision rule written first, the geographic holdout or step change, the free version for cash-tight stores, and the one survey question.

• The cash cycle mapDownload TXT

  chapter 7

  Six dates from a real order, your cash ceiling as a maximum daily ad spend, the doubling test and the payout-delay question.

• The cohort tableSpreadsheet XLSX

  chapter 8

  Copy two columns of your order export (date and customer); it groups customers by first-purchase month, counts orders per customer at one, three and six months, and sets your discounted bid ceilings.

• The single-points-of-failure auditDownload TXT

  chapter 12

  Five failures, the cheapest reduction for each and a date against it — plus the records that win a dispute and the two-week test.

Kept current The platform fees the books use

Fees change more often than a book can. These are the US figures the books' worked examples rest on — checked by hand and dated below.

• Shopify — Basic $39/month ($29 billed yearly), Grow $105 ($89), Advanced $399 ($359). Shopify Payments online cards: 2.9% + 30¢ on Basic, 2.7% + 30¢ on Grow, 2.5% + 30¢ on Advanced. Using another payment provider adds a fee: 2% on Basic, 1% on Grow, 0.6% on Advanced.
• Stripe (your own store) — 2.9% + 30¢ per domestic card payment.
• PayPal — PayPal Checkout 3.49% + $0.49; standard card payments 2.99% + $0.49; +1.50% on international payments.
• Etsy (a marketplace that passes processing through) — 6.5% transaction on item + shipping, 3% + $0.25 processing, $0.20 listing.
• TikTok Shop (US) — 6% referral fee in the published table (8% widely reported since August 2026, not confirmed in the table); a reported 3% for 30 days if your first sale comes within 60 days of onboarding.
• Import duty — the US $800 duty-free exemption is suspended for every country, so every order your supplier ships from abroad pays duty. Rates change often and depend on the product and where it's made: always cost from the landed price to a US address, in writing.

Checked at source October 13, 2026 (Shopify plans October 19, 2026); next review due Jan 2027. Dated copy, not a live feed — verify on each platform's own pricing page before you rely on a figure. Nothing here is legal or tax advice. The same table as a file: drop-basics-fees-current.txt.