Dropshipping LaunchBag

A ZIP with 5 components in 7 files: 4 PDF guides (85 pages total), 1 spreadsheet (.xlsx, eight tabs) and 2 editable Word documents (.docx). Two components come as a pair: Store Setup & Launch Gate (PDF) with its Store Policies & Pages (Word), and the Order Desk Cards (PDF) with the Customer & Supplier Messages (Word). Checkout is on Payhip. The ZIP is on screen and in Payhip’s email right after payment; keep the email, and if you ever lose it we re-send the files free.

No, and it never will. There is no income figure in this bag: no revenue, no margin, no success rate, no “first sale in N days”. No credible source for any of those exists in this category, and unsubstantiated earnings claims are exactly what the FTC has prosecuted the loudest sellers in it for. What the bag defines instead is one measurable success condition: one product whose measured contribution before ads beats its measured cost per purchase over 20 or more orders, from a store that has taken an order, fulfilled it with tracking, and survived a refund and a chargeback.

The version built on cheap untaxed parcels from overseas is over, and the bag says so with the dated timeline and the judgment behind it. What replaced it is a narrower business: US-stocked or US-produced supply, a delivery window you can keep, and margins that have to survive duty and fees. That’s the version this bag teaches, and it’s why it spends a full chapter on where goods come from now rather than on product hunting.

The build is written Shopify-first, because that’s where the documentation, the fee structure and the failure modes are best evidenced. The principles transfer: every platform has a plan cost, a processor with a settlement schedule, policy pages somebody checks, and a delivery promise that a regulator holds you to. Where a step names a Shopify setting, it names what the setting is for, so you can find its equivalent.

That’s your decision, and the bag is built to make it before you spend anything. The workbook’s Budget & Cap tab turns the amount you decide you can lose into a per-phase spending limit and shows you what a cap of that size can and cannot buy. What the bag insists on is the shape: your money leaves before your customer’s money reaches you, so hold enough to fulfill two to four weeks of orders with no payouts at all, and don’t borrow for it.

It will tell you how to rule products out, which is the part that lasts. Six categories are excluded outright with the rule behind each, and two more go for money reasons: sized apparel and footwear as a first test, because returns eat the contribution before ads are even counted, and any single item under $20 on paid traffic. There’s a five-minute trademark check that runs before you get attached to anything, and a money floor a product has to clear before it goes on paid traffic. Then the Product Fit tab tests three real candidates side by side. A published list of “winning products” is a list of competitors; a screen is yours.

Then it worked. A test that returns STOP for the cost of your cap has bought you the answer cheaply, which is the entire reason the cap is written and signed on page seven before anything else happens. The Test tab returns TOO EARLY, CONTINUE, CHANGE ONE THING or STOP with its reason, and chapter 8 walks the five branches (no clicks, clicks but no carts, carts but no checkouts, checkouts but no payments, orders but no margin) so a stop decision comes with a diagnosis.

Everything was checked in August 2026 and carries that date. Because the import and platform rules move, nothing volatile is printed in the prose: every fee, rate, window and threshold lives on the workbook’s Rates tab with the page to check it on, and the Playbook’s appendix lists every one of those pages. When something changes, you update one tab and the whole workbook follows.

No. The bag explains how things generally work, what to ask, and who to ask. Anything that depends on your state (sales tax registration, resale certificates, entity filing) carries a Verify note naming the agency and the exact search that finds your answer, rather than a fifty-state table that would be wrong somewhere the day it was printed.