Alister

Description

POWERFUL TOOL TO GROW YOUR ONLINE STORE FAST

Alister is a free powerful tool that will help your online store grow and expand by adding products from AliExpress website. You can add one or multiple AliExpress product links to your own inventory table. It’s like having a warehouse full of products ready for import.

GOLD MINE OF ALIEXPRESS PRODUCTS

If you don’t have a lot of time to search for the best products on AliExpress, Alister will do that for you. You can add your own ‘import rules’ using criteria such as product, seller ratings etc and ask Alister to fill your inventory for example on a weekly basis. This way you will stay on top of the selling trends and never run out of new products in your store.

LIKE A DIGITAL WAREHOUSE FULL OF STOCK

All the product links that you or Alister add automatically, will land in the inventory table. From here you can briefly preview the item and ‘load’ it to the product editor.

AI GENERATOR FOR THE PRODUCT TITLE AND DESCRIPTION

This tool will do the creative writing for you. With the AI generator you can have a new title & description of the product within a few clicks.

EASY TO USE PRODUCT EDITOR

Change the product details, add more images, set the prices and edit the product variations all on one page. There’s even a Translator tool to help you be more efficient with languages when translating product properties.

PRICE SYNCHRONISATION AND RULES

Set up your product price rules (use a multiplier field to multiply AliExpress price i.e. x 2) to be synchronized with AliExpress prices. So if they change the price – it will change accordingly on your website.

EXPERT SUPPORT

Our team is always happy to hear from you and provide incredible support. Ask your questions in the support forum or contact us directly.

GET STARTED

Installation is free, quick, and easy. Alister doesn’t require account creation.

FEATURES

  • import one or multiple AliExpress products at once
  • inventory table with a preview of the products
  • automatic import for products according to your criteria on AliExpress
  • AI product title generator
  • AI product description generator
  • Save your own product description templates for later
  • Interactive picture gallery with drag-and-drop feature
  • Set up your own pricing rules
  • Automatic price adjustment: for example if a supplier on AliExpress increases their prices, your prices will increase accordingly
  • Product variations editor
  • Translate feature for the product properties

HOW TO USE TO ALISTER (SIMPLIFIED VERSION)

Paste one or multiple AliExpress product links and hit the ‘add’ button to add the products to the inventory table below.

Optional: set up the import rules

Firstly, set your criteria for what kind of products you would like to add to the inventory table. For example, maybe you want to have the top ten best-rated cat beds imported on a weekly basis (btw this is called polling).

Give this rule a name ex.: ‘Top selling cat beds’.

Paste the URL to the cat bed category on AliExpress OR search on AliExpress for ‘cat beds’ and paste the link with the results.

Next, decide on a product and seller’s rating (product rating, seller rating) and how many times the item was sold (orders). ‘Limit’ means how many cat beds you would like to import each time and how often (polling).

Lastly, set the language, destination and currency of your shop.

Hit ‘check’ button to see if your criteria worked according to your expectations (you can click on each product link generated). If so, you can already hit ‘import’ and add those products to the inventory table and also ‘save’ the rule.

  1. Load the product to the product editor.

  2. Add a few properties and generate the title and description.

  3. Edit the product description.

  4. Choose the images.

  5. Set up the pricing rule.

  6. Choose the variations you’d like to import.

  7. Finally, click import and follow the new permalink to preview your new product online.

GUIDE

Screenshots

  • Ability to import products by ID/URL or by automated import rules
  • Inventory table - lists all products managed by Alister
  • Configurable title and description AI generator
  • Manage gallery and pricing
  • User-friendly UI to modify attributes for variable products
  • Store translation pairs and apply them with a click

Installation

  • Requires woocommerce plugin to run
  • Upload plugin files to your plugin directory or install using wordpress plugin store
  • Once you activate the plugin, you will be able to access it from your admin page sidebar

Reviews

28. Decembar 2022.
This can't get any easier to use: copy&paste either the URL or the ID, it automatically starts to do its thing. If it can get what it needs, you are well on your way. If for some reason it cannot process the URL (like if the product isn't available to be shipped to your location), it errors out. The message could be more verbose but that is really nitpicking. The AI is BRILLIANT. No more broken English or culturally incorrect wording. Instead you get a configurable number of options to us. Select one and it drops it in the description. Move down and verify the images are ok. Select what variations you want to process (including being able to change the variation label to something you want - NICE!!), then set your price multiplier (including the shipping if desired). Double check that things look ok, then either push to draft or publish. The only glitch I've come across - and it might not be a glitch but instead Ali-foolery, is that sometimes shipping comes up with a cost when the Ali says its free (better than the alternative) and randomly, the Ali price is WAAAAAAAAAAY off, like an $8 widget on Ali comes up as a $6000 item in Alister. This is random and repeatable on the same item so suspect something is lost in translation or Ali is playing weird. Just push to draft and fix the numbers. Oh, and if you don't set a price, it puts it out of stock. Overall, I'm completely pleased with this plugin. Kudos!
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Contributors & Developers

“Alister” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

0.8.1

  • Fix: Products with empty images no longer ignored
  • Fix: Product tabs don’t close automatically when importing

0.8

  • New: Inventory table to keep track of all products managed by Alister
  • New: Automated import rules to regularly add products to the inventory table
  • New: New tab-based design to work with multiple products in parallel
  • New: Ability to generate product titles using AI
  • New: Persistent settings
  • Fix: Ability to configure product destination

0.1.1

  • Fix: Uploaded images no longer break the drag-and-drop feature

0.1

  • Initial release