Sourcing from 1688 is one of the cheapest ways to stock a Shopify store, but the raw product pages are built for Chinese wholesale buyers, not Western shoppers. Titles are keyword-stuffed in Chinese, descriptions are thin, images have text baked into them, and nothing maps cleanly to a Shopify category. Doing all of that by hand for every product is where most dropshippers lose their evenings. Prodinxy compresses the entire pipeline into a few clicks.
Step 1: Collect the Product
Everything starts with the Prodinxy Chrome extension. When you land on a 1688 product page, you click Collect and the extension scrapes the title, price, variants, and every product image directly from the page. Collecting is free and unlimited, so you can gather a whole shortlist of candidate products before deciding which ones are worth turning into listings.
Because the extension reads the live page, you get the real variant structure and the highest-resolution images available, instead of the compressed thumbnails you would get from copy-pasting a URL into a generic importer.
Step 2: Automatic Image Cleaning
As soon as a product is collected, Prodinxy runs OCR across the images to detect Chinese marketing text, watermarks, and promotional overlays. Images that are mostly text are dropped, and clean product shots are kept. Variant images are protected so your color and size options never disappear. This step is also free, so you never pay to clean up a product you decide not to publish.
The result is a gallery that looks like it belongs on a Western store, not a wholesale marketplace, which directly affects how much shoppers trust the listing.
Step 3: Generate the Listing
This is where a credit is spent. Prodinxy rewrites the title and description in native English that is optimized to rank in search and to be quoted by AI answer engines. It matches the product to the correct Shopify category and applies whichever brand-voice profile you have selected, so a playful store and a premium store read completely differently from the same source product.
One credit produces one finished listing. Scraping and image cleaning stayed free, so you only ever pay for the output you actually keep.
Step 4: Publish to Shopify
Finally you push the listing to your connected Shopify store as a draft or go straight to live. Drafts let you review pricing and inventory before customers see anything, while live publishing is ideal once you trust your brand-voice settings.
With Prodinxy, a task that used to take fifteen minutes of translating, cropping, and rewriting per product becomes a repeatable four-step flow, so you can spend your time picking winners instead of formatting listings.