Help & tutorials

Step-by-step, with pictures of every screen. Each one takes a few minutes. If something on a platform is not ready yet — a personal Instagram, no ad account — the app shows the same steps at the moment you need them.

Connect your supplier

CJdropshipping stocks, packs and ships what you sell. If your checklist says “Supplier ready”, the platform provides it and there is nothing to do — this is for connecting your own CJ account.

2 minutes — plus a free CJ account if you have none4 steps

Add your first product

Browse the CJ catalogue by category or search, open a product for its photos and your real selling price, add it in one click.

3 minutes4 steps

Make a collection page

A page in your shop for a set of products — a theme, a season, a bundle — with its own address to share or to send ads to.

2 minutes4 steps

Open your shop

Everything the checklist asks for before a stranger can buy from you.

10–15 minutes the first time5 steps

Connect Instagram & Facebook

Sign in with Facebook once; we find your ad account, Page, Instagram business account and pixel.

2 minutes — longer if your Instagram is still a personal account5 steps

Connect Google Ads

Sign in with Google; pick the Google Ads account your campaigns run in.

1 minute — or 5 if you still need a Google Ads account4 steps

Connect TikTok

Two short sign-ins: your TikTok Ads Manager account, then your TikTok profile so we can confirm it is a Business Account.

2 minutes4 steps

Run your first campaign

From a product to live ads in five steps; Octo plans the split and then manages the budget inside your guardrails.

5 minutes — the first evaluation runs a few hours after launch4 steps

Post to Instagram & Facebook with the page agent

Post to your own Instagram and Facebook Page from here — by hand, or let the page agent learn your page's style and make posts in it for you to approve.

5 minutes to set up; then a minute a week to approve6 steps

Your first order

What happens when a customer buys: payment, the supplier order, tracking, and what is yours to do.

Nothing to do — read this once4 steps