Written by the people who build the stores, about the problems that actually come up: choosing between platforms, what a payment gateway really costs, cash on delivery losses, GST invoices your accountant will accept, and why a store that looks fine still does not sell.
No listicles, no filler, and nothing published just to hit a monthly quota. If we have nothing useful to say about something, we do not write about it.
The comparison that matters is not features. It is what Shopify costs you per order in a country where Shopify Payments does not operate, who carries the maintenance on WooCommerce, and how much of the checkout each one lets you change.
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The comparison that matters is not features. It is what Shopify costs you per order in a country where Shopify Payments does not operate, who carries the maintenance on WooCommerce, and how much of the checkout each one lets you change.
The headline rate is the least important number. Settlement cycle, success rate, RBI authorisation and the end of zero-MDR on UPI will all cost you more than the difference between 1.9% and 2.1%.
The order the work actually goes in: catalogue before design, legal and GST before launch, and the four decisions that are painful to reverse once you have customers.
Every platform is a set of constraints you are agreeing to live with. This is what hosted, open source, headless and custom each commit you to, and which constraints matter most in India.
Where to sell, what registration you actually need, how to price so the order still makes money after commission and returns, and what to do about the GST question everybody asks.
Value caps, pin-code restrictions and a handling fee, in code rather than three overlapping plugins. Including the two bugs that nearly every tutorial on this ships with.
Category pages target the queries that actually convert, and on most stores they are empty, buried under filter URLs, or competing with each other. Here is how to tell which one you have.
The plugin is free. The store is not. Here is every line an Indian WooCommerce store actually pays in a year, including the renewals and the 18% nobody adds.
Shopify pricing in India is the subscription plus a transaction fee that exists only because Shopify Payments does not operate here. Here is every line, and the one that your cash on delivery share quietly cancels.
Registration is the easy part. What breaks is the invoice itself: place of supply, HSN codes, a series that has to stay continuous, and a cart that quietly charges the wrong tax to half the country.
A dealer portal is not a shop with a login. Price lists per customer, slab rates, credit limits, quotation flows and an ERP that has to agree with all of it, plus a payment-terms rule that is now a tax question.
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