You should not be paying rent on a shop that has not sold anything yet. Shopify will sell you three months at ₹20; month four is ₹1,994, sold or not — and it takes another 2% of every order because Shopify Payments has no India. oBizee charges you nothing until your shop has actually sold, and ships through four couriers while it does.
₹50,000 in orders — the first goal, completed for free. Nothing is charged before it.Nothing charged before it. Not a rupee.
Already wired in
There is no oBizee app store, because there is nothing left to sell you. Every one of these is switched on at signup, on every account, at no extra cost.
Payments & checkout
7
UPI, cards, net banking and wallets. Connected for you — and the money lands in your own Razorpay account, never ours.
razorpay.com
Wallet and UPI checkout on the same order, switchable per store.
paytm.com
UPI, cards and wallets for buyers who already keep PhonePe on their phone.
phonepe.com
UPI, cards, net banking and pay-later options at checkout.
cashfree.com
Card payments from customers outside India, when you start shipping abroad.
stripe.com
Switch COD on per product, and it reconciles against the order on its own.
built in
Order over WhatsApp, for buyers who would rather chat before they pay.
whatsapp.com
Courier network
4
Direct integration. Generate the AWB, schedule the pickup and push tracking to your customer without leaving oBizee.
delhivery.com
Rates compared against every other courier on the same order, then booked in one tap.
dtdc.in
Available through the built-in aggregator for faster metro lanes.
bluedart.com
The cheapest lane for light parcels, and the pin codes private couriers skip.
indiapost.gov.in
Same-day delivery
2
Book a rider for same-day hyperlocal delivery inside your city, straight from the order screen.
borzodelivery.com
A second rider network, so cakes, flowers and gifting reach the buyer today rather than Thursday.
shadowfax.in
Selling channels
2
Custom order forms, QR codes and bio links that drop the order straight into your dashboard.
instagram.com
The same forms and the same order list, for buyers who would rather chat before they pay.
whatsapp.com
Growth
3yourbrand.com mapped for you — DNS and SSL handled, at no cost, on every account.
included
Bring your catalogue across from Shopify, Instagram or an existing site. You re-upload nothing.
included
Every product page ships with its own title, description and structured data, indexable from day one.
included
Marketing & tracking
6
via custom head code
Your own GA4 property, measuring real sessions on your live storefront.
included
via custom head code
Manage every tag and pixel yourself, without waiting on a developer.
included
via custom head code
Session recordings and heatmaps, to see where buyers actually drop off.
included
via custom head code
Catch front-end errors on your storefront before a customer reports them.
included
Conversion tracking wired to real orders, not guessed events.
Q3 2026
Click-to-WhatsApp campaigns landing straight in your order dashboard.
Q3 2026
See for yourself
Not mockups and not templates. 165 merchants selling on oBizee today, across 13 states and 8 categories. Open any of them and buy something.
42 of themhave already crossed the first goal —₹50,000 in orders
CrochetByPriya
Crochet & handmade · Haryana
Shop velnora
Clothing · Maharashtra
Snazzy Store
Handmade · Maharashtra
Candle_of__midnight
Candles & home · Uttar Pradesh
BLUSHBOXg
Beauty · Madhya Pradesh
Crazy Crochet
Crochet & handmade · Maharashtra
Fioraé
Handmade · Jammu & Kashmir
oh.trinkets
Jewellery · West Bengal
MITRASO
Handmade · Rajasthan
DeeCraftedStudio
Stationery & art · Karnataka
Velvet twist by Diksha
Handmade · Maharashtra
Bhulli Crafts
Stationery & art · Uttar Pradesh
Showing 12 of the 42 with full catalogues. Every one is a real merchant with a working storefront, checked 27 August 2026.
2026 update
Shopify is a very good platform. It is simply not an Indian one, and the gaps land on the same person every time — the seller packing parcels at their kitchen table.
Every claim on the right was read off Shopify’s own pages on 3 September 2026, not from a review and not from a blog. Where Shopify is better than its reputation we have said so on this page too: cash on delivery is built in, and it even escapes Shopify’s 2% cut.
These five are what a rupee-denominated business actually runs into.
Sources: shopify.com/in/pricing, its archived captures for the withdrawn Starter plan, and help.shopify.com for payments, shipping and India GST. Checked 3 September 2026, and re-checked whenever Shopify changes a page.
Shopify Payments does not operate in India — it runs in forty countries and this is not one of them. So an Indian merchant wires up Razorpay or PayU, and Shopify charges a further 2% on Basic on top of whatever the gateway takes. Shopify's own documentation calls it a third-party transaction fee and confirms it is in addition to the gateway's cut. An entire Indian checkout industry exists to route around it.
Shopify's India page offers three days free and then ₹20 a month for three months. What it does not put next to that number is where you land in month four: ₹1,994 billed monthly, or ₹1,499 if you commit to a year. And the ₹399 Starter plan — the one permanently cheap way in — came off the India page between March and April 2026, with nothing announced. On oBizee there is no month four, because there is no plan.
The RBI caps auto-debit at ₹15,000 on a card and ₹5,000 on UPI. So a merchant signing up for a ₹20 plan is asked to authorise ₹5,000, which reads like a trap and is really just the ceiling. Worse at the other end: a bill above ₹15,000 cannot be auto-debited at all, and merchants describe stores frozen for days while it is sorted out. oBizee bills in rupees, per order, with no mandate to register.
Discounted label buying works if your business is in the United States, Canada or Australia. In India you connect a courier or an aggregator yourself and manage rates in a second dashboard — and that second dashboard is where sellers describe most of their real losses, in weight disputes and withheld COD remittances. oBizee reaches Delhivery, DTDC, Blue Dart and India Post from the order screen itself.
This one is Shopify's own answer rather than our claim: asked whether it creates a GST-compliant bill, its India documentation says no, and points merchants at a third-party service or an app. It also cannot split CGST and SGST into separate tax lines, and HSN codes have to live in a repurposed customs field. Every oBizee order produces a GST invoice with the split worked out from the product's HSN rate and the buyer's state.
The receipts
The line-by-line comparison sellers ask for before switching. Where Shopify technically does something but with a catch, it is marked as partial rather than a tick — and the last group is the five things Shopify simply does better than us.
Shopify figures read from Shopify’s own pages, 3 September 2026. Refreshed whenever either side ships a real change.
What it costs to keep the shop open
Shipping & delivery
The India essentials
Selling channels
Running the business
Where Shopify is genuinely ahead
One month, itemised
₹24,000 through the shop in a month. Your payment gateway charges the same on both platforms, so it is left out of both columns — below is only what the platform itself takes.
Shopify Basic
annual billing — ₹1,994 if you pay monthly
2% of ₹24,000, because Shopify Payments has no India
oBizee
Before ₹50,000there isn't one
₹0 until the shop has taken ₹50,000
And once your shop is past ₹50,000?
The same month costs you ₹240 — 1% of each order, capped at ₹10, so ₹8 on an ₹800 sale. There is still no plan fee, and a month with no orders still costs nothing. Shopify’s ₹1,979 does not move either way, which is 8× more — in the month you are already selling well.
Shopify lines read from shopify.com/in/pricing on 3 September 2026: Basic at ₹1,499/month on annual billing (₹1,994 monthly), and a 2% third-party transaction fee on Basic, which applies because Shopify Payments does not operate in India. Shopify’s introductory offer of ₹20/month covers the first three months only, so this is month four onward — the month that repeats. Shopify adds GST to its bill unless you submit a GSTIN, so no GST line is shown here. Courier freight is excluded from both columns — you pay the courier either way.
The actual switch
Four steps, and three of them are ours. There is no charge for the move, and you cancel Shopify in your own time.
Your myshopify.com address or your own domain, on WhatsApp. That is the whole ask — we never need your Shopify login.
Products, images, prices, variants and collections, rebuilt on oBizee. You re-upload nothing.
Your Shopify store stays live the entire time. You see yours on oBizee before any customer does.
Point your domain over, then cancel Shopify yourself. Nobody switches anything off but you.
Nothing gets left behind
Every product photo
At full resolution, not recompressed
Your prices and variants
Collections and stock come across intact
Your own domain
It stays in your name — we only map it
Your customer list
We never touch it, never market to it
Your Razorpay account
Payments keep landing where they already land
Your Shopify store
Live until you cancel it yourself
Built for
Not global ecommerce. Small Indian businesses selling handmade and short-run products on Instagram and WhatsApp, usually as a one-person team — the case where a monthly subscription buys you the least.
Live shop counts per category, 42 shops total — queried 27 August 2026
No catch
₹50,000 in orders — the first goal, completed for free. Nothing is charged before it.Nothing charged before it. Not a rupee.
Not a trial. Not a limited tier. Every courier, all five payment gateways, Instagram and WhatsApp forms, unlimited products, your mapped custom domain, GST invoicing, expenses, vendors and staff accounts are switched on the whole time — 0 SUBSCRIPTION, 0 SETUP FEE, and a month with no orders still costs you nothing.
Before you switch
oBizee, for a small Indian seller. There is no subscription at any volume, and nothing at all is charged until your store has taken ₹50,000 in orders. Delhivery, DTDC, Blue Dart and India Post shipping are built in with live rate comparison — Shopify Shipping does not operate in India — along with same-day hyperlocal delivery, Razorpay and Paytm, GST invoicing, expenses, vendors, staff accounts and analytics.
Shopify's India page offers three days free and then ₹20 a month for three months. After that, Basic is ₹1,499 a month billed yearly or ₹1,994 billed monthly, Grow is ₹5,599 or ₹7,447, and Advanced is ₹22,680 or ₹30,164 — all read from Shopify's India pricing page on 3 September 2026. On top of the plan, because Shopify Payments does not operate in India, Shopify charges a third-party transaction fee — 2% on Basic — in addition to whatever your payment gateway charges. Shopify adds GST to its bill unless you submit a GSTIN, in which case it exempts you.
For three months. Shopify's India pricing page offers a three-day free trial and then ₹20 a month for the first three months, after which the plan reverts to standard pricing — ₹1,994 a month on Basic if you are billed monthly, or ₹1,499 if you commit to a year. The ₹20 is an introductory price, not a plan you can stay on.
No. The Starter plan at ₹399 a month was still on Shopify's India pricing page in March 2026 and was gone by late April 2026. Shopify's help centre now states that the Starter plan is not available to new stores, and that a merchant who moves off it cannot go back. With Starter withdrawn, the cheapest way to stay on Shopify in India is Basic at ₹1,499 a month on annual billing.
No, and this is Shopify's own answer rather than ours — its India GST documentation says it does not create a GST-compliant bill, and points merchants to a third-party service or an app. It also cannot split CGST and SGST into separate tax lines. On oBizee every order produces a GST invoice with the split worked out from the product's HSN rate and the buyer's state.
You need something, because Shopify's own discounted label buying only covers businesses in the United States, Canada and Australia. Several Indian courier apps are free to install and bill only the freight — NimbusPost, Delhivery's own app and iThink among them — so the subscription itself can be zero. What you cannot avoid is running your shipping in a second dashboard. On oBizee it is in the order screen.
No. Your Shopify store keeps running the whole time. We rebuild your catalogue on oBizee first, you check it, and only then do you point your domain across. You cancel Shopify yourself, when you are ready — nobody switches anything off on your behalf.
When you are selling internationally, when you need a specific app from a large ecosystem, when you run physical retail alongside online, or when a paid theme is worth more to you than the monthly fee. Shopify is a genuinely excellent global platform. oBizee is built for an Indian seller shipping Indian parcels to Indian pin codes, and that is the case where a monthly subscription buys you the least.