Shopify cost calculator India.
Shopify shows ₹1,499 a month and stops there. For an Indian D2C store that's the floor — gateway fees, COD handling and RTO add 3–5× on top. Plug in your AOV, orders and COD share. See what the store actually costs you in a month.
Built on the math we run for our 200+ D2C brands.
Pre-loaded with realistic D2C numbers — ₹1,200 AOV, 500 orders / month, 40% COD, 20% RTO. Override any field with yours.
₹30L–3Cr/mo · small team · Basic fits your revenue better.
Operator defaults
Not Shopify defaults — ours.
These are the numbers we see across 200+ Indian D2C stores. Where your reality differs, override the field — the math updates live.
- Plan prices
- Snapshot 2026-04-27 from shopify.com/in/pricing
- ₹40 COD handling
- Verification SMS, reconciliation, undelivered attempts — operator median
- 2% domestic gateway
- Razorpay / PhonePe / Cashfree / Easebuzz all settle near 2% on UPI + cards · plus 18% GST · Shopify Payments isn't available in India
- 3.5% international cards
- Card-on-card rate for non-INR transactions · default 0% if you only sell in India
- 20% RTO default
- Tier-2-heavy COD brands · prepaid-only stores run 5–8%
Counted in your number
- Plan cost — Basic, Grow, Advanced or Plus, monthly or annual billing
- Payment gateway fees — 2% on domestic (Razorpay, PhonePe, Cashfree, Easebuzz), 3.5% on international cards
- Shopify's third-party transaction fee — 2% on Basic, 1% on Grow, 0.6% on Advanced, 0.2% on Plus
- 18% GST on plan + gateway fees — toggle off if you claim ITC
- COD handling — ₹40 per COD order
- Forward shipping × orders / month
- RTO return shipping for the share of orders that come back
- Paid apps & integrations — your number, since you know your stack
Not in your number — they vary too much
- App stack pricing — Klaviyo, Yotpo, Judge.me, ERP / WMS connectors
- Theme + custom development (one-time build + monthly retainer)
- Ad spend, creative production, content
- Team cost — designers, ops, customer support
Brand-specific. WhatsApp us your category — we'll share the full P&L model we use for stores like yours.
When not to use this
If you're below ₹50K/month and selling through Instagram DMs, your real bottleneck isn't tool cost — it's checkout and trust. Don't migrate yet. Read the DM-to-store playbook first.