--- title: "Shopify in India: Basic costs more than Grow once sales pass ₹4.1 lakh a month" summary: "Shopify's Indian plan prices and third-party payment fee, worked at ₹1 lakh, ₹5 lakh and ₹20 lakh of monthly sales, with what else to ask. As of September 2026." url: https://www.thetechbag.com/blog/choose-right-e-commerce-platform-online format: Note desk: "SaaS & business software" published: 2025-03-11 facts_checked: 2026-09-30 author: TechBag (The TechBag Journal) tags: ["e-commerce","Shopify","Zoho Commerce","Razorpay","payment gateway","transaction fees","Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules","DPDP","GST"] cover: https://www.thetechbag.com/blog/covers/choose-right-e-commerce-platform-online.png --- # Shopify in India: Basic costs more than Grow once sales pass ₹4.1 lakh a month *Shopify's Indian plan prices and third-party payment fee, worked at ₹1 lakh, ₹5 lakh and ₹20 lakh of monthly sales, with what else to ask. As of September 2026.* Note · SaaS & business software · By TechBag · Published 2025-03-11 · Facts checked 2026-09-30 · Canonical: https://www.thetechbag.com/blog/choose-right-e-commerce-platform-online Once an Indian Shopify store sells more than ₹4.1 lakh a month, the ₹1,499 Basic plan costs more than the ₹5,599 Grow plan, because Basic takes 2% of every sale and Grow takes 1%.[1] The 2023 version of this post listed five things to weigh when choosing a store builder: scale, ease of use, features, cost and support. It treated cost as the monthly plan. For an Indian merchant the bigger number is the percentage. ## Why every Indian Shopify store pays the extra fee Shopify waives its own transaction fee only for merchants on Shopify Payments, and Shopify Payments works in 41 countries. India is not one of them.[2] An Indian store therefore takes money through a third-party gateway, and Shopify charges its third-party fee on “all transactions processed through third-party and alternate payment gateways”: 2% on Basic, 1% on Grow, 0.6% on Advanced.[1][3] The gateway then charges its own fee; Razorpay’s standard rate is 2% per successful domestic transaction, with 18% GST on that fee.[4] **Figure: Past ₹4.1 lakh of monthly sales, Grow costs less to run than Basic; Advanced only pays off past ₹42.7 lakh** *Monthly plan price (billed yearly) plus Shopify's third-party fee, ₹, at three sales levels, September 2026* | | Basic (₹1,499 + 2%) | Grow (₹5,599 + 1%) | Advanced (₹22,680 + 0.6%) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ₹1 lakh sales | 3,499 | 6,599 | 23,280 | | ₹5 lakh sales | 11,499 | 10,599 | 25,680 | | ₹20 lakh sales | 41,499 | 25,599 | 34,680 | Source: Shopify India pricing page; TechBag arithmetic · as of 30 September 2026 · Excludes the gateway's own fee and GST, which are the same on every plan TechBag countTechBag arithmetic Basic and Grow cost the same where ₹1,499 + 2% of sales = ₹5,599 + 1% of sales: at ₹4,10,000 a month. Grow and Advanced cross where ₹5,599 + 1% = ₹22,680 + 0.6%: at about ₹42.7 lakh a month. Plan prices are Shopify’s billed-yearly rupee figures.[1] ## What to ask any store builder At ₹5 lakh of monthly sales on Basic, Shopify’s fee and a 2% gateway together take ₹20,000, thirteen times the plan price. That is the line to compare. Zoho Commerce, for one, says its paid plans carry no transaction fee of its own.[5] Shopify’s help page does not say how manual methods such as cash on delivery are treated, so ask in writing. Our view Our view: score a store builder on four numbers, not five adjectives. The plan price, its own per-sale fee, the gateway’s per-sale fee, and the GST on each. Multiply by next year’s sales, not this month’s. ## If you are selling in India A brand selling its own stock online is an “inventory e-commerce entity” under the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020, notified on 23 July 2020. The store must name a grievance officer on the site, acknowledge a complaint within 48 hours and resolve it within a month, whichever builder runs the shop.[6][7] Customer names, addresses and phone numbers are personal data under the DPDP Act, 2023, and the Rules notified on 13 November 2025 bring the security-safeguard and breach-notice duties into force on 13 May 2027.[8] Shopify prints rupee prices; confirm whether 18% GST is added on the invoice before you budget. How we did this Figures as of 30 September 2026 Plan prices and third-party fee rates are from Shopify’s Indian pricing page, billed-yearly figures; the chart adds the plan price to the fee rate times sales. Gateway fees and GST are excluded from the chart because they are the same on every plan. The 2023 original’s growth figures (NRF’s 11 to 14% a year, BigCommerce’s 126%) could not be traced to a dated primary study and were dropped. Wix and WooCommerce were not priced: neither showed an Indian per-sale fee we could cite. Spotted an error? Write to us; corrections are published at the foot of the piece. Sources 1. [Shopify, Pricing (India): Basic ₹1,499, Grow ₹5,599, Advanced ₹22,680 a month billed yearly; third-party fees 2%, 1%, 0.6%](https://www.shopify.com/in/pricing) — undated page 2. [Shopify Help Center, Shopify Payments supported countries](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/payments/shopify-payments/supported-countries) — undated page 3. [Shopify Help Center, Third-party payment providers](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/payments/third-party-providers) — undated page 4. [Razorpay, Pricing (standard plan)](https://razorpay.com/pricing/) — undated page 5. [Zoho Commerce, Pricing](https://www.zoho.com/commerce/pricing.html) — undated page 6. [HSA Advocates via Legal 500, The Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020 (notified 23 July 2020)](https://www.legal500.com/intelligence/india/consumer-protection/the-consumer-protection-e-commerce-rules-2020-hsa-advocates) — 17 September 2020 7. [IndiaLaw, A summary of the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020](https://www.indialaw.in/guides/civil/consumer-protection-e-commerce-rules/) — undated page 8. [DPDP Rules 2025, commencement timeline](https://legismith.com/dpdp-rules-2025-timeline/) — notified 13 November 2025 Related on TechBag: [Cloudflare Application Security](https://www.thetechbag.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-application-security) covers the firewall and bot defence in front of a store. **Disclosure.** TechBag is a software reseller: it earns a margin when a reader buys through it, including from vendors named here. The analysis is TechBag’s own; no vendor paid for or saw this piece before publication. Facts are labelled reported, TechBag count or our view. 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