E-commerce Website
Development in Pune

An e-commerce website is a site that lists products or services, takes payment for them, and records the resulting order: the three functions that separate it from a brochure site with a price list.

Four types cover almost every build. A catalogue-and-checkout store sells a company’s own products, like a D2C skincare brand. A marketplace lists several independent sellers under one checkout. A B2B catalogue shows negotiated or login-gated pricing to trade buyers rather than a single public price, as a distributor does. A subscription store bills on a repeating cycle, like a coffee or supplement plan.

The fuller definition, its history and its models are covered on what is e-commerce. This page is about building one.

An Indian store needs four things a downloaded template does not ship with: GST-compliant invoicing, a payment stack customers actually use, shipping that reconciles against orders, and a returns flow. A theme handles the shop front. These four are what make it a business.

GST-compliant invoicing. A registered business must issue a tax invoice carrying its GSTIN, the place of supply and the correct CGST, SGST or IGST split. A store that emails a styled order confirmation instead is generating paperwork its accountant has to redo every month. Worth knowing while you are choosing a studio: if an agency asks to be paid to a personal UPI ID to avoid raising a GST invoice, that tells you how it will handle your compliance too.

Payments customers actually use. Infiscroll integrates Razorpay, PayU and UPI. Cash on delivery still accounts for a large share of first orders from customers who have not bought from a brand before, and it changes the operation rather than just the checkout. COD orders have to be reconciled against what the courier remits, and refused deliveries come back as returns.

Shipping and logistics that reconcile. Orders, labels, tracking and delivery status belong inside the store, not in a spreadsheet somebody updates by hand. Whichever courier or aggregator you use, have that integration named in the quote rather than assumed: an unnamed integration is the most common source of a mid-project extra.

A returns flow. A store that cannot process a return loses the customer permanently, and returns are where thin builds fail first. Inventory has to go back, the refund has to reconcile against the original payment method, and the customer has to be able to start it without emailing you.

A Shopify or WooCommerce store starts from ₹30,000, and a custom e-commerce build from ₹40,000. Both are starting prices for the scope described on the pricing page rather than quotes; the quote is fixed in writing after a discovery call, and moves with catalogue size, custom features and integrations.

What the figure covers matters more than the figure. Payments, GST invoicing and shipping integration sit inside the store scope, not beside it. Charged separately: domains, hosting, paid plugins or apps, stock media and ad spend, billed at cost or paid by you directly, because they are somebody else’s recurring fee rather than our work. A Shopify plan and a paid app subscription are the two that most often surprise a first-time store owner.

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