Ecommerce Website Development Cost in India: 2026 Prices Explained

You sell something people like. Maybe it’s handmade candles, maybe it’s industrial fasteners. Either way, you’ve decided it’s time to sell online, and the first question is the obvious one: what will the website cost?

Ask around and you’ll hear everything from ₹15,000 to ₹15 lakh. Both numbers can be true. One is a template with your logo pasted on. The other is a store with thousands of products, courier integration and an ERP talking to it in the background.

This guide gives you our actual prices for the stores we build most often, explains what pushes a quote up, and lists the monthly costs that keep going after launch. If you want the wider picture across all website types, our website development cost guide covers that.

01Ecommerce website cost in India: the short answer

At CodingCafe, a store with up to about 100 products costs ₹60,000 to ₹2,00,000. Where you land in that range depends on the platform, the design, and how many systems the store has to talk to.

Prices exclude 18% GST and the running costs covered below. The third row is really a custom web application with a shopping cart on the front, which is why its range is so wide.

02WooCommerce, Shopify or custom: how the platform changes the price

This is the first decision, and it shapes both the build cost and your monthly bills.

WooCommerce

WordPress with the WooCommerce plugin. It’s free software, you own everything, and there’s a plugin for almost any feature. The build cost is usually the lowest, and so are the running costs if you host it well. The trade-off is that you, or someone you pay, has to keep it updated and secure. Most of the stores in the ₹60,000 to ₹1,00,000 band are WooCommerce.

Shopify

A hosted platform, so hosting, security and updates are Shopify’s problem, not yours. The build cost is similar to WooCommerce, but you pay a subscription every month for as long as the store exists. Indian pricing changes with the rupee, so check Shopify’s India pricing page for today’s figure; when we looked in November 2026, third-party guides put the Basic plan at roughly ₹1,500 to ₹2,000 a month on annual billing, with the higher plans costing many times that. Apps for reviews, bundles or subscriptions add their own monthly fees. See our Shopify development page if this sounds like you.

Custom build

Written from scratch, usually in Laravel, for businesses whose selling process doesn’t fit a standard cart. Think dealer logins with negotiated prices, configurable products, or an ordering system tied to your warehouse. Nothing is cheap here, but nothing is a workaround either.

Our honest rule of thumb: if you have under a few hundred products and a normal checkout, start with WooCommerce or Shopify. Go custom when the platform starts fighting you, not before.

03What makes an ecommerce quote go up

Two stores can have the same number of products and cost very different amounts. These are the usual reasons.

• Custom design versus a theme. A ready-made theme adapted to your brand is fast and looks fine. Fully custom page designs add two to four weeks of work.
• Product variants. A t-shirt in 6 sizes and 8 colours is 48 products in disguise. Variants, bundles and personalisation all take setup and testing time.
• Catalogue size and data entry. Entering 500 products with photos, descriptions and prices is real work. Decide early who does it. If it’s us, it’s in the quote.
• Integrations. Courier APIs such as Shiprocket or Delhivery, WhatsApp order updates, Tally or Zoho Books, a marketplace feed. Each one is a few days of work and a few more of testing.
• Multiple currencies or languages. Selling abroad means currency switching, international shipping rules and sometimes a second payment gateway.
• Speed and SEO work. A store that loads in under two seconds on a phone and has clean category structure sells more and ranks better. It also takes deliberate effort.
• Migration. Moving from an old store means mapping products, customers, orders and old URLs so Google doesn’t lose you. Budget for it.

04The costs that continue after launch

This is the part first-time store owners underestimate. The build is a one-time payment. Running a store is a subscription to several things at once.

• Domain. About ₹800 to ₹1,500 a year for a .com or .in.
• Hosting (WooCommerce). A decent managed WordPress host for a small store runs about ₹5,000 to ₹25,000 a year. Cheap shared hosting works until your first sale rush, then it doesn’t.
• Platform subscription (Shopify). The monthly plan above, plus any paid apps, for life.
• Payment gateway fees. Razorpay, PayU, Cashfree and the rest charge per transaction, typically around 2% on cards and wallets, with UPI often cheaper or free on standard plans. On ₹5 lakh of monthly sales, that’s about ₹10,000 gone before you see it. International cards cost more.
• Shipping. Not a website cost, but it decides your margins. Get courier rates before you set product prices.
• Maintenance. Updates, backups, security patches and small changes. We charge ₹3,000 to ₹15,000 a month depending on the store. Skipping this is how stores get hacked, and we’ve cleaned up enough of them to say that plainly.
• Marketing. Nobody finds a new store by accident. Whether it’s ads, SEO or Instagram, set a budget or expect a quiet first year.

05A worked example

Say you run a small skincare brand with 40 products and want to launch before the wedding season. A realistic plan looks like this:

• WooCommerce store on a premium theme adapted to your brand, Razorpay for payments, Shiprocket for courier, WhatsApp order notifications: around ₹85,000, live in about four weeks.
• Year one running costs: domain and hosting roughly ₹12,000, maintenance at ₹5,000 a month, gateway fees at about 2% of sales.

Now change one thing. You want every page custom designed and a subscription option for monthly refills. The build moves to about ₹1,60,000 and eight weeks, because custom design and subscription billing both need proper design and testing. Same products, very different quote, and both are fair.

06How to keep the cost down without regretting it

The cheapest store is the one that only builds what you need to start selling. Some practical ways to get there:

• Launch with your best 20 to 50 products, not your whole catalogue. Add the rest once orders are coming in.
• Use a well-built theme for version one. Custom design can come after you know what customers actually click.
• Pick one payment gateway and one courier partner to start.
• Write your own product descriptions, or at least the first drafts. You know the products better than anyone.
• Don’t pay for features “for later”. Later has a habit of looking different from what you imagined.

What not to cut: payment security, mobile speed and backups. Saving ₹10,000 there has a way of costing lakhs.

07Questions to ask before you pay anyone

• Is the design custom or based on a theme, and can I see the theme?
• How many products and variants does the price cover, and who enters them?
• Which payment gateway and courier integrations are included?
• Do I own the domain, hosting account and code?
• What happens after launch, and what does support cost?
• Is GST included in this quote?
• Can I see a store you built that’s been live for more than a year?

08What a CodingCafe ecommerce quote looks like

We’re an ecommerce development company based in Mohali, and we meet clients online wherever they are. Every quote lists the platform, the number of products covered, every integration by name, the launch date and the monthly maintenance option, so you can compare it with anyone else’s line by line.

If you’d like a number for your store, tell us what you sell and roughly how many products you have using the form below. We’ll reply within 24 business hours with a price range and a timeline, and we’ll tell you if we think you don’t need the expensive option.