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A fair comparison, including when to choose the other one.

Most Indian stores start on a hosted builder or WordPress, and some go for a full custom build. Each is right for some merchants. These pages set ShopenUp beside each option, say where the other is better, and leave the decision with you.

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How does ShopenUp compare with Shopify, WooCommerce and a custom build?

ShopenUp sits between a hosted store builder and a full custom build: a managed store for Indian merchants with day one commerce features, plus custom modules built by the same team. A builder is quicker for small, simple stores; a custom build suits a business whose core logic is unlike any platform.

Comparison

ShopenUp and Shopify

If your store fits the template and a few apps cover the gaps, Shopify is a sensible, proven choice and usually the quicker one. ShopenUp makes more sense when the gaps are the business itself: dealer price lists, Tally sync, COD rules, unusual catalogues, and you want one team responsible for both the store and the custom parts.

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Comparison

ShopenUp and WooCommerce

If you have a developer you trust, want full control of the code and your site is as much content as store, WooCommerce is a strong choice. If the store is the business and nobody on your side wants to own updates, plugin conflicts and festive week performance, a managed platform like ShopenUp usually means less work and less risk.

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Comparison

ShopenUp and a custom build

If your store is truly unlike anyone else's, at a scale where the platform itself is the advantage, and you have a technology team to run it, build it. Most merchants find that catalogue, cart, payments and shipping are the same as everyone else's, and pay for that part twice in a custom build.

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Which option fits

Four options, and when each one fits.

The situations where each option is the better choice for an Indian store.

Choose

Shopify if

  • You want to launch this week without a call
  • Your needs are covered by well reviewed apps
  • You plan to hire a freelancer who already knows the platform
  • Your catalogue and order flow are simple

Choose

WooCommerce if

  • You have a developer who will own the site long term
  • Content and blogging drive most of your sales
  • You want the code on your own server
  • Your budget for software is close to zero and your time is not

Choose

A custom build if

  • Your store's core logic is unlike any platform
  • You have an in house team to run it for years
  • You need to own all the code outright
  • Your scale justifies building the platform itself

Choose

ShopenUp if

  • You keep paying for apps and workarounds that never quite fit
  • You need dealer orders, Tally sync or COD rules
  • You want one team responsible for the store and the custom parts
  • You prefer a fixed yearly price for the platform

How we wrote these

The ground rules

Their strengths first

Each page lists where the other option is better before it says where ShopenUp is.

General terms only

Plans, fees and features change. We describe the others in general terms and ask you to check their current pages.

Your numbers decide

The store cost calculator uses only what you enter, so the comparison is about your store.

Thinking of moving

What a move involves

Products, customers and past orders come across. Every old address gets a one hop redirect before the domain switches.

  1. Step 1ExportProducts, customers, orders
  2. Step 2Clean and mapVariants, SKUs, HSN codes
  3. Step 3Import and testTop pages checked
  4. Step 4RedirectsOld URL to new URL
  5. Step 5Switch the domainStore live
Moving your store, step by step

See the store running with your own products.

Send a few products and your trickiest order. The demo shows them in the admin and on a storefront, with a plain list of native and custom parts.

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