What an Ecommerce Store Really Costs to Build in India (a Developer's Breakdown)
I build online stores for Indian businesses, mostly on Next.js and sometimes on Shopify. Clients almost always ask the same first question: what will it cost? Here is the breakdown I give them. Rough build cost
I build online stores for Indian businesses, mostly on Next.js and sometimes on Shopify. Clients almost always ask the same first question: what will it cost? Here is the breakdown I give them.
Rough build cost
| Store type | Typical starting cost |
|---|---|
| Shopify store, set up properly | ~βΉ15,000 |
| Custom Next.js store | ~βΉ25,000 |
| B2B / marketplace / ERP-linked | βΉ1,00,000+ |
Where the developer time goes
- Product model with variants (size, colour, weight) and stock
- Razorpay for UPI, cards and netbanking, plus COD rules by pincode
- Shiprocket for pickups and tracking
- GST invoices with the seller's GSTIN
- An admin panel so the owner doesn't call you for every price change
- Product schema, sitemap and clean URLs
- Real test orders, end to end
Costs that aren't the developer's
Domain, hosting or a Shopify plan, per-transaction gateway fees and paid apps. On a custom Next.js build there's no platform fee, which is often why growing brands move off Shopify.
Features that move the price most
Wholesale pricing and MOQ, subscriptions, multi-vendor logic and ERP sync. Variants and COD rules are cheap; marketplaces are not.
I wrote the full version, with three real examples, a feature cost table and a checklist of questions to ask before hiring, here: Ecommerce Website Cost in India (2026)
Ritesh Kumar, founder of CodeXprime, Dwarka, Delhi.
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