Understanding Pay-Per-Order Pricing for New Sellers

The problem with most 'get online' offers

Most agencies, templates, and subscription tools that promise to get your business online ask for money up front — a setup fee, a monthly plan, sometimes both — before you have any evidence the online channel will actually work for your business. For a vendor who's never sold outside WhatsApp or a physical counter, that's real risk on an untested bet. If it doesn't work, you've still paid.

How pay-per-order actually works

The Pay Per Order plan flips that around: there's no signup fee and no monthly bill. You get a full branded storefront, an admin panel to manage orders and inventory, and support included from day one — and the only charge is Rs 15, applied to the customer at checkout, on an order that actually happens. No sale, no charge. It's the closest thing to a free trial that doesn't quietly expire or lock features behind a paywall.

When the Monthly plan makes more sense

Pay-per-order is deliberately the cheaper option at low volume and the more expensive one once you're selling a lot — that's the honest trade-off of a per-transaction fee. Once your order volume climbs high enough that the accumulated Rs 15 fees would cost more than a flat monthly rate, switching plans saves money and also removes the platform fee line customers see at checkout. There's no penalty for switching, and it takes effect on your next billing cycle from your admin panel's billing tab — most vendors start on Pay Per Order and only move to Monthly once the math clearly favors it.

What the fee does and doesn't cover

It's worth being precise here, because 'platform fee' can sound like a cut of your sales — it isn't. The fee covers the infrastructure: hosting your storefront, running the admin panel, order and inventory management, and support. It has nothing to do with how you price your products. You set your own prices and keep 100% of that revenue; the platform fee is a separate, visible line the customer pays, not something deducted from what you earn.

That's really the point of pricing it this way — there's nothing to lose by trying it, and nothing hidden to discover later. You can see exactly what you're paying, exactly when you're paying it, and change plans the moment the numbers say you should.