E-commerce development

E-Commerce Website Development Services

Online stores that make products easy to find, simple to buy on a phone and manageable for you behind the scenes. Product catalogues, checkout, payment gateways, shipping rules and order notifications, set up for selling in India.

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WooCommerce or Shopify
Indian payment gateways
Mobile checkout
Order and stock basics

What an e-commerce website needs to do well

An e-commerce website is an online store where customers browse products, add them to a cart and pay, while you manage products, stock and orders from a dashboard. The design matters, but sales depend more on practical things: clear product information, trust at checkout, payment options customers already use and delivery details they can rely on.

Before building, we work through how you'll actually run the store: how many products, who adds them, how orders reach you, how shipping is charged and what happens with returns. Getting those answers right avoids a store that looks finished but is painful to operate.

Platforms: WooCommerce (WordPress) or Shopify, chosen to suit your store
Payments: Integration with a payment gateway you choose, such as Razorpay, PayU or Cashfree, plus cash on delivery if you offer it
Shipping: Rates by location, weight or order value; courier integration where available
You manage: Products, prices, stock, orders, coupons and customers
Not included: Gateway and courier account fees, which are paid directly to those providers

Why online stores lose sales

Product pages don't answer questions

Our approach: structured product details: size, material, delivery time, returns and clear photos.

Checkout asks for too much

Our approach: a short checkout with guest ordering, autofill-friendly fields and visible costs.

Shipping costs appear at the last step

Our approach: shipping rules explained early on product and cart pages.

The store is slow on mobile

Our approach: optimised product images, caching and a lightweight theme.

What's included in e-commerce development

Catalogue structure

Categories, filters, product types and variations (such as size or colour) planned around how customers shop.

Product pages

Templates with images, prices, variations, delivery information, returns policy and related products.

Cart and checkout

A short, mobile-friendly checkout with guest ordering, coupons and clear totals including tax and shipping.

Payments

Integration with your chosen payment gateway for UPI, cards, net banking and wallets, plus cash on delivery if required.

Orders and notifications

Order emails for you and your customers, order statuses and invoices set up and tested.

Store policies and SEO

Shipping, returns, privacy and terms pages linked from checkout, plus product schema and a sitemap.

WooCommerce or Shopify?

Both are solid choices. The better one depends on how you want to run your store.

	WooCommerce	Shopify
What it is	A free WordPress plugin on your own hosting	A hosted store platform with a monthly plan
Running costs	Hosting, any premium extensions, maintenance	Monthly subscription, apps, transaction-related fees depending on plan
Flexibility	Very flexible; you control the code and data	Flexible within Shopify's system and app store
Maintenance	You or a maintenance plan handles updates	Shopify handles hosting and core updates
Good fit	Stores that also need strong content, or custom rules	Product-first stores that want less technical upkeep

Check current Shopify plan prices on Shopify's own website, as they change from time to time.

Stores we can build

Retail stores selling physical products
Brands moving from Instagram or WhatsApp orders to a proper store
Catalogue websites with enquiry instead of checkout
Stores selling downloads or online courses
B2B ordering with minimum quantities or wholesale pricing

What affects the cost of an online store

Number of products, categories and variations
Who adds the products and photos
Payment gateway and shipping integrations
Custom features such as wholesale pricing or bookings
Platform subscriptions and premium extensions
Maintenance and support after launch

Read our website development cost guide for published market ranges.

How we build your online store

Store planning
Products, categories, payments, shipping, taxes, returns and who manages orders.
You approve: store scope and quote
Design and build
Home, category, product, cart and checkout templates built on staging.
You approve: store design
Products and payments
Products imported or added, payment gateway connected in test mode, shipping rules set.
You approve: test orders
Launch and handover
Switch payments to live, place a real test order, then hand over and walk you through order handling.
You receive: logins and store guide

E-commerce website questions

How much does an e-commerce website cost in India?

It varies with the number of products, features and platform. Hostinger India's 2026 cost guide (updated February 2026) puts agency-built e-commerce sites at roughly ₹1,50,000 to ₹4,00,000 or more, while smaller freelancer-built WooCommerce stores can cost less. We quote against your actual product count and features. See our cost guide.

Which payment gateways can you integrate?

Most Indian gateways that offer a WooCommerce plugin or Shopify integration, such as Razorpay, PayU and Cashfree. You open the merchant account in your business name, and we connect and test it.

Can I add and edit products myself?

Yes. Both WooCommerce and Shopify let you manage products, prices, stock and orders from a dashboard. We show you how at handover.

Can you add cash on delivery?

Yes. Cash on delivery can be enabled, limited by order value or location if you want to reduce risk.

Do you upload the products?

We can. Product entry is quoted separately based on the number of products and whether data and photos are ready. Large catalogues can often be imported from a spreadsheet.

Ready to sell online?

Tell us what you sell, roughly how many products you have and how you deliver.

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