A free ecommerce platform in India for a whole year: inside Vikrayo's launch offer

If you've been putting off selling online because the monthly fee felt like one more bill you didn't need right now, this one is for you. For a limited time, Vikrayo's Starter plan is free for your first 12 months. Not a 14-day trial that ends just as you figure out the settings. A full year of a working online store, on your own domain, with no platform fee on your orders. If you've been looking for a free ecommerce platform in India that isn't a cut-down trial, this is the one we built for Indian sellers.

Why would we do that? Vikrayo is in an invite-only launch, and we would much rather have real shops using it every day and telling us what's missing than polish features nobody asked for. You get a year to build your store without paying for software. We get honest feedback from people who actually sell. That's the whole deal.

What exactly is free?

The Starter plan, in full, for 12 months from the day you sign up. It normally costs ₹499 a month plus GST. Nothing is switched off or watered down during the free year. Here's what you get:

• An online store on your own domain, with SSL set up automatically
• Fast loading pages on a global CDN, with product images resized and served as WebP or AVIF when the browser supports it
• Up to 500 products, with variants for sizes, colours and SKUs
• Orders, customers and inventory managed from one admin
• Payments through Razorpay, Cashfree or Stripe, so customers can pay by UPI, card or netbanking
• Cash on delivery, with rules for order value and delivery zones
• Shipping through Shiprocket, Delhivery and Xpressbees
• GST worked out on every order, with CGST and SGST or IGST decided by the place of supply
• Email support from our team

Starter comes with one staff account. For most people starting out, that's exactly right: it's you, running your own shop.

Who this is for

We built Vikrayo for Indian businesses that are already selling, just not on a proper store yet. Think of the home baker taking cake orders over WhatsApp, the saree reseller with a loyal Instagram following, the neighbourhood store whose regulars would happily order ahead, or the D2C brand tired of giving a marketplace a cut of every sale.

If your orders currently live in a notebook, a spreadsheet or a long chat history, a store changes a lot. You get a catalogue people can browse on their own, a checkout that collects payment before you pack anything, and one screen that shows what was ordered and what still needs to ship. Most of your customers will be on a phone, often on mobile data, so we serve every store through a CDN to keep pages quick wherever they are.

What's the catch?

Fair question. Free offers usually have one, so here is everything we think you should know before signing up:

• There's a sign-up window. The free year applies to stores that join while the launch offer is open. Once we close it, new stores pay the regular price.
• Starter is a paid plan after 12 months. We'll remind you before your free year ends. You can then stay on Starter at ₹499 a month, or ₹4,788 a year (which works out to ₹399 a month). You can also switch plans or cancel. No surprise charges.
• Payment gateways charge their own fees. Vikrayo takes 0% of your orders. Razorpay, Cashfree or Stripe will still charge their usual processing fee on online payments, as they would anywhere.
• You bring your own domain. The store runs on a domain you own. If you don't have one yet, you can buy it from any domain registrar and connect it.
• Prices exclude GST. Once your paid plan starts, GST at the applicable rate is added to your subscription.

How to claim your free store

1. Request early access. We're letting merchants in by invitation during the launch. Fill in the early access form with a few details about what you sell.
2. Accept your invite and choose Starter. Your 12 free months start on the day you sign up.
3. Add your best sellers first. You don't need your whole catalogue on day one. Ten products with good photos and clear prices are enough to open.
4. Connect payments and shipping. Link your Razorpay, Cashfree or Stripe account, turn on cash on delivery if your customers expect it, and connect a shipping partner.
5. Point your domain and share the link. Put it wherever your customers already are: your WhatsApp status, your Instagram bio, your Google Business Profile.

When does the Growth plan make more sense?

If you have a team, or you sell from more than one location, take a look at Growth. It costs ₹999 a month and adds staff roles with location-based access, discounts, gift cards, draft orders for phone and WhatsApp customers, product reviews, bulk import and unlimited products.

Growth isn't part of the free-year offer, but it comes with a 14-day free trial so you can try it before paying anything. Plenty of shops start on Starter and move up once they hire their first helper. Switching plans doesn't mean rebuilding your store.

A year is a long time. Use it well.

Twelve months is enough to learn things you can only learn by running a store. You'll see which products actually sell, which photos get clicked, whether cash on delivery orders in your area come back as returns, and what customers ask before they buy. That knowledge is worth more than any template.

The free year simply takes the software bill out of the way while you work it out. If you've been waiting for a good moment to start, this is a pretty good one. Request early access and claim your free year while the offer is open, or see the full plan details on our pricing page.