WSTORES pricing, plan by plan, and the free way to do the same.

The three WSTORES plans at a glance

The third plan, 3 Years, is ₹5,999 paid once for three years of service, GST included. Its pricing page does not break out a feature list in the same detail as Basic and Pro, so check the plan card for exactly what it carries before buying.

Basic, ₹399/month: what is in it

Basic is the plan for a seller who takes orders on WhatsApp and does not ship through a courier integration. You get unlimited products, 0% transaction fees, WhatsApp checkout, payments by UPI, cards and cash on delivery, an order dashboard, sizes and variants, an announcement bar, a store QR code, custom themes, analytics, bulk upload and email support. For a home baker, a tuition centre selling notes, or a seller who hands parcels to a local courier by hand, that list is complete.

What Basic leaves out is the part that bites when the parcel count grows: no custom domain, no Shiprocket or Delhivery, no invoice generation, no product badges, no SEO tools. Those are features a physical-product store tends to need early, which is worth knowing when you compare ₹399 with ₹499. For most courier-shipped stores, the realistic WSTORES price is the Pro price.

Pro, ₹499/month: what it adds

For ₹100 more a month, Pro unlocks the custom domain and lets you buy a domain inside the dashboard, adds shipping through Shiprocket and Delhivery with automatic shipment emails, staff management so a team member gets their own login, product badges, advanced analytics, a Google Sheets sync, invoice generation, SEO tools and priority support.

Seen on its own, Pro is a sensible bundle. The question this article exists to answer is whether you should be paying ₹499/month for shipping, invoices and badges at all, because on SitesPlaced those three are on the ₹0 plan, and the ₹499 is spent on a different set of things.

The 3-year plan, ₹5,999 once

This is the WSTORES deal that gets searched for. ₹5,999 paid once, GST included, buys three years of service. Divide it out and it is roughly ₹167/month, or about a third of paying Pro monthly for the same period (₹499 × 36 = ₹17,964). If the plan card confirms it carries the Pro features you need, such as the domain and courier integrations, and you are comfortable paying up front for a platform you have only used on a trial, it is the cheapest way on the page to get there.

The trade-off is the same as every multi-year prepay: you are committing to one platform for three years, and any feature it does not have today, you wait for. Those missing features are the subject of the map below.

How the WSTORES free trial actually works

The monthly plans carry a 7-day free trial. To start it you set up a UPI AutoPay mandate from your UPI app, which authorises WSTORES to pull the plan amount. Nothing is charged for seven days. On day 8 the mandate bills you for Basic or Pro, whichever you chose, and the subscription continues monthly from there.

So the trial is free in the literal sense, but it is not commitment-free. If you only want to look around, set a reminder for day 6 and cancel before day 8 if the store is not for you. That is the only way the trial costs ₹0. Compare this with SitesPlaced, where there is no trial because the free plan is the product: no mandate, no card, no day 8.

Every WSTORES feature, mapped to SitesPlaced

SitesPlaced lines are verifiable on /pricing. The free plan includes 500 MB storage, up to 5 sites and a small “Made using SitesPlaced” badge; Razorpay’s gateway fee applies to online payments.

Read the map top to bottom and the pattern is clear. Everything WSTORES puts on Basic is free on SitesPlaced. Of the Pro list, shipping, invoices and badges are free on SitesPlaced, and only the custom domain and analytics line up with the SitesPlaced ₹499 plan. WSTORES keeps three things SitesPlaced does not list, staff logins, Sheets sync and the QR code, and SitesPlaced has four that WSTORES does not list, Meta Conversions API, WhatsApp Business API alerts, AI copy and editing through ChatGPT or Claude.

What ₹499 on SitesPlaced buys instead

Because fulfilment is free, the SitesPlaced Ecommerce plan spends your ₹499/month on growth. You connect your own domain with one-click DNS for Indian registrars. The SitesPlaced badge comes off. AI writes product and section copy from your catalogue. Store analytics turn on. Custom head code lets you paste GA4, Clarity or any tag. Meta Pixel runs alongside the Conversions API, so each Purchase is sent server-side from the order record and deduplicated against the browser event, using your own Pixel and token. And WhatsApp Business API alerts send an owner notification and a customer confirmation for every order from your own WhatsApp Business number through the Meta Cloud API, again with your own credentials.

The price is ₹499/month early-bird, held for the first 30 stores, and ₹999/month after that. We state that in every comparison because a reader working out three-year costs deserves the real number, and because if you are early, it is a reason to lock it in.

When the ₹5,999 deal makes sense, and who should stay on WSTORES

• You want a domain for three years at the lowest cash outlay. ₹5,999 once beats ₹499 × 36 on SitesPlaced by a wide margin if a domain is the only paid feature you need. SitesPlaced is cheaper only if you can run on the free plan, where it is ₹0.
• Your team needs separate staff logins or a live Google Sheets export. WSTORES lists both on Pro; SitesPlaced does not list either.
• You sell abroad. WSTORES markets in Mexico, Brazil and the Dominican Republic and supports 50-plus currencies.
• You never intend to run Meta ads or automate WhatsApp messages. Then the two biggest SitesPlaced ₹499 inclusions are not worth anything to you, and the WSTORES one-time plan is the better spend.

If, on the other hand, you are paying ₹499/month mainly for Shiprocket, invoices and badges, or you are about to spend on Instagram ads, the free SitesPlaced plan plus an eventual ₹499 upgrade gives you more for the same money. The head-to-head comparison works the three-year totals in full.

How to start on SitesPlaced for free

1. Open /import and paste your Instagram handle, your existing store URL or a PDF catalogue. Products, prices, images, variants and categories are rebuilt for you.
2. Choose one of the 17 themes at /templates and edit any heading or image you like.
3. Add Razorpay, switch on COD and WhatsApp checkout, connect Shiprocket or Shipmozo, and set delivery options. No payment step.
4. Publish on your sitesplaced.com URL. Upgrade to ₹499/month when a domain or ad tracking earns its keep.

For a sense of what a finished store looks like, see Surroor House. To talk through your situation first, message the SitesPlaced WhatsApp line.

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