Free store vs premium upgrade

A SitesPlaced store is genuinely free to run: ₹0 to build, ₹0 to publish, 0% commission on every sale, unlimited products and orders, and online payments included. The paid options for stores are the Starter plan at ₹199/month — your own domain, branding removal, AI-written copy, analytics, custom head code and Meta Pixel + CAPI — and the Growth plan at ₹499/month — an early-bird price for the first 50 stores, after which it is ₹999/month — which adds WhatsApp Business API alerts, the sales boosters, product reviews and 1-click checkout on top. Nothing about taking an order is locked behind either.

What the free plan includes

• 0% commission on every sale, with unlimited products and orders.
• All storefront templates, full customisation, the section editor, menu editor and blog.
• Online payments (UPI, cards, net banking, wallets) via your own Razorpay account — Razorpay's standard gateway fee applies, SitesPlaced adds nothing — plus Cash on Delivery, WhatsApp checkout and manual UPI / bank transfer.
• Shiprocket and Shipmozo shipping integrations, order tracking on your Track Order page, and PDF invoices.
• Inventory tracking, coupon codes, the free-shipping bar, customer messages and newsletter subscribers.
• A free yourname.sitesplaced.com address with a small *Made using sitesplaced.com* badge in the footer and a *"| sitesplaced"* suffix in the browser tab title.
• 500 MB of upload storage per store, and up to 5 sites on your account — every one of them can be published.

What the Starter plan adds (₹199/month)

• Your own custom domain (e.g. yourbrand.com) — see Connect a custom domain.
• Remove SitesPlaced branding — the footer badge and the tab-title suffix disappear.
• AI copy — the *"In one line, what do you sell?"* catalog setup and the ✨ Generate with AI buttons in Branding and Pages & policies.
• The Analytics tab — visits, orders and what is selling.
• Tracking & code — paste Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, PostHog or any custom head code into your live store.
• Meta Pixel + Conversions API — your own Pixel on the storefront plus server-side Purchase events, so Instagram and Facebook ads report real sales. See Meta Pixel + CAPI.
• 2 GB of upload storage.

What the Growth plan adds on top (₹499/month)

• Sales boosters — cart upsells, frequently bought together, post-purchase offers, Buy-X-Get-Y, the welcome popup and the WhatsApp bubble.
• Product reviews on the storefront, with the Judge.me import.
• Shiprocket 1-click checkout and Razorpay Magic Checkout — hosted checkouts with saved addresses and RTO scoring.
• WhatsApp Business API alerts — order alerts to you and confirmations to the customer from your own WhatsApp Business number (you bring your Meta credentials). See WhatsApp Business API.
• 5 GB of storage and a dedicated setup contact for Razorpay, Shiprocket and domain setup.

How to upgrade

1. 1Click Upgrade in the header of your store dashboard (the plan badge next to the title shows Free, Starter or Growth), or go to the pricing page.
2. 2Choose monthly or yearly billing — a year is priced as ten months (₹4,990), so two months are free.
3. 3Pay by UPI or card. The store switches to the Growth plan straight away; your products, orders and settings are untouched.
4. 4Connect your domain in Settings → Store details, and the badge and tab suffix disappear on their own.

Good to know

• The Starter plan (₹199/month) gives a store its own domain, badge removal, AI copy, analytics, custom head code and Meta Pixel + CAPI; the selling features (sales boosters, product reviews, WhatsApp Business API, 1-click checkout) need Growth. The Student unlock (₹99 one-time) removes the badge on student portfolios only.
• Prices shown in other currencies on the pricing page are region-based equivalents of the same plans.
• The early-bird counter on the pricing page is a live count of stores on the Growth plan, not a marketing number; when 30 are taken, new subscriptions are ₹999/month.
• If you let the plan lapse, the store keeps running on the free plan: the badge and tab suffix return and the plan-gated features (AI, analytics, tracking code, Meta CAPI, WhatsApp Business API) pause. Products, orders and settings are never deleted.
• Razorpay, Shiprocket and Shipmozo are free on SitesPlaced, but each provider has its own fees — check theirs before you launch. A full list of integrations and their plans is on the integrations page.

See current pricing on the pricing page or the plans overview, and how to change or cancel in Manage your subscription. Have a billing question? Contact us.