Shopify Pricing in India: Plans, Fees and Real Cost
Shopify pricing in India for 2026: plan prices in rupees, monthly charges, payment fees, build ranges and the costs that quotes tend to leave out.
A Shopify store in India has two bills: the build, which you pay once, and the running cost, which you pay every month. Most quotes only cover the first, so brands tend to find the second after launch.
Shopify plans and monthly charges in India
These are the plan prices on Shopify’s India pricing page on 3 November 2026. Check the page before you budget, because they change. Shopify was also offering a 3-day free trial, then ~AED 0.78 a month for 3 months.
| Plan | Billed yearly | Billed monthly | Third-party payment fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | ~AED 59/month | ~AED 78/month | 2% |
| Grow | ~AED 220/month | ~AED 290/month | 1% |
| Advanced | ~AED 890/month | ~AED 1,200/month | 0.6% |
| Plus | Not listed | From ~AED 6,900/month | 0.2% |
The last column is the one people miss. Shopify charges that fee on each sale made through a third-party payment provider, and your payment gateway’s own fee comes on top of it. Shopify Payments is not available in India, so this fee applies to online payments here. Our payment gateway guide adds the two together.
Which plan is cheaper at your sales volume
A higher plan costs more each month and takes a smaller cut of each sale, so there is a sales figure where it starts to pay for itself. On yearly billing, Grow costs ~AED 160 a month more than Basic and saves 1% of sales, which makes the break-even ~AED 16,000 in monthly sales. Advanced costs ~AED 670 a month more than Grow and saves 0.4%, so that break-even is about AED 170,000.
Here is the sum for a store selling ~AED 20,000 a month, or ~AED 240,000 a year:
| Plan | Plan cost per year | Third-party fee per year | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | ~AED 700 | ~AED 4,700 | ~AED 5,400 |
| Grow | ~AED 2,600 | ~AED 2,400 | ~AED 5,000 |
Grow works out ~AED 420 a year cheaper here, even though its plan price is nearly four times higher. These totals leave out your gateway’s fee, which is the same on either plan, and any plan features you might also want.
What a build costs
Guides published by Indian agencies put a basic Shopify store at about AED 980 to ~AED 2,400. For a small catalogue on a standard theme, with little to connect, that can be a fair price.
Our own typical range is AED 43,000–69,000 for a store build or migration, and from AED 103,500 for a Shopify Plus build. Your price is the fixed quote we send in writing. We publish the range so you can tell early whether we are a fit for your budget.
These are the things that move a quote most:
- Catalogue size and how many variants each product has
- Whether existing products, customers and orders have to move from another platform
- A custom theme, compared with configuring an existing one
- Connections to other systems, such as an ERP, shipping or WhatsApp
- How much cross-device and order-flow testing is included before launch
Costs that quotes tend to leave out
Apps are usually the biggest one. Many bill monthly, and a store can collect several without anyone adding up the total or checking what they do to page speed. Our guide to auditing Shopify apps covers how to review them.
After launch, someone also has to fix things, make changes and watch the store. That might be your own team, a freelancer or a retainer. Our retainers start from AED 7,800 a month, so ask any agency you speak to what support costs after handover and what it covers.
Moving from another platform adds its own work, including redirects for your old URLs. Our WooCommerce to Shopify migration guide goes through it.
Five questions for every quote
Is the price fixed? Does it include GST? Who owns the theme code and accounts? Which apps will the store need, and what will they cost each month? What does support cost after launch?
If you are still comparing agencies, read how to choose a Shopify development company in India. What we build is on our Shopify development page.
Figures first reported in Indian rupees are shown in UAE dirhams at the FBIL reference rate of 12 Nov 2026 (INR 25.5288 per AED) and are approximate. Our own prices are the published AED prices.
