E-commerce Website Development in Bangalore for Boutiques and D2C Brands

What is included: Premium versus Luxury

There are two levels of store, and the honest dividing line is catalogue size and how much the store has to run by itself. The Basic package has no e-commerce at all, so a store starts at Premium.

• Premium, ₹14,999. A basic store of up to thirty products inside a twelve-page custom site. Right for a boutique with a focused range, or a D2C brand launching with one line. Domain and hosting included, five revisions, three to four weeks.
• Luxury, ₹29,999 and up. Full e-commerce with a custom backend and admin panel, unlimited pages and products, brand identity and copywriting. Right when the catalogue grows, changes often, or someone on your team needs to manage it daily.

No GST is added to either. Maintenance is ₹899 per month, after the included support period ends.

Custom-coded, not Shopify or WooCommerce

NebulaForge builds stores in custom code. We do not build on Shopify or WooCommerce, and we are not a partner of either — they are alternatives we do not use, mentioned here only so you know what you are choosing between.

What custom code gives you is that the design is not negotiated with a theme, and there is no platform subscription sitting on top of your costs. What it asks of you is that changes to how the store works come through us rather than through an app store. For a boutique whose product pages are the brand, that trade is usually worth making; for someone who wants to install a plugin every week, it is not.

Payments and orders

Checkout runs through Stripe or Razorpay. You pick one; both handle cards and the usual online methods, and the money goes to your account, not ours.

WhatsApp orders are supported, and for a lot of Indian boutiques that is where the actual selling happens — a customer asks whether something comes in another size, and the order follows from the conversation. WhatsApp offers are supported too, for telling existing customers about a drop without buying ads.

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There is no cash on delivery. If COD is essential to your model, say so at the enquiry stage, because it changes what we would recommend.

Product pages that actually sell

Most of a store’s work happens on one page, and it is not the home page. A product page that converts tends to have the same things.

• Photographs that survive a phone screen. Several angles, on a real body or in a real room, large enough to zoom.
• Sizing you do not have to guess at. Actual measurements, not just S/M/L, which is the single biggest cause of returns in clothing.
• Lookbooks and context. What it goes with, how it was styled, why it exists.
• The boring facts. Fabric, care, delivery time, returns — the things a hesitant buyer scrolls for before deciding.

Copywriting support and imagery are included on Premium and Luxury.

What a store costs to keep running

Three things, and only one is paid to us.

• Payment gateway charges. Stripe or Razorpay take a percentage of each transaction. That is set by them and paid to them, and their published rates are the ones to check — we will not quote a figure that is not ours to quote.
• No platform subscription. Because the store is custom-coded, there is no monthly fee for the e-commerce platform itself.
• Maintenance at ₹899 per month, and domain and hosting are included on both Premium and Luxury.

The full breakdown of build costs is on the website cost in Bangalore page.

What you need ready before a store build

A store has more moving parts than a brochure site, and most launch delays come from the catalogue rather than the code. Before the build begins, have these decided.

• The product list, with final names, prices and variants. Thirty products is the Premium limit, so if you are near it, decide what launches now and what waits.
• Photographs — several angles per product, shot consistently. This is the single biggest determinant of whether a small store looks credible.
• Sizing or specification data, as real measurements. Vague sizing is the most common cause of returns in clothing, and it is fixable before launch rather than after.
• A Stripe or Razorpay account, or the decision about which one. Both need business details and verification, which takes time that is not ours to speed up.
• Your shipping rules — where you ship, what it costs, how long it takes.
• A returns policy. Even a short one. Buyers look for it, and its absence costs sales quietly.

Shipping, returns and the parts we do not run

We build the store; we do not operate it. Courier accounts, packing, dispatch and customer service remain yours, and the store is built to fit how you already handle them rather than the other way round. If you dispatch from a shop counter three days a week, the order flow should say so rather than implying same-day dispatch.

The same applies to stock. A Premium store of up to thirty products is managed through the site; a Luxury build adds a custom admin panel so someone on your team can add products, change prices and handle orders daily without coming back to us.

One practical note on launching. It is tempting to wait until the entire catalogue is photographed before going live, and that wait is usually where a store dies. A smaller range launched properly teaches you more in a fortnight than a complete one launched in six months, and adding products later is the part that costs nothing.