Kolkata sellers, from sweet makers and handloom brands to leather exporters and electronics dealers, tend to ask us the same handful of questions before building an online store. Instead of a brochure, here are the questions and our honest answers.
Serving businesses in
Kolkata, West Bengal
15 years. 1,500+ projects. Here's what Kolkata businesses get when they choose Axis.
We specify the right hosting for your store size and provide performance tuning so your store stays fast under load.
Our team has built and customised 400+ WooCommerce stores and 150+ Shopify stores — we know every edge case.
Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, PayU, and regional BNPL options — configured and tested before launch.
Selling internationally? We handle multi-currency pricing, country-specific tax rates, and international shipping rules.
Monthly maintenance covering security patches, plugin updates, performance monitoring, and minor feature additions.
Clean URLs, schema markup for products, canonical tags, and sitemap generation built into every store from day one.
Q: Should I use Shopify, WooCommerce or a custom build?
A: For most small and mid-sized sellers, a hosted platform or WooCommerce gets you live faster and cheaper. Custom makes sense when you have unusual pricing, B2B ordering or inventory rules a standard platform can’t handle. We will tell you which side of the line you are on.
Q: Which payment methods do Kolkata customers expect?
A: UPI first, then cards, net banking and wallets, and cash on delivery for many categories. We integrate gateways such as Razorpay or similar providers, subject to your own onboarding and KYC with them.
Q: How do I handle shipping across West Bengal and the rest of India?
A: We connect your store to courier aggregators so rates, labels and tracking are automatic. Same-city delivery can be handled separately if you run your own riders.
Q: What about GST?
A: The store should generate proper GST invoices, with the right tax split for in-state and out-of-state orders. West Bengal registrations use state code 19. Your chartered accountant should confirm the treatment for your products.
Q: Will the site cope with Durga Puja or festive-season traffic?
A: It needs to. Kolkata’s festive buying spikes sharply, so we test load, keep images light and avoid heavy plugins that slow checkout. A slow site in the busiest week is an expensive mistake.
Q: Can I sell on marketplaces as well?
A: Yes. We can sync inventory between your store and marketplaces so you don’t oversell. Having your own store means you keep the customer relationship and don’t depend only on someone else’s platform.
We build stores your team can manage: adding products, changing prices and running offers without a developer. We work from Delhi in the same time zone and will walk your staff through the admin on a screen-share.
Kolkata's trading houses, jute and tea exporters, and family manufacturing businesses are modernising fast. We help them move from registers to software with billing, inventory and order management systems.
Businesses in Kolkata rarely need a brochure site. They need something that ships and scales.
Here is what a typical engagement looks like — timeline, scope, and what we deliver.
E-commerce development in Kolkata ranges from Rs. 24,000–1,20,000. A basic WooCommerce or Shopify store with up to 50 products costs around Rs. 24,000–1,20,000's lower end. A full-featured store with custom design, 500+ products, multiple payment gateways, and logistics integration typically costs towards the higher end. We provide a fixed-price quote after understanding your catalogue size, custom features, and marketing requirements.
Ask us these too. If an answer sounds vague, that is your signal — whoever you are speaking to.
A standard store with a modest catalogue often launches in a few weeks. Larger catalogues, custom pricing or integrations take longer. We give a timeline after seeing your product range.
Yes. We import products, images and categories in bulk and check the data for errors before launch.
We can set up a bilingual store so customers can browse in Bengali or English, depending on your audience.
We set up clean product pages, titles, descriptions and structured data so Google can understand them. Ranking depends on competition and time, so we can’t promise positions, but we build the foundation properly.
Ongoing costs usually include hosting, the platform or plugins you choose, payment gateway fees and any support plan. We list them clearly before you decide.
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