E-commerce Development services in Kerala

Real ranges. ₹15-60K for freelancer template swap (basic Shopify Dawn + logo + colour change, no custom Liquid). ₹1-3L for agency-grade Shopify Basic with proper integrations + 30-day support. ₹3-8L for Shopify Plus or Next.js Commerce with custom UX + 90-day CRO. ₹8L+ for headless commerce or enterprise multi-region. Adsomia's Shopify Basic tier is ₹1.95L founding; Premium tier ₹3.95L founding. Anything below ₹50K from an agency is template work, not custom build.

Shopify Basic for D2C SMB under 200 SKUs, under ₹2Cr revenue, no custom checkout needs. Shopify Plus when you hit ₹2Cr+ revenue, need custom checkout, or want multi-store/international (Plus subscription is ₹1.65L+/month). Next.js Commerce + Shopify Storefront API when premium UX matters more than Shopify-managed simplicity (₹3Cr+ revenue typical). WooCommerce when content + SEO matters more than checkout depth (self-hosted, harder to maintain but more flexible).

UPI dominates: 50-70% of Indian D2C transactions go via UPI in 2026. Card payments are 15-25%. COD remains 20-35% in many categories — and 25-40% of COD orders RTO (return-to-origin) without smart filtering. We configure: UPI primary via Razorpay, card secondary, COD with RTO-management filters (smart blocks for high-RTO pin codes, partial-prepayment for high-value COD). Default Shopify config puts card first and loses 30-40% of conversion in Indian D2C categories — we rebuild it.

Shopify Basic (up to 20 products, standard theme customisation): 4-6 weeks. Shopify Plus or 50+ SKU stores: 8-12 weeks. Next.js Commerce custom builds: 10-16 weeks depending on integration complexity. Migration from existing platform: add 2-4 weeks. Faster than these windows usually means corners cut on integration testing — the most common failure mode is launching with a checkout flow that breaks under real traffic.

Yes — that's the differentiator. Shopify Basic builds include 30-day post-launch support. Premium builds include 90-day CRO — A/B testing checkout flows, simplifying product pages based on heat-map data, fixing abandoned-cart leaks. After that, ongoing CRO + maintenance is available as a retainer (₹25-50K/month). The first 90 days are where conversion rate moves from launch-state to ceiling-state; skipping that work leaves 30-40% of the eventual conversion rate on the table.

Standard Indian D2C app stack we ship with most builds: Razorpay (payments), Shiprocket or Delhivery (shipping APIs), Judge.me or Loox (reviews), Klaviyo or WATI (email + WhatsApp), Lifetimely or Triple Whale (unit economics), Mailchimp or AiSensy (marketing automation). 6-8 apps total. We don't install the 30+ apps most Indian Shopify stores accumulate — most are duplicates or unused subscriptions slowing the site + eating margin.

Yes — migration is a defined engagement. Scope: data export from existing platform (products, customers, orders, reviews, content), Shopify Basic or Plus setup, theme + design rebuild, product catalogue migration with images + descriptions intact, redirect rules from old URLs to new URLs (preserves SEO), 30-day post-migration support. Typical migration timeline: 6-10 weeks depending on catalogue size. Pricing typically ₹3-8L depending on complexity.

Both — Adsomia is a marketing agency that does e-commerce builds, not an e-commerce dev shop that adds marketing later. The build, the SEO infrastructure, the paid-ads creative, the email + WhatsApp lifecycle flows, and the post-launch CRO all run through the same senior team. That integration is the differentiator most pure-dev shops can't match — they ship the site and you have to brief a separate marketing agency on what was built.