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Magento or Shoopy?
The honest comparison.
One is enterprise software you staff. The other is a product that arrives finished. Here's the side-by-side, sourced.
Four numbers that change the answer.
Enterprise software. Or a finished product.
Magento is the most powerful option here, and the most expensive to run.
Magento
- You have genuinely complex B2B, multi-store or multi-warehouse requirements
- You employ or retain developers and want to own the whole stack
- Your catalogue runs to tens of thousands of SKUs with deep custom logic
- The build budget is measured in lakhs and that is acceptable
Shoopy
- You would rather sell than staff a platform
- One predictable bill instead of hosting, licences and developer retainers
- Official WhatsApp integration, GST invoicing and a branded app included
- Live in a single sitting rather than a multi-month build
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Same sales. Two different bills.
Pick your monthly sales and see the math change.
The licence is free. The project is not.
Magento Open Source costs nothing to download. What costs money is everything around it: server infrastructure, a developer or agency to build and maintain it, security patching and version upgrades. Adobe Commerce, the licensed tier, starts near ₹21 lakh a year.
The comparison you've been looking for.
Magento costs are typical annual running estimates, excluding build. Shoopy from shoopy.in/pricing.
| Feature |  |  |
|---|---|---|
| Licence | Free, open source | ₹2,499/yr |
| Realistic year one | ₹60,000–1,80,000 | ₹2,499–12,999 |
| Adobe Commerce tier | From ₹21 lakh/yr | Not applicable |
| Hosting & infrastructure | You buy and manage it | Included |
| Security & upgrades | Your responsibility | Managed |
| Developer required | Yes | No |
| Time to live | Weeks to months | Under a day |
| Official WhatsApp integration | Custom build | Built-in |
| GST invoicing | Paid extension | Built-in |
| Customisation ceiling | Unlimited | Themes + custom CSS |
What Shoopy has that Magento doesn't.
Only the things that change your working day. No feature-list padding.
Nothing to patch or upgrade
No security patches, no version migrations, no server tuning. Not a feature so much as a job you stop owning.
Live in a single sitting
A Magento build is a project measured in weeks or months. Shoopy stores go live the same day.
Official WhatsApp integration
Order updates and cart recovery configured for you, rather than a custom module build.
A branded native app
From ₹14,999/yr, published and maintained in your own developer account.
GST invoicing built in
Compliant invoicing without commissioning an extension and maintaining it through upgrades.
No developer needed
Most merchants never open a support ticket, let alone a code editor.
Seen the difference? Now see it live.
A free 1:1 walkthrough on your own catalogue. No commitment.
Move to Shoopy with expert assistance.
Our team migrates your store with no downtime. Most moves finish in a week.
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A specialist reviews your Magento store and scopes the move.
We migrate your catalogue
Products, variants, customers and order history: exported, imported, verified.
Domain, gateway & tax
Point your domain, reconnect your payment gateway, set up tax invoicing.
14-day money-back guarantee
Not right within 14 days? Full refund. No questions, no fine print.
Standard 7-day timeline
Most stores- Demo & catalogue exportDay 1
- Product & variant importDay 2–3
- Theme & brandingDay 4
- Payments & shippingDay 5
- Domain switchoverDay 6
- Go liveDay 7
50,000+ businesses. One playbook.
Composite scenarios based on category averages.
“Our bill dropped sharply.”
Once the plan, the fees and the add-ons were added up honestly, the old platform was our largest software line. The yearly plan changed the equation.
“Two tools became none.”
We ran WhatsApp on one app and GST invoices on another. On Shoopy the official WhatsApp integration and tax invoicing are part of the product.
“Someone actually answers.”
A courier dispute used to mean a ticket and a wait. A WhatsApp reply from a real person sorted it before the customer called again.
Everything sellers ask about Magento vs Shoopy.
Sourced from each platform's published pricing, 2026.
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