The variant problem is inverted here
For a retail clothing brand, variants are the headache — one shirt in five colours and six sizes becomes thirty stock lines.
In Surat wholesale the unit is usually the design, not the size. A buyer picks design number 4471 in a colour family and takes a lot. So the catalogue is organised around design number, fabric, and colour family — carried as custom attributes rather than forced into a size grid that nobody uses.
If you also sell retail alongside, variant-level stock and per-product size charts are there when you switch that side on. Most traders use both, and the same catalogue handles it.
Rates move, and the catalogue has to keep up
Fabric rates change. A trader with two thousand designs is not going to open two thousand pages to update them, so in practice the website goes stale and buyers stop trusting it.
The bulk price tool updates rates across the catalogue in one operation. That is the difference between updating the day a rate changes and updating once a quarter.
Stock is tracked per variant, so a colour that has run out shows as unavailable instead of taking an order you cannot pack — which in wholesale costs you a relationship, not just a sale.
The deal still closes on the phone
Quantity, rate, transport and payment terms get negotiated. No checkout button handles that, and pretending otherwise annoys a buyer who has been trading for twenty years.
The store carries a WhatsApp call-to-action so a buyer looking at design 4471 can ask about it with that design already in context. Order alerts reach your own number, so an enquiry does not wait until evening.
Straight answer on what is missing: there is no quotation module and no buyer login with negotiated rates. Those are not built. The store makes the conversation faster and better informed — it does not replace it.
Retail sales on the same catalogue
A growing number of Ring Road traders now sell single pieces directly too, usually through Instagram. That does not need a second website.
Razorpay and UPI take prepaid orders. Cash on Delivery is available with per-product and per-order-value control, so you can allow it on a ₹900 kurti and require prepayment on a ₹9,000 lehenga.
Shiprocket handles single-piece dispatch with tracking, while your wholesale consignments keep going by transport the way they always have.
GST across states, correctly
Surat sells outward. Most of your invoices are interstate, and getting the tax split wrong holds up your buyer's payment.
GST billing applies CGST and SGST within Gujarat and IGST outside it, automatically, based on the delivery state. HSN codes and per-product rates are carried on every invoice, with an unbroken financial-year series.
The GST register exports to Excel, so reconciling a month of mixed wholesale and retail orders is one download rather than a day of copying.
Photographing two thousand designs
This is the part that actually decides how long a Surat store takes to go live, and it is almost always underestimated.
A catalogue of two thousand designs needs two thousand photographs, shot consistently enough that they look like one range rather than a folder of phone pictures. Most traders already have images — sent to buyers over WhatsApp, compressed and cropped differently every time.
Send us whatever you have. If a set is usable we will use it; where it is not, it is usually a handful of categories that need reshooting rather than the whole catalogue. Getting this sorted before we start turns a three-week launch into a three-day one.
Along with images we need design numbers with rates, the attributes buyers filter on, your GST number and bank details for Razorpay. That is the whole list.
What it costs
Starter — ₹4,990 one-time. Unlimited catalogue with custom attributes, bulk price tools, Razorpay and COD, GST invoicing and the admin panel. Live in three to five days.
Pro — ₹9,990. Adds Shiprocket, Partial COD, abandoned cart recovery, Meta Pixel and reviews.
Elite — ₹19,990. Adds Meta CAPI, WhatsApp automation, advanced analytics and multi-store admin.
One-time cost with no monthly fee and no commission. On wholesale margins, a platform taking a cut of every order is not a small detail.
Plans & Pricing
Hosting (~₹500–800/month) and a domain (~₹800/year) are paid directly to those providers. No markup, no per-order commission.
Complete store, Razorpay + COD, GST invoicing, admin panel.
Adds Shiprocket, Partial COD, abandoned cart, Meta Pixel, reviews.
Adds Meta CAPI, WhatsApp automation, advanced analytics, multi-store admin.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can buyers search by design number?
How do I update rates when fabric prices change?
Does it generate quotations for wholesale enquiries?
Can I sell wholesale and retail from one store?
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