Variants: where most clothing stores quietly break
One shirt in four colours and five sizes is twenty separate stock positions. Sell the last Medium in blue and the listing must stop offering it — while still selling Medium in black.
Platforms that treat variants as labels rather than real stock positions oversell. You take an order, discover the piece is gone, and now you are refunding a customer who was happy thirty seconds ago. Do that a few times and your reviews carry it forever.
On Pro and Elite the platform handles variant-level stock with auto-decrement. Each colour-size combination is its own tracked quantity. When it hits zero, that specific option goes unavailable while the rest of the product stays live. Low-stock alerts warn you before a bestseller runs out, and the bulk price sync tool means a season-end markdown across 300 SKUs is not an afternoon of manual editing.
Starter handles basic colour and size variants, which is enough if your catalogue is small and you restock predictably.
Returns: the number that decides your margin
Apparel carries the highest return rate of any major online category in India, and size is the reason most of the time.
Three things in the platform work against that.
Size chart per product
Not one generic chart buried in a policy page — an image attached to the specific product. Actual garment measurements beat "M / L / XL" every time, because Indian sizing is not consistent between brands and buyers know it.
Per-product return windows
A ₹400 t-shirt and a ₹6,000 lehenga should not carry the same return policy. You set the window per product, so the categories that can absorb returns do, and the ones that cannot are protected.
Partial COD
COD orders get refused more often than prepaid ones, and refusals on apparel are frequent because the buyer changed their mind, not because anything was wrong. Collecting even a small advance online at checkout filters most of that out. Available on Pro and Elite.
Alongside those, the returns and exchange management panel gives you one place to process what does come back, rather than a WhatsApp thread and a notebook.
Photography does more selling than your copy
Clothing is bought with the eyes. This is the single highest-return investment for a clothing store, and it is the one most sellers underspend on.
What the platform supports: a multi-image gallery so you can show front, back, detail and worn shots, and product video on Pro and Elite so a fabric drape or a saree fall is visible in motion rather than implied.
Practical guidance we give every clothing client, regardless of plan:
- Shoot on a plain, consistent background. It makes the catalogue look coherent even when the products are not.
- Include at least one worn shot per product. Flat-lay alone leaves fit ambiguous.
- Get one close crop of the fabric. Texture questions are the most common pre-purchase message clothing sellers receive.
- Keep colour accurate. A returned "wrong colour" order is a photography failure, not a customer failure.
Launching a drop without calling a developer
Fashion moves on short cycles. If putting a new collection on your homepage means raising a support ticket, you will stop doing it.
On Pro and Elite your own team controls the homepage: the layout builder, Featured, Trending and Recommended sections, an auto-scrolling product carousel, a promo strip, and an announcement bar for the sale message. FOMO urgency badges showing units sold in a time window are available where you want that pressure — and can be left off where it would cheapen the brand.
None of that needs us. That is the point.
Where clothing sellers usually go wrong
- Launching with 300 SKUs. Start with your proven sellers. A tight catalogue that converts beats a big one that does not.
- Free returns on everything. In apparel this is how you lose money quietly for six months. Set windows per product deliberately.
- COD with no advance. On apparel specifically, this is the fastest route to a return problem you cannot fix later.
- No size chart. Every size question that reaches your WhatsApp is a customer who nearly did not buy.
- Expecting traffic on day one. The store is where the sale closes. Instagram, ads or an existing customer base are where it starts.
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 I sell the same design in multiple colours and sizes?
How do I reduce size-related returns?
Can customers leave reviews with photos?
I run a small boutique with about 40 products. Is this overkill?
Can I show different prices to wholesale buyers?
How long to launch a clothing store?
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