KitCommerce vs StoreHippo
StoreHippo alternative: GoCommerce vs StoreHippo
StoreHippo ships the features. GoCommerce ships the source.
StoreHippo is an Indian hosted platform aimed at larger businesses — B2B, multiple sellers, hyperlocal delivery and an Android app sit in its plans — priced from ₹12,000US$269 a month plus a fee on sales. GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce are open source in two MIT packages: fewer features out of the box, no fee when you run them yourself, and the code to add what is missing. A store hosted on kitcommerce.store pays 1% of every successful order.
- ₹12,000US$269 a month for StoreHippo Business, billed for 12 months
- 1% · 0.5% StoreHippo’s transaction fee per order on Business and Enterprise
- ₹1,20,000US$1,999 a month, where StoreHippo Platinum starts, on a one-year minimum
KitCommerce is an open-source ecommerce platform. Its packages are GoCommerce, the backend and admin, and Svelte Commerce, the storefront — MIT licensed, used together or either one on its own. Run them yourself for free, or start a store hosted on kitcommerce.store for 1% of every successful order, plus 18% GST on the fee. On this page, each claim names the package it is about.
StoreHippo and GoCommerce, side by side
StoreHippo’s side is taken from its pricing and feature pages, linked at the foot of this page; where its own pages disagree, we say so. Ours is what GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce do today.
| Aspect | StoreHippo | GoCommerce + Svelte Commerce |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A hosted platform, sold finished: StoreHippo describes it as needing no plugins, with its features built into the plans. | Source you deploy, or a store hosted on kitcommerce.store: GoCommerce for the backend and admin, Svelte Commerce for the storefront, both MIT. |
| Plans | Business ₹12,000US$269 and Enterprise ₹25,000US$449 a month billed for 12 months, or ₹15,000US$299 and ₹30,000US$499 on 6-month billing; Platinum from ₹1,20,000US$1,999 a month on a one-year minimum. Taxes extra. | No plans. Run it yourself and the software costs nothing, with your server the recurring cost; a store hosted on kitcommerce.store pays 1% of every successful order. |
| Fee on sales | 1% per order on Business and 0.5% on Enterprise, by the plan cards. The FAQ instead describes a charge on sales above each plan’s online sales limit, and does not state the limits. | None when you run it yourself. A store hosted on kitcommerce.store pays 1% of every successful order. |
| B2B | From Enterprise. StoreHippo’s B2B page lists wholesale pricing with overrides, bulk orders, minimum order quantities and requests for quotation. | Company accounts, credit on account, approvals, requests for quote and purchase-order numbers in the b2b module; customer groups, price lists and quantity breaks in the core. No minimum order quantities. |
| Multiple sellers | Basic multi-seller on Enterprise; full multi-seller on Platinum. | Vendors as first-class sellers — pending, approved, suspended — with their own offers. Commission is recorded per vendor, not settled. |
| Multiple stores | Basic multi-store on Enterprise; multistore on Platinum. | Channels, each with its own publishing and price lists, served from one database. Orders are not split by channel. |
| Payments | More than 60 gateways; the FAQ names PayU, Paytm, CCAvenue and PayPal. Cash on delivery and offline payments supported, and several gateways at one checkout. | 11 payment modules, Razorpay and Stripe among them; cash on delivery is the core’s default method. |
| Shipping | Integrated logistics: you ship from the dashboard and the courier partner collects. | Shiprocket, Delhivery and NimbusPost modules book shipments; India Post consignments are recorded against the order. |
| Developer access | REST APIs with more than 100 endpoints; custom entities, a staging environment and scheduled functions on Platinum. | 550 documented REST operations as OpenAPI — and the source itself, down to the checkout. |
| Mobile apps | An Android app on Enterprise; Android and iOS on Platinum. | None. The admin is a web app compiled into the GoCommerce binary. |
| Leaving | StoreHippo says most backend data — products, customers, orders — can be exported through its APIs and bulk exports. | Nothing to export from when you run it yourself: the data is rows in your own PostgreSQL. |
| Cancelling | Any time, with no refund for the rest of the paid period. | Nothing to cancel when you run it yourself. |
StoreHippo’s bill against a server bill
On StoreHippo the plan is fixed and the fee grows with every order. On GoCommerce you run yourself, nothing grows with sales except the gateway’s charge, which both sides pay.
| Cost | Business | Enterprise | GoCommerce + Svelte Commerce |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plan, 12-month billing | ₹12,000US$269 a month | ₹25,000US$449 a month | None |
| Plan, 6-month billing | ₹15,000US$299 a month | ₹30,000US$499 a month | None |
| Fee on sales | 1% per order | 0.5% per order | None when you run it yourself; 1% of every successful order on a store hosted on kitcommerce.store |
| At ₹5,00,000 a month in sales, on the rupee list | ₹17,000 | ₹27,500 | Your server, when you run it yourself |
| At ₹30,00,000 a month in sales, on the rupee list | ₹42,000 | ₹40,000 | Your server, when you run it yourself |
| People | None to launch; StoreHippo helps with migration | None to launch; StoreHippo helps with migration | A developer to deploy, run and extend it, when you run it yourself |
The two sales rows are worked from StoreHippo’s rupee plan cards on 12-month billing, which put the fee on every order; if a sales limit applies first, as its FAQ describes, the fee is lower than shown. On the rupee list, Enterprise costs less than Business above ₹26,00,000 a month. Your payment gateway’s charge is paid on both sides and left out. Platinum starts at ₹1,20,000US$1,999 a month and its features may carry extra charges.
Which one fits
Choose StoreHippo when
- You need B2B, multiple sellers, hyperlocal delivery and an Android app working this quarter, without a development team.
- Wholesale buyers expect minimum order quantities — StoreHippo lists them, and GoCommerce does not have them.
- You want an Indian vendor with an account manager, developer support and a staging environment, as Platinum offers.
- Your team configures rather than codes, and a fixed monthly bill suits you better than running servers.
Choose GoCommerce + Svelte Commerce when
- You want marketplace vendors, B2B price lists and several storefronts without a ₹25,000US$449-a-month plan.
- A fee of 0.5–1% of sales, on top of the gateway’s, adds up to more than your infrastructure, and you would rather run the store yourself.
- You need to change what configuration does not reach — the checkout, pricing rules, the order flow.
- You want your catalogue and orders in a database you query directly, not through an export.
What you take on
- Run it yourself and you host it: a server, a PostgreSQL database, backups and upgrades are yours, or a developer’s you pay. A store hosted on kitcommerce.store pays 1% of every successful order instead.
- No app store. What a module does not cover, somebody writes.
- GoCommerce has over 2,000 tests, but no store we know of runs it in production yet.
- Svelte Commerce reaches GoCommerce through an early connector, version 0.16.0: catalogue, cart, cash-on-delivery checkout and order lookup work; shopper sign-in, the address book and order history need GoCommerce’s identity module.
- Marketplace commission is recorded per vendor but not settled — paying sellers is yours to build, or to do by hand.
- No mobile app, for shoppers or for staff.
FAQ
Questions about StoreHippo and GoCommerce
How much does StoreHippo cost?
StoreHippo’s pricing page, which has a rupee list and a US dollar list, gives Business at ₹12,000US$269 a month and Enterprise at ₹25,000US$449 a month billed for 12 months, or ₹15,000US$299 and ₹30,000US$499 on 6-month billing, and Platinum from ₹1,20,000US$1,999 a month on a minimum one-year term. All plans are exclusive of taxes, and Platinum features may carry additional charges.
Does StoreHippo charge a transaction fee?
Its plan cards list 1% per order on Business and 0.5% on Enterprise. Its FAQ describes the charge differently: each plan has a limit on online sales, and a percentage or fixed charge applies to sales above it. The page does not give the limits. GoCommerce charges nothing per order when you run it yourself; a store hosted on kitcommerce.store pays 1% of every successful order.
Can I move my data out of StoreHippo?
StoreHippo says most backend data — products, customers, orders — can be exported through its APIs and bulk exports. GoCommerce has no StoreHippo importer, so moving in means a script against GoCommerce’s documented API.
Does GoCommerce have StoreHippo’s B2B and marketplace features?
Some of them. GoCommerce has customer groups, price lists and quantity breaks, marketplace vendors with approval states and their own offers, and channels for several storefronts. Its b2b module adds company accounts, credit on account, approvals and requests for quote; it has no minimum order quantities, and it records vendor commission without settling it.
Can Svelte Commerce be the storefront for a StoreHippo store?
No. StoreHippo is not among the 26 backends Svelte Commerce connects to, so the pairing on this page is GoCommerce with a storefront — Svelte Commerce through its early GoCommerce connector, 0.16.0, or one you write against the API.
More comparisons: Indian SaaS builders
The same questions, asked of the platforms StoreHippo is usually weighed against. Every comparison is on one page.
- Open-source Dukaan alternative: GoCommerce vs Dukaan A quick-start Indian store builder with a free plan and a service fee on every sale — against an open-source platform with no fee when you run it yourself, and more work up front.
- Instamojo store alternative: GoCommerce vs Instamojo A payments company’s store builder, free to start with the gateway built in at a fee per payment — against GoCommerce and a gateway of your own choosing.
- Webnexs alternative: GoCommerce vs Webnexs A commissioned build with source for one store, against an open-source platform you run: price, licence, refunds and who does the work.
- Zoho Commerce alternative: GoCommerce vs Zoho Commerce A store builder with no fee per order, against an open-source platform you run: plan limits, Zoho’s suite, and where your data lives.
Sources
StoreHippo’s prices and features were checked on 26 October 2026 against the pages below. Prices change; when one here disagrees with the source, the source is right and this page is out of date. StoreHippo is a trademark of its owner, named here only to compare; no endorsement or affiliation is implied — see trademarks.
Run it before you decide
The backend + admin quick start runs GoCommerce’s API and admin on your own machine, without a storefront. Load a catalogue and judge it against StoreHippo yourself.