KitCommerce vs Zoho Commerce

Zoho Commerce alternative: GoCommerce vs Zoho Commerce

Zoho Commerce takes no cut of your sales. It counts your products instead.

Zoho Commerce is a hosted store builder in Zoho’s family of business apps, priced from ₹599US$15€15£12A$11 incl. taxCA$20SGD 7AED 59 a month billed yearly, with no transaction fee on any paid plan. What its plans ration is products, users, currencies and inventory locations. GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce are MIT source. Run them yourself and nothing is rationed, and nothing is run for you; a store hosted on kitcommerce.store pays 1% of every successful order instead.

0% Zoho Commerce’s transaction fee on paid plans, the same as GoCommerce run yourself
500 product listings on Zoho’s Standard plan; 10,000 on Premium and Plus
15 days the shortest gap Zoho allows between full data backups

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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.

Zoho Commerce and GoCommerce, side by side

Zoho Commerce’s side is taken from its pricing page and help centre, linked at the foot of this page; ours from the GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce pages on this site. Where the two are level, the row says so.

Zoho Commerce compared with GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce, checked 26 October 2026
Aspect	Zoho Commerce	GoCommerce + Svelte Commerce
What it is	A hosted store builder, one of Zoho’s finance apps alongside Zoho Inventory, Billing, Invoice and Checkout.	An open-source platform you run, in two MIT packages: a Go backend with its admin compiled in, and a SvelteKit storefront.
Software price	₹599US$15€15£12A$11 incl. taxCA$20SGD 7AED 59, ₹1,799US$49€49£42A$33 incl. taxCA$60SGD 27AED 169, ₹3,499US$79€109£72A$66 incl. taxCA$99SGD 67AED 329 or ₹4,999US$129CA$159 a month on Standard, Professional, Premium and Plus, billed yearly (₹999US$19€19£15A$13.20 incl. taxCA$25SGD 9AED 69 to ₹5,999US$159CA$199 month to month). Enterprise is a custom build with no listed price.	Nothing to run it yourself; both packages are MIT licensed. A store hosted on kitcommerce.store pays 1% of every successful order.
Fee on each order	None on any paid plan, by Zoho’s own pricing FAQ. Level with GoCommerce run yourself.	None when you run it yourself: your gateway’s fee is the only one. A store hosted on kitcommerce.store pays 1% of every successful order.
Plan limits	Set per plan: 500 products, 2 users and 2,000 customer accounts on Standard; 2,500 products and 5 users on Professional; 10,000 products and 10 users on Premium and Plus. Extra users are ₹150US$2.50€2.50£2A$3.30 incl. taxCA$3SGD 3AED 8 each a month billed yearly, or ₹180US$3€3£2.50A$4.40 incl. taxCA$4SGD 4AED 10 billed monthly.	None in the software. Products and customers are rows in your PostgreSQL; the server is the limit.
Inventory locations	3 on Premium and Plus, then ₹600US$10€10£8A$15.58 incl. taxCA$12.50SGD 13AED 36 a month for each extra one billed yearly, or ₹720US$12€12£10A$18.70 incl. taxCA$15SGD 16AED 44 billed monthly. Not offered on lower plans.	Stock per location in core — on hand and reserved — on every install.
B2B	Price lists, quote requests and credit limits for business customers, from Premium.	Customer groups, price lists and quantity breaks in core; quote requests, credit limits, approvals and company accounts in the b2b module.
Payments in India	Zoho Payments (UPI, cards and net banking in INR), Razorpay, Paytm, Stripe, PayPal and Verifone, plus offline methods such as cash on delivery. Razorpay Magic Checkout and GoKwik as checkout options.	Razorpay, Stripe, Cashfree, Adyen, Hyperswitch and six more as modules; cash on delivery built in.
Shipping in India	Integrations with Shiprocket, Delhivery, Easyship and AfterShip, among others.	Modules for Delhivery, Shiprocket, India Post, NimbusPost and seven more carriers and aggregators.
Sales channels	ONDC on every plan; WhatsApp commerce from Professional.	Channels, each with its own published catalogue and price lists; feeds for Google Merchant Center and Meta catalogues. No ONDC or WhatsApp connection.
Changing how it works	A theme editor with Liquid custom-code sections, and custom modules and functions from Premium. The platform code is Zoho’s.	The source itself. Checkout, pricing and order flow are Go you can change and redeploy.
AI agents	An official Zoho Commerce MCP server, connected through Zoho’s MCP hub.	An MCP module with 19 tools that goes through the same domain services as the REST API.
Your data	A full backup to CSV or XLS at most once every 15 days, sent as an emailed link; the product export API returns up to 25,000 rows.	Rows in your own PostgreSQL, which you can query and back up as often as you like.

What each side costs

With no fee per order on Zoho or on GoCommerce you run yourself, this comes down to a Zoho plan against a server and somebody’s time. For a small store without a developer, the Zoho plan is usually the cheaper line.

Recurring costs, Zoho Commerce against GoCommerce and Svelte Commerce
Cost	Zoho Commerce	GoCommerce + Svelte Commerce
Software	₹599US$15€15£12A$11 incl. taxCA$20SGD 7AED 59 to ₹4,999US$129CA$159 a month, billed yearly; in India a Starter micro-store plan covers 25 products for ₹99 a month	Nothing to run it yourself; 1% of every successful order on a store hosted on kitcommerce.store
Fee per order	None	None when you run it yourself; 1% of every successful order on a store hosted on kitcommerce.store
Payment processing	Your gateway’s rate; Zoho’s Razorpay help page says Zoho adds nothing	Your gateway’s rate
Growing past a plan	Extra users and inventory locations as monthly add-ons; more products means a higher plan	A bigger server when you need one, if you run it yourself
Hosting	Included	A server and a PostgreSQL database when you run it yourself, from a small VPS upward; or a store hosted on kitcommerce.store
People	None needed to launch	A developer to deploy, maintain and extend it

Zoho Commerce’s case is strongest here. At ₹599US$15€15£12A$11 incl. taxCA$20SGD 7AED 59 to ₹4,999US$129CA$159 a month with no fee per order, the plan costs less than a developer’s time for most small stores. A store hosted on kitcommerce.store pays 1% of every successful order, where Zoho takes none. The reasons to choose GoCommerce over Zoho are control and limits, not price.

Which one fits

Choose Zoho Commerce when

You already use Zoho Inventory or Zoho Billing and want the store inside the same suite.
You want to sell on ONDC or through WhatsApp without building the connection.
There is no developer on the team, and a small monthly plan is the whole budget.

Choose GoCommerce + Svelte Commerce when

Your catalogue is past 10,000 products, or on its way there.
You want the database itself, not a backup you can request once a fortnight.
You need to change checkout, pricing or order logic, not only the theme.
You want marketplace vendors with approval states, or several storefronts with their own price lists, on one backend.

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.
No ONDC or WhatsApp commerce. Each would be code you write.
No connection to Zoho’s apps. If your accounts live in Zoho, a sync is yours to build.

Moving from Zoho Commerce

There is no importer for Zoho Commerce, so this is a project, not a button.

Zoho gives you the data: a full backup in CSV or XLS, and a product export API that returns up to 25,000 rows at a time. GoCommerce gives you somewhere to put it: 550 documented REST operations, published as OpenAPI, for a script to write against.

Svelte Commerce has no Zoho Commerce connector, so there is no halfway step of keeping Zoho and changing only the storefront.

FAQ

Questions about Zoho Commerce and GoCommerce

Does Zoho Commerce charge a fee on each order?

No. Zoho’s pricing page says it charges no transaction fee on any paid plan, and its Razorpay help page says Zoho adds no fee of its own. That puts it level with GoCommerce run yourself on this point, while a store hosted on kitcommerce.store pays 1% of every successful order. The other differences are plan limits, hosting and code.

Is Zoho Commerce cheaper than running GoCommerce?

For a small store without a developer, usually yes. Zoho’s plans run from ₹599US$15€15£12A$11 incl. taxCA$20SGD 7AED 59 to ₹4,999US$129CA$159 a month billed yearly. GoCommerce costs nothing to license, but a server and a developer’s time are real costs.

Zoho Commerce has an MCP server too. What is different?

Zoho’s MCP server is run by Zoho and reached through its MCP hub. GoCommerce’s MCP module is compiled into your own binary and exposes 19 tools — orders, stock, prices, refunds, reports — through the same domain services as the REST API, never the database directly.

Can GoCommerce connect to Zoho Inventory or Zoho Billing?

Not out of the box: there is no Zoho module. The webhooks module and the documented REST API are where such a sync would start, and somebody has to write it.

How do I move my store from Zoho Commerce?

Export it — Zoho offers CSV or XLS backups and a product export API — and write a script against GoCommerce’s documented API. There is no ready-made importer for Zoho.

Is there a hosted version of GoCommerce, like Zoho Commerce?

Yes. A store hosted on kitcommerce.store pays 1% of every successful order. Running both packages yourself, on your own server or a developer’s, stays free.

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Sources

Zoho Commerce’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. Zoho Commerce 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 Zoho Commerce yourself.

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