Storzu and Onshop both let an Indian shopkeeper go online for free and take orders on WhatsApp, so on the surface they look alike. The difference shows up in how much the tool does for you and how many kinds of business it fits. Here is an honest way to choose.
What do Storzu and Onshop have in common?
Both give you a free storefront, a link you can share, and WhatsApp-based ordering aimed at Indian customers who prefer to chat rather than fill a long checkout. If you sell a handful of physical products from a local shop and want the simplest possible way to be online, either can get you there.
Storzu vs Onshop, feature by feature
| Feature | Storzu | Onshop |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Free forever — 10 listings, 100 orders a month | Free store — check current pricing |
| Commission per order | 0% on every plan | Check current pricing |
| Shareable storefront link | Yes | Yes |
| WhatsApp ordering | Yes | Yes |
| Ready-made templates | Yes, matched to your business type | A small set of layouts |
| Creating a listing | AI drafts name, description, category and price from a photo | Typed in by hand |
| Product-photo tools | AI photo studio; try-on for clothing | Check current features |
| Storefront languages | English + 8 Indian languages, auto-translated | Check current features |
| Services, appointments and quotations | Built in, with double-booking prevention | Oriented around physical retail |
| Restaurant menus, rentals and stays | Built in | Oriented around physical retail |
| GST invoices, returns, inventory, staff | Built in | Check current features |
| Payments on the free plan | Direct UPI and cash on delivery | Check current features |
Both platforms change what the free tier allows, so treat the “check current” rows as exactly that — open each pricing page on the day you decide rather than trust a table written by one of the two.
What is Onshop good at?
Onshop is built for local physical retail with a small set of ready-made templates. You pick a layout and list your products by hand. That simplicity is a genuine strength if your catalog is small, your needs are straightforward, and you would rather not think about anything beyond a clean product page. Credit where it is due: for a bare-simple local shop, less to configure can be exactly right.
How does Storzu's AI build your catalog?
Storzu's biggest practical edge is that it builds the catalog with you. Photograph your stock and the AI drafts the product name, description, category and a suggested price — a listing is ready in seconds instead of being typed field by field. A built-in AI product-photo studio cleans up ordinary phone photos, stripping distracting backgrounds and correcting bad lighting and shadows, and for clothing an AI try-on maps garments onto virtual models from a plain snapshot. Where Onshop asks you to create each listing manually, Storzu turns a stack of photos into a storefront.
Can your store speak your customer's language?
Storzu can auto-translate your catalog into 8 Indian languages— Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi and Bengali — from a single input, and storefronts render in the customer's own device language by default on eligible plans. See building a store in Indian languages. When your buyers do not shop in English, a store that speaks their language converts better than one that does not.
What if your business is more than a product shop?
Onshop is oriented around physical retail. Storzu is a business platform that includes a product store: choose your business type and it builds the matching workflow — services and quotations, appointment and consultation booking with double-booking prevention, restaurant menus with dine-in, takeaway and delivery, property enquiries and stay bookings — alongside orders, inventory, returns, GST invoices and staff accounts. If your business is more than a shelf of products, a purpose-built workflow beats a retail template.
Does either take a cut of your sales?
Storzu's free tier takes direct UPI and cash on delivery, and there is no per-order commission on any plan — see accepting UPI payments with no commission. On paid plans, online payments run through your own gateway, so money settles straight to your account.
Which one should you choose?
- Pick Onshop if you run a simple local physical shop, want a ready-made template, and are happy listing products by hand.
- Pick Storzu if you want AI to build your catalog from photos, storefronts in regional languages, or a site that also handles bookings, menus, services or rentals — with the same free-forever, WhatsApp-first, 0%-commission basics.
See the full guide to free store builders in India, compare plans on the pricing page, or start free on Storzu →