Category: Seller Guides

You have finished an ebook, a Lightroom preset pack, or a short video course, and now you need a way to actually sell it to Indian buyers. Most tutorials point straight at Shopify or a custom website, which is overkill when you have one product and no GST number yet. The real question for a…

Managing a Meesho or ONDC storefront from a phone works for the first few orders, but once you are editing product photos, updating a spreadsheet of SKUs, and keeping three marketplace dashboards open at once, a phone screen stops being enough. The question then becomes which laptop to buy without overspending on gaming specs you…

Meesho sellers often upload a full catalogue, wait a few weeks, and then assume the platform has stopped working. In most cases the catalogue is the problem, not the platform. Thin titles, prices that sit above similar listings, and weak dispatch numbers all push a listing down the results. A saree seller in Surat with…

Most ONDC confusion starts with one question: do I need a buyer app, a seller app, or both? A kurta maker in Jaipur who reads about ONDC in a WhatsApp group often signs up for the wrong thing, then wonders why her products never show up on PhonePe or Paytm. The short answer is that…

Most first-time online sellers in India already get customers messaging them on WhatsApp. Here’s the exact step-by-step process to set up a real WhatsApp shop in 2026, from catalogue to automation.

Dropshipping sounds simple: list a product, and when someone buys it your supplier ships it straight to them, so you never hold stock. In India the model works, but not the way the YouTube ads describe it. Long shipping from China, cash-on-delivery refusals, and GST rules all change the maths, and a seller in Nagpur…

Meesho assigns the courier and prints the label for you. Everything before that pickup scan is on you, and learning how to pack orders for Meesho shipping properly is the cheapest insurance you have against avoidable losses. Fashion and home categories on Meesho see return and RTO rates of 25 to 40 percent, and a…

You have listed a product on Amazon India, priced it right, and even shot a decent photo. Then the click-through happens and buyers bounce anyway. Nine times out of ten the reason is not the price, it is a description that reads like a spec sheet instead of an answer to the one question every…

You have been reselling on Meesho for a few months and orders are picking up. Then a category restriction shows up, or you cross the point where GST stops being optional, and suddenly you are stuck between two forms on the GST portal with no idea which one applies to a home-based reseller in Indore.…

You make macrame wall hangings in Coimbatore, hand-poured candles in Pune, or block-printed cushion covers in Jaipur, and friends keep asking if you sell online. The honest answer is that most handmade sellers give up in the first month, not because the product is not good, but because they picked the wrong platform for a…

Every new online seller in India hits the same wall within the first month: does selling on Amazon or your own website actually require a GST number, or can you start without one? The rules are not the same across platforms, and getting it wrong either delays your first sale or gets your listings taken…

Print-on-demand (POD) is one of the few online businesses in India where you can start with zero upfront investment. No inventory. No warehouse. No bulk orders. You design, they print and ship, you keep the profit. What Is Print-on-Demand? You upload designs to a platform. When a customer orders a t-shirt, mug, or phone case,…